LPN 180 - Fundamentals of Practical Nursing

• Demonstrates accountability for maintaining the standards of practice to include holistic care across the settings, legal / ethical behaviors and life-long learning in concert with the Maryland Nurse Practice Act for the Licensed Practical Nurse.
  • Discuss the roles of the practical nurse: Provider of care, and member within the health care team.
  • Within the health care team, develop a written nursing care plan including appropriate data collection and interventions and evaluation criteria.
  • With guidance is able to satisfactorily demonstrate relevant course competencies in the clinical setting.
• Utilizes appropriate and therapeutic communication to promote positive patient outcomes.
  • Develops a care plan for selected patients utilizing principles of therapeutic communication.
  • Utilizes appropriate nursing diagnosis, developed by the Registered Nurse (RN), related to therapeutic communication skills when interacting with patient to reach desired health care goals.
• Assesses holistically and systematically, the health status of individuals, families and communities to determine health care needs.
  • Identify indication of optimal functioning as well as nursing interventions with rationales in the following systems: sensorimotor, gas transport, nutrition / regulatory, elimination, protective, psychosocial and perceptual / behavioral.
  • Assesses individualized health status of selected patients.
  • Utilizes appropriate nursing diagnosis developed by the Registered Nurse (RN) related to assisting selected patients in reaching desired health care goals.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills within the framework of three (3) steps of the nursing process to ensure the delivery of safe, accurate care.
  • Solves problems using basic research, analysis and interpretation.
  • Utilize critical thinking skills in the formulation of selected patient’s care plan.
  • Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills in caring for patients in the clinical setting.
• Provides nursing care based on the understanding of the sciences, humanities, nursing theory, research and personal experiences that is global, culturally relevant and maintains patient’s rights and dignity.
  • Define the nursing process.
  • Identify indication of optimal functioning as well as nursing interventions with rationale for: sensorimotor, gas transport, nutrition / regulatory, elimination, protective, psychosocial and perceptual / behavioral systems.
  • Apply the nursing process in development of concept maps for selected patients.
  • Demonstrate ethical and cultural awareness.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of cultural diversity.
  • Respects the dignity and rights of others.
• Identifies learning needs of patients and within the health care team, and implements relevant teaching to assist the patient in achieving their health goals.
  • Identify health care learning needs for patient population.
  • Assist patients in achieving health goals.
  • Utilizes appropriate teaching / learning principles to aid patient in reaching desire health care goals.
• Collaborates with patients, families and other members of the health care team to ensure holistic, individualized care with appropriate allocation of human and material resources across the health care continuum.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of roles of members of the health team.
  • Function as a member of the health team.
• Coordinates through direct intervention and delegation of care, the safe and accurate care of multiple patients in sub acute health care settings.
  • Integrate principles of drug administration, drug classifications, indications and adverse effect to rationale for administration of specific drugs.
  • Within the health care team, develops a care plan for selected patients
  • Discuss the importance of cultural diversity as it influences approaches to health assessment and health care outcomes.
  • With guidance is satisfactorily able to care for patients in clinical settings.