PN 109B - Adult Health Nursing II

1. Provide safe, quality, evidenced-based, patient-centered nursing care to patients with acute health care needs within the scope of practice of a Practical Nurse.
2. Use critical thinking skills to promote health, psychosocial, and physiologic integrity to patients with acute health care needs.
3. Participate in quality improvement processes to improve care to patients with acute health care needs.
4. Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team, the patient, and the patient’s support persons when providing care to patients with acute health care needs.
5. Apply management theories, legal, ethical, and professional standards in practice as a practical nurse when caring for a patient with acute health care needs.
6. Use information management systems and patient care technology to avoid errors, communicate, update knowledge or patient information, and support decision-making in the care of patients with acute health care needs.
7. Calculate accurate drug dosages in the patient care setting and demonstrate knowledge of recommended safe dosages (MATH).