NRSG 498 Professional Internship
Master Resource Outline
Course Title: NRSG 498 Professional Internship
Credits: 2 (clinical)
Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Prerequisites: All nursing coursework
Course Description:
This course provides supervised work-integrated learning experience designed to maximize independence and efficiency in providing safe and high-quality patient care. Students integrate the professional nursing roles including concepts of leadership, advocacy, and communication. The student works with an approved RN in a cooperating clinical agency for a period of intensified clinical experience.
Catalog Course Description:
Supervised work-integrated learning experience to maximize independence in providing safe, efficient, high-quality patient care. Students integrate professional nursing roles of leadership, advocacy, and communication and works with an approved RN preceptor for an intensive clinical experience.
Course Objectives:
- Demonstrate competence in previously attained clinical competencies.
- Develop confidence as a student of professional nursing care in a health setting.
- Demonstrate responsibility and accountability, effective communication, time management, interprofessional teamwork, and collaboration for safe nursing practice.
- Assess the various roles and functions of the professional nurse in a health care
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Synthesize the nursing process by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating direct patient care for a specified group of patients.
- Exhibit nursing leadership using appropriate delegation to other staff and unlicensed assistive personnel, using effective prioritization and time management.
- Formulate quality, safety and cost-effective nursing care.
Suggested Clinical Settings
- Assignments based on student interest and availability.
AACN Domains/Competencies
This course advances:
1.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the discipline of nursing’s distinctive perspective and where shared perspectives exist with other disciplines.
1.3 Demonstrate clinical judgement founded on a broad knowledge base.
2.1 Engage with the individual in establishing a caring relationship.
2.2 Communicate effectively with patients (individuals, families, and groups).
2.3 Perform an assessment.
2.4 Diagnose actual or potential health problems and needs.
2.5 Develop a plan of care.
2.6 Demonstrate accountability for care delivery.
2.7 Evaluate outcomes of care.
2.8 Promote self-management.
2.9 Provide care coordination.
4.1 Advance the scholarship of nursing.
4.2 Integrate best evidence into nursing practice.
4.3 Promote the ethical conduct of scholarly activities.
5.2 Contribute to a culture of patient safety.
5.3 Contribute to a culture of provider and workplace safety.
6.1 Communicate in a manner that supports a partnership approach to care delivery.
6.2 Perform effectively in different team roles using principles and values of team dynamics.
6.3 Use knowledge of nursing and other professions to address the healthcare needs of patients and populations.
6.4 Work with other professions to maintain a climate of mutual learning, respect, and shared values.
8.1 Describe information and communication technology tools used in the care of patients, communities, and populations.
8.2Use information and communication technology to gather data, create information, and generate knowledge.
8.3 Use information and communication technologies and informatics processes to deliver safe nursing care to diverse populations in a variety of settings.
8.4 Use information and communication technology to support chronicling of care and communication among providers, patients, and all system levels.
8.5 Use information and communication technologies in accordance with ethical, legal, professional, and regulatory standards and workplace policies in the delivery of care.
9.1 Demonstrate an ethical comportment in one’s practice reflective of nursing’s mission to society.
9.2 Employ nursing’s participatory approach to person-centered care.
9.3 Demonstrate accountability to the patient, society, and the profession.
9.4 Comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations.
9.5 Demonstrate the professional identity of nursing.
9.6 Integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion as core to one’s professional identity.
10.1Demonstrate a commitment to personal health and wellbeing.
10.2 Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity.
10.3 Develop capacity for leadership.
AACN Threads
- Equity and Inclusion
- Diversity
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Communication
- Clinical Judgement
Suggested Learning Activities:
- Clinical conference
- Clinical evaluation tool
- Self-reflection
- C-10 skills checklist to guide practice opportunities
Approved by UAAC: 8/25/2023
Approved by Faculty: 9/11/2023