Outline: Nursing and Health Care
SPOON RIVER COLLEGE
NUR 215 ISSUES OF NURSING
Unit I Development of Nursing
Objectives
Learning Content
Learning Activities
1. Summarize health practices through the course of history.
2. Describe the image of nursing in art, media, and literature over time.
3. Analyze ways that have shaped the image of nursing throughout the years.
4. Argue how nursing fits criteria of a professional.
5. Compare social forces that have affected roles of American nurses.
6. Integrate knowledge of current trends and issues into a personal philosophy and plan for ongoing professional development and practice.
7. Compare and contrast 3 basic types of educational preparation for nursing.
8. Summarize current licensure requirements in the context of historical development.
9. Defend the role of credentialing and certification in professional practice.
10. Explain a nursing theory and a nursing model.
11. Discriminate the steps in the process of research utilization.
12. Identify practices applying different theories of nursing.
13. Analyze the role of the Internet (information technology) in nursing education and health care.
14. Summarize major points in the evolution of nursing research in relation to contemporary nursing.
NUR 215 obj outline
Revised CH 1/06 Rev’d JB 1/1/10;Rev’d Nursing Faculty 12/12
I The Evolution of Professional Nursing
II The Contemporary Image of Professional Nursing
III The Influence of Contemporary Trends and Issues on Nursing Education
IV Nursing licensure and Certification
V Theories of Nursing Practice
VI Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
For the entire course of NUR 215 * :
*All articles and AVs require Critique Forms to be submitted prior to respective exams.
* The textbook is Contemporary Nursing Issues, Trends, &Management, 4th ed. by Cherry and Jacob
* Also required, is the most current issue of the State of IL Nursing and Advanced
NUR 215 ISSUES OF NURSING
Unit I Development of Nursing
Objectives
Learning Content
Learning Activities
1. Summarize health practices through the course of history.
2. Describe the image of nursing in art, media, and literature over time.
3. Analyze ways that have shaped the image of nursing throughout the years.
4. Argue how nursing fits criteria of a professional.
5. Compare social forces that have affected roles of American nurses.
6. Integrate knowledge of current trends and issues into a personal philosophy and plan for ongoing professional development and practice.
7. Compare and contrast 3 basic types of educational preparation for nursing.
8. Summarize current licensure requirements in the context of historical development.
9. Defend the role of credentialing and certification in professional practice.
10. Explain a nursing theory and a nursing model.
11. Discriminate the steps in the process of research utilization.
12. Identify practices applying different theories of nursing.
13. Analyze the role of the Internet (information technology) in nursing education and health care.
14. Summarize major points in the evolution of nursing research in relation to contemporary nursing.
NUR 215 obj outline
Revised CH 1/06 Rev’d JB 1/1/10;Rev’d Nursing Faculty 12/12
I The Evolution of Professional Nursing
II The Contemporary Image of Professional Nursing
III The Influence of Contemporary Trends and Issues on Nursing Education
IV Nursing licensure and Certification
V Theories of Nursing Practice
VI Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
For the entire course of NUR 215 * :
*All articles and AVs require Critique Forms to be submitted prior to respective exams.
* The textbook is Contemporary Nursing Issues, Trends, &Management, 4th ed. by Cherry and Jacob
* Also required, is the most current issue of the State of IL Nursing and Advanced