Competencies for Nursing Practice - NSG 106 at Rappahannock Community College
https://courses.vccs.edu/colleges/rcc/courses/NSG106-CompetenciesforNursingPractice
Effective: 2023-08-01
Course Description
Focuses on the application of concepts through clinical skill development. Emphasizes the use of clinical judgment in skill acquisition. Includes principles of safety, evidence-based practice, informatics and math computational skills. Prepares students to demonstrate competency in specific skills and drug dosage calculation including the integration of skills in the care of clients in simulated settings. Provides supervised learning experiences in college nursing laboratories, clinical/community settings, and/or simulated environments.
Lecture 0-1 hour. Laboratory 3-6 hours. Total 4-6 hours per week.
2 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
The purpose of this course is to teach novice students the basic nursing skills needed to care for clients in the clinical setting.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Prerequisites: BIO 141 (or BIO 231)
Course Objectives
- Demonstrate the use of therapeutic communication, caring behaviors and client self-determination in the implementation of clinical skills in the lab setting.
- Report patient safety issues and risks related to skill completion in a laboratory setting.
- Demonstrate clinical judgment in the performance of nursing skills.
- Demonstrate professionalism and professional behaviors.
- Compute drug dosage calculations with 90% accuracy.
- Perform required skills safely and accurately.
- Identify the principles of safe medication administration.
- Identify the safety practices necessary for medication preparation and administration.
Major Topics to be Included
- Safety
- Fall precautions
- Restraints
- Drug Dosage Calculations
- Conversions
- Oral and parenteral dosage calculations
- Infection
- Hand hygiene
- Personal protective equipment
- Sterile gloving and sterile fields
- Mobility
- Proper body mechanics
- Patient transfers
- Patient positioning
- Use of assistive mobility devices
- Functional Ability
- Hygiene care
- Tissue Integrity
- Wound care
- Removal of sutures and staples
- Heat and cold application
- Urinary Elimination
- Insertion and maintenance of urinary catheter
- Bladder irrigation
- Use of bed pan, urinal, and commode
- Intake and output (I & O)
- Specimen collection
- Bowel Elimination
- Enemas
- Rectal tubes
- Colostomy appliances
- Specimen collection
- Gas Exchange
- Coughing and deep breathing
- Incentive spirometry use
- Oxygen delivery equipment
- Artificial airways
- Suctioning: oral, tracheal, naso-tracheal
- Specimen collection
- Nutrition
- Feeding clients
- Aspiration precautions
- Nasogastric tube care, insertion, irrigation, and connecting to suction
- Enteral feedings via NG or PEG
- Blood glucose monitoring
- Pharmacology Principles
- Medication Administration
- Drug Dosage Calculations: conversions; oral and parenteral dosage calculations
- Administration of oral, topical, and parenteral medications
- Needle safety