NURS 291 - Entry Nursing Practice/Practicum (lecture)

1. Examine current challenges in the healthcare workplace-including workforce shortages, financing, policy, and safety- and the effects on nursing practice.
2. Develop skills for entering professional practice, including resume writing, interview preparation, and setting career goals.
3. Analyze safety issues affecting both nurses and patients.
4. Evaluate system-based solutions to reduce risk and improve care quality.
5. Describe how nurses apply leadership and collaboration skills in clinical settings to improve patient care and team outcomes.
6. Demonstrate safe, team-based care in the clinical environment by applying principles of delegation, prioritization, and accountability.
7. Utilize tools that support evidence-based, relationship-centered communication across interdisciplinary teams. Example: SBAR, report hand-off form.
8. Describe how professional interdisciplinary health care organizations influence clinical practice- considering ethical standards and professional accountability for the entry-level registered nurse.
9. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Human Flourishing: Advocate for patients and families in ways that promote their self-determination, integrity, and ongoing growth as human beings.
10. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Nursing Judgment: Make judgments in practice, substantiated with evidence, that integrate nursing science in the provision of safe, quality care and promote the health of patients within a family and community context.
11. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Professional Identity: Implement one’s role as a nurse in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices, and an evolving identity as a nurse committed to evidence-based practice, caring, advocacy, and safe, quality care for diverse patients within a family and community context.
12. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Spirit of Inquiry: Examine the evidence that underlies clinical nursing practice to challenge the status quo, question underlying assumptions, and offer new insights to improve the quality of care for patients, families, and communities.

1. The challenges of today’s workplace.
2. Preparing for nursing practice.
3. Safety concerns for nurses and patients.
4. Power and leadership in nursing.
5. Current healthcare-related systems and organizations.
6. Effective communication within a healthcare team.
7. The relationship of prioritization of care and appropriate collaboration.