Program Requirements

Level 1 Objectives:

At the end of the first level, you will:

• Derive basic patient needs through learned physical assessment techniques.
• Explain nursing care required to achieve identified patient outcomes through initial use of the nursing process.
• Describe safety measures, standards of care and basic legal and ethical principles of nursing practice.
• Observe health care team members, their roles, and practice therapeutic communication techniques with assigned patients, families, and team members
• Associate clinical activities to expected changes in patient status and importance of monitoring patient data to determine effectiveness of care.
• Discuss the importance of critical thinking in nursing practice to meet patient needs and identify appropriate interventions.

Level 3 Objectives:

• Determine comprehensive patient needs through assessment of physical, developmental, emotional, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual, and functional status.
• Plan and implement nursing care based on current evidence, use of available technologies, and best clinical practice to achieve optimal patient response and outcomes.
• Model safety, accountability, and professional behaviors by adhering to standards of care and the legal and ethical principles of practical nursing practice.
• Interface effectively through collaboration and communication with patients, families, and the interdisciplinary health care team to deliver individualized patient-centered care.
• Evaluate nursing care using methods to assess changes in patient status, and data to monitor outcomes, leading to continuous improvement in the quality and safety of health care systems.
• Incorporate critical thinking in personal practice and while assisting the RN to meet patient needs in complex clinical situations.

Level 2 Objectives:

• Identify broader and more complex needs of patients through use of multiple and more focused assessment techniques.
• Employ evidence-based strategies and technology in clinical practice to maximize patient response and meet identified objectives.
• Demonstrate safe clinical practice and professional behaviors with consideration of the standards of care and legal and ethical principles.
• Maximize team work and therapeutic communication with patients, families, and health care team to delegate, prioritize, and document individualized patient-centered care.
• Examine nursing care and its impact on patient status and outcomes to ensure continual quality and safety within health care systems.
• Illustrate rudiments of critical thinking strategies in application of nursing process, response to patient needs, and clinical practice activities.

(224 classroom (156 inperson, 68 online), 32 laboratory, 24 simulation and 232 clinical).