NRS A 105 - Nursing Assistant Clinical

Credits: 2
This is a dynamic and immersive course that places students in a real-world healthcare setting, providing hands-on experiences to integrate theoretical knowledge into practical skills. This course is designed to equip students with the essential competencies required for clinical practice as nursing assistants. Through supervised clinical experiences, students will engage in the provision of safe, culturally competent, and patient-centered care, while also mastering the principles and skills of restorative nursing.

Enrollment Requirement: Instructor permission

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Provide safe, culturally competent, patient-centered care to clients.
Incorporate principles and skills of restorative nursing while providing care.
Demonstrate behaviors that are respectful of client rights and promote client independence.
Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively as a member of a health care team, including the use of effective communication skills.
Practice basic nursing skills accurately and safely while utilizing procedures and techniques that prevent the spread of microorganisms.
Demonstrate the ability to identify and use safety and emergency procedures.
Practice within the legal/ethical scope of practice and responsibility of a nursing assistant.

Program Outcomes

Demonstrate problem solving, critical thinking approaches utilized in patient care settings.
Use ethical principles in practice, conduct, and relationships with patients, staff, and families.
Identify with the values of the profession and incorporate them into practice.
Promote a positive public image of nursing assistant as a positive role model.
Utilize communication skills to establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship with patients, families, and staff.
Execute competencies required for beginning practice as a nursing assistant.

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.
Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.