Registered Nurse: Program Curriculum

 

The RN is a professional-level nurse who focuses on some of the more advanced aspects of patient care, such as creating and overseeing the implementation of patient care plans. The major differences between the LPN and RN are career advancement opportunities, salary, and depth of scope of practice. The Erudite Nursing Institute® meets and exceeds all national standards of RN curricula, to include:

 

  • Recapitulation of the history of nursing
  • Associations, commissions, boards, and bureaus for the advancement, regulation, and protection of the Nursing profession
  • Overview and scope of practice, roles, and responsibilities of the RN
  • Healthcare triaging and prioritizations
  • Operation and maintenance of key medical equipment and devices
  • Teamwork, roles and responsibilities, and interworking with other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team
  • Work environments and settings for provisioning care
  • Environmental and bio hazards; internal, external, psychological, physical disasters and crises
  • Patient safety and workplace safety and respective regulations, as well as best practices
  • Practical nursing processes and functions including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
  • Supervising Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses (LPNs/LVNs) and Certified Nurse Assistants (CNAs)
  • Application of critical thinking and introspection to patient care within the professional nursing process
  • Public speaking and communication skills: verbal and non-verbal techniques
  • Diversity, cultural and transcultural competence and ethical sensitivity
  • Professional nursing medical terminology
  • Proper patient identification, assessments, and charting
  • Anatomy and physiology
  • Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
  • Standards of professional nursing and nursing care
  • State and federal regulatory enactments and policies
  • Legal and ethical matters of patient care, privacy, and confidentiality; malpractice, negligence, and professional liability
  • Instruct individuals, families, and other groups concerning health education, diseases prevention and treatment, childbirth, or otherwise
  • Implied consent, expressed consent, and informed consent
  • Providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families
  • Performing diagnostic testing; observing and recording patient behavior
  • Performing life support and wound care, and treating medical emergencies
  • Psychosocial development and cognitive analysis and development
  • Macro and micro biological principles and theory
  • Administration of medication and treatments
  • Infection control and the chain of infection, sanitation, and sanitary practices; medical and surgical asepsis
  • Basic medical lab theory and practice