COLLIN COLLEGE
COURSESYLLABUS
Course Number: RNSG1161
Course Title: Clinical I – Nursing – Registered Nurse Training
Course Description: A health-related work-based learning experience that enables the student to apply specialized occupational theory, skills, and concepts. Direct supervision is provided by the clinical professional. Course focuses on understanding and application of the nursing process, therapeutic communication, the development of critical thinking, patient/client advocacy, and safety to give comprehensive, quality patient-centered care using evidence based outcomes to culturally and socially diverse patient/client systems and documentation of care. Development of teaching/learning plans to address patient/client healthcare needs. Collaborate with the interdisciplinary health care team to promote, maintain and restore optimal health status of patient/client systems. Major Requirement: AAS – Nursing (RN).
Course Credit Hours:1
Clinical Hours:4
Prerequisite: Admission to the AAS – Nursing (RN) Program
Corequisites: RNSG 1125, RNSG 1128, RNSG 1216 and RNSG 1430, or consent of Program Director
Student Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
- Apply Neuman’s Systems Model theory, fundamental nursing concepts, and basic competentnursing skills for culturally and socially diverse patients/clients involving specialized materials, equipment, procedures in medical/surgical clinical settings.
- Identifyregulations, laws, and interactions within and among political, economic, environmental, social, and legal systems associated with the profession of nursing.
- Discuss legal and ethical behavior, patient/client safety advocacy and interpersonal and teamwork skills associated with the roles/competencies of the professional nurse as a member of the health care team in the medical/surgical clinical setting.
- Establish appropriate communication/documentation skills using nursing terminology in the clinical setting.
- Begin to utilize evidenced-based nursing process to determine basic needs and care for one to two patient/client systems in a medical/surgical clinical setting.
- Apply basic principles of decision making and clinicalreasoning utilized in the nursing process when caring for one to two patient/client systems in a medical/surgical clinical setting.
- Demonstrate application of patient-centered, therapeutic communication techniques in a medical/surgical clinical setting to establish a caring, safe environment.
- Demonstrate personal accountability and responsibility for providing safe,patient-centered, fundamental nursing care for one to two patient/client systems in a medical/surgical clinical setting.
- Utilize critical thinking and basic clinicalreasoning when providing safe,basic nursing care for one totwo patient/client systems in a medical/surgical clinical setting.
- Identify health related teaching/learning needs/problems and develop basic teaching/learning plans forpatient/client systems across the lifespan in a variety of settings.
Criminal Background Notice: If your program requires a criminal background check, your placement in a required clinical site, cooperative, practicum, internship and/or licensure/certification opportunity may be impacted. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your program director or instructor and check with your licensing/certifying entity, if any, to determine your status.
Withdrawal Policy: See the current Collin Registration Guide for last day to withdraw.
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Americans with Disabilities Act Statement: Collin College will adhere to all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations and guidelines with respect to providing reasonable accommodations as required to afford equal educational opportunity. It is the student’s responsibility to contact the ACCESS office, SCC-D140 or 972.881.5898 (V/TTD: 972.881.5950) to arrange for appropriate accommodations. See the current Collin Student Handbook for additional information.
Fall 2017 Rev