May 08, 2024  
2022-2023 APU Catalog 
    
2022-2023 APU Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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NUR 10400 - Practical Nursing Clinical Concentration - Preceptorship


(1) This practicum course combines the concepts and skills learned throughout the practical nursing program. Emphasizes leadership skill development, independence, time management, and mastery of the nursing process to manage care for clients. Clinical experiences include increasing complexity in patient situations while continuing to emphasize and develop critical thinking skills, prioritizing, appropriate delegation, pharmacological studies, reporting, documentation and the interdisciplinary team approach. Clinical experiences are provided in the simulation labs, acute care nursing units and long term acute care units. Students incorporate basic concepts of practical nursing practice such as communication, collaboration, caring, and clinical judgment necessary for culturally safe, patient-centered comprehensive nursing care to diverse patients experiencing a variety of commonly occurring health problems. The practicum further incorporates evidence-based practice, quality improvement, standards of care, and legal and ethical responsibilities of the Licensed Practical Nurse. Prerequisite: Admission to the LPN Program. Offered: Fall/Spring.



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