NURS 371 - Advanced Clinical Practice:Clinical

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Clarke; Sochalski; Rogers; Staff. Prerequisite(s): NURS 321, 322, 340, 341. Corequisite(s): NURS 370. This final clinical nursing course focuses on the integration and synthesis of scientific knowledge with clinical nursing practice and the development of the professional nursing role. Students select from a variety of options a primary, secondary or tertiary care setting in which to practice. Students will examine nursing care planning and delivery from the standpoint of at least one conceptual model. They will increase their skills in patient assessment, planning, and providing the full range of direct and indirect nursing care and evaluating the outcome of care. To the extent that it is possible within the clinical agency, they will provide care in more than one patient care delivery setting, to identify how nursing care requirements changes as the acuity or the site of care delivery changes. Principles of leadership, accountability and change will be applied to clinical practice as the student begins to operationalize the professional nursing role. Emphasis will be placed on the nurse as a knowledgeable provider of health care who is both a change agent and client advocate.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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