Clinical Objective

Analyze the impact of genetics, society, culture, economics and politics on the health and safety of the community and population
I: 1. Integrate theories and concepts from liberal education into nursing practice.
I: 5. Apply knowledge of social and cultural factors to the care of diverse populations.
V: 1. Demonstrate basic knowledge of healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments, including local, state, national, and global healthcare trends.
VII: 2.Conduct a health history, including environmental exposure and a family history that recognizes genetic risks, to identify current and future health problems.

Apply epidemiology to public health concepts, the community nursing care process, and the community nursing role focused on families, communities, and high-risk populations
I: 8. Demonstrate tolerance for the ambiguity and unpredictability of the world and its effect on the healthcare system.
III: 6. Integrate evidence, clinical judgment, inter-professional perspectives, and patient preferences in planning, implementing, and evaluating outcomes of care.
VII: 1. Assess protective and predictive factors, including genetics, which influence the health of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
IX: 18. Develop an awareness of patients as well as healthcare professionals’ spiritual beliefs and values and how those beliefs and values impact health care.

Appraise the interaction of modifiable risk factors, illness and disease management across all age groups
IX: 22. Demonstrate tolerance for the ambiguity and unpredictability of the world and its effect on the healthcare system as related to nursing practice.

Identify quality, best practices in community nursing care directed at risk populations across the life-span
I: 2. Synthesize theories and concepts from liberal education to build an understanding of the human experience.
I: 4. Use written, verbal, non-verbal, and emerging technology methods to communicate effectively.
I: 1. Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high quality nursing care, healthcare team coordination, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings.
II.2. Demonstrate leadership and communication skills to effectively implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context of the inter-professional team.
II: 6. Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure, process, and outcome measures to identify clinical questions and describe the process of changing current practice.
IX: 20. Understand one’s role and participation in emergency preparedness and disaster response with an awareness of environmental factors and the risks they pose to self and patients.

Use an ethical decision-making framework for resolving provided ethical healthcare problems within a case-study format
I: 7. Integrate the knowledge and methods of a variety of disciplines to inform decision making.

Identify needed case and care management interventions for high-risk, complex diseases
I: 2. Synthesize theories and concepts from liberal education to build an understanding of the human experience.
VI: 3. Incorporate effective communication techniques, including negotiation and conflict resolution to produce positive professional working relationships.
VI: 6. Advocate for high quality and safe patient care as a member of the inter-professional team.
VII: 9. Use clinical judgment and decision-making skills in appropriate, timely nursing care during disaster, mass casualty, and other emergency situations.
IX: 6. Implement patient and family care around resolution of end-of-life and palliative care issues, such as symptom management, support of rituals, and respect for patient and family preferences.
IX: 10. Facilitate patient-centered transitions of care, including discharge planning and ensuring the caregiver’s knowledge of care requirements to promote safe care.

Incorporate research, educational and change theories into care across practice settings to enable effective outcomes for the family, community and populations
II: 8. Promote achievement of safe and quality outcomes of care for diverse populations.
III: 8. Acquire an understanding of the process for how nursing and related healthcare quality and safety measures are developed, validated, and endorsed.
III: 9. Describe mechanisms to resolve identified practice discrepancies between identified standards and practice that may adversely impact patient outcomes.
VI: 5. Demonstrate appropriate teambuilding and collaborative strategies when working with inter-professional teams.
VII: 4. Use behavioral change techniques to promote health and manage illness.
VII: 5. Use evidence-based practices to guide health teaching, health counseling, screening, outreach, disease and outbreak investigation, referral, and follow-up throughout the lifespan.
IX: 5. Deliver compassionate, patient-centered, evidence-based care that respects patient and family preferences.
IX: 8. Implement evidence-based nursing interventions as appropriate for managing the acute and chronic care of patients and promoting health across the lifespan.
IX: 21. Engage in caring and healing techniques that promote a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship.

Examine care issues across practice settings in the community
I: 8. Demonstrate tolerance for the ambiguity and unpredictability of the world and its effect on the healthcare system.
II: 1. Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high quality nursing care, healthcare team coordination, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings.
VI: 4. Contribute the unique nursing perspective to inter-professional teams to optimize patient outcomes.
VIII: 1. Demonstrate the professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct.
IX: 13. Revise the plan of care based on an ongoing evaluation of patient outcomes.

Collaborate with community stakeholders to identify health care priorities and coordinate health services to be implemented for the identified needs
VI: 1. Compare/contrast the roles and perspectives of the nursing profession with other care professionals on the healthcare team (i.e., scope of discipline, education and licensure requirements).
VII: 7. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion and disease and injury prevention interventions
VII: 8. Assess the health, healthcare, and emergency preparedness needs of a defined population.
VII: 10. Collaborate with others to develop an intervention plan that takes into account determinants of health, available resources, and the range of activities that contribute to health and the prevention of illness, injury, disability and premature death.
IX: 4. Communicate effectively with all members of the healthcare team, including the patient and the patient’s support network.
IX: 12. Create a safe care environment that results in high quality patient outcomes.
IX: 14. Demonstrate clinical judgment and accountability for patient outcomes when delegating to and supervising other members of the healthcare team.

Provide quality safe direct and indirect care for the selected population aggregate
II: 6. Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure, process, and outcome measures to identify clinical questions and describe the process of changing current practice.
II: 7. Promote factors that create a culture of safety and caring.
VII: 11. Participate in clinical prevention and population-focused interventions with attention to effectiveness, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and equity.
VIII: 10. Protect patient privacy and confidentiality of patient records and other privileged communications.
IX: 11. Provide nursing care based on evidence that contributes to safe and high quality patient outcomes within healthcare microsystems.15. Manage care to maximize health, independence, and quality of life for a group of individuals that approximates a beginning practitioner’s workload
IX: 16. Demonstrate the application of psychomotor skills for the efficient, safe, and compassionate delivery of patient care.

Evaluate interventions used for health promotion activities in selected population aggregate
VII: 6. Use information and communication technologies in preventive care.
VIII: 7. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion and disease and injury prevention interventions.

  1. Protect patient privacy and confidentiality of patient records and other privileged communications.
    IX: 1. Conduct comprehensive and focused physical, behavioral, psychological, spiritual, socioeconomic, and environmental assessments of health and illness parameters in patients, using developmentally and culturally appropriate approaches.
    IX: 3. Implement holistic, patient-centered care that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical management, and nursing management across the health-illness continuum, across the lifespan, and in all healthcare settings.
    IX: 7. Provide appropriate patient teaching that reflects developmental stage, age, culture, spirituality, patient preferences, and health literacy considerations to foster patient engagement in their care.
    IX: 9. Monitor client outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of psychobiological interventions.

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