ADN 806 - Clinical Practicum 6

Student Objectives:
1. Utilize critical thinking to assess and set nursing priorities for a small group
of patients.
• Lead or participate in a patient care conference.
• Formulate health care outcomes with the patient, family and health care team.
• Participate in a multidisciplinary conference.
• Intervene as a patient advocate.
• Collaborate with the patient, family and health care team in evaluating the individual’s response to care.
• Assess nursing priorities for a small group of patients.
• Evaluate effectiveness of multidisciplinary conferences.
• Evaluate the care given to a small group of patients.
2. Collaborate with other health team members within the health care setting
to meet individual needs along the health-illness continuum.
• Plan and implement nursing care for a small group of patients.
• Work within the available human, material, and monetary resources to meet patients’ needs.
• Follow agency policies & procedures in providing care.
• Assist with health promotion.
• Delegate responsibilities to appropriate health care team members.
• Lead or participate in a patient care conference.
• Evaluate performance of other health care team members as related to delegated actions.
• Collaborate with other health care providers and with community agencies to meet patient and related family needs.
• Evaluate appropriateness of team member assignments.
• Assess agency policies and procedures as they affect oneself, members of the health care team, and the consumer.
• Participate in quality improvement and other evaluative activities.
• Work within the availability of human, material and monitory resources to meet patients’ needs.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of patient and/or multidisciplinary conferences.
3. Utilize communication skills to maintain effect and/or therapeutic
relationships with individuals, families and members of the health team.
• Assess the effect of communication on the interpersonal process.
• Respond to situational cues using therapeutic techniques.
• Use nursing procedures as opportunities for interaction with patients and families. 
• Evaluate effectiveness of own communication with patients and families.
• Collaborate with other health care providers.
• Clarify interactions with patients and colleagues.
• Assist in transcribing physician orders.
4. Practice within the profession’s ethical and legal framework pertinent to
the role of the nurse.
• Follow agency policies and procedures in providing care.
• Assist in transcribing physician orders.
• Practice within the ethical and legal framework of nursing.
• Provide care that is consistent with the laws governing the practice
of nursing and societal standards.
• Serve as a patient advocate.
• Consult with more experienced nurses or other appropriate health care professionals when patients’ problems are not within the scope of practice.
• Respect individual worth, uniqueness, and differences in values.
• Value cultural identity of self and others.
5. Utilize computers and other technical equipment for both personal and
nursing/professional activities.
• Participate in computer data entry/retrieval activities.
• Utilize technical skills as described in Clinical Practicum 5.
6. Demonstrate personal responsibility and accountability in the practice of
nursing.
• Assess own role as a member of the profession of nursing
according to state Nurse Practice Act, including legal and ethical
scope of practice.
• Assess own need for ongoing professional development.
• Assess own role in determining the scope, direction, and future of
professional nursing practice.
• Evaluate own progress toward professional development.
• Assume responsibility for self-development.
• Develop plan for ongoing professional development.
• Accept own potential and limitations.
• Demonstrate commitment to quality in own nursing practice.
• Accept responsibility for own actions.
• Evaluate own performance.
• Establish mutual expectations with patients and staff and fulfil lcommitments.
• Assume responsibility for self-development.