NURS 639P Intensive Practicum II
This clinical course provides nursing students with clinical experiences in obstetrics, hospice, and palliative care. Students provide holistic nursing care that is safe, person centered and culturally sensitive for individuals and families from diverse backgrounds from birth to end of life. Experiences include the application of evidence, holistic nursing theory, clinical decision making, delegation, advocacy, and interprofessional collaboration.
Competence Statement: Knows the nursing concepts, skills and underlying pathophysiological concepts well enough to provide safe, holistic nursing care to individuals and families in obstetrics, hospice, and palliative care settings.
Prerequisites
2 Graduate credits
Effective December 11, 2023 to present
Learning outcomes
General
- Demonstrate professionalism consistent with the standards of professional nursing practice.
- Provide holistic nursing care, guided by Modeling Role Modeling theory, that is safe, person centered, and culturally sensitive for individuals and families from diverse backgrounds in obstetric, hospice and palliative care settings.
- Collaborate with individuals, families, and the interprofessional team in the delivery of holistic nursing care to meet the health care needs of clients from birth to end of life.
- Demonstrate appropriate clinical reasoning and decision making in the provision of holistic nursing care.
- Support individuals and families to cope with suffering, grief, loss, and bereavement.
- Implement self-care behaviors to cope with the experience of caring for seriously ill and dying patients and their families.
- Apply health promotion and disease prevention measures in the care of individuals and families.