Nursing

HCC Nursing Student Handbook

Upon completion of the Associate Degree Nursing Program, the
graduate will, upon licensure:
 1. Practice safe, professional nursing behaviors incorporating personal
responsibility and accountability for continued competence.
 2. Communicate professionally and effectively with individuals, significant
support person(s), and interdisciplinary healthcare team members.
 3. Integrate knowledge of the individuals holistic needs to provide an
individual-centered assessment.
 4. Incorporate informatics to formulate evidence-based clinical judgments
and management decisions.
 5. Implement safe, caring interventions incorporating documented best
practices for individuals in diverse settings.
 6. Develop and implement teaching plans for individuals and/or the nursing
team, incorporating teaching and learning principles.
 7. Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to advocate for
safe, optimistic individual and organizational outcomes.
 8. Manage health care for the individual using cost-effective nursing
strategies, quality improvement processes, and current technologies.

Upon completing the Practical Nursing Program, the graduate will,
upon licensure:
 1. Participate in evaluating the holistic individual and client response
concepts in promoting health, wellness, illness, quality of life, and potential
achievement.
 2. Practice professional nursing behaviors within the LPNs ethical and legal
practice boundaries, incorporating personal responsibility and accountability
for continued competence.
 3. Participate in providing evidence-based nursing care from an established
plan of care based on clients’ biophysical, psychosocial, and cultural needs
in various stages of growth and development while assisting them in
attaining their highest level of wellness.
 4. Reinforce and /or implement the teaching plan developed and delegated
by the registered nurse to promote the health of individuals, incorporating
teaching and learning principles.

 5. Participate in the nursing process to provide individualized, safe, and
effective nursing care in a structured setting under supervision.
 6. Demonstrate caring behaviors in implementing culturally competent,
client-centered nursing care to diverse clients.
 7. Participate in Quality Improvement (QI) by identifying hazards and
errors and suggesting changes to improve the client care process for the RN.
 8. Utilize informatics to access, manage, and communicate client
information.
 9. Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team assigned by the
registered nurse to support positive

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