Reflect on the course using these course learning objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Demonstrate competent basic nursing skills within the lab and clinical settings.
Apply foundational knowledge of the nursing process to provide holistic nursing care to patients based on assessment of their specific healthcare needs.
Engage in the student nurse role consistent with legal, ethical, and professional nursing standards.
Demonstrate therapeutic communication in the care of diverse patients, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team.
Apply knowledge of cultural competency and evidence-based practice to the care of patients in clinical settings.
Upon successful completion of the lab, students should be able to:
Describe and demonstrate steps and rationales in the performance of fundamental nursing skills and the nursing process.
Demonstrate principles of safe medication administration via a variety of routes in simulated client care scenarios.
Perform dosage calculations for administration of oral and parenteral medications accurately.
Competently and safely perform nursing skills related to gas exchange and fluid/electrolyte balance.
Upon successful completion of the clinical experience, students should be able to:
Apply the nursing process while caring for diverse patients in the health care setting.
Organize and implement nursing care to individuals in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and cost-effective manner.
Apply appropriate caring, communication and documentation techniques when providing nursing care in the clinical setting.
Create a safe care environment that results in high quality patient outcomes.
Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.
For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.
Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to professional practice.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
