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Perform aseptic techniques utilizing the appropriate rationale. (I)
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Utilize basic medical terminology and communication skills with
patients, families and health care personnel. (I)
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Apply computer skills in the clinical setting. (I)
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Describe personal progress and clinical skills related to the goals of
practical nursing. (I)
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Identify drug classifications, actions, uses, dosages, side effects
and nursing responsibilities with medication administration. (II)
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Utilize medication principles when safely administering oral
medications to selected patients. (II)
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Define the role of the practical nurse when providing nursing care in
an acute care setting. (III-VII)
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Utilize the nursing process in meeting the needs of selected
medical-surgical patients. (III-VII)
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Describe physiologic and psychosocial reactions to injury and disease.
(III-VII)
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Apply nursing interventions based on patients' physiologic and
psychosocial reactions to injury and disease. (II-VII)
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Demonstrate ethical and legal behaviors related to the practical
nurse. (III-VII)
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Describe specific individual cultural and ethnic needs when providing
care to selected medical-surgical patients. (III-VII)
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