NURS 101 - Introduction to Professional Nursing Practice

1. Recognize physiological, psychological, social-cultural, and spiritual concepts needed to provide safe and competent nursing care for adult patients requiring long term or sub-acute care.
2. Demonstrate the nursing process using critical thinking skills to assist adult patients with adaptive behaviors that enhance, maintain, and promote optimal health, quality of life, and/or death with dignity.
3. Select caring and therapeutic behaviors with adult patients to attain optimal health, quality of life, or death with dignity.
4. Select principles of verbal and written communication with other health care team members and with adult patients requiring long term or sub-acute care.
5. Identify quality and safety competencies, standards of professional nursing practice, and the nursing profession’s legal, ethical, and regulatory framework while providing safe and competent holistic care to patients.
6. Describe teaching/learning principles to promote healthy behavior and optimal adaptation in adult patients requiring long term or sub-acute care.
7. Recognize opportunities for collaboration with other health care team members and with community resources while providing nursing care to an adult patient requiring long term or sub-acute care.