Nursing Program Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, client-centered nursing care in a variety of healthcare settings to diverse client populations across the lifespan. Engage in clinical reasoning to make client-centered care decisions and to function within the complex healthcare environment. Integrate quality improvement processes that improve client care. Collaborate as part of [...]

Nursing Program Mission and Philosophy Mission The mission of the Yakima Valley College Practical Nursing Program is to provide quality nursing education that reflects the College’s commitment to enrich and enhance individuals and the community by delivering accessible, student-centered education. The Practical Nursing Program is designed to prepare successful critical thinkers and lifelong learners who [...]

Knowles Adult Learning Theory Knowles Adult Learning Theory has six assumptions about adult learners. These assumptions are: Adults need to know why they need to learn something. As people mature, their self-concept moves from one of being dependent toward one of being self-directed. As people mature, they accumulate a large amount of experience that can [...]

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy defines three domains of educational activities or learning: cognitive (knowledge), affective (attitudes), and psychomotor (skills). The cognitive domain involves the ability to obtain and demonstrate knowledge. Acquisition of knowledge, attitude, and skills proceeds from simple actions such as memorization to more complex intellectual actions such as synthesizing information from [...]

Tanner's Clinical Judgment Model Tanners Clinical Judgement Model identifies the processes of clinical judgment that reflect the way nurses think in practice. As students learn to think like a nurse, the processes develop from noticing to interpreting, to responding, and then reflecting. Noticing: a perceptual grasp of the situation at hand. It is the process [...]

Patricia Benner’s Stages of Learning and Skills Acquisition Patricia Benner’s research describes how nurses develop skills and an understanding of patient care over time through both education and experience in caring for patients.  Benner describes how beginning nurses progress through five distinct levels; novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert.  According to Benner (2001), nurses [...]