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Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

Learning Outcome 1: Examine the professional nursing role in the promotion of healthy exercise, stress management, holistic health, and healthy nutrition.

Learning Outcome 2: Explore social determinants of health and their impact on health and wellness.

Learning Outcome 3: Assess learning needs and risk factors of individuals, families, and populations to provide health promotion, illness prevention, and healthy self-care practices.

Learning Outcome 4: Examine methods and strategies for teaching and learning.

Learning Outcome 5: Design and disseminate health teaching plans for a specified population, using cultural and age-appropriate information.

Learning Outcome 6: Incorporate current research findings into health teaching.

Learning Outcome 7: Examine professional nurse's overall wellness and its significance to patient safety.

1. Apply the art and science of nursing using current evidence in the delivery of competent, culturally sensitive, developmentally appropriate holistic care.
2. Utilize analytical, systematic, and critical reasoning for clinical judgment and nursing decision-making.
3. Demonstrate accountability and responsibility for: optimal nursing care, legal and ethical standards, lifelong learning, professional development, promoting the nursing profession, and participating as a citizen in society.
4. Collaborate and communicate respectfully and effectively with persons/clients and interdisciplinary teams using oral, nonverbal, written, and electronic communication to promote and maintain optimal health outcomes to persons/clients.
5. Demonstrate ethical behaviors and conflict management skills that inspire others and create effective working relationships to shape and implement change.
6. Coordinate human and material resources in providing comprehensive, efficient, and cost-effective care to persons/clients.
7. Articulate the importance of active and intentional life-long learning that includes self-reflection and awareness.
8. Utilize standards of practice to provide safe nursing care in all patient care settings with an awareness of one's role in preventing errors and promoting quality improvement.
9. Access and utilize information and computer sciences to perform nursing functions.

Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice

1. Knowledge for Nursing Practice
Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.
2. Person-Centered Care
Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.
3. Population Health
Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes. (Kindig& Stoddart, 2003; Kindig, 2007; Swartout& Bishop, 2017; CDC, 2020).
4. Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline
The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care (AACN, 2018).
5. Healthcare Policy, Finance, and Regulatory Environments
Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and
individual performance.
6. Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcomes
Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
7. Systems-Based Practice
Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations.
8. Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
9. Professionalism
Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursing's characteristics and values.
10. Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development
Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being; contribute to lifelong learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.

Descriptions of major assignments and examinations:

1. Health Risk Assessment and Health Promotion Contract - You will provide a summary of your current health status and identify one health/lifestyle behavior to contract on to change/improve during this course. You will evaluate your current "stage of change" and provide a thorough explanation as to why you feel like you are in that particular stage.

2. Book Review - You will select a book from the two choices provided above and write a book review that expressed your motivation for selecting the book you chose, the impression the book made on you, information from another external, reliable source that either corroborates or contradicts the book, and how or why this book will or will not impact your personal life and professional nursing practice.