Professional Theory-Based Nursing Process

• Describe how personal values and the nursing process impact professional practice.
• Differentiate the major nursing theorists and their key concepts.
• Investigate the Standards of Practice for a chosen nursing specialty.

Collaborative Practice

• Identify competencies necessary for collaborative care, the different care, the different groups with which nurses collaborate, and the activities that support nursing's collaboration with each.

Integrating Nursing Process and Orem's Self-Care Theory in Nursing Practice

• Identify the components of Orem's Self-Care Theory.
• Define therapeutic self-care demand.
• Differentiate among universal, developmental, and health deviation self-care requisites.
• Apply HIPAA regulations.

Nursing Diagnosis

• Identify how nursing diagnosis is written in problem-etiology-symptom format (PES).

Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC)

• Identify the purpose and use of Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC).
• Relate NIC/NOC to appropriate nursing diagnoses.
• Apply the Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) to appropriate nursing interventions.

Nursing Systems

• Define Nursing Systems in terms of the nursing roles of caregiver, manager of care, and teacher.

Nursing Agency (Nursing Roles)

• Relate Nursing Systems and nursing roles to clinical examples.

Use of Orem's Theory in Planning Patient Care

• Apply the "Orem Patient Care Plan -Nursing System Design" to the management of an actual patient.