Nursing Care in Challenging Situations

Catalog description

This course provides students opportunities to demonstrate nursing processes at a graduate-novice level through focusing on competent integration of cumulative nursing knowledge, science, skills, and theory. Students apply knowledge and skills in delegation, assessment, interventions, outcomes, compassion and caring, and technology and documentation that reflect quality, safety, excellence, accountability, and responsibility in the provision of care for very complex, ambiguous, intensive, life-threatening, crisis, and aggressive altered-health states encountered across the life span and that are common to critical and life-challenging health conditions and outcomes. The clinical immersion experience requires students to demonstrate a cumulative level of competence in the care of a group of patients through application of common concepts, including advocacy, caring and compassionate behaviors, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, diversity, family and community roles, knowledge, skills, attitudes, legal and ethical comportment, lifelong learning, nursing process, professionalism, safety and quality, and skills and competencies.