| Critical Thinking/Problem Solving Skills |
The ability to demonstrate the use of clinical judgement necessary to prioritize responses and interventions that maintain safety while providing client care. |
- Evaluate client responses and draw sound conclusions using evidence-based knowledge.
- Collect/analyze data, prioritize needs, and anticipate client responses.
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| Interpersonal Skills |
The ability to interact/collaborate effectively with others from diverse backgrounds. |
- Establish and maintain rapport with clients, families, instructors, staff, colleagues, and peers from a variety of social, emotional, cultural, and intellectual backgrounds.
- Respect and care for all individuals whose appearance, condition, beliefs, and values may differ/conflict with their own in all situations.
- Deliver nursing care regardless of a client’s race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or diagnosis.
- Establish and maintain therapeutic boundaries.
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| Communication Skills |
The ability to use therapeutic communication to foster and maintain collaborative relationships and a safe environment. |
- Verbal and written skills are sufficient to communicate information and ideas appropriately and safely with clients, families, peers, and the interdisciplinary team.
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate relevant, accurate, and complete information in a clear and concise manner (i.e., nursing assessments, critical client information, provide client education, documentation of observations, interpretation of healthcare provider orders, give and receive client reports, etc.).
- Demonstrates appropriate and respectful use of gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language in communication with clients, families, peers, faculty, and members of the interdisciplinary team.
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| Mobility/Motor Skills |
The ability to move in one’s environment with ease and without restrictions.
The ability to utilize gross and fine motor skills to provide safe and effective care for clients. |
- Capable of moving safely and efficiently within confined areas to provide client care.
- Demonstrates physical ability to safely turn, position, lift, and transfer mobile and immobile clients.
- Physical strength is sufficient to push/pull/position clients/equipment weighing 100 lbs. or more.
- Physical strength is sufficient to lift/move heavy objects up to 50 lbs.
- Capable of standing/ambulating independently up to 12 hours per day with minimal breaks.
- Demonstrates ability to perform resuscitative measures during emergent situations, including CPR.
- Demonstrates sufficient dexterity to manipulate equipment/items safely and accurately for the delivery of client care.
- Demonstrates necessary dexterity and kinesthetics to perform nursing skills safely (i.e., sterile procedures, wound care, administrations of medications, etc.).
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| Tactile Skills |
The ability to utilize the sense of touch to perform physical assessment and provide client care. |
- Tactile skills are sufficient to perform functions of physical assessment and/or those related to therapeutic interventions (i.e., insertion of catheters/cannulas, palpation of pulses, detect changes in temperature, etc.).
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| Auditory Skills |
The ability to utilize the sense of hearing to assess clients and monitor health needs. |
- Auditory skills are sufficient to detect/identify:
- internal body sounds with the use of a stethoscope.
- alarms, cries for help, and other verbal/nonverbal sounds emitted by clients (i.e., equipment/monitor alarms, fire alarms, call bells, overhead codes, etc.).
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| Visual Skills |
The ability to utilize the sense of sight to perform physical assessment, nursing procedures, and maintain a safe environment. |
- Visual ability sufficient to detect environmental hazards and see objects 20 feet away and close at hand.
- Demonstrates visual ability to accurately read calibrations on equipment/monitors (i.e., syringes, BP cuff, electronic monitors, etc.).
- Demonstrates visual ability to accurately read electronic/paper medical records and medication labels.
- Visual ability sufficient to observe client responses, changes in skin color, facial expressions.
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| Environmental Tolerance |
The ability to tolerate environmental stressors and potential occupational exposures. |
- Ability to adapt to variations in work schedules, work in areas that are stressful, close, crowded, and/or noisy.
- Possible exposure to communicable diseases, radiation, medicinal preparations, latex, toxic substances, blood and body fluids, harmful chemicals, etc.
- Work in areas of potential violence (i.e., physical, verbal, and emotional).
- Demonstrate standard precautions.
- Ability to tolerate various odors.
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| Behavioral/Emotional Skills |
The ability to maintain behavioral and emotional stability, mental alertness, and composure in stressful situations.
The ability to assume responsibility and accountability for oneself. |
- Responds to and offers feedback in a professional manner.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity beyond reproach.
- Promotes a positive image of professional nursing (including social media presence).
- Adapts appropriately to high stress situations and rapidly changing environments.
- Demonstrates behaviors of respect, initiative, and cooperation.
- Performs duties within scope of practice.
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