NURS G190: LVN to RN Transition
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Curriculum Committee Approval Date | 10/19/2021 |
| Top Code | 123010 - Registered Nursing |
| Units | 4 Total Units |
| Hours | 108 Total Hours (Lecture Hours 54; Lab Hours 54) |
| Total Outside of Class Hours | 0 |
| Course Credit Status | Credit: Degree Applicable (D) |
| Material Fee | No |
| Basic Skills | Not Basic Skills (N) |
| Repeatable | No |
| Open Entry/Open Exit | No |
| Grading Policy | Standard Letter (S) |
Course Description
Formerly: Transition to Registered Nursing. This course is designed to assist the Licensed Vocational Nurse in bridging the gaps in theoretical and clinical knowledge and skills, thereby preparing them to join the third semester of the registered nursing program. PREREQUISITE: BIOL G210, BIOL G220, BIOL G225, PSYC G118, COMM C1000, and ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E. Transfer Credit: CSU.
Course Level Student Learning Outcome(s)
- Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate communication skills to coordinate care with the patient, their families, and the interdisciplinary team.
- Provide safe and competent patient-centered nursing care to acute and chronic patients across the lifespan using evidence-based practice and the nursing process.
- Apply the nursing process to provide care to address the physical, psychosocial and cultural needs of the patient across the lifespan while adhering to legal, ethical, and professional standards.
- Utilize information technology to exhibit a professional nursing role in providing patient centered care utilizing principles of quality improvement.
Course Objectives
- 1. Apply the Nursing Process in caring for patients.
- 2. Demonstrate adherence to legal, ethical, and professional standards of practice to provide nursing care for the patient throughout the lifespan.
- 3. Demonstrate the beginning of role transition from LVN to RN as defined by the American Nurses Association and the California Nurse Practice Act.
- 4. Collaborate with other interdisciplinary teams when providing patient care.
- 5. Incorporate the use of informatics and technology, including electronic health records, to collect and document patient care.
- 6. Demonstrate the application of patient?s pathophysiology as the basis for development of safe evidence-based patient centered collaborative plan care.
Lecture Content
Overarching standards that will be addressed in each concept: Patient-centered Care - Utilizing the nursing process to provide compassionate, culturally sensitive care that is based on the physiological, psychological, sociological, spiritual, and cultural needs, preferences, and values of the patient. Safety and Quality Improvement (QI) - The minimization of risk factors that could cause harm while promoting quality care and maintaining a secure environment for patients, self and others in order to improve health care services and better meet the needs of patients. Nursing Judgment/Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) - The use of current knowledge from research and other credible sources, in consideration of the nurse s clinical expertise and patient preferences, to make nursing clinical judgments and provide patient, family and community centered care. Teamwork and Collaboration - The delivery of patient care in partnership with nursing and interdisciplinary teams to achieve continuity of care and promote patient outcomes. Informatics and Technology - The use of information and technology as a communication and data gathering tool that supports clinical decision making and safe, scientifically based nursing practice. Professional Identity - The role transition from the LVN to the RN in adherence to legal, ethical, professional standards, and scope of practice to provide nursing care for patients across the