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The nursing curriculum at Broadview University (formerly Utah Career College) was designed and is monitored by a Nursing Program Advisory Committee (PAC), a group of Salt Lake City-area health care professionals and employers.
The nursing curriculum lays a solid foundation of knowledge that incorporates the development of knowledge, skills, and personal and professional values. It is concerned with helping the student acquire nine essential skills and abilities necessary to effectively and efficiently promote holistic nursing care to meet clients’ needs across the lifespan. The nine skills and abilities are reflected in the curricular areas listed below. If you would like to discuss the Associate of Applied Science in Nursing program with a representative, please contact our school.
1. Critical Thinking is a multi-dimensional skill utilizing cognitive processes or a set of procedures. Critical thinking requires an attitude of inquiry, which is essential to identify problems and their resolutions. Critical thinking is demonstrated when nursing theory is correctly applied, interrelationships between clinical data are understood, and the nurse can adapt nursing care to changing environments and the complexities of client care needs.
2. Technical Skills mastery requires four basic steps including study, practice, proficiency and continued competence. Nursing skills are an important part of the nursing education curriculum because mastery is a vital component in achieving safe and effective care. Mastery is achieved when equipment and supplies are used accurately, safely, effectively and with confidence to achieve desired client outcomes with minimal distress and without directive or supportive cues from faculty or nursing staff.
3. Time Management is making optimal use of available time. An effective manager of time is aware of personal barriers to efficient time management and allows time for planning and essential priorities. Effective time management is demonstrated through attendance, effective prioritization of activities, and successful performance of assigned responsibilities within established time frames. Effective time management reduces personal stress and increases productivity.
4. Communication is the complex exchange of thoughts, ideas, or client information verbally, in writing, or electronically. The art of communication is the ability to exchange values, feelings, temperament, and clinical knowledge or data, in a timely and effective manner, so that both the receiver and the sender are empowered and understood by each other. Effective communication is essential for health/wellness promotion, advocacy, conducting assessments, implementing nursing care, leading or managing life-threatening crises, or handling clients’ or colleagues’ stress.
5. Health/Wellness Promotion is the facilitation of client self-care and lifestyle toward optimal health and wellness. Nurses should promote and evaluate client knowledge about their health, facilitate goal setting, offer support, and encourage clients to assume personal responsibility for their own health and well-being. Health/wellness promotion teaches various cultural and socioeconomic groups about unhealthy and healthy lifestyle behaviors, disease prevention, management of illness, self-care, and judicious use of the professional health care system. Nurses should also practice personal principles of health promotion and self-care.
6. Advocacy is acting ethically and responsibly to protect human dignity and promote the best interest of the client, family or community regardless of ethnic, religious, cultural, or socio-economical background. Advocacy is focused on promoting inherent individual worth through caring, competent, and timely nursing care. Advocacy fosters trust and promotes the client’s well-being.
7. Leadership is the ability to direct, guide, or delegate to an individual or group. It requires establishing and promoting goals, executing a plan, and conducting appropriate follow-up. Leaders effectively organize, motivate, and manage people and resources.
8. Professional Behavior represents the highest standards of the nursing profession and is the foundation of relationships of trust with clients, peers, colleagues and supervisors. Professionalism is demonstrated through personal grooming, appropriate dress, preparedness, punctuality, maintenance of client confidentiality at all times and respect for self and others. It requires honesty, a willingness to learn and receive correction, and appropriate communication, behavior, and demeanor. Professionalism also means accepting responsibility for one’s actions.
9. The Nursing Process across the Life Span is a problem-solving approach for meeting clients’ health care and nursing needs across the lifespan through assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. It provides rationales for clinical assessment findings, interventions, and treatments, diagnostic tests or medications. The nursing process utilizes a holistic approach, including both the client and family in planning and adapting nursing care to meet psycho-social, emotional, spiritual, and physiological needs of clients of any age. The nursing process facilitates quality interdisciplinary care and also enables the nurse to anticipate clients’ problems or needs.
A nursing curriculum for the contemporary professional
The Associate of Applied Science in Nursing curriculum at Broadview University provides scientific and technical rigor as well as professional training that addresses holistic nursing in a diverse society. If you would like to discuss the program, or have any other questions, please call the West Jordan campus (801-304-4224) or e-mail our admissions department. A representative will be happy to help you.