Course Outcomes
1.Demonstrate understanding and competence in making decisions in nursing which will promote client-centered care, taking into consideration ethical, clinical, cultural, spiritual, and political implications.
2.Demonstrate intentional learning with reflection as it relates to decision-making in nursing.
3.Understand processes of making decisions in nursing, and apply evidence in supporting concepts and processes which relate to practice.
4.Demonstrate knowledge of how decision-making in nursing practice relates to clinical reasoning and critical thinking, taking into consideration the many facets of decision-making in nursing.
5.Demonstrate leadership in organizational, local, and global environments as it relates to decision-making in nursing.
6.Communicate effectively and therapeutically, with and without the use of technology, while making decisions in nursing practice.
7.Propose evidence-based, culturally-competent nursing care which promotes standard safe practices along with error and hazard prevention and quality improvement practices.
8.Participate as a collaborative team member in understanding and implementing client care, and in promoting the health of clients while making decisions as nurses in practice.
Final Project – a scholarly paper is written in the achievement of the eight outcomes. The learner writes an APA formatted paper on meeting the course outcomes listed above
