ADN 550 - Professional Nursing Preceptor

1. Appraise behaviors of a professional nurse.
   1. Reflect on personal and professional actions based on a set of shared core nursing values.
   2. Demonstrate transition to the role of the professional nurse within organizational systems.
2. Appraise safe nursing practice.
   1. Integrate clinical decision making skills in the care of clients with complex health needs.
   2. Promote factors that create a culture of safety within the context of the healthcare team.
3. Appraise communication techniques.
   1. Manage communication, including the use of informatics, with clients, individuals, families, communities and colleagues.
   2. Organize and succinctly and accurately convey comprehensive patient information to members of the healthcare team.
4. Appraise cultural competence.
   1. Demonstrate and evaluate culturally competent nursing care.
   2. Apply theories and concepts based on social and cultural factors of the client.
5. Appraise knowledge of nursing care across the lifespan.
   1. Compare and contrast the role of the nurse in meeting the needs of clients across the lifespan.
   2. Evaluate the effectiveness of age appropriate nursing care.
6. Appraise knowledge of health promotion.
   1. Describe how health promotion interventions can be operationalized.
   2. Integrate theories and concepts of wellness based nursing care.
   3. Evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion and nursing care.
7. Appraise the nursing process.
   1. Compare and contrast nursing process to nursing practice.
   2. Evaluate nursing process utilizing evidence based standards of care.