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NURS 465 - Adult Health & Geriatric Medical Surgical: Practicum

(5 units)
This clinical practicum course applies critical thinking, clinical management, and concepts of nursing care to adult and geriatric patients with acute and complex health alterations within the acute care setting.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Accelerated Second Baccalaureate BSN (ASBSN) Program. Corequsite: NURS 464 .

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Internship/Practicum: 5
Offered: Every Summer

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. implement nursing judgment to clinical situations using standards of nursing care, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and evidence based research.
2. design and implement an individualized nursing plan of care for patients experiencing acute and complex healthcare alterations.
3. analyze the concepts of prioritization and delegation skills to the nursing process and care of patients with complex alterations in the clinical setting.
4. apply an expanding range of knowledge to promote health and well-being to prevent complications in adult and geriatric populations experiencing illness and disease.
5. demonstrate professional nursing behaviors and values in all clinical interactions, situations, and settings.
6. utilize nursing knowledge, information technologies and evidence-based research to construct and implement safe, effective, patient-centered nursing care.


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