NURS 639P Intensive Practicum II
This clinical course provides nursing students with experiences in obstetrics, hospice, and palliative care. Students provide holistic nursing care that is safe, person-centered and culturally sensitive care for individuals and families from diverse backgrounds. Experiential learning focuses on application of evidence-based practice, clinical decision making, delegation, advocacy, interpersonal communication, and interprofessional collaboration in complex healthcare systems.
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.