Master Resource Outline

 

Course Title: NRSG 403 Professional Development III: Care Management

Credits: 2 (lecture) 

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring 

AACN Core Competencies for Entry-level Nursing Education: 2,3,4,5,6,7

MRJCON BSN Program Learning Outcomes: 2,3,4,5,6,7

 

Course Description:

The focus of this course is to provide skill development in critical thinking, transitional planning, and delegation in relation to care management. Students will utilize a holistic approach to understand how a patient utilizes healthcare, the services provided across multiple settings and the nurse’s role in understanding and advocating for the patient’s specific needs. Legal and ethical considerations will be examined.

Catalog Course Description:

This course provides development of critical thinking, transitional planning, and delegation for patient care management. Students will examine healthcare utilization holistically across multiple settings and explore the legal, ethical and advocacy issues for patient’s specific needs.

 

Course Objectives:

1. Examine legal and ethical issues related to management of patient care, delegation, advanced care planning and mandatory reporting.

2. Discuss the 5 rights of delegation and responsibilities of the delegatee, RN, and leader.

3. Demonstrate essential competencies of care management in various healthcare settings.

4. Identify local resources for a variety of patients with a focus on vulnerable and diverse populations.

 

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Demonstrate appropriate use of the 5 rights of delegation, advanced care planning and mandatory reporting.

2. Apply care management competencies in various healthcare settings.

3. Analyze clinical pathways and caremaps and their role in quality healthcare.

4. Build upon the collection of reflections including transitional planning, delegation, and care managemet that will guide their conduct and future practice as they reflect on their progression of AACN (American Association of Colleges of Nursing) competencies in the BSN program.

 

Exemplars of Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Advanced care planning, delegation, and mandatory reporting modules [CLO 1]
  2. Nurse Care Manager, navigator interview [CLO2]
  3. Clinical Pathways [CLO3]
  4. E-Portfolio [CLO 4]

 

AACN Threads:

  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Diversity
  • Cultural Sensitivity
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Communication
  • Ethics
  • Clinical Judgement
  • Mental Health

 

Recommended Content and Concepts:

  • Legal content
  • Inter-professional Collaboration in Case Management
  • Assignment, Delegation and Prioritization
  • 5 right of delegation and the role of the delegate, delegator and the leader
  • Social Determinants of Health Intro (factors of, assessing)
  • Care Coordination Strategies and Competencies of the BSN
  • Advanced Directives (introduced in Prof 1)
  • Continuity of care
  • Discharge planning for vulnerable populations
  • Common Transitional Planning (SNF qualification requirements, Inpatient Rehab qualification requirements,Home Health qualification requirements, hospice qualification requirements).
  • Assessment of Community Resources
  • Ethics: fairly allocate resources and time, advanced care planning, surrogate decision making (Ethics Education for Nursing: Instruction for Future Generations of Nurses)
  • Types of Healthcare Systems (outpatient, private, inpatient, system, home health, hospice, therapy, infusion etc).
  • Medical Service Models (HMOs , PPOs, PPS, Bundled Payments, Patient Centered Medical Home)
  • E-Portfolio

 

Suggested Student Learning Activities:

• tests and quizzes

• teaching plans

• literature review

• Internet searches

• workshops

• discussion

• videos

• reading

• case studies

• student presentations

• cooperative learning

• small groups

• Complex Case examples in: Addition Medicine, Pain Management, Children’s Health, Maternal Health, Mental Health, AI/AN Populations

• Have students call admitting nurse at facilities to learn about what the patient needs to have in order to be ‘accepted’

• Guest lecture from a RN case manager

• Guest talk from hospital transition planners (to identify nurse and social work teamwork)

 

Approved by UAAC: 11/24/2020; 1/24/2025

Approved by Faculty: 11/9/2020; 3/10/2025