NURS 219 Nursing Practice II: Promoting Health & Healing I

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

1. Provide a moral and caring context that preserves and protects patient dignity and minimizes vulnerability
2. Explore cultural safety within your specific clinical context to uncover issues of power, trauma, client strengths and impacts on client health
3. Develop relationships with health care team members and utilize assessment data from the role-based work of the team to contribute to overall patient health outcomes
4. Utilize learning theory to identify readiness to learn, client and family learning needs and culturally and developmentally appropriate teaching strategies
5. Apply principles of effective documentation with instructor support, within the context of agency guidelines
6. Safely administer medications, using a variety of routes, with instructor support
7. Demonstrate foundational psychomotor skills while identifying appropriate rationale
8. Use the decision making model to plan, implement and evaluate individualized and devolving care for one person, in stable condition
9. Apply inquiry and informatics literacy skills to support nursing practice through use of health data, the electronic health care record and evidence-informed literature
10. Distinguish between expected and unexpected patterns of client data and response
11. Identify, report and take action on actual and potential safety risks to patient, self, or others
12. Critically reflect on nursing practice of self and others
13. Demonstrate awareness of one’s developing knowledge and competencies when determining individual scope of practice
14. Identify the impact of contextual influences such as climate change and societal factors on the health of individuals and families