PNN 641 - Transition to Practice

Credit(s) 6.00
Lecture Hours: 4.50
Clinical Hours: 4.50
This course is an exit course for practical nursing, which builds upon concepts taught in previous nursing courses. Emphasis is placed on the concepts of reproduction, sexuality, development, family dynamics, stress, coping, mood and affect, anxiety, cognition, psychosis, addiction, interpersonal violence, professional identity, clinical judgment, leadership, ethics, communication, collaboration, health policy, and healthcare law. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate strategies to transition from the role of student to professional practitioner.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C or higher in the following:

PNN 158

PNN 282

, and

PSY 121

SLOs:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Integrate concepts within the domain of the health care recipient as it relates to providing health care.
Demonstrate safe, culturally competent therapeutic nursing care for multiple individuals.
Collaborate with the interdisciplinary health care team to safely and ethically execute the management of therapeutic nursing care within the health care system.