NU 300 - Professional Transitions for RN to BSN Students

• Assignments: 5 Units
• Interactivity: Discussion Board
• Final Assessment: None

• Identify personal and professional goals for furthering your nursing education. 
• Analyze potential role conflicts and stressors that may become barriers to completing this course. 
• Identify strategies for coping with these role conflicts and stressors as they arise. 
• Locate and critically analyze articles from peer-reviewed nursing journals and credible health-related Web sites. 
• Use reflection as a tool to evaluate your progress in meeting your educational goals. 
• Examine the historical and theoretical development of the profession within the framework of the meta-paradigm for nursing (person, environment, health, and nursing), and in the context of contemporary practice. 
• Develop a personal definition and philosophy of professional nursing within the context of the meta paradigm for nursing. 
• Identify and apply a nursing theory or conceptual model that most closely matches your current professional nursing practice. 
• Describe how the use of computers and advances in technology impact the cost and quality of health care and your practice. 
• Describe how evidenced-based practice supports improved client care. Conduct a literature review to discover evidence-based practice standards to improve the health of your client population. 
• Discuss how you would integrate health protection and health promotion into your plan of care for a group of clients from your practice area. 
• Analyze your self-care strategies for a balanced life. 
• Discuss the impact that the local community environment and the global community environment play in the health of clients. 
• Describe the professional nurse’s role in influencing public policies that deal with global health. 
• Describe resources available to the you to assist in providing culturally competent care.