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Apr 19, 2024
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PNN 311 - PN Issues & Trends
Last Date of Approval: Fall 2020
1 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 15
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This theory course is a requirement with PNN 811 Selected Clinical Nursing and PNN 731 Clinical Practicum and is designed to prepare the practical nursing student for National Examination for practical nursing licensure. This course is designed to assist the practical nursing student to develop an awareness and understanding of responsibilities to self and career. The course content includes historical perspectives, ethical and legal considerations, professional organizations, leadership skills, career opportunity review, health resources, and career responsibilities.
Corequisites:
- PNN-811 Selected Clinical Nursing
- PNN-731 Clinical Practicum
Prerequisites:
- PNN 621 - Life Span Health Care
- PNN-127 Fundamentals of Nursing Health Care,
- PNN-121 Clinical Practicum 1,
- PNN-206 Medical Administration for Nurses,
- PSY-121 Developmental Psychology,
- BIO-168 Human Anatomy & Physiology I w/lab,
- BIO-151 Nutrition,
- HSC-112 Medical Terminology,
- BIO-173 Human Anatomy & Physiology II w/lab,
- PNN-621 Life Span Health Care,
- PNN-622 Clinical Practicum 2.
Recommended(s): None
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: face-to-face
Credit for Prior Learning: None
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify behaviors of a professional nurse.
2. Identify nursing care of the geriatric client.
3. Describe NCLEX-PN test plan and the nursing license.
4. Identify the nurse’s role in emergencies.
Course Objectives:
1. Examine critical thinking skills in applying the essential components of each phase of the nursing process to a multiple patient assignment.
2. Determine nursing care skills appropriate for patients with common health-illness concerns.
3. Relate basic human needs in caring for a multiple patient assignments.
4. Analyze the values, attributes, behaviors, ethics, and legal obligations appropriate to the entry level practical nurse.
5. Correlate beginning nursing skills in providing care to a multiple patient assignment with basic health needs.
6. Formulate nursing care to individuals with common problems along the health-illness continuum.
7. Associate basic therapeutic communication skills to individuals across the life span.
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