Fundamentals of Professional Practice

This module provides the professional nurse practitioners with the knowledge and understanding of their role in the context of the discipline of nursing. Professional nursing practice is grounded in the theory and practice of nursing and incorporates nursing and other related research, management and leadership theories and skills in order to encourage a collegiate, multidisciplinary approach to quality patient/client care. The module prepares the students to integrate theories and concepts in order to gain scientific and conceptual clarity to guide advanced nursing practice and research.

1. Critically discuss the role of knowledge development in the evolution of the discipline of nursing, nursing science and professional nursing practice.

2. Evaluate the challenges that determine direction of the professional nurse practitioner role in nursing, nursing science and professional nursing practice.

3. Appraise the profession and discipline of the professional nurse practitioner combining a nursing framework with standards of practice.

4. Critically examine the relationship between evidence, theory and nursing care.

5. Analyze the concepts and theories of nursing for applicability and usefulness to professional nursing care in multicultural environments.

6. Critically evaluate and apply a middle range theory of nursing for applicability to professional nursing practice.