Nursing Student Handbook - Wayne County Community College

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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS RELATED TO THE PROFESSION OF NURSING Students in the nursing program must demonstrate the ability to perform specific cognitive functions and demonstrate psychomotor skills in order to succeed in the profession of nursing. Nursing students must possess the ability to perform all functions that are necessary components of the nursing program. The Campus Dean or designate and Student Services will determine what reasonable accommodations may be provided for students with disabilities and will complete an accommodation letter that will be given to the Nursing Program Dean and Campus Dean. The following Core Performance Standards are necessary for all nursing education programs for program admission and progression as a recognized standard. 1. Critical Thinking: demonstrate judgment and identify cause/effect relationships in the clinical setting as well as develop and utilize nursing care plans. 2. Interpersonal skills: demonstrate effective interactions with clients and colleagues from various social, emotional, cultural, and intellectual backgrounds 3. Communication skills: demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills while interacting in all learning environments. 4. Motor skills: demonstrate physical ability to assess clients, perform technical skills involving gross and fine muscular movements and motor strength. 5. Mobility- demonstrates ability to move effectively in patient care areas; perform CPR. 6. Sensory Integrity: demonstrate ability to effectively assess and care for clients utilizing the senses of sight, hearing, smell and touch. Upon admission students are expected to perform in accordance with the following technical standard/physical abilities and skills for the duration of their matriculation in the WCCCD nursing program. Students must be able to fully satisfy (to the level of 100%) each of the criteria set forth as a standard. If a student is unable to perform the requirements at a 100% level the student must provide an explanation and additional information. The student may request reasonable accommodation with appropriate documentation from the Dean of Nursing or the Associate Dean of Nursing. The program will make every reasonable effort to satisfy the student’s request for an accommodation. 14
7. Physical requirements Technical Standards/ Physical Abilities & Skills Mobility Motor Skills Hearing Visual Standard Physical abilities sufficient to move independently from room to room, walk in hallways, maneuver in small places such as patient rooms, medication rooms. Gross and fine motor skills to practice safe and efficient patient care. Sufficient manual dexterity to manipulate equipment in the patient care setting. Auditory ability sufficient to monitor and assess health needs. Visual ability sufficient for observation and assessment necessary to provide safe patient care. Examples Walking independently with patients from department to department, around the patient room, down the corridor, from one patient room to another to take care of all patients on a team and to assist in the transport of all patients from bed to bed, bed to chair. Walking, standing, sitting for long periods of time, stooping, lifting patients weighing, squatting, reaching, twisting, bending, pushing, pulling, dragging, climbing. Manual dexterity to start a patient’s intravenous line, set alarms on monitors, draws up and gives injections to patients without extraneous movement. Auscultation of breath sounds, heart sounds, blood pressure, bowel sounds, hearing alarms, call bells telephones in patient care, converse with patients, family and staff from varying distances with varying audible sounds. Reading patient charts/flow sheets/monitors, drawing up and administering medications, assessing patient skin tones, reading thermometers, assessing wound status, non-verbal behaviors. 15
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Page 7 and 8: Philosophy and Conceptual Framework
Page 9 and 10: NURSING PROGRAM CURRICULUM The nurs
Page 11 and 12: DESCRIPTION OF NURSING CLASSES NUR
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Page 27 and 28: STANDARDIZED TESTING: Self-Directed
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Page 35 and 36: Learning Environment Dress Code The
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Page 39 and 40: PLACEMENT ASSIGNMENTS Clinical plac
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Page 43 and 44: Patient safety Patient safety is a
Page 45 and 46: DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING POLICY 1.
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Page 49 and 50: • Immunizations Evidence of absen
Page 51 and 52: Medication Administration Agreement
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