Mandatory Education

1. Mandatory Education Nursing Department

2. Welcome • The purpose of this presentation is to meet the required annual education for our Department of Nursing. • Directions: read through the presentation. • Sign the required forms. • Return the forms to the MSU Department of Nursing.

3. MSU Mission • The mission of Minot State University is to advance knowledge, critical and creative thinking, and the vitality of community and cultures.

4. MSU Core Values • Student Learning first • Pursuit of Excellence • Responsibility • Respect • Learning Community

5. Philosophy of the Department of Nursing • The Department of Nursing, within the College of Education and Health Sciences of MSU, supports the mission of the University to advance knowledge, critical and creative thinking, and the vitality of community cultures.

6. Department of Nursing Mission • The Minot State University Department of Nursing is an integral part of the parent institution and is dedicated to pursuit of higher learning grounded in the arts, sciences, and humanities.

7. The mission of the Department of Nursing is to educate individuals for professional roles in nursing and for graduate education.

8. People • The Nursing Department faculty recognizes people are unique, complex, and evolving. Persons interact with a changing environment to maintain life and achieve purposes as individuals and as members of society. The person within the context of nursing is identified as a client.

9. A client may be further defined as individual, family, a group and/or a community. People are dynamic, complex, adaptive, and self determined in achieving a meaningful existence. People utilize their cognitive, affective, and psychomotor capacities to achieve self-actualization.

10. Environment • The environment is dynamic, complex, and multidimensional. The environment is further defined as the context, surroundings, settings, foci, or backgrounds within which individuals interact.

11. Health • A condition of the life cycle that is dynamic, adaptive, responsive to both internal and external stimuli, and influenced by the behaviors of the person. • Health refers to the person’s state of well being at the time that nursing occurs. Health is personal and can range from high-level wellness to terminal illness.

12. Nursing • Is defined as an application of scientific knowledge enhanced by artful practice in a socially responsible manner.

13. Nursing Education • Nursing education is viewed as process designated to facilitate learning. Students and faculty are active and responsible participants in learning.

14. Nursing education at the baccalaureate level integrates content from the arts and humanities and social and physical science. The key curricular components emphasized within the curriculum are derived from the Dept. of Nursing’s Mission and Philosophy.

15. The Following Threads Are Woven Throughout Our Program • Professionalism • Research • Holistic health • Globalization

16. Professionalism • Professionalism in nursing includes adherence to professional nursing practice and performance standards. • The professional nurse possesses leadership and management skills, is capable of delegation and supervision of health care providers and may practice autonomously within the legal/ethical scope of practice of the licensing organization.

17. The professional nurse assumes a variety of roles including but not limited to provider of client centered care, educator, researcher, leader, manager, evaluator, advocate, and/or counselor.

18. Research • Research is a systematic inquiry that uses various approaches to answer questions and solve problems. Nursing research is a process that allows nurses to ask questions to gain knowledge for improving patient care.

19. Holistic Health • Nursing supports a holistic view of diverse persons and requires its practitioners to have achieved a substantial knowledge base in the sciences, arts, and humanities.

20. The caring, competent nurse uses self and presence, recognizing the importance of spirituality, diversity, community and social justice in the promotion of health through the life span. Communication of information is critical in educating people toward health and healing.

21. Globalization • The baccalaureate nurse is prepared to practice professional nursing in a global society, with an awareness of diversity and varied cultures.

22. Globalization, cont. • As members of a global community of nurses, the faculty is dedicated to support the education and professional development of nurses working to improve the health of the world’s people. With a commitment to social justice, the Department of Nursing prepares nurses to confront the issues of people living in poverty and underserved areas.

23. Theoretical Constructs • The Department of Nursing’s theoretical beliefs are eclectic in nature with key concepts drawn from the works of Florence Nightingale, Madeleine Leininger, and M. Jean Watson. • Faculty embrace these theoretical beliefs as important to nursing and baccalaureate education.

