Advanced Placement Seminar

Licensed Practical Nurses develop the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal and psychomotor skills to succeed in advanced placement entry into the Associate Degree Nurse Program. The philosophy, objectives, and organizing curricular concepts of Person, Health, Environment, and Nursing and their interrelationships are introduced. Students develop competence to provide and manage care as members within the discipline of nursing for patients and their families with common health problems in protected, favorable environments. Students learn to respect the patient and family as central members of the health care team and develop commitment to advocacy, and provision of safe, high quality, holistic, and evidenced-based practice. Nursing care content includes the nursing process, health promotion, safe medication administration, communication/documentation, teamwork/interdisciplinary collaboration, effective utilization of resources, and patient/family education. Students learn to apply a systematic approach to health assessment. The nursing concepts of safety/prevention of injury, systems-based practice, leadership, professionalism, and ethical decision making are explored in theory within the legal, political, regulatory and economic context of health care. Students are introduced to nursing research, review nursing literature, and write a research paper. The Learning Laboratory provides opportunities to practice more complex nursing skills in simulated activities. Students apply the nursing process to online case studies in pediatric, psychiatric/mental health, and adult health acute care settings. Prerequisites: Admission to Nursing Program Advanced Placement; BIOL110G and BIOL120G in the past 5 years with a “C+” or better, PSYC110G, PSYC210G, FYE116G. Summer semester