NURS 211 - Medical-Surgical Nursing II

1. Integrate physiological, psychological, social-cultural, and spiritual concepts needed to provide safe and competent nursing care to assist acutely ill adult patients with complex, multi-system dysfunction.
2. Create nursing care plans using clinical reasoning to assist acutely ill adult patients adapt to complex, multi-system dysfunction to promote health, quality of life, and/or death with dignity.
3. Integrate caring and culturally-sensitive behavior with acutely ill adult patients with complex, multi-system dysfunction and their significant others to promote attaining optimal health, quality of life, and/or death with dignity.
4. Integrate principles of verbal and written communication with other health care team members and with acutely ill adult patients with complex, multi-system dysfunction and their significant others.
5. Interpret the quality and safety competencies, standards of professional nursing practice, and nursing’s legal, ethical, and regulatory framework while providing safe and competent holistic care to acutely ill adult patients with complex, multi-system dysfunction and their significant others.
6. Integrate teaching/learning principles to promote healthy behavior and optimal adaptation of acutely ill adult patients with complex, multi-system dysfunction and their significant others.
7. Evaluate collaboration with other health care team members and with community resources while managing the care of acutely ill adult patients with complex, multi-system dysfunction and their significant others.