NRSG 247 Nursing Practice: Quality and Safety
This course explores the structure and culture of healthcare delivery organizations with a focus on concepts of nursing leadership and quality improvement processes within healthcare delivery systems. Communication and management skills, decision-making, time and stress management, priority setting, interdisciplinary collaboration, and advocacy will be explored. Additionally, ASN students will apply concepts of evidenced-based, quality improvement processes to evaluate actual and potential problems in local healthcare settings.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Describe legal, ethical, regulatory, and professional standards that impact nursing practice and services provided by healthcare organizations. SLO#1 Use a clinical decision-making process to provide patient-centered care to diverse patients in all healthcare environments. SLO#2 Collaborate with patients, families, and interdisciplinary team members to coordinate health care services that promote optimum states of health and wellness. SLO#3 Demonstrate professional behaviors of accountability and cultural humility when engaged in unselfish service to humankind.
- Analyze the impact of leadership styles, collaborative abilities, and emotional intelligence on professional nursing practice. SLO#3 Demonstrate professional behaviors of accountability and cultural humility when engaged in unselfish service to humankind.
- Identify strategies to promote collegiality and professional communication in a variety of practice situations. SLO#2 Collaborate with patients, families, and interdisciplinary team members to coordinate health care services that promote optimum states of health and wellness. SLO#3 Demonstrate professional behaviors of accountability and cultural humility when engaged in unselfish service to humankind.
- Integrate the process of quality improvement with evidence-based findings to promote quality care. SLO#1 Use a clinical decision-making process to provide patient-centered care to diverse patients in all healthcare environments. SLO#4 Use quality improvement processes to improve nursing practice and care for patients across the lifespan and continuum of care. SLO#5 Apply technology and current evidence to support safe and effective patient care.
- Discuss the impact of evidence-based practice, evolving technologies, and quality initiatives on contemporary nursing practices. SLO#4 Use quality improvement processes to improve nursing practice and care for patients across the lifespan and continuum of care. SLO#5 Apply technology and current evidence to support safe and effective patient care.