Nursing Practice: Beginning Client Care

At the end of this course, successful students will be able to:

• Demonstrate a beginning level competence in providing safe and compassionate evidence- informed nursing care to clients who are older adults with stable health status.
• With assistance, apply knowledge, critical inquiry, and analytic reasoning to formulate and implement nursing practice decisions that promote health.
• With assistance, synthesize and apply prior learning, and learning from concurrent semester courses, in nursing practice.
• Use a relational perspective, engage with adults and older adults experiencing a variety of common and predictable health challenges and transitions.  
• Demonstrate a beginning understanding of their professional identity and the role of the nurse in their relationships with clients and in their participation as a member of a nursing care team.
• Demonstrates an awareness of the role of the nurse as a member of the interprofessional team working with adults and older adults.
• Identify elements of quality practice environments in various nursing practice settings.
• Reflect on, and discuss, personal perspectives and values of health, healing, health promotion, and dignity of care in the context of their nursing practice.
• Actively participate in the development of knowledge from nursing practice to expand and deepen their understanding of nursing practice and their nursing identity.