PNN 260 - Practical Nursing Concepts III

1. Implement professional behaviors of a practical nurse.
   1. Collaborate with members of the healthcare team.
   2. Manage care for a group of clients
   3. Review on personal actions based on shared nursing values.
2. Analyze safe practice.
   1. Apply environmental safety.
   2. Implement safety interventions unique to client needs.
3. Develop principles of communication for a variety of client populations.
   1. Modify communication techniques for clients experiencing common psychosocial responses to health alterations.
   2. Employ developmentally appropriate communication.
   3. Demonstrate use of information technology in healthcare.
4. Differentiate cultural competency.
   1. Demonstrate respect for client’s culture and preferences.
   2. Employ culturally sensitive nursing interventions.
5. Synthesize nursing care across the lifespan.
   1. Utilize to the development of an individualized plan of care for clients across the lifespan with a focus on the elderly client.
   2. Implement independent and collaborative interventions to deliver holistic care.
   3. Apply normal and abnormal assessment findings for clients with common phsyiological alterations.
6. Compare knowledge of health promotion.
   1. Apply health promotion and illness prevention measures to minimize risk factors and complications for clients with common physiological alterations.
   2. Utilize client teaching to optimize health promotion and illness prevention.
7. Synthesize the Nursing Process for a group of clients across the lifespan with a focus on the elderly client.
   1. Implement problem solving skills when caring for a group of clients.
   2. Model the development of an individualized plan of care based on client assessment.
   3. Analyze nursing care based on assessment data and client responses.
   4. Modify the plan of care based on the assessment data of client responses.