SCCC Core
Components Tutorial
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Instructions to NR 33 Students
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This presentation is designed for the student to review
online.
Please use the operational buttons on each slide to
navigate through the tutorial.
Select the hyperlinks for web-based resources and use
your back browser to return to the PowerPoint
presentation.
Each label of the core component diagram is a hyperlink
to slides providing the definition, competencies and
learning activities for each component.
Explore the web-based assignments to enhance your
understanding of course requirements and competencies.
Take the online quiz and complete the handout on
Evolve after reviewing the tutorial. The online quiz link
is found on the core components diagram slide.
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Defining Core Components
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Core components are educational competencies
developed by the NLN and NOADN to describe
expectations for entry level nurse’s graduating from
Associate Degree Nursing Programs.
Use the diagram on the next slide to select the core
component for a discussion about how SCCC’s nursing
program:
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defines the component
identifies performance expectations according to level 1
nursing students
Integrates core components into learning activities.
Select this button to proceed to the Core Components Diagram
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Take Quiz
CORE
COMPONENTS
Summary
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SCCC Core Components
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Professional Behaviors:
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adhering to standards of professional practice; being
accountable for one’s actions; practicing nursing within legal,
ethical, and regulatory frameworks; having concern for
others; valuing the profession of nursing; and participating in
ongoing professional development.
Core Components Diagram
Level 1 Competency
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Professional Behavior Competencies
for 1st year students
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Identify the standards of care for basic nursing process, and
demonstrate accountability for nursing care given.
Identify resources for life long learning.
Begin to correlate and identify consequences of ethical, legal and
regulatory aspects of professional nursing practice.
Recognize the necessity for and maintenance of client
confidentiality.
Initiate proactive involvement to facilitate empowerment for the
nursing profession.
Report errors of omission/commission in a timely manner.
Demonstrate non-judgmental/culturally sensitive behaviors.
Maintain appropriate professional boundaries in the nurse-client
relationship.
Core Components Diagram
Learning Activities
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Professional Behavior Learning
Activities in NR 33
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Management workshop in NR 33 skills lab
Case studies in lecture
Clinical rotation experience
Reflective journaling
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SCCC Core Components
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Communication:
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a goal directed interactive process through which there is an
exchange of information that may occur verbally, nonverbally, in writing, or through information technology.
Core Components Diagram
Level 1 Competency
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Communication Competencies for
1st year students
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Apply basic techniques of therapeutic communication when interacting with a
client.
Demonstrate beginning ability in documenting client status in nursing notes and
care plans.
Demonstrate beginning skills in oral presentations to a group of fellow students.
Identify and use information technology to access current nursing literature.
Communicate therapeutically with significant others as well as clients and
members of the health care team.
Demonstrate increasing ability to communicate relevant, accurate, and complete
information verbally and in written documentation
Utilize appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication techniques to interact
with individual and groups of clients with impaired communication abilities.
Utilize effective communication techniques when interacting with peers and
members of the health care team.
Core Components Diagram
Learning Activities
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Communication Learning Activities
in NR 33
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Distinguish therapeutic communication from social
communication and perform therapeutic
communication during clinical rotation.
Performing communication exercises in nursing lab.
Documenting Nursing notes completed in clinical
rotation
Teaching presentation in NR 33 skills lab.
Use of web-based course resources
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SCCC Core Components
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Assessment:
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the holistic collection, analysis, and synthesis of relevant data
from all of the client’s functional health patterns for the
purpose of appraising the client’s health status.
Core Components Diagram
Level 1 Competency
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Assessment Competencies for 1st
year students
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Assess clients' health status to identify stressors that
interfere with adaptation.
Assess human responses to stress
Identify strengths, resources and health care needs of a
community
Complete a health history including a physical,
cognitive, psychosocial and functional assessment.
Assess the client's response to actual and potential
health problems.
Assess the client's response to interventions.
Assess personal stress and adaptation.
Core Components Diagram
Learning Activities
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Assessment Learning Activities
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Assess clients' health status utilizing nursing assessment
in the clinical rotation.
Attends lecture to identify focused assessment for
Adult-Health Nursing stressors discussed and applies
skill in clinical.
Practices health assessment techniques in clinical
rotation.
Assesses and evaluates care based on the behavioral
expectation identified in the NCP rubric.
Core Components Diagram
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SCCC Core Components
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Clinical Decision Making:
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the systematic analysis and integration of knowledge
and information to identify dysfunctional health
patterns and stressors in order to formulate clinical
judgments and implement therapeutic nursing
interventions to assist the client toward a positive
outcome. Evidence based practice directs the
modification of client care as indicated by the
evaluation of outcomes.
Core Components Diagram
Level 1 Competency
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Clinical Decision Making Competencies
for 1st year students
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Identify evidence-based practice as the foundation for nursing
decisions.
Utilize nursing process as the basis for clinical decisions.
Maintain accurate and safe care.
Integrate prior knowledge and begin to question personal
assumptions.
Develop critical thinking and problem solving techniques as the
foundation for appropriate clinical decision making.
Develop diagnoses and plan care that focuses on health
promotion, wellness and restoration.
Modify client care as indicated by evaluation of outcomes.
Core Components Diagram
Learning Activities
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Clinical Decision Making Learning
Activities
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Review sources for evidence-based nursing.
Complete nursing care plans in clinical rotations.
Reflects on performance in clinical settings.
Bases decisions on reviewing literature and using
content maps to guide decisions.
Develop critical thinking and problem solving
techniques utilizing algorithms for making clinical
decisions.
Develop diagnoses and plan care based on initial that
focuses on health promotion, wellness and restoration.
