ADN 520 - Complex Health Concepts

1. Synthesize behaviors of a professional nurse.
   1. Utilize clinical decision-making skills for clients with complex health problems.
   2. Demonstrate professional standards of moral, ethical and legal conduct in all healthcare settings.
   3. Recognize the unique role of nurses as members of the healthcare team.
2. Analyze safe nursing practice.
   1. Recognize the physiologic and psychological effects of independent and collaborative nursing care.
   2. Apply concepts of safety when providing care to clients with advanced physiological and psychological needs.
3. Formulate communication techniques.
   1. Integrate effective professional communication.
   2. Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication and collaboration for improving client health outcomes.
4. Compare cultural competence of self and others.
   1. Organize culturally competent care for clients.
   2. Integrate the cultural beliefs, values, and healthcare practices of individuals and families into plans of care.
5. Examine knowledge of nursing care across the lifespan.
   1. Identify holistic, client centered care that reflects changes in patient condition, lifespan variations in various healthcare settings.
   2. Individualize the nursing process to meet the needs of clients across the life span and in all settings.
6. Evaluate knowledge of health promotion.
   1. Integrate health promotion activities in all nursing care.
   2. Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care to promote health and prevent disease and injury across the lifespan and in all settings.
7. Evaluate the nursing process.
   1. Organize individual nursing care utilizing the nursing process for clients with complex health needs.
   2. Prioritize individualized nursing care for clients with complex health needs.