Independent Study in Specialty Nursing NSSC 8160

Learning Outcomes

As a healthcare practitioner, you are expected to follow professional standards of practice throughout all SN programs and courses. In this course, you will have opportunities to use the processes of critical thinking, systematic inquiry, communication, collaboration, leadership, professionalism, and clinical decision-making. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Establish a specific area for study related to your area of practice.
• Determine realistic and tangible course goals.
• Collaboratively engage with the course instructor to develop a learning contract which includes appropriate learning strategies.
• Determine suitable evaluation strategies in collaboration with the course instructor.
• Complete all aspects of the learning contract including the evaluation strategies.
• Demonstrate critical reflective thinking, professionalism, and scholarly writing in course activities.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023

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