NUR 210 - Professional Nursing Issues

Credits: 2
2 Lecture Hours

Prerequisites: NUR 130 and NUR 140
Co-requisites: (If not previously completed successfully): NUR 220, NUR 230 and ENG 102

Description
This didactic course explores concepts of professional behaviors and issues that impact nursing in the current and future health care delivery system. The emphasis is on group learning through discussion of legal and ethical issues, professional responsibilities and accountability and evidence based practice research. This course requires a per credit health career fee; check the tuition and fee schedule for the current rate.

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:

Explain how professional behaviors, quality improvement processes and legal/ethical issues impact clinical judgment.
Discuss the legal and ethical issues that impact professional caring behaviors.
Examine legal and ethical aspects of communication and how they impact the delivery of safe and effective care.
Implement teaching plans that include legal and ethical concepts of patient care.
Examine ethical inquiry practice as it relates to professional identity.

Listed Topics

Professional nursing organizations
Utilization of nursing research/evidence-based practice
Legal issues
Ethical issues

Reference Materials
Nursing issues textbook and online learning resources.

Students who successfully complete this course acquire general knowledge, skills and abilities that align with CCAC’s definition of an educated person. Specifically, this course fulfills these General Education Goals:

Culture Society and Citizenship
Information Literacy

Approved By: Johnson, Alex Date Approved: 03/21/2011

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