2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

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.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

NRSG 232, NRSG 233

Corequisite

NRSG 244, NRSG 248

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.