NUR 1023
Nursing Practice I
(Also offered as NUR 1023C
NUR 1023 Nursing Practice I (10.0) ( A.S.) Concurrent registration in NUR 1023L is mandatory. This course provides six hours of lecture, three hours of lab and nine hours of clinical experience per week. This course is designed to introduce the concepts within the three domains of the individual, nursing and healthcare. Concepts related to the Individual include: acid base balance, cognition, comfort, culture, diversity, elimination, family, fluid & electrolytes, grief and loss, health, wellness, and illness, infection, mobility, oxygenation, perfusion inflammation, tissue integrity, self, sensory/perception, spiritual, stress/coping, and thermoregulation. Concepts related to nursing include assessment, caring interventions, clinical decision, collaboration, communication, managing care, teaching and learning. Concepts related to healthcare include accountability, advocacy, ethics, evidence-based practice, health care systems, health policy, informatics, legal issue, quality improvement, and safety.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Apply the course performance standards as defined in the NLN Outcomes and Competencies of Graduates of Associate Degree Programs in Nursing.
2. Identify and express caring behaviors that promote health, healing and hope in response to the human condition (Caring).
3. Identify and discuss differences among “persons, ideas, values and ethnicities,” while affirming the uniqueness of each (Diversity).
4. Discuss the culture of excellence in creating and implementing transformative strategies in health care (Excellence).
5. Define a culture of integrity, respect, dignity and moral wholeness, for individuals without conditions or limitation (Integrity).
6. Explain the personal, societal, and professional values, principles, and codes shaping nursing practice (Ethics).
7. Define holism within the context of a wellness – illness continuum (Holism).
8. Explore patient-centered approach that supports optimal health outcomes (Patient Centeredness).
Date of Original Submission: 1961
Date of Last Review: 8/19/88, 8/2004, 1/2007
Date of Last Revision: 8/19/88, 3/29/93, 10/25/05, 12/2/08, 11/18/13