REGISTERED NURSING PROGRAM ORGANIZATION & STRUCTURE
the nurse to heal others - The light symbolizes the striving for excellence
The profession of nursing requires one to inhabit the core values of compassion, caring, integrity, diversity, excellence, and becoming a lifelong learner. The nursing program strives to provide quality education and instruction that encompasses these core values and to ensure that students are well grounded in inter-professional roles and experiences. The nursing program believes that the fulfillment of these roles reflects the utilization of program resources, policies, and the collaboration of nursing faculty in the creation of a curriculum that focuses on developing each student’s maximum academic and professional potential. Curriculum Design and Organizational Framework The foundation of the nursing program curriculum encompasses the domains of person, health, environment, and nursing as key elements of the health and healing process. These four domains of the curriculum theory form the foundation of the four client needs category of safe effective care environment, health and promotion maintenance, psychosocial integrity, and physiological integrity that aligns with the most recent NCLEX-RN Test Plan. Professional standards, guidelines, and competencies were reviewed and used to develop the outcomes and guide the development of the curriculum. These include: • American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics (2015) - It is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of every individual who enters the nursing profession. - It is the profession’s nonnegotiable ethical standard. - It is an expression of nursing’s own understanding of its commitment to society. • The American Nurses Association (ANA) clinical standards for nursing practice (2015): Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and ability, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations. • The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies (patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, informatics). • Oregon Board of Nursing – Nurse Practice Act • The Nightingale Lamp (Caring, Commitment, Excellence) - The lamp represents the warmth of caring - The oil represents the energy and commitment of
• National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (2019) (Safe and Effective Care Environment, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Psychosocial Integrity, Physiological Integrity) • The Nightingale Philosophy of nursing (Person, Health, Environment, Nursing) - Person: An individual whose natural defenses are influenced by a healthy or unhealthy environment. Course content includes body systems, anatomy & physiology, pediatric, child, adolescent, adult, and older adults. - Health: A state in which the environment is optimal for the natural body processes to achieve reparative outcomes. Course content includes data collection, functional health patterns, complementary/alternative therapies, health promotion and health maintenance. - Environment: All the external conditions capable of preventing, suppressing, or contributing to disease or death. Course content includes psychology, safety, complementary/alternative therapies, stressors, and community resources. - Nursing: Putting the client in the best condition for nature to act. Course content includes caring techniques, nursing skills and procedures, the nursing process, and the scientific basis. • OMEGA-7 - Based on Florence Nightingale’s philosophy of nursing the nursing program has developed the OMEGA-7, which is an acronym for a nurse assessment and caring of person’s health and environment: Orientation, Medication, Emergency, Gait, Allergies—the 7 are: air, food, water, safety, hygiene, pain, and sleep. • The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals (2020) – Identify patients correctly, improve staff communication, use medicines safely, prevent infection, identify patient safety risks, prevent mistakes, prevent injury. • Interprofessional Education Collaborative – Core Competencies (2016) Values & ethics, roles & responsibilities, communication, and teamwork.
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