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Prelicensure Nursing Programs

Prelicensure Nursing Programs

1. What is your role in nursing? [select all that apply] 
2. If you are a nurse educator, in what programmatic level(s) do you teach? [select all that apply]
 
3. If you work in clinical practice, what is your practice environment? [select all that apply] 
 
Instructions:

Below is a list of key terms being considered for curricular threads in LPN/LVN, diploma, associate degree, and BSN programs. Please categorize each key term as to whether this should be essential content threaded throughout these programs. 
4. Undergraduate Key Terms
Space Cell YesMaybeNo
Ability to Prioritize
Ability to read/follow directions for new procedures/processes
Able to have crucial conversations
Accountability
Acid-base balance
Acute vs. Chronic illness
Addiction
Advocacy
Artificial intelligence
Assessment
Automated workflows & smart hospital systems
Autonomy
Basic care and comfort
Behavioral health
Biochemistry basics
Bridging the Theory–Practice Gap
Business
Care coordination
Caring
Caring & compassion theories (e.g., Jean Watson, Swanson)
caring behaviors
Caring Practices
Case management
Cellular regulation
Chronic disease management (diabetes, hypertension, COPD, HF)
Clinical Inquiry
Clinical Judgment
Clinical reasoning
Clinical skills and application
Cognition
Collaboration
Comfort
Commitment to ethical and professional comportment
Communication skills
Community care models
Community health and population health
Community health assessments
Community/public health nursing
Compassion and Respect for Human Dignity
Conduct nursing research
Conflict management
Conflict resolution
Coping & stress theories
counseling
Creativity
Critical thinking
Cultural care
Cultural competence
Cultural Competence & Adaptability
Cultural humility
Cultural sensitivity
Culturally Competent, Person-Centered Care
Culturally congruent practice
Data analysis
Data security
Decision-Making Models
Delegation & Prioritization
Delegation & supervision
Determinants of health
Develop plan of care
Diagnosis
Diagnostic reasoning
Digital Health
Digital public health monitoring (AI-enabled disease surveillance)
Disaster nursing & emergency preparedness
Disaster preparedness
Diversity & Inclusion
Documentation
Documentation & electronic health records (EHR)
Duty to Self and Others
EBP and research
Economics
Education
EKG basics and rhythm interpretation
Electronic Health Records (documentation and charting)
Elimination
Emotional intelligence
Empathy
Entrustable professional activities (EPA)
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Ethical decision-making in clinical practice (including digital ethics)
Ethical Environment
Ethics
Ethics and values
Evaluation
Evidence-Based Practice
Family dynamics
First aid & emergency response
Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance
Foundational technical skills competence (basic care, wound care, NGT care, safety procedures)
Fundamentals (hygiene, mobility, elimination, comfort, vital signs, infection control, documentation)
Gas exchange / oxygenation
Genetics & genomics in health
Genomics
5. Undergraduate Key Terms (Continued...)
Space Cell YesMaybeNo
Genomics & precision medicine tools
Geriatric care
Global health concepts
Grief, loss, and bereavement
Growth and Development
Growth mindset – Spirit of inquiry
Hazard evaluation and analysis
Health and wellness
Health Assessment
Health care law & regulation
Health counseling
Health disparities
Health equity
Health literacy & teaching strategies
Health policy & public health systems
Health promotion
Health promotion and disease prevention
Health teaching
Healthcare environment
Healthcare policy
Healthcare quality & patient safety (Root cause analysis, PDSA)
Healthy practice environment
Hemodynamics & shock
High-fidelity simulation & virtual skills labs
Holistic care (physical, psychological, social, cultural, spiritual)
Home based acute care
Homeostasis and regulation
Human factors engineering
Human resources
Image of nursing
Immunity
Implementation science
Indigenous health
Infection control & isolation practices
Inflammation & infection
Informatics
Informatics & technology in nursing
Information Literacy & Evidence Use
Innovation
Integrity
Interdisciplinary collaboration/teamwork
Interpret clinical presentations
Interprofessional Care
Interprofessional collaboration
Interprofessional communication (including telecollaboration)
Intracranial regulation
IV therapy & infusion management
Just culture
Leadership
Leadership, Management, & Professionalism
Legal and ethical issues
Legal Responsibilities and scope of practice
Legislative/regulatory
Lifelong Learning
Lifespan nursing (pediatric, adult, geriatric)
Listening skills
management and supervision
Maternal and Child Health basics
Math skills
Medication administration (rights, routes, high-alert meds)
Mental health & psychiatric nursing
Metabolism
Microbiology
Mobile health
Mobility
Mood and affect
Moral agency
Moral courage
Motivational interviewing
Nursing diagnosis
Nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation)
Nursing Teamwork and Collaboration
Nutrition
Observation
Obstetric and newborn nursing
Opioid stewardship
Organization/system sphere
Outbreak management
Outcomes identification
Oxygen therapy & respiratory care
Pain management
Palliative care & end-of-life concepts
Pathophysiology
Patient and cultural care
Patient education
Patient safety
Patient-centered care
Patient/Care Management
Pediatric disorders and family-centered care
Perfusion
Perioperative nursing basics
Person-centered
Personal self-identity (what is nursing?)
Pharmacology
Physical examination and evaluation
Planning
Policy engagement, and political competency
Politics
Practice Readiness & Skill Competence
Precision health & personalized therapeutics
Predictive analytics
Prevention
Primary Commitment to Patients
Prioritization
Proactive/prevention thinking
Professional Development
Professional ethics & the ANA Code of Ethics
Professional Identity
Professional Integrity
Professional practice evaluation
Professionalism
Program implementation
Program planning
Psychosocial factors
Public Health & Population Care
Quality improvement/assurance
Quality management
Quality of practice
Reflective Practice
Regenerative medicine and cell based therapies
Rehabilitation & restorative care
Relationships and Trust
Reproduction
Research
Research-theory-practice linkages
Resilience
Resource stewardship
Respectful and equitable practice
Response to Diversity
Restorative care
Retail health
Right to Self-Determination
Risk Assessment of nurse sensitive outcomes
Risk reduction
Robotics in healthcare
Role Clarity
Roles and responsibilities
Safety
Scholarly inquiry
Scope of practice and ethics
Self-Care & Resilience
Sensory perception
Sexuality
Sleep and rest
Social determinants of health (SDOH)
Social justice
Social Justice and Health Equity
Spiritual well-being
Strategic planning
Stress and coping
Supportive care
Sustainability/sustainment
Symptom management
System-specific disorders: Cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, renal, endocrine, and GI
Systems Thinking
Systems-based practice
Teamwork
Technologically Adept (including the appropriate use of AI)
Technology
Telehealth
Therapeutic communication (including virtual modalities)
Thermoregulation
Time management & prioritization
Tissue integrity
Transition-to-practice population
Trauma-informed care
Treatment
Triage
Value-based care
Values and ethics
Violence
Virtual Nursing Practice
Virtues in Nursing
Vital Signs Assessment and interpretation
Wearable biosensors and personalized health data
Well-being
Wellness and health for nurses / human flourishing
Women's Health
Workforce Transition Support
Working in teams
Workplace Environment Awareness
Wound care and sterile fields