N108: Transition to the Registered Professional Nurse

N108: Transition to the Registered Professional Nurse Role Study Guide Chapter One: Professional Role Development Learning Objectives 1. Discuss significant leaders and their contributions to the profession of nursing. 2. Describe the influence of major studies and reports on nursing. 3. Discuss the purposes, functions, and impacts on nursing, healthcare, education, and politics of nursing organizations. 4. Discuss the educational patterns in nursing. 5. Understand and describe all aspects of the role transitioning process. 6. Describe the differences in roles between the LPN/LVN and the RN. 7. Discuss learning theory and learning domains and how they relate to the adult learner. 8. Identify activities involved in each part of the nursing process. 9. Describe the differences between independent, dependent, and collaborative nursing actions. 10. Describe the IOM and QSEN nursing competencies and their impact on quality nursing practice and patient safety. 11. Discuss the NLN competencies of the associate degree graduate and their significance to the associate degree nurse in practice. 12. Discuss the concepts and steps involved inmaking safe and effective nursing decisions, such as critical thinking and clinical judgment. 13. Describe the various change theory models and their impact on nursing practice. 14. Discuss the characteristic behaviors of the professional nurse. 15. Describe the future for nursing in the discipline and in life-long learning. 16. Identify self-care behaviors to reduce stress. 17. Discuss the roles and practice settings relative to each level of nursing education. 18. Describe the practice settings for the associate degree nurse. 1.1 Definition of Nursing The tradition of nursing has always highly valued the worth and dignity of all human beings. Altruism is the foundation of the nursing profession, a profession that serves the public in a variety of ways. Nurses are dedicated to holistic care, teaching about health maintenance, prevention of illness, and promotion of healthy practices, as well as caring for the person who is ill. The nurse identifies client’s needs in order to promote health and maintain wellness in all types of settings. Florence Nightingale stated that nursing is, “the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery.” Virginia Henderson said, “the unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to the health or its (his/her) recovery, or to a peaceful death.”

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