Core Components Diagram
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SCCC Core Components
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Caring Interventions:
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the “being with” and “doing for” that assist clients to adapt
to stressors to achieve positive outcomes; insuring the care
provided is culturally and spiritually sensitive to the needs of
a diverse population.
Core Components Diagram
Level 1 Competency
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Caring Interventions Competencies for
1st year students
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Demonstrate caring behavior towards clients, significant other(s),
peers, and other members of the health team recognizing
cultural and spiritual diversity.
Provide safe nursing care in all settings.
Perform nursing skills competently.
Identify community resources to support clients in the
promotion and maintenance of health.
Support the client and significant other when making healthcare
and end-of-life decisions.
Provide individualized interventions that include self-esteem
enhancement, anxiety reduction, and coping enhancement.
Core Components Diagram
Learning Activities
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Caring Interventions Learning Activities
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Practices NR33 skills in nursing lab.
Provides care to clients during clinical rotation.
Develops interventions according to review of
literature and driven by diagnosis as planned in
nursing care plans according to the rubric.
Meets clinical performance expectations.
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SCCC Core Components
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Teaching and Learning:
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the process of transmitting information to clients, significant
others and members of the healthcare team in order to assist
clients and families to facilitate adaptations to stressors;
promote and maintain health; expand knowledge and change
behavior.
Core Components Diagram
Level 1 Competency
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Teaching and Learning
Competencies for 1st year students
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Identify the role of the nurse as a teacher and develop
awareness of the principles of effective teaching and
learning.
Apply teaching and learning concepts to assist clients
and groups in managing wellness and/or selfmanagement of illness.
Evaluate the progress of the client/significant other
toward achievement of identified learning outcomes.
Advocate health promotion.
Core Components Diagram
Learning Activities
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Teaching and Learning Activities
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Complete web-based tutorial on teaching.
Complete patient teaching assignment in nursing lab.
Review web-based resources on client education and
health care literacy presentation.
Provide client education during clinical rotation.
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SCCC Core Components
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Collaboration:
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working with other members of the healthcare team in a
variety of healthcare settings in order to achieve positive
outcomes.
Core Components Diagram
Level 1 Competency
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Collaboration Competencies for 1st year
students
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Identify roles of members of the health care team.
Utilize multiple resources available for the individual and family
within the community.
Establish partnerships with clients and collaborate with the
nursing team to achieve client outcomes.
Work cooperatively with others to achieve client outcomes.
Core Components Diagram
Learning Activities
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Collaboration Learning Activities
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Interview a case manager to complete a hospital
support services survey during the clinical rotation.
Follow a clinical instructor during the clinical rotation
as preparation for team leadership.
Work cooperatively with others to achieve client
outcomes as expected in the clinical rotation behavioral
objectives.
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SCCC Core Components
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Managing Care:
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working efficiently and effectively with and through others
and utilizing resources to meet client needs and support
organizational objectives.
Core Components Diagram
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Managing Care Competencies for 1st
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Describe the qualities of effective leaders.
Utilize self-assessment to begin to develop leadership skills.
Identify the relationship between power and leadership and
management.
Describe the role of the nurse in cost containment and implementnursing strategies to provide cost effective care.
Demonstrate ability to prioritize client needs.
Identify leadership/management skills necessary in planning and
implementing client care.
Utilize team-building strategies.
Describe principles of successfully motivating others.
Identify key concepts underlying effective delegation.
Identify and implement strategies of behavior change.
Core Components Diagram
Learning Activities
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Managing Care Learning Activities
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Complete the learning activities in the management
workshop during NR 33 lab.
Apply prioritizing principles to Adult Health Nursing
clients according to a prioritizing algorithm.
Learn how nursing facilitates resource utilization while
performing the Hospital Support Services Survey.
Follow a clinical instructor to observe skills in successfully
motivating others and effective delegation.
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Summary
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There are eight core components in the SCCC
Associate Degree Nursing program.
Each core component represents an educational
competency defined by the NLN and the NOADN .
Core components and performance competencies
according to level in the program, are infused into each
nursing course.
Learning activities in each nursing theory course can be
linked to the educational competencies according to
level of progression through the program.
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Take the online core component
quiz!
1. The
NLN (National League of Nursing) and the
NOADN (National Organization of Associate
Degree Nursing) defined eight core competencies
for graduates of Associate Degree Nursing
Programs in the United States that were
published in 2000.
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False
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Take the online core component
quiz!
A competency for each level in the program
describes what the student should be able to
achieve or perform at the prescribed level in the
nursing program.
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False
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Take the online core component
quiz!
Nursing Faculty design learning activities to
facilitate student achievement of core
competencies.
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False
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Take the online core component
quiz!
Both Faculty and students should be able to
define the core competencies of their
nursing program.
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False
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Take the online core component
quiz!
Students should be able to link the core
competencies to learning activities.
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Summary
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Correct!!!
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Incorrect, The educational competencies were
developed by the NLN and NOADN and published
in 2000. The competencies describe expectations for
entry level nurse’s graduating from Associate Degree
Nursing Programs.
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Incorrect, the competencies for each level of the
program are provided in each nursing theory course
outline and in the nursing student handbook. The
progression of core components identifies what
students should expect to achieve in each of the
defined core components at each level in the nursing
program.
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Incorrect, Nursing Faculty develop learning
activities to guide student progression towards the
achievement of core competencies.
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Incorrect, Both faculty and students should be able
to define the core competencies of their nursing
program as they relate directly to the performance
expectations for entry into practice.
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Incorrect, students should take an active role in
understanding the link between learning activities in
the nursing theory courses and the educational
competencies for entry into practice.
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