Advanced Professional Nursing Concepts - NSG 230
https://courses.vccs.edu/courses/NSG230-AdvancedProfessionalNursingConcepts
Effective: 2023-08-01
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: peer review, Virginia Peer Assistance program for nurses, 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: delegation, priority setting, 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