Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this program are able to:

• Safety: Plan, implement and evaluate strategies to minimize risk of harm to patients and providers.
• Communication/Teamwork/Informatics: Collaborate with the healthcare team to effectively communicate with patients and families using verbal, written and electronic methods.
• Evidence-Based Practice: Utilize evidence-based clinical reasoning to improve patient outcomes.
• Wellness/Health Promotion Teaching: Provide and evaluate patient education plans across the continuum of care to promote wellness throughout the lifespan.
• Professional Identity: Develop a professional identity through behaviors that demonstrate integrity, respect, responsibility, legal and ethical practice, teamwork, and commitment to learning.

• Communicate effectively with patients, family and staff.
• Demonstrate basic nursing skills while caring for patients.
• Establish and maintain a safe and pleasant environment.
• Follow the nursing care plan in providing care.
• Give simple emotional and psychological support to the patient and family members.
• Identify the organization of the health care institution and its function.
• Record observations and maintain records specific to the long-term facility and/or hospital or home health agency.
• Report observations related to the patient's condition to an immediate supervisor.

Students who successfully complete this program are able to:

• Safety: Implement strategies to minimize risk of harm to patients and providers.
• Communication/Teamwork/Informatics: Collaborate with the healthcare team to effectively communicate with patients and families using verbal, written and electronic methods.
• Evidence-Based Practice: Apply evidence-based, clinical decision-making skills to improve patient outcomes.
• Wellness/Health Promotion Teaching: Reinforce patient education across the continuum of care to promote wellness throughout the lifespan.
• Professional Identity: Develop a professional identity through behaviors that demonstrate integrity, respect, responsibility, legal and ethical practice, teamwork, and commitment to learning.

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The Practical Nurse Certificate (PNC) program is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). The next evaluation will be Spring 2022.