NURS 205 - Introduction to Associate Degree Nursing

1. Apply physiological, psychological, social-cultural, and spiritual concepts needed to provide safe and competent nursing care for adult patients requiring acute care.
2. Apply the nursing process using beginning clinical reasoning to assist adult patients requiring acute care with adaptive behaviors that enhance, maintain, and promote optimal health, quality of life, and/or death with dignity.
3. Demonstrate caring and therapeutic behaviors with adult patients requiring acute care to attain optimal health, quality life, or death with dignity.
4. Use principles of verbal and written communication with other health care team members and with adult patients requiring acute care.
5. Use quality and safety competencies, standards of professional nursing practice, and the nursing profession’s legal, ethical, and regulatory framework while transitioning from the LPN role to the RN role to provide safe and competent holistic care to adult patients requiring acute care.
6. Apply teaching/learning principles to promote healthy behavior and optimal adaptation in adult patients requiring acute care and their significant others.
7. Collaborate with other health care team members and with community resources while providing nursing care to adult patients requiring acute care.