NURS 107 - Acute Care Practical Nursing Lab/Clinical

• Demonstrate legal and ethical nursing practice, ensuring compliance with standards while providing care to patients with acute, chronic, or emergent physical health conditions.
• Administer medications and monitor patients receiving parenteral therapies, reducing the risk of complications in medical/surgical settings.
• Identify nursing tasks/activities to assign to other LPNs and UAPs, and monitor their completion to achieve patient care goals.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions based on pathophysiological, nutritional, and pharmacological considerations, ensuring quality care for patients with medical/surgical conditions.
• Demonstrate nursing judgment when performing focused assessments, choosing nursing interventions from an established plan of care, monitoring, and reporting changes in the patient’s condition.
• Demonstrate caring communication skills and cultural sensitivity when using the nursing process to contribute to the plan of care for the adult patient.
• Provide health care information and reinforce established teaching plans for patients.
• Collaborate with healthcare team members to facilitate effective patient care.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of technology and informatics in the healthcare setting, contributing to efficient and accurate patient care.
• Contribute to the protection of patients and healthcare personnel from health and environmental hazards, maintaining a safe and healthy medical/surgical environment.
• Implement the national patient safety goals and safe nursing practice in the clinical setting.

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