I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Professional Nursing Practicum II

2. Course Prefix & Number:
NURS 2541

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 3

Lecture Hours: 0

Lab Hours: 9

4. Course Description:

The second course in a three-semester clinical sequence that focuses on the use of nursing judgment, evidenced-based practice, and informatics in the application of the nursing process, including assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation with individuals across the lifespan experiencing acute and chronic illness, and families experiencing childbearing. Clinical application of communication skills, teaching and learning principles, and various psychomotor skills is emphasized in order to provide safe, quality client-centered care. Clinical sites include acute care settings, as well as clinics and various community service agencies.

5. Placement Tests Required:

Accuplacer (specify test):

No placement tests required

Score:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

III. Course Purpose

1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):

Nursing - Associate in Science Degree

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Demonstrate oral communication skills	Establishes rapport and a compassionate, culturally competent therapeutic relationship with clients experiencing basic health problems across the lifespan.
Analyze and follow a sequence of operations	Demonstrates knowledge, skills, and attitudes for safe client care and performance of basic nursing skills, treatments, and medication administration in accordance with facility policy and procedure
Utilize appropriate technology	Navigates the electronic health record to retrieve information to support client care; documents nursing care in the electronic health record per facility protocol while maintaining HIPAA standards.

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Perform a comprehensive physical and psychosocial health history gathering all relevant subjective and objective data, integrating cultural, spiritual, and social considerations and the client’s perspective with basic health problems across the lifespan;
• Establish rapport and a compassionate, culturally competent therapeutic relationship with clients experiencing basic health problems across the lifespan;
• Identify client’s priority learning needs, barriers to learning, and readiness to learn; implement the teaching plan using the teach back method;
• Assess data, formulates nursing diagnoses and client-centered goals, develop nursing interventions, evaluate responses, and give rationale for prioritization of care of clients while addressing basic health problems across the lifespan;
• Work cooperatively and communicate effectively with other professionals, peers, and instructors while caring for clients with basic health problems across the lifespan;
• Demonstrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes for safe client care and performance of basic nursing skills, treatments, and medication administration in accordance with facility policy and procedure;
• Minimize risk of complications by early identification and reporting of actual or potential health problems for clients across the lifespan;
• Demonstrate professional behaviors and accountability for meeting assigned client care needs across the lifespan.
• Identify and delegate basic nursing treatments;
• Utilize evidence-based practice for providing safe, quality care to clients across the lifespan;
• Implement quality improvement methodologies to improve client satisfaction, customer service, and enhance cost efficient and quality healthcare services;
• Navigate the electronic health record to retrieve information to support client care;
• Document nursing care in the electronic health record per facility protocol while maintaining HIPAA standards; and
• Identify and implement safety technologies used in urgent and non-urgent situations in the acute care setting.

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions

1. Students complete 15 shifts with the focus being Acute Care, caring for patients with Acute and or Chronic illness flare-ups. They become part of the acute care team on the floor during that shift.  
• 9-10 shifts are completed on a Medical Surgical unit where they are assigned and do all cares for 1-2 clients, including all treatments, medications, nursing interventions, application of nursing process and documentation.
• 4-5 Shifts are completed working with Obstetric/Labor delivery, postpartum, newborn and pediatric clients. 1 shift completed in Sim Lab covering Labor and delivery, Post-partum care, newborn care and  Post-Partum hemorrhage
• 1 shift each Fall is completed screening hearing and vison for children at local school districts. This is rotated in the Spring with an observation shift in an Acute Care Psychiatric facility.
2. Collaborative Simulation
• Students participate in a simulated care setting of a five-bed hospital with multiple problems and exposure to multiple cultures. With focus being on collaboration, team work, nursing prioritization and delegation and supervision.