PNUR 202 Professional Vocational Relationships

Students receive an overview of the health professions and the health care delivery systems with emphasis on the LPN’s scope of practice and role in the working environment. Topics include nursing history, trends, disease prevention and wellness promotion, and guidelines for leval and ethical practice. Focus on the nursing process and basic therapeutic communications skills, basic human needs and healthy adjustments are also discussed with an emphasis on cultural, ethnic and religious needs. Students review legal requirements for licensure as a practice nurse. Liability issues related to practice as well as ethical issues are discussed. Students review the Washington Administrative Code for the practical nurse and discuss scenarios of how to work within professional boundaries. Students learn and apply the use of appropriate medical terminology to use among peers and in documentation. Students will review and discuss the structured health care setting and advocate for improvement.

Credits

4

Distribution

Career Training

Offered

Fall, Spring

Notes

Online

Outcomes

1. Identify vulnerable populations and discuss the LPN's role in relation to their obligation to report suspected abuse and neglect
2. Discuss multiculturalism, values and beliefs, religion, spiritual health, spritiual wellbeing, spriticuality, higher consciousness, morality and spiritual distress in relation to the role of the LPN
3. Discuss the Nurse Practice Act and it's relation to the LPN scope of practice and the role of the LPN in the health care environment
4. Discuss criminal vs civil law, competence, malpractice and whistle blowing and how they apply to LPN practice
5. Identify and discuss ethical issues in allocation of resources, resource utilization, cost effective care, delegation to ULP and advanced directives as it relates to the role of the LPN
6. Demonstrate appropriate medical terminology for appropriate, accurate, concise, nursing documentation

Field Based Experience

0