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Oct 18, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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NSG 310 - Transition and Concepts of Professional Nursing
Description: Builds on prior learning and skills to facilitate the transition to professional nursing. Philosophical perspectives, theories and standards are applied to professional nursing practice. Factors influencing nursing and health care are considered.
Prerequisites: Program Admission.
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Evolution of nursing practice
- Framework for developing and managing practice
- Legal and ethical practice
- Evidence-based practice
- Evolving healthcare environment: organizational and leadership theories
- Safety and quality practice
- Future of professional nursing
Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the progression of the nursing discipline along the continuum from an occupation to a profession. (1, 5)
- Evaluate the challenges posed by the IOM Reports The Future of Nursing. (1, 6)
- Assess the significance of nursing theories for the development and implementation of evidence-based practice. (2,4)
- Evaluate the role of the nursing profession within the evolving health care environment. (5, 7)
- Analyze the legal and ethical issues influencing nursing practice. (3)
- Appraise the role of the professional nurse in influencing the future of health care. (7)
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