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Sep 07, 2024
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BNURSE 475 - Nursing Capstone Clinical Credits: 4
Focuses on the integration of concepts from the arts, sciences, and previous nursing courses while caring for clients using evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning in the provision of person-centered, systems-based, high-quality health care in accordance with professional and regulatory standards. Students demonstrate accountability for personal and professional development while planning and implementing a quality improvement project.
Enrollment Requirement: Enrollment in the LPN to BSN Program
Course Fee: $100.00
Course Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:
- Utilize clinical judgment in providing holistic, evidence-based, person/family-centered care of clients within legal and ethical standards of the profession.
- Demonstrate self and professional leadership when coordinating and managing safe, high-quality care in alignment with best practice and other regulatory standards for clients.
- Employ communication and therapeutic relationship skills that meet the developmental, cognitive, psychosocial, cultural, and physiological needs of diverse clients.
- Use informatics and other healthcare technologies to collaborate with other members of the healthcare team when managing efficient nursing care.
- Develop and implement a Capstone PICOT project.
- Develop a plan to meet their own personal, professional, and educational goals related to the care of a medical-surgical client.
- Reflect on clinical experiences related to QSEN competencies and progress on the program learning outcomes.
Program Outcomes
- Integrate knowledge from the arts and sciences to manage the care of clients across the life span using evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning to inform decision making.
- Provide holistic, person-centered, population health care to diverse populations including community and public health.
- Utilize research information to improve health of diverse clients across the life span.
- Minimize harm to clients through quality assurance and improvement.
- Use systems-based practice to coordinate and manage care to provide safe, quality, and equitable care.
- Integrate informatics and other healthcare technologies to inform decision making when managing and delivering safe, high-quality, and efficient health care in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
- Demonstrate accountability for personal and professional development, including the professional identity of a bachelor of science prepared registered nurse, and life long learning.
- Apply leadership principles and quality improvement when intentionally collaborating with the interdisciplinary health care team to provide evidence-based, safe quality nursing care.
College-wide Outcomes
- Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
- Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
- Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
- Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
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