NURS2792 — Transition to the Role of the Professional Nurse
NURS 2792 - Transition to the Role of the Professional Nurse NURS 2792 - Transition to the Role of the Professional Nurse 3 Credits Advances foundational competencies in knowledge, skills, and professional identity essential for transitioning from Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to Registered Nurse (RN) practice. Emphasizes clinical judgment, theory application, and clinical reasoning within the RN scope of practice. Core concepts include evidence-based care, health promotion across the lifespan, quality and safety, ethics, communication, informatics, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Learning experiences integrate physiologic, psychosocial, and psychiatric concepts relevant to RN-level care across the lifespan. Content includes care of the childbearing family, including labor, delivery, postpartum, and newborn care, as well as pediatric nursing in the family context. Designed to leverage prior healthcare education and experience, the course prepares learners for Fundamentals of Nursing, Pharmacology, and Maternal/Newborn mastery exams through conceptual review, applied learning, and reflective practice. Apply clinical judgment, clinical reasoning, and nursing theory to deliver safe, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate nursing care across the lifespan. Demonstrate effective communication and collaboration within interdisciplinary teams, including documentation and informatics. Integrate physiologic, psychosocial and psychiatric concepts into nursing
Prerequisites: BIOL2201, BIOL2205, ENG1108, PSYC1101, PSYC1210