Traditional Track Clinical Objectives with Criteria Behaviors by Level / Courses
Level 1 / Level 2RNSG 1160
Clinical
Foundations of Nursing / RNSG 1161
Clincal I / RNSG 1260
Clinical II / RNSG 2160
Clinical
Mental Health
PROVIDER OF CARE: / PROVIDER OF CARE: / PROVIDER OF CARE: / PROVIDER OF CARE:
Identifies critical thinking to provide safe, quality nursing care to a selected individual using the nursing process. / Develops critical thinking skills to provide safe, quality, comprehensive nursing care for adult individuals with complex medical-surgical needs and their families using the nursing process / Develops critical thinking skills to provide safe, quality comprehensive care for individuals with psychiatric mental health needs and their families using the nursing process.
Criteria Behaviors:
Assessment:
*Collects subjective and
objective data using a
structured format (PERSON). / Criteria Behaviors:
Assessment:
*Performs thorough
assessment for several
clients with complex medical-
surgical needs. / Criteria Behaviors:
Assessment:
*Performs thorough mental status assessment of clients with selected psychiatric mental health needs.
(none; family content introduced in level 2) / Identifies the appropriate inclusion of the family/support systems. / Assesses the appropriate inclusion of the family/ support systems.
Diagnosis:
*Develops a list of nursing diagnoses using ACC guidelines appropriate to selected client. / Diagnosis:
*Interprets data to develop a
prioritized list of
comprehensive nursing
diagnosis for each adult
client. / Diagnosis:
*Interprets data to develop a
prioritized list of
comprehensive nursing
diagnosis for each mental
health client.
Includes appropriate supportive data for each diagnosis. / Support data explains rationale for the list of diagnoses. / Support data explains rationale for the list of diagnoses.
Planning:
Develops a measurable, realistic client goal based for nursing diagnosis. / Planning:
Formulates goals that incorporate the client and family’s needs. / Planning:
Formulates goals that incorporate the client and family’s needs.
Selects relevant information from learning resources in planning care and clinical practice.
*Verifies physician’s order prior to implementation. / Utilizes data from a variety of sources for relevancy in planning care and clinical practice. / Utilizes data from a variety of sources for relevancy in planning care and clinical practice.
(none; culture developed in level 2) / Incorporates factors of cultural diversity/sensitivity when interacting within the health care setting / Incorporates factors of cultural diversity/sensitivity when interacting within the health care setting
Implementation:
Uses principles from nursing and general education courses in implementing care. / Implementation:
Implements individualized plans of care for adult clients based on relevant and valid clinical data / Implementation:
Implements individualized plans of care to selected clients with psychiatric needs based on relevant and valid clinical data
*Performs basic nursing skills
safely. / *Performs all skills in a safe
and effective manner / **Performs all skills in a safe
and effective manner
*Demonstrates basic knowledge of client’s medications and
administers meds safely. / Adapts nursing skills to meet the needs of adult clients / Provides care in accord with therapeutic regime.
*Demonstrates caring behaviors for client and family. / *Demonstrates caring behaviors for clients and families. / * Demonstrates caring behaviors for clients with psychiatric and mental health needs.
Evaluation:
Provides data to evaluate effectiveness of nursing interventions / Evaluation:
Performs an ongoing assessment to monitor for changes in client status / Evaluation:
Performs an ongoing assessment to monitor for changes in client status
Evaluates goal as met, partially met, or not met, and provides rationale. / Evaluates goals and modifies the plan of care based on client and family’s responses. / Evaluates goals and modifies the plan of care based on client and family’s responses.
Uses principles of communication to facilitate interactions with a client. / Implements therapeutic communication techniques with adult clients and their families / Implements therapeutic communication techniques with mental health clients and their families
Criteria Behaviors:
*Is an attentive, receptive listener. / Criteria Behaviors:
Develops rapport with clients and their families. / Criteria behaviors:
*Initiates therapeutic
relationships with clients
according to ethical/legal
guidelines.
Recognizes facilitative and non-facilitative verbal and non-verbal communication patterns in self and others.
Utilizes therapeutic communication skills / Effectively applies principles of therapeutic communication when interacting with clients and their families / Effectively applies principles of therapeutic communication when interacting with clients and their families
.
