Course Competencies
1. Patient-Centered Care: Apply the nursing process and problem-solving strategies when providing culturally congruent nursing care to medical-surgical adult patients and patients with mental health disorders. (I)
2. Professionalism: Demonstrate professional behaviors consistent with legal and ethical guidelines. (II)
3. Leadership: Recognize strategies to improve time management, including prioritization and delegation in the delivery of patient care. (III)
4. System-Based Practice: Recognize the resources available within microsystems. (IV)
5. Informatics and Technology: Utilizes elements of technology and information management to enhance care provided to the adult patient population. (V)
6. Communication: Apply therapeutic communication techniques and caring behaviors with mental health and adult medical-surgical patients, families and colleagues to promote positive health outcomes. (VI)
7. Teamwork and Collaboration: Participate as a healthcare team member to provide patient/family care. (VII)
8. Safety: Perform selected clinical skills and procedures safely according to established care protocols or plans. (VIII)
9. Quality Improvement: Report identified patient care issues to appropriate personnel. (IX)
10. Evidence-Based Practice: Utilize evidence-based practice when caring for medical-surgical adult patients and patients with mental health disorders. (X)
1. Patient-Centered Care
1. Patient-Centered Care: Apply the nursing process and problem-solving strategies when providing culturally congruent nursing care to medical-surgical adult patients and patients with mental health disorders. (I)
The Practice of Patient Centered Care: Empowering and Engaging Patients in the Digital Era by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781614998235Publication Date: 2017-11-16
2. Professionalism
2. Professionalism: Demonstrate professional behaviors consistent with legal and ethical guidelines. (II)
The Johns Hopkins Nursing Professional Practice Model by Call Number: e BookISBN: 9781938835308Publication Date: 2017-03-01
3. Leadership
3. Leadership: Recognize strategies to improve time management, including prioritization and delegation in the delivery of patient care. (III)
Boost Your Nursing Leadership Career by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781567938869Publication Date: 2017-03-30
Nursing Leadership: A Concise Encyclopedia, Second Edition by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826121769Publication Date: 2011-10-01
4. System-Based Practice
4. System-Based Practice: Recognize the resources available within microsystems. (IV)
Nursing Procedures Made Incredibly Easy! by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781496300416Publication Date: 2015-10-13
5. Informatics and Technology
5. Informatics and Technology: Utilizes elements of technology and information management to enhance care provided to the adult patient population. (V)
Nursing Informatics 2016: EHealth for All: Every Level Collaboration – From Project to Realization by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781614996576Publication Date: 2016-07-21
Application of Nursing Informatics by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826141194Publication Date: 2019-01-28
Nursing Informatics: A Health Informatics, Interprofessional and Global Perspective by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9783030912369Publication Date: 2022-07-26
6. Communication
6. Communication: Apply therapeutic communication techniques and caring behaviors with mental health and adult medical-surgical patients, families and colleagues to promote positive health outcomes. (VI)
From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780801478734Publication Date: 2013-05-15
Interpersonal Communication - Encyclopedia of Nursing Research by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826133045Publication Date: 2017-07-01
7. Teamwork and Collaboration
7. Teamwork and Collaboration: Participate as a healthcare team member to provide patient/family care. (VII)
Collaboration with the Advanced Practice Nurse: Role, Teamwork and Outcomes by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781633213111Publication Date: 2014-01-01
The Nurse Manager's Legal Companion -Chapter 11: Interprofessional Collaboration and Accountability by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781556458149Publication Date: 2015-07-30
8. Safety
8. Safety: Perform selected clinical skills and procedures safely according to established care protocols or plans. (VIII)
Introduction to Quality and Safety Education for Nurses: Core Competencies by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826121837Publication Date: 2014-03-14
Building a Culture of Patient Safety Through Simulation: An Interprofessional Learning Model by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826169068Publication Date: 2014-08-01
9. Quality Improvement
9. Quality Improvement: Report identified patient care issues to appropriate personnel. (IX)
- Introduction to Quality and Safety Education for Nurses: Core Competencies by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826121837Publication Date: 2014-03-14
10. Evidence-Based Practice
10. Evidence-Based Practice: Utilize evidence-based practice when caring for medical-surgical adult patients and patients with mental health disorders. (X)
Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals, Fourth Edition by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781948057875Publication Date: 2021-07-15
Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826171283Publication Date: 2011-12-01- Evidence-Based Practice - Encyclopedia of Nursing Research by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826133045Publication Date: 2017-07-01
The PEACE Model Evidence-Based Practice Guide for Clinical Nurses by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781646480104Publication Date: 2021-01-15
