PNURSE 126 - Transition to Practice

1. Discuss the role of the nurse caring for clients within legal and ethical guidelines in regard to coordination of care, safety and infection control, health promotion and maintenance, psychosocial integrity, basic care and comfort, parenteral therapies, medications, and reduction of risk potential.
2. Identify the role of the nurse when caring for clients within legal and ethical guidelines with a disorder in the cardiovascular-hematologic, respiratory, neurosensory, gastrointestinal-biliary, genitourinary-renal-reproductive, endocrine, musculoskeletal, medical emergencies, and integumentary systems.
3. Describe the steps involved in registering for the NCLEX with the WA Department of Health and PearsonVue.
4. Discuss the process for maintaining continued competency as a nurse, and ways to be a good nurse employee.
5. Describe different work settings for a nurse, leadership styles, applying for a position as a nurse, writing a cover letter and resume, and interviewing.
6. Identify the benefits of joining professional nursing organizations.
7. Describe components of being professional in an online and clinical  environment.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• 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.