Bsn Curriculum Objectives and Essentials

BSN CURRICULUM OBJECTIVES AND ESSENTIALS

Characteristics of the Graduate / Course Number/Semester & Year Offered/Course Objectives
NURSU 380 (Sp 02) / Core Competencies / Core Knowledge / Role Development
Provides research-based nursing care to individuals, groups, and populations across the life span within the context of their culture and environment / 1. Discuss the significance of nursing research and research in other disciplines to nursing practice. / Critical appraisal skills / Importance of nursing research
Roles of nurses in research / Provider of care
Processes assessment data to make judgements about nursing interventions and evaluate outcomes / 2. Examine the steps of the research process. / Critical appraisal skills / Research process / Consumer of research
Applies outcome-based practice models in providing therapeutic nursing interventions in a safe, caring, and cost effective manner / 6. Discuss the utilization of research findings in professional nursing practice by describing examples of research-based nursing care for individuals, families, groups, and populations with a variety of health care needs. / Critical thinking skills
Critical reading skills / Evidence-based practice
Research utilization in practice / Provider of care
Uses critical thinking as the basis for decision-making in nursing practice / 5. Conduct critiques of published nursing research. / Critical appraisal skills / Research critique/criteria models / Provider of care
Communicates effectively with diverse clients and disciplines using a variety of strategies
Provides humanistic care with the goal of promoting, maintaining, or restoring health using clinical practice guidelines / 3. Describes various approaches to quantitative and qualitative research in nursing. / Critical appraisal skills / Research methods / Consumer of research
Incorporates professional nursing standards and personal accountability in one's own nursing practice / 6. Discuss the utilization of research findings in professional nursing practice by describing examples of research-based nursing care for individuals, families, groups, and populations with a variety of health care needs. / Critical reading skills / Evidence-based practice
Research utilization in practice / Consumer of research
Determines personal goals for life long professional development
Applies an ethical decision making framework to situations in practice, conduct, and relationships / 4. Discuss ethical considerations in nursing research. / Ethical decision-making / Ethical conduct in research / Provider of care
Coordinates, manages, and evaluates nursing practice to meet health needs of individuals, families, groups, and populations / 6. Discuss the utilization of research findings in professional nursing practice by describing examples of research-based nursing care for individuals, families, groups, and populations with a variety of health care needs. / Communication skills / Research utilization in practice / Provider of care
Consumer of research
Collaborates with other members of interdisciplinary health care team to deliver a comprehensive plan of care / 1. Discuss the significance of nursing research and research in other disciplines to nursing practice. / Communication skills / Research utilization in practice / Team member
Incorporates knowledge of organization and financing of health care delivery systems into nursing care decisions
Uses information technology to document and evaluate patient care, enhance patient education, and enhance own knowledge base / 7. Use information technology to enhance one’s own knowledge base through the use of computerized search engines and beginning statistics / Technical skills / Computer-based technology / Consumer of research
Provider of care