Provides basic information to a client utilizing teaching-learning principles to meet their needs for health promotion, maintenance and/or restoration. / Utilizes individualized teaching strategies that assists clients and families to meet their needs for health promotion, maintenance, and/or restoration / Utilizes individualized teaching strategies that assists clients and families to meet their needs for health promotion, maintenance, and/or restoration
Criteria Behaviors:
Recognizes the learning needs of a client with commonly occurring health needs. / Criteria Behaviors:
Assesses learning needs and implements appropriate teaching-learning plans to meet the client and family needs / Criteria Behaviors:
Assesses learning needs and implements appropriate teaching-learning plans to meet the client and family needs
Provides appropriate information to a selected client regarding health needs. / *Provides ongoing education while implementing individualized interventions / Develops and implements appropriate teaching learning plans to meet clients needs utilizing knowledge of mental illness and level of anxiety in developing teaching plans.
COORDINATOR OF CARE: / COORDINATOR OF CARE: / COORDINATOR OF CARE: / COORDINATOR OF CARE:
Acts as a member of the health care team to provide safe and effective care for a client. / Coordinates with members of the health care team to provide safe and effective care for medical surgical clients. / Collaborates with member of the health care team to provide safe and effective care for psychiatric mental health clients.
Criteria Behaviors:
*Obtains report prior to administering care and gives report prior to leaving the unit. / Criteria Behaviors:
*Confers with health team members to facilitate continuity of care for clients and their families / Criteria Behaviors:
*Confers with health team members to facilitate continuity of care for clients and their families
*Recognizes and reports changes in client’s status to appropriate health care team members and faculty in a timely manner. / Identifies hospital and community resources to assist with referrals based on the clients plan of care / Identifies hospital and community resources to assist with referrals based on the clients plan of care
Demonstrates the appropriate use of material and human resources. / Effectively organizes materials and human resources while providing care for adult clients and their families / Effectively organizes materials and human resources while providing care for adult clients and their families
Criteria Behaviors:
Utilizes appropriate supplies and personnel in providing care for a client / Criteria Behaviors:
Utilizes appropriate materials in recognition of cost containment / Criteria behavior:
Utilizes appropriate materials in recognition of cost containment
Organizes nursing care for a client:
· using an organizational plan
· to complete assigned activities within a designated time frame. / Completes nursing care in designated time frame while utilizing a written organizational plan / *Provides care to assigned clients in a timely manner
Follows established guidelines when communicating with members of the health care team. / Demonstrates effective professional communication with members of the health care team. / Demonstrates effective professional communication with members of the health care team.
Criteria Behavior:
*Communicates with other members of the health care team demonstrating respect and professionalism. / Criteria Behaviors:
*Reports and documents significant information about client’s status to appropriate members of the health care team / Criteria behaviors:
*Reports and documents significant information about client’s status to appropriate members of the health care team
Organizes written and oral communication / Organizes written and oral communication
Follows established guidelines for charting:
· legally correct
· accurate
· concise
· proper terminology
· legible
· grammatically correct
· relevant information
· individualized / Records complete, accurate, timely documentation for all assigned clients. / Records complete, accurate, timely documentation for all assigned clients.
MEMBER OF PROFESSION: / MEMBER OF PROFESSION: / MEMBER OF PROFESSION: / MEMBER OF PROFESSION:
Acts responsibly and honestly. / Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own learning needs and nursing practice while caring for clients and their families / Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own learning needs and nursing practice while caring for psychiatric mental health clients.
Criteria Behaviors:
*Accepts responsibility for own learning.
· is on time,
· prepares adequately for each clinical, and
· notifies faculty and clinical agency of an absence prior to beginning of shift. / Criteria Behaviors:
*Accepts accountability for
own actions and behavior / Criteria Behaviors:
*Accepts accountability for own
actions and behaviors.
Identifies own learning needs. / Seeks out new learning experiences
*Modifies behavior promptly based on faculty input and self evaluation / Seeks out new learning experiences
*Modifies behavior promptly based on faculty input and self evaluation.
Reports any errors and/or omissions promptly according to ACC & faculty guidelines.
Seeks assistances from faculty and nursing staff and utilizes directions given to improve own nursing practice. / *Reports any error and/or omissions promptly according to ACC and faculty guidelines / *Reports any error and/or omissions promptly according to ACC and faculty guidelines
Promotes a professional image of nursing by following guidelines for dress and grooming. / Promotes a professional image of nursing. / Promotes a professional image of nursing.
Adheres to designated ethical principles and legal guidelines while caring for a client. / Incorporates ethical principles and legal guidelines while caring for adult clients and their families / Applies ethical principles and legal guidelines while caring for psychiatric mental health clients.