24. Major Theoretical Constructs • Nightingale’s (1969) emphasis on environment to optimize health • Leininger’s (1978) advocating for cultural care • Watson’s (1979) premise that caring is the soul of nursing

25. MSU Nursing Department Specific Information

26. Department of Nursing Committees • The Department of Nursing has student representatives on 2 committees. They are: • Student Faculty Affairs • Curriculum Committee

27. Curriculum Committee • Deals with course/class concerns and text books. • Meets 3rd Friday of month, watch the bulletin board for notices.

28. Student Faculty Affairs • Plans for scholarships, handbook changes, policies & parties. • Also 3rd Fridays. Check the bulletin board for notices.

29. Student Scholarships • Awards Ceremony • 24 scholarships • criteria is located in the back of your handbook.

30. ND State Board Loan • Board of Nursing Education Loan. • You do not have to pay it back if you work in the state for X years. • Applications can be obtained from the State Board. Deadline is July1.

31. Safety Information

32. Fire Regulations and Emergency Evacuation Plan for MSU • Fire alarms and extinguishers are located near each exit door on each floor. • In the event of fire, sound the alarm and evacuate the building. • Do not use the elevators. • At the clinical settings, follow their policy.

33. Policies & Procedures • Clinical facilities have their own specific policies & procedures. • Faculty will point out their location at the clinical settings.

34. Infection Control • The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Bloodborne Pathogen Standard, became the Federal law in July, 1992. All hospital/agency policies and procedures directed by this standard are found in the agency’s “Exposure control Plan” and in the Infection Control section of the agency’s policy and procedure manual.

35. Students and healthcare workers are to receive orientation and annual education to comply with these OSHA Standards. • The following information is based on OSHA Standards.

36. Standard Precautions • Apply to all patients at all times regardless of diagnosis. • Standard precautions applies to • Blood • Body fluids • Secretions • Excretions (whether or not blood is present or visible) except with sweat • Non-intact skin and mucous membranes

37. Personal Protective Equipment • PPE examples are: • Gloves • Masks • Gowns • Plastic aprons • Goggles with protective shields

38. Hand Hygiene • Must take place between patients, after procedures and when in contact with patient equipment, linens, supplies and immediate environment.

39. Hand Hygiene • Hand washing with an antimicrobial soap under a running stream of water, applying friction to fingers, hands, wrists for at least 15 seconds; drying hands with paper towel; shutting off the faucet with a paper towel.

40. Soap & Water • Soap and water must be used: • When you first get to work • For contact with proteinaceous material • If visibly soiled • Before eating • After using the restroom • When caring for patients diagnosed with spore producing organism, such as Anthrax or Clostridium Difficile.

41. Alcohol Based Hand Antiseptics • Foam and gel antiseptics can be used at any other time when in contact with patients, their equipment, linen, supplies and immediate environment.

42. Gloves • Must be worn when in contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials, mucous membranes, and non-intact skin. • Wear gloves if you the caregiver have non-intact skin.

43. Important! • Perform hand hygiene before and after using gloves! • Gloves are changed between all client contacts.

44. Fluid Resistant Gowns • Must be worn whenever the potential exists for soiling of uniforms or clothing. • These gowns are also worn for contact isolation precautions.

45. Masks • Must be worn when there is a risk of exposure to spraying or splashing of blood or fluids that contain blood. This is typically a regular surgical mask. • (N95) masks are worn only for airborne transmission organisms.

46. Eye Protection • Goggles or face shields must be worn for risks of exposure to spraying or splashing of blood. Your own glasses are not sufficient protection unless you use “add-on” side pieces. • Eye protection and masks are worn in conjunction with one another.

47. Sharps • Must be disposed of in an OSHA approved puncture resistant container. Contaminated needles are NOT to be recapped, bent, broken or other wise manipulated by hand.

48. Safety Devices • Agencies use a variety of safety engineered devices and must be used according to their instructions. • Examples: needle less IV therapy systems, syringes, venipuncture devices, scalpels, blunted suture needles, lancets and blood collection devices.

49. Biohazard Waste • Defined as waste “likely to release infectious material in liquid or semi-liquid form”. • Waste contaminated with blood or fluids that contain blood likely to pose a risk of exposure must be red-bagged.

50. Linen • Linen should be placed in linen bags at bedside and not on the floor. • Linen soiled with biohazard waist need to placed in fluid resistant bags at the point of use. (bedside)