

ATI SKILLS MODULE SURGICAL ASEPSIS PROFESSIONAL
Comply with the professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct in practice.Design healthcare education for individuals, families, and communities.Apply nursing process and critical thinking when providing holistic, patient-centered nursing care to diverse populations.Support therapeutic nursing interventions for patients and families in a variety of healthcare and community settings using evidence-based practice.Plan preventative and population-focused interventions with attention to effectiveness, efficiency, cost, and equity.Support professional nursing practice decisions with concepts and theories from the biological, physical, and social sciences.For the undergraduate, this role is as professional registered nurses according to the Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (AACN, 2008). The following Program Learning Outcomes were selected to provide the essential body of knowledge and experience necessary to educate students to move directly into their new role.

Nurses are lifelong learners and critical thinkers. The philosophy of the College of Nursing is that education is a continuous process occurring in phases throughout an individual’s lifetime. The mission of the College of Nursing is to provide evidence-based and innovative nursing education to culturally diverse learners, preparing nurses to provide quality and compassionate care responsive to the needs of the community and the global society. Plan evaluation of effectiveness of interventions for patients with selected acute and chronic health problems.Plan appropriate patient instruction using teaching/learning principles.Determine quality and safety measures pertinent to care of the adult medical-surgical patient.Describe pharmacotherapy and related nursing considerations for selected acute and chronic health problems.Apply critical thinking and decision-making skills when selecting evidence-based preventative measures and interventions that reflect patient-centered care.Identify the emotional and behavioral responses common to selected acute and chronic health problems, such as altered family processes, denial, body image disturbance, powerlessness, individual, and family coping, and knowledge deficit.Select nursing diagnoses associated with selected acute and chronic health problems.Interpret various assessments and diagnostic results to identify the presence or risk of medical and surgical health problems in adult patients.Discuss the effects of a person’s gender, age, culture, lifestyle, attitude, and values on the morbidity and mortality of selected acute and chronic health problems.Demonstrate beginning role development as a manager of patient care.
