Teamwork/Collaboration: Teamwork means to function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams while fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision making to achieve quality patient care
Informatics/Technology: Encompassing information science and information technologies, informatics involves the design, development, use and management of computer-based information systems. In nursing, informatics is becoming increasingly important in every aspect from patient care to systematic operations to research. In general, competencies can be divided into three major areas (2010, National League for Nursing- TIGER Informatics Competency Team). 1. Direct Care (care management, clinical decision making, operations management and communication). 2. Support (clinical support, measurement, analysis, research/reports, administrative and financial) 3. Information Infrastructure (security, health record management, registry and directory services, terminology services, standards-based interoperability, business rules management and workflow management) Core Values: Those beliefs or ideals which form the foundation for the work of a governing organization and/or nursing program.
Why Students Fail Some reasons for college student failure may include: No vision. Some students do not have a clearly articulated picture of the future they intend to create for themselves. Thus, they may take programs of study without a clear career goal or objective. In essence, they choose the wrong major. Lack of passion. Successful students work out of passion, a love for what they want to do, and recognize the importance of the benefit it will bring others as well as themselves. Without passion, study becomes a chore and not a method for achieving clearly defined goals. Lack of personal/work/school/family balance. Whatever is