PNN 150 - Practical Nursing Concepts I

1. Apply professional behaviors of a practical nurse.
   1. Discuss the roles of the practical nurse within the healthcare team.
   2. Describe the practical nurse’s responsibility related to assessment.
2. Practice safe nursing practice.
   1. Demonstrate safe pharmacological principles and standards.
   2. Demonstrate safe medication administration.
   3. Describe principles of safety in infection control.
   4. Discuss legal standards that guide professional communication.
3. Describe the use of communication in nursing practice.
   1. Define principles of professional communication.
   2. Relate methods for communication within the healthcare team.
4. Identify culture.
   1. Discuss cultural competency.
   2. Identify how culture impacts of plan of care.
5. Utilize nursing care across the lifespan.
   1. Describe normal client assessment findings across the lifespan.
   2. Recognize alterations to assessment findings across the lifespan.
6. Apply health promotion.
   1. Discuss health promotion and illness prevention activities for individuals with common health needs.
   2. Define the role of the nurse in the teaching process.
7. Employ the Nursing Process.
   1. Discuss use of the nursing process within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
   2. Review safe nursing care related to physiologic responses to illness.