NURS 1028 - Directed Study in Nursing

Credits: 1-4
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: This course provides opportunity for directed study in nursing theory, lab, simulation, and/or clinical for nursing students in the classroom, long term care, community, or acute care settings. The course content, credits, and evaluation methods are individualized based on an assessment of each student’s learning needs and previous nursing coursework. The focus of the course is the demonstration of the student’s competency in identified learning goals related to safe, holistic nursing care. Acceptance and current enrollment into the nursing program is required.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): Nursing Director consent.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
Varies depending on each student’s learning needs.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

integrate asessment skills into holistic nursing practice.
use nursing knowledge to support clinical judgement.
demonstrate ability to apply concepts of safe nursing care.
demonstrate application of nursing theory when caring for patients in a lab, clinical, and/or simulation setting.
demonstrate competency of the identified learning goals.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
None
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None

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