PROVIDER OF CARE

1. Uses the Nursing Process, with guidance, in the care of healthy clients and those with commonly occurring pathophysiological conditions, which have predictable outcomes.

1. Employs the nursing process to meet client needs and promote health in the care of newborns, children and adults with selected medical, surgical and /or maternal-child disorders.

1. Employ nursing interventions based upon the Nursing Process to assist clients and their families cope who are experiencing crises associated with chronic illness, multiple medical disorders, complex surgery and mental illness.

1. Formulate and evaluate nursing care plans, based on the nursing process, to assist clients throughout the life span.

2. Explores client’s uniqueness, developmental level, perceptions and values to assist clients with their search for wholeness of being and becoming.

2. Employs nursing interventions that reflect an awareness of the client’s (individual and/or family) uniqueness, developmental level, perceptions and values.

2.  Employs nursing interventions to a group of clients that reflect an awareness of each client’s uniqueness, developmental level, perception and values to assist them on their search for wholeness of being and becoming.

2. Demonstrate respect of the client’s uniqueness, developmental level, perceptions and values, and joins with clients on a mutual search of their wholeness of being and becoming.

3. Develops care plans incorporating data related to the clients’ cultural and spiritual beliefs and physiologic, psychosocial and developmental needs and strengths.

3. Apply knowledge from the biological, physical and behavioral sciences, to the care of newborns, children and adults.

3. Apply knowledge from the biological, physical and behavioral sciences, to planning and providing care for clients with serious and complex pathophysiological and psychological conditions with unpredictable outcomes.

3. Apply knowledge from the biological, physical and behavioral sciences, to clients who have multiple, complex, health problems or critical illness/injury with unpredictable outcomes.

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4. Defines the concepts of nursing, client, environment and health as they relate to the Caring Collaborative Nursing Model.

4. Employs holistic nursing interventions based upon nursing theory, to assist individual clients throughout the life span.

4. Advocates for clients and their families, using an interactive, transpersonal, caring collaborative approach.

4. Demonstrate a commitment to providing client-centered holistic care and client advocacy through an interactive, transpersonal, caring collaborative approach involving the client, family, and members of the health care team.

5. Compare and contrast facilitative and not-therapeutic communication techniques.

5. Compare and contrast the differences in application of effective communication to infants, children, adolescents, adults, elders and families.

5. Evaluate clients’ communication capabilities, coping skills, support systems and motivation for change.

5. Evaluate the effectiveness of the communication process between clients, families and other health care team members in acute and critical care areas.

6. Describe the nurse’s role as health educator, utilizing the principles of teaching/learning.

6. Develop teaching plans that address the educational needs of various clients experiencing common medical disorders, surgical procedures and/or pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting.

6. Designs, implements and evaluates with minimal guidance, goal-directed teaching plans based on the uniqueness of the client and their developmental level.

6. Independently design and implement goal-directed teaching plans based upon identified needs of clients with complicated and critical conditions.

MANAGER OF CARE

7. Recognizes the concepts of critical thinking and collects information to make clinical judgments.

7. Evaluates information collected, and thoroughly analyzing major alternatives for prioritizing nursing activities.

7. Draws warranted, judicious, valid conclusions, justifies actions taken, explaining assumptions and reasons, for prioritizing and delegating care for clients.

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8. Establishes and maintains effective, collegial, working relationships with peers, staff and instructor.

8. Supports peers and other workers in the delivery of client care.

8. Demonstrates beginning ability to coordinate care given by peers and/or other health care team members utilizing concepts of leadership and management.

8. Provide effective leadership for other health care team members in a caring collegial manner.

9. Uses current technology to increase efficiency of management of client care and resources and practices in a cost-effective manner.

9. Uses current technology to increase efficiency of management of client care and resources.

9. Revises and reprioritizes plan of care in an efficient and cost effective manner.

9. Use current technology to provide quality care and manage care in an efficient and cost effective manner.

MEMBER OF THE PROFESSION OF NURSING

10. Adheres to legal and ethical standards of nursing care, especially maintaining confidentiality, reporting errors promptly and following the policies of the agency and nursing program.

10. Adheres to legal and ethical standards of nursing practice and principles, related to pediatric care, loss, death and dying.

10. Assumes responsibility for own behavior and identifies own beliefs and values and their impact on client care.

10. Demonstrate accountability for the provision and evaluation of nursing care that conforms to professional standards and incorporates legal and ethical responsibilities of the nurse, especially the rights of clients.

11. Responsible for identifying own leaning needs with assistance from instructor.

11. Recognizes and plans to meet own leaning needs with guidance.

11. Obtains maximum benefit from leaning experience through the use of continuous self-analysis, extrapolating theory into practice, advanced preparation and self-direction toward new experiences and tasks.