NURSE – CLIENT INTERACTIONS

N = Nurse; C = Client; F = Family Client; HT = Health Team; Community = Community Resources

Provider of Nursing Care

Care of healthy clients and those with commonly occurring patho-physiological conditions which have predictable outcomes.  Uses basic communication skills, nursing process, and teaching and learning principles to facilitate assessment of client needs.

Care of clients with commonly occurring physiological and patho-physiological conditions with predictable and unpredictable outcomes with less defined alternatives. Uses basic communication and teaching/learning skills to assess and support individual clients and families to meet their immediate and post-discharge needs.

Care of clients with serious and complex patho-physiological and psychological conditions with predictable and unpredictable outcomes. Uses advanced communication skills and teaching and learning principles to care for these individual clients and families with complex crises, chronic illness, multiple medical disorders and mental illness in order to meet their immediate and long term needs.

Care of clients with complicated and critical patho-physiological conditions with unpredictable outcomes. Uses advanced communication skills and teaching and learning principles to care for individual clients and families with critical disruptions in homeostasis, as well as to meet the learning needs of clients, families and co-workers.

Manager of Nursing Care

Individual client management (1:1 care) for clients across the life span, in collaboration with members of the health care team.

Client management (1:2 care) for individual clients and family clients across the life span, in collaboration with members of the health care team.

Personal and interpersonal management of functional and dysfunctional clients and families with complex alterations in health, and introduction to group management.

Personal and interpersonal management of functional and dysfunctional clients, families, and social systems with critical and unexpected alterations in health.

Member within the Discipline of Nursing
(Practices within the legal and ethical boundaries of nursing)

Responsible and accountable for providing quality care in own nursing practice. With instructor guidance responsible  for identifying own learning needs

Responsible and accountable for providing quality care in own nursing practice. Recognizes and plans to meet own learning needs with guidance.

Responsible and accountable for providing quality care of self and peers. Recognizes and plans to meet learning needs of self and others in peer working groups.

Responsible and accountable for care provided by self and other health team members according to developed standards of care. Self-directed for identifying and planning for own learning needs and guides other health team members in meeting learning needs when in a leadership role.

First Semester

Second Semester

Third Semester

Fourth Semester