https://courses.vccs.edu/colleges/reynolds/courses/NSG230-AdvancedProfessionalNursingConcepts

Effective: 2025-05-01

Course Description

Develops the role of the professional nurse in the healthcare environment in preparation for practice as a registered nurse. Introduces leadership and management concepts and focuses on the integration of professional behaviors in a variety of healthcare settings.
Lecture 2 hours. Total 2 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 further develop the concepts of professional nursing.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisites: NSG 210 and NSG 211

Course Objectives

  • Evaluate legal and ethical principles related to health care policy and health care economics.
  • Evaluate quality indicators in health care organizations
  • Analyze leadership and collaborative practice strategies that foster mutual respect and shared decision making.
  • Analyze care coordination related to episodic vs. continuous care across multiple settings.
  • Integrate clinical judgment when collaborating with the healthcare team in the management of care for complex clients.
  • Apply the principles of leadership and management regarding the legal and ethical responsibilities related to safe medication administration.

Major Topics to be Included

  • Leadership Concept
    • Leadership versus management
    • Formal versus informal leadership
    • Leadership theories
    • Exemplars: styles of leadership, change management, team building
  • Ethics Concept
    • Moral courage
    • Strategies to promote ethical care,
    • Human right to self determination
    • Obligation to report
    • Exemplars: ethical dilemmas
  • Quality Concept
    • Quality indicators
    • Culture of quality
    • Major attributes of health care quality
    • Equitable care
    • Core measures
    • Sentinel events
    • Exemplars: magnet designation, root cause analysis, Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS)
  • Informatics Concept
    • Clinical informatics
    • Domains of informatics
    • Electronic health record
    • Trends in nursing informatics
    • Exemplars: clinical decision support systems
  • Health Care PolicyHealth Care Economics Concept
    • Individual health care financing
    • Organizational financing
    • Trends in health care policy
    • Exemplars: regulatory agencies, financing access: Medicare, Medicaid, Health insurance, accrediting bodies
  • Coordination of Care Concept
    • Care coordination models
    • Delegation
    • Clinical reasoning
    • Role differentiation
    • Natural and manmade disasters
    • Pharmacology: Radiation Emergencies-medications to counteract: Sargramostin, Philgrastim, Potassium Iodide; Anticholinergic Drugs-Atropine; Antibiotics: Tetracycline; Cephalosporin
    • Exemplars: emergency triage, bioterrorism
  • Communication Concept
    • Communication pitfalls
    • Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient
    • Safety (Team STEPPS)
    • Exemplars: conflict resolution, lateral violence, civility in the workplace
  • Caring/Advocacy Concept
    • Exemplars: Compassion fatigue and self-care