Pediatric Emergency Clinical NSER 7630

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:

• Perform comprehensive emergency nursing assessments on pediatric patients of all ages.
• Facilitate an appropriate and safe environment to perform assessments and interventions on children using developmentally appropriate strategies.
• Demonstrate clinical decision making that integrates appropriate sources of data, various sources of knowledge, and the unique perspective and meaning of experience pediatric emergency patients and their families (or caregivers).
• Demonstrate an ability to determine the needs of pediatric patients and their families experiencing complex health care concerns.
• Articulate assessment findings (both verbally and in writing) in a comprehensive and systematic manner.
• Develop and utilize interpersonal and communication skills in order to establish partnerships with children, their families (or caregivers), and other members of the health care team.
• Demonstrate personal and professional growth in clinical practice through reflection on pediatric emergency nursing practice.
• Incorporate the tenets of patient and family centered care (PFCC) into emergency nursing care.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023