Nov 12, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2019-20 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2019-20 [Archived Catalog]

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NRSE 4400 - Professional Practice in Nursing


Focuses on care of adult clients with complex alterations in health like cancer, multisystem failure, multiple system trauma, and diabetes. Students work with a preceptor in a specific agency setting. Emphasis is on refinement of clinical judgment, communication skills, and integration of a range of therapeutic interventions into nursing practice including those appropriate to individual clients, their families/significant others, and relevant population-based groups.

Requisites: NRSE 4110 and 4120 and 4140 and 4150
Credit Hours: 8
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 15.0 clinical
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Apply the nursing process using evidence-based data in the delivery of competent, culturally sensitive, and developmentally appropriate care
  • Assume accountability and responsibility for the quality of nursing care, upholding legal, ethical, and professional standards of care
  • Collaborate effectively with individuals and healthcare team members and maintain collegial professional relationships
  • Demonstrate an ability to reflect on interpersonal and interactional processes with individuals, families, and groups, and critically analyze own role
  • Demonstrate clinical judgment and accountability for patient outcomes when delegating and supervising other healthcare team members
  • Evaluate the outcomes of therapeutic nursing interventions and plan further interventions accordingly
  • Provide comprehensive nursing care for a patient population in an acute care setting in collaboration with and under the supervision of a preceptor
  • Use analytical, logical reasoning for clinical judgment and nursing decision making



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