NU 315 - Nursing Care of Children (SR)

This is a Sustainability-Related (SR)  course.

Prerequisites & Notes
NU 216 and NU 212

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to do the following: 

• Assume accountability for personal and professional behaviors.
• Demonstrate professionalism, including attention to appearance, demeanor, respect for self and others, and attention to professional boundaries with patients and families as well as among caregivers.
• Identify personal, professional, and environmental risks that impact personal and professional choices and behaviors.
• Act to prevent unsafe, illegal, or unethical care practices.
• Conduct comprehensive and focused physical, behavioral, psychological, spiritual, socioeconomic, and environmental assessments of health and illness parameters in patients, using developmentally and culturally appropriate approaches.
• Deliver compassionate, patient-centered, evidence-based care that respects patient and family preferences.
• Monitor client outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of psychobiological interventions.
• Uses inter- and intraprofessional communication and collaborative skills to deliver evidence-based, patient-centered care.
• Demonstrate appropriate teambuilding and collaborative strategies when working with interprofessional teams.
• Revise the plan of care based on an ongoing evaluation of patient outcomes.
• Integrate evidence, clinical judgment, interprofessional perspectives, and patient preferences in planning, implementing, and evaluating outcomes of care.
• Provide nursing care based on evidence that contributes to safe and high quality patient outcomes within healthcare microsystems.
• Create a safe care environment that results in high quality patient outcomes.