Criteria Behaviors: / Criteria Behaviors
Uses a problem solving approach when confronted with ethical issues. / Criteria Behaviors:
Uses a problem solving approach when confronted with ethical issues.
*Adheres to designated legal guidelines and policies:
a. program, course, and faculty;
b. hospital policy and procedures;
c. Board of Nursing standards of nursing practice. / *Adheres to the laws
governing practice of Nursing
including, program policies,
hospital policies, and BON
standards of practice. / *Adheres to laws governing
practice including program
policies, hospital policies,
and BON standards of
nursing practice.
*Provides for and respects client’s right to: confidentiality, privacy, protection from violations of dignity and self –esteem. / Recognizes the client’s need for advocacy. / Recognizes the client’s need for advocacy.
Level 3 / Level 4
RNSG 1412 Childbearing /Childrearing Clinical / RNSG 2160
Clinical III / RNSG 2361
Clinical IV
PROVIDER OF CARE: / PROVIDER OF CARE: / PROVIDER OF CARE:
Applies critical thinking skills to provide safe, quality comprehensive nursing care to the childbearing and childbearing family using the nursing process. / Applies critical thinking skills to provide safe, quality comprehensive nursing care to clients with selected disorders and their families using the nursing process. / Integrates critical thinking skills and a systematic problem-solving process as framework for providing care for adult clients with complex health care needs involving multiple body systems in intermediate and critical care settings.
Criteria Behaviors:
Assessment:
*Performs a comprehensive assessment on
obstetrical clients, newborns, and pediatric
clients and their families. / Criteria Behaviors:
Assessment:
*Performs a comprehensive assessment
on clients with selected medical surgical
disorders. / Criteria Behaviors:
Assessment:
*Performs accurate prioritized, comprehensive assessments in a timely manner on multiple adult clients.
Assesses the appropriate inclusion of the family and support systems.
Interprets relevant and non-relevant data. / Assesses the appropriate inclusion of the family and support systems.
Interprets relevant and non-relevant data.
Diagnosis:
*Analyzes data to develop a list of relevant
prioritized nursing diagnoses for obstetric
or pediatric clients. / Diagnosis:
*Analyzes data to develop a list of
relevant prioritized nursing diagnoses
for clients with selected medical-
surgical disorders. / Diagnosis:
*Integrates data to develop a list of
appropriate prioritized nursing
diagnoses for adult clients.
Validates rationale for the prioritized list
Reprioritizes nursing diagnoses for each client as appropriate throughout care. / Validates rationale for the prioritized list
Reprioritizes nursing diagnoses for each client as appropriate throughout care. / *Reprioritizes nursing diagnoses for each client in a timely manner as appropriate throughout care.
Planning:
Analyzes data sources for relevancy and validity in planning care and clinical practice. / Planning:
Analyzes data sources for relevancy and validity in planning care and clinical practice. / Planning:
Collaborates with clients, their families, and health care team members to formulate individualized plan of care
Collaborates with client and family to incorporate cultural diversity into plan of care. / Collaborates with client and family to incorporate cultural diversity into plan of care. / Integrates aspects of cultural diversity into individualized plans of care.
Implementation:
Implements prioritized, individualized plans of care for clients and their families in an organized manner despite multiple disrupting factors. / Implementation:
Implements prioritized, individualized plans of care for clients and their families in an organized manner despite multiple disrupting factors. / Implementation:
Implements prioritized plans of care for each adult client in an organized, timely manner.
* Performs selected nursing skills in a safe, effective, and timely manner. / * Performs selected nursing skills in a
safe, effective, and timely manner. / * Performs complex nursing skills in a safe, effective, and timely manner.
Adapts nursing skills to meet the needs of obstetric and pediatric clients. / Adapts nursing skills to meet the needs of clients with selected medical-surgical disorders. / Makes effective nursing judgments based on theoretical concepts and clinical data.
*Demonstrates caring behaviors for obstetric and pediatric clients and their families. / *Demonstrates caring behaviors for
clients with selected medical-surgical
disorders and their families. / * Demonstrates caring behavior for adult clients and their families.
Evaluation:
Conducts an ongoing assessment to interpret changes in the clients’ status. / Evaluation:
Conducts an ongoing assessment to interpret changes in the clients’ status. / Evaluation:
Evaluates on going assessment of data to analyze changes in the client status.