Join me in Week 1 when we talk about the following:
1. Define nursing, patient, health, wellness, health promotion, and health care.
2. Describe salient influences on the delivery of health care.
3. Discuss practices that improve quality and safety and ensure the use of evidence-based
practices within the health care system.
4. Discuss behavioral competencies and characteristics of professional nursing practice and
the nurse’s role as a collaborative member of the interprofessional health care team.
5. Define the characteristics of critical thinking, the critical thinking process, and clinical
decision making.
6. Describe the components of the nursing process.
7. Identify strategies that can be implemented in ethical decision making.
