| Foundations of Professional Practice | - Recognize the value of knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary
to provide quality and safe care according to the nursing scope of practice and standards of care - Connect nursing professional practice to UCSF Health’s Mission, Vision, and Values
- Integrate nursing practice with current evidence and the competency assessment process
- Clarify the process for reviewing policy and procedure on the UCSF Health CareLinks intranet
- Illustrate expectations for email access and IT support
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| Professional Development | - Differentiate the resources available through the Center for Nursing Excellence and Innovation (CNEI) teams of Nursing Practice, Education, and Nursing Research
- Integrate structural empowerment through Shared Governance and Magnet core councils
- Generate opportunities for career advancement via the nursing clinical ladder and advanced degrees
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| Health Equity | - Categorize the definition of privilege
- Construct an individual-led activity designed to promote self-awareness of privileged identities
- Critique the implications of an individual’s privileges in relation to UCSF Health PRIDE values
- Review principles of Health Equity, including interpreter services, patient education practices, and awareness of health literacy
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| Medication Safety | - State the ”five rights” of safe medication practice
- Integrate 2-RN independent check process for error prevention with high-risk medications
- Outline medication verification processes: allergies, Micromedex drug compatibility, and weight-based medication dosing
- Demonstrate medication transfer devices utilized at UCSF Health
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| Blood Administration | - Integrate nursing practice for blood administration preparation, documentation, and reaction response
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| Early Recognition and Code Response | - Outline the resources and systems available for patient decompensation and code response including Rapid Response Team, Sepsis screening, Stroke assessment, Code Blue/White team structure
- Generate significance of closed-loop communication
- Outline supplies and medications available in the Code cart
- Implement and demonstrate features of the Zoll-R Defibrillator for code readiness
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| Electronic Health Record | - Verify and explain EHR training scheduling/location
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| Activity Fair | - Engage with self-guided individual/group activities related to safe nursing practices (including but not limited to pumps, admission to discharge practices, monitoring equipment, oxygen therapy, tracheostomy, enteral tubes, hazardous medications/disposal, Code Cart, restraints and central line/port care and supplies)
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| Admit to Discharge | - Integrate scope of practice expectations for admission, assessment, care planning, education, acuity, procedural/operational preparation, and discharge
- Outline practice to meet needs of diverse patient populations, including homeless patients and patients with limited English proficiency
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| Pain Management | - Distinguish the hierarchy of the pain assessment and identify the scales and tools used at UCSF
- Identify frequency for pain assessments and demonstrate application of range order dosing
- Describe the monitoring requirements for Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) and Epidurals
- Demonstrate operation of the epidural CADD pump
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| Quality Indicators | - Review nursing knowledge relevant to quality indicators
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| POCT | - Outline Point of Care testing performed in identified clinical areas and understand QC requirements; Competency for waived POC testing is assessed via methods of (1) periodic observation of work by supervisor and (2) monitoring of each user’s quality control performance
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| Restraint Management | - Distinguish assessment and ordering practices for medical and behavioral restraints
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| Tele Test | - Detect cardiac monitoring proficiency via identification of lethal arrhythmias in a test with 100% passing score
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| Evaluation | - Reflect on the learning experience
- Provide feedback for Nursing Professional Development Team
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