NURS271

Perform health assessments of patients and families across the lifespan with the identification of developmental stages and transitions within the structure of the nursing process.

Integrate understanding of multiple dimensions of patient-centered care: patient, family, community preferences, values; coordination and integration of care; information, communication, and education; physical comfort and emotional support; involvement of family and significant other; and transition and continuity in the delivery of holistic care to patients and families across the lifespan.

Assess the environmental, sociocultural, and psychosocial factors that influence the health status of individuals as members of a community.

Use the nursing process to identify the health needs of various groups in a community and to assess available resources to address these needs.

Exercise critical thinking in recognizing the relationship between personal health, self-renewal, and the ability to deliver sustained quality care as accountable nursing professionals.

Demonstrate safe and effective medication administration, documentation, and education to patients and families across the lifespan.

Plan, organize, deliver, and document patient care across the lifespan to the family within the context of the health care setting and the community.

Adapt nursing communication, distinguishing between effective and ineffective communication, based upon ongoing patient and family assessment.

Uses education and referrals to assist the patient and family through transitions across the continuum of health care and the lifespan.

Describe how patients, families, individual clinicians, health care teams, community, and systems can contribute to promoting safety and reducing errors through information literacy, evidence-based practice, and the use of technologies.

Participate in the use of quality improvement processes to improve patient, family, and community health care.

Implement developmentally focused teaching plans based upon factors that influence the patient’s and family’s ability to learn, including readiness to learn, preferences for learning style, and levels of health literacy.