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Overview

This competency group may only be completed as an experience. Please select the “Experience” button above to see the description.

Major Topics and Concepts

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Students will master the competencies by completing an experience which requires the student to work with their instructor to determine how they will complete their learning and what they will produce as evidence of their learning. Typically this involves the student finding and working with an outside expert and spending time at a workplace or in the community learning through hands-on experience.

Nursing Duties and Responsibilities: In this experience, you will learn about the field of nursing while also observing or participating in it. You will use the experience you gain to complete tasks throughout the lessons; once you are finished you will have a more thorough understanding and inside perspective of the field of nursing!

Nursing Career Pathway and Growth Opportunities: As you ponder potential career choices, a path in healthcare may pique your interest, and more specifically, a career in nursing. But where do you begin? Once you begin looking, you will quickly realize that there are many different nursing roles, each of which has its own unique qualities and challenges. But as with any job, the more education you acquire to prepare and the more opportunities you seek out to grow as a professional, the more fruitful your career will be.

Nursing Ethics and Professional Standards: Nurses in the field enter the position with a good understanding of what the job entails and the dedication it requires. What prospective nurses may not expect are the extensive ethics and professional standards involved in the career. By learning and adopting ethical and professional standards, nurses can ensure they are following best practice while adding their own personal touch to patient care.

Nursing Patient Health Issues Detection, Treatment, and Prevention: Nurses in the field enter the position with a good understanding of what the job entails and the dedication it requires. What prospective nurses may not expect are the extensive ethics and professional standards involved in the career. By learning and adopting ethical and professional standards, nurses can ensure they are following best practice while adding their own personal touch to patient care.

Note: During this course, you will learn career-related skills and earn a badge for this accomplishment. A badge is a digital certification of your career-related learning that you can share on social media or with higher education platforms, colleges, potential employers, peers, and colleagues. Select this link to learn more about badges.

Credits .5

Elective: does not meet Health or PE graduation requirement

Competencies

  • Experience Design
    Your goal is to consider what you need to learn in order to master each of the competencies you have enrolled in. As you think about what you need to do, you will begin to formulate ideas of how you can show it.
  • Nursing Duties and Responsibilities
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of executing nursing duties and responsibilities and using nursing resources by examining the duties, responsibilities, and resources and observing or participating in the implementation of these in patient care.
  • Nursing Career Pathway and Growth Opportunities
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of nursing career pathways by exploring nursing career options, the pathway to a specific nursing career, and ongoing growth opportunities within one or more career pathways.
  • Nursing Ethics and Professional Standards
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of incorporating nursing ethics and professional standards into patient care by examining and explaining the importance of the Hippocratic Oath AAMA Code of Ethics, HIPAA and the three types of consent.
  • Nursing Patient Health Issues Detection, Treatment, and Prevention
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of health issues' prevention, detection, and treatment by examining procedures and practices for addressing patient wellness through prevention, detection, and treatment.

Pre-Requisites

None

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