Form 6.

2: Course Outline with Assessment

Course Title: ____ Transition to Professional Nursing Practice Module Number and Name 1. Professional Practice Objective 1. Differentiate RN scope of practice and LVN scope of practice 2. Discuss examples of professionalism demonstrated in previous LVN nursing practice situation 3. Relate RN rules and regulations to practice experience 4. Select examples of therapeutic communication from video samples. 5. Legally delegate client care to unlicensed assistive personnel Objective 1. Perform a sterile procedure in a simulated setting with 100% accuracy 2. Administer oral, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intradermal and intravenous medications in a simulated setting with 100% accuracy 3. Objectively document nursing interventions with 100% accuracy 4. Calculate medication doses for administration with 100% accuracy Objective 1 Obtain a client health history Assessment Ideas Create a comparison chart Asynchronous discussion sharing personal examples of professionalism Essay: summarize a Board of Nursing disciplinary action case file Therapeutic communication video samples Quiz Assessment Ideas Simulation - central line dressing change or urinary catheter insertion Simulation - medication administration

Module Number and Name 2. Nursing skills demonstration

Document on electronic health record Calculation quiz

Module Number and Name 3. Client assessment and care planning

Assessment Ideas Perform and document health history including genogram 2 Accurately perform general head to toe Physical assessment observed by faculty physical assessment including vital signs and documented on rubric 3 Link abnormal assessment findings to Create concept map showing

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

the underlying pathophysiology.

Module Number and Name 4 Nursing Practice in 21st Century Healthcare

4 Create a nursing plan of care based on assessment findings Objective Assessment Ideas 1 Organize nursing care for assigned Identify nursing interventions client based on JCAHO Core Measure sets associated with specific Core Measure sets on written exam 2. Communicate client information using Simulation: patient handoff intensive the Situation-Background-Assessmentcare nurse to medical unit nurse. Recommendations (SBAR) format. Simulation: physician notification of patient demonstrating impending septic shock 3. Examine the role of the professional Asynchronous discussion based on nurse in the resolution of ethical delivery of healthcare during a natural dilemmas disaster 4. Compare and contrast U.S. healthcare Classroom debate : U. S. single payer payer systems health system vs Affordable Care Act 5. Identify reliable healthcare websites Quiz 6. Create a collection of reliable Develop a list using Diigo, Symbaloo, etc. healthcare websites

relationship between disease and symptoms displayed by patient Nursing care plan

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.