NRSG 427 Nursing as a Profession
This course is an in-depth examination of concepts of nursing, the nursing role, and related issues that influence health care delivery. Both the role of professional nursing within the health care delivery system as well as the role of the individual nurse as an integral member of the health team are analyzed. Nursing is viewed as a dynamic growing profession that is striving to define and develop its unique body of knowledge through nursing theories. Student-directed seminars are used to study current nursing issues.
Offered
Spring
Student Learning Outcomes
- Develop strategies to acquire a job in the nursing profession compatible with career plan.
- Analyze the influence of current nursing theories on the practice of professional nursing.
- Appreciate the importance of a personal philosophy of nursing in shaping future practice.
- Analyze legal and ethical issues as they influence the role of the professional nurse.
- Investigate controversial nursing issues and their implications for the profession of nursing, the health care delivery system, and society.
- Develop strategies for effectively dealing with controversial nursing issues.
- Analyze nursing roles in relation to other health care disciplines.
- Reflect on how he/she will fit into the health care system in the role of a graduate professional nurse.