NRSG 110 Fundamental Nursing Skills

This course centers on the knowledge and abilities required to perform skills that are foundational to professional nursing practice. Clinical decision-making processes assist students to recognize basic patient needs and make clinical judgements that promote patient and staff safety in the provision of nursing care. Evidence-based techniques and patient-centered approaches for nursing skills are presented throughout the course. Learning experiences include laboratory skills, simulated patient care, and direct patient care. Must be accepted into the ASN nursing program.

Credits

6

Prerequisite

HLTH 208, HLTH 209

Corequisite

HLTH 216; Math 102; NRSG 106; NRSG 101 may be taken as a corequisite with faculty approval.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate competency in basic nursing skills.
2. Apply technology and current evidence to support safe and effective patient care.
3. Collaborate with patients, families, and interdisciplinary team members to coordinate health care services that promote optimum states of health and wellness.
4. Demonstrate professional behaviors of accountability and cultural humility when engaged in unselfish service to humankind.
5. Use a clinical decision-making process to provide patient-centered care to diverse patients in all healthcare environments.
6. Apply technology and current evidence to support safe and effective patient care.
7. Employ information technology to enhance personal development of SLO#4 Use quality improvement processes to improve nursing practice and nursing knowledge and skills.
8. Demonstrate professional behaviors in all educational settings. care for patients across the lifespan and continuum of care.
9. Apply technology and current evidence to support safe and effective patient care.
10. Demonstrate professional behaviors of accountability and cultural humility when engaged in unselfish service to humankind.
11. Exhibit effective communication techniques to promote patient and staff safety in various healthcare settings.
12. Apply current evidence and clinical decision-making processes to make clinical judgments for patients with fundamental healthcare needs.
13. Employ information technology to enhance personal development of nursing knowledge and skills.
14. Demonstrate professional behaviors in all educational settings.
15. Demonstrate competency in basic nursing skills.
16. Exhibit effective communication techniques to promote patient and staff safety in various healthcare settings.
17. Apply current evidence and clinical decision-making processes to make clinical judgements for patients with fundamental healthcare needs.
18. Use a clinical decision-making process to provide patient-centered care to diverse patients in all healthcare environments.