Associate Degree Nursing Program: Moorhead Campus
NURS 2437: Nursing Clinical II
Course Outcome 6: Early Learning Center Rotation
Associate Degree Nursing Program Student Learner Outcomes:
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Nursing judgment: Demonstrate the ability to make nursing judgments using evidence-based research and clinical reasoning for quality patient care across diverse populations.
1. Patient-centered care: Recognize the patient as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient preferences, values and needs.
1. Teamwork and collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect and shared decisions to achieve quality patient care.
1. Safety: Promote quality care and a safe environment for diverse populations of patients, self and others through system effectiveness and individual performance.
1. Quality improvement: Participate in quality improvement to support effective and efficient health care services.
1. Professionalism: Demonstrate accountability to professional nursing values by adhering to legal and ethical principles and participating in continuous professional development.
1. Technology: Utilize information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error and support decision making.
1. Leadership: Apply nursing leadership concepts in the provision of high-quality care to individuals, families and communities.
Associate Degree Nursing Course Level Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Function competently within the scope of practice as a member of the health care team.
2. Model professional behaviors within the legal and ethical frameworks for nursing.
3. Provide holistic, patient-centered nursing care utilizing the nursing process.
4. Interpret holistic assessment findings for diverse patients, integrating pathophysiology.
5. Elicit patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of the clinical interview, implementation of care plan and evaluation of care.
6. Plan care for diverse populations integrating patient values, clinical expertise and evidence-based practices.
7. Demonstrate competency in medication administration incorporating pharmacological principles.
8. Explore continuous quality improvement as an essential part of the daily work of all health professionals.
9. Demonstrate effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
10. Implement professional communication strategies that promote safe, effective care.
11. Describe own strengths, limitations and values in functioning as a member of a team.
12. Apply technology and information management tools to support safe processes of care.
This rotation is to provide the student with an opportunity to have exposure to well children in a formal environment. This will be an opportunity to learn from an agency that provides care to a variety of children but also provides a variety of services to the children and their families. Part of this rotation is to observe and ask questions when appropriate about services/referrals that are provided to children and families in our local communities.
Objectives:
1. Observe data collection styles and screening tools as possible.
2. Observe various ages and developmental stages.
3. Define nutritional needs for various ages.
4. Observe communication styles of the children, staff, and possible parents.
5. Observe physical and cognitive development.
6. Participate in social interactions with children of various ages.
7. Describe age appropriate activities for both toddlers and preschool children.
8. Discuss health promotion activities for both toddlers and preschool children.
9. Discuss the immunization schedules.
You may be assigned to observe and participate in one or more of the classrooms. Upon completion of your day you will need to complete the information that is listed on the following pages. You will be completing information for toddlers and for the preschool child. You should review this information prior to your day at Early Learning so you are prepared to complete the assignment after your rotation. This information is to be well researched and written with an RN level of detail. You will need to include a works cited page as well.
In some cases, your responses may be similar for both toddlers and preschoolers but make sure you address each of the age groups. Again, we are looking for a well detailed paper. Many of the questions are the same for the toddler and the preschool child and if it is easier you can answer the question first for the toddler and then the preschool child if you wish and then continue to the next question.
Toddler Development
1. Using references, what is the developmental stage of the toddler? Please use at least two theorists to describe the developmental stage of the toddler.
2. Considering the age of the toddler, what are the pertinent physical developments you would expect to see in the toddler?
3. Considering the age of the toddler, what are the pertinent cognitive developmental tasks you would expect to see in the toddler?
4. What are appropriate activities for the toddler? What activities did you see during your rotation being used with the toddler?
Preschooler Development
5. Using references, what is the developmental stage of the preschooler? Please use at least two theorists to describe the developmental stage of the preschooler.
6. Considering the age of the preschooler, what are the pertinent physical developments you would expect to see in the preschooler?
7. Considering the age of the preschooler, what are the pertinent cognitive developmental tasks you would expect to see in the preschooler?
8. What are appropriate activities for the preschooler? What activities did you see during your rotation being used with the preschool child?
9. Thinking about health promotion activities for the toddler & preschool child address each of the following areas: appropriate health screenings, appropriate nutrition, and injury prevention strategies.
Use of Play
10. How does play differ in various age groups?
11. If you are caring for a child who is admitted to an acute care unit, how important would it be for you as the nurse to incorporate play into the plan of care?
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Please discuss 5 immunizations that are pertinent to this client population and diseases related to each immunization. Please include a detailed response with indications, contraindications & precautions.
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Plan of Care
13. From the interactions during your rotation, identify one pediatric client (no use of names please) and discuss their individualized physical, cognitive, and social needs. Please discuss age, culture, development, mental state, spirituality, and gender.
14. Develop a plan of care for this pediatric client. Write one complete nursing diagnosis, goal, 3-5 nursing interventions and evaluation statement based on patient characteristics. Include at least one evidence-based intervention and highlight it in blue.
Evaluation
15. Discuss the interventions that you observed by the staff.
16. Discuss how you participated during this rotation.
17. Identify your personal areas of strength in working with this unique population and some areas that you identify as needing to improve when working with this group of pediatrics.
18. Identify your progress in care of
diverse client populations
. Give at least two examples from any clinical experience.
19. Give an example of how you served as an advocate for an individual or group of people during any clinical experience.
20. Give an example of how you collaborated with the client, family or community when developing/implementing nursing care during any clinical experience.
Include Bibliography of at least 5 references
Minnesota State Community and Technical College – 1 – NURS2437 Nursing Clinical II
© (2025 AP, RT, MW). No portion of this syllabus may be used or shared without express permission of the author.
Revised by RT 01/25
