AAS-T Degree

(AAS-T)

1. 1. Act as a provider of care:
   • Demonstrate cognitive competence using critical thinking in solving clinical problems and making clinical decisions.
   • Consider alternatives.
   • Utilize knowledge gained from nursing, biology, social and behavioral sciences in the delivery of care.
2. Utilize the nursing process:
   • Apply the nursing process to support a client’s adaptation to health, quality of life or death.
   • Assess the client as a unique biopsychosocial being, total individual or family.
   • Analyze data to identify problems.
   • Develop and implement a plan of patient care including teaching & learning to achieve outcomes.
   • Use critical thinking to evaluate and revise outcomes.
   • Provide safe, effective care.
   • Demonstrate psychomotor competence through the skillful use of complex equipment and procedures to provide care.
   • Demonstrate interpersonal competence through therapeutic communication skills and caring interventions to provide nursing care.
3. Act as a manager of care:
   • Demonstrate responsibility and accountability by leading and delegating to other nursing personnel, commensurate with their educational preparation.
   • Utilize technology and both human and material resources in a cost-effective manner.
   • Demonstrate people management skills by communicating and collaborating effectively with the health care team.
4. Act as a member of the Nursing Discipline:
   • Understand and function within the role of a registered nurse in various health care settings.
   • Value and demonstrate the ethical, legal and professional standards of nursing practice.
   • Value self-awareness.
   • Value professional nursing as a career and value own practice.
   • Demonstrate professional behaviors in the role of the nurse in various settings.