Universidad de Sta.

Isabel
College of Nursing
Naga City

RLE FOCUS

Philosophy, Goals, Objectives of College of Nursing:

The Philosophy of the USI College of Nursing is anchored on the belief that in its
major role in the holistic development of the human person, the Vincentian values and core
are the unifying and dominant domain to characterize nursing students.
The College of Nursing subscribes to the statement of Mission, Goals, Objectives and
Guiding Principles of the St. Louise de Marillac Educational System-USI. It shall enhance the
competencies of its internal/external clientele/ stakeholder through empowering activities,
leadership and excellence in relevant nursing education. and development program,
research, continuing education and community extension services.
Its goal is to produce a beginning Vincentian professional nurse who has imbibed
values and the nursing core competencies expected of the profession, who can function
independently and interdependently as a member of the health team, and who is ethically,
socially, conscious and responsive to the needs of community and the country in the light of
global concerns.
Specifically, the College of Nursing, aims to prepare a fully functioning nurse
practitioner who:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Possesses caring behavior

Demonstrates critical thinking skills in relating with self and others
Practices ethico-moral, legal and social responsibilities and accountabilities.
Demonstrates leadership and management skills in the care of clients in varied
settings, across the lifespan.
5. Practices the right attitude, appropriate knowledge and skills for the promotion of
health, prevention of illness, restoration of health and alleviation of suffering
6. Recognizes the importance of continuing education and research in personal and
professional development
USI Vision
The Universidad de Sta. Isabel of the St. Louise de Marillac Educational System of
the Daughters of Charity is an audacious, Christ-centered educational institution committed
to empowering communities of learners into inner-directed Vincentian leaders and
advocates of persons who are poor.

USI Mission
At Universidad de Sta. Isabel, we commit ourselves to:

Courageously pursue value innovative educational programs and services anchored in

Christ.
Interdependently accelerate leadership and professional development through
continuing education and intensive Vincentian formation.
Synergistically facilitate the integral development of the learners towards
transformation through current-researches, relevant curricular offerings and
responsive community extension services.
Relentlessly generate a new breed of self-directed, global and environmentally caring
leaders.
Ardently support one another in sustaining the shared mission

USI Core Values

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Advocacy for persons who are poor

Commitment to Vincentian Excellence
Compassionate service
Co-responsibility
Respect for human dignity
Simplicity
Social Commitment
Solidarity

COURSE CODE:

NCM 107

COURSE NAME:

NURSING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT,

ETHICO-MORAL AND LEGAL CONCEPTS,
PROFESSIONAL ADJUSTMENT AND DEVT

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
NCM 107 focuses on the application of the concepts, principles,
theories and methods of developing nursing leaders and managers
in the hospital and community-based settings. It also includes EthicoMoral/Legal aspects of health care and nursing practice and the
nurses responsibilities for personal and professional growth.
AREA

BMC EMERGENCY ROOM

SEMESTER/AY:

FIRST SEMESTER, A/Y 2012-2013

TIME ALLOTMENT: 36 RLE HOURS

DESCRIPTION OF LEARNERS:
The learners are BSN 4 students who have been equipped with
theories and concepts in nursing such that they are being prepared to
become beginning professional nurses. They had extensive exposure in
various clinical settings.
ENTRY COMPETENCIES:
NCM 100
NCM 101
NCM 103
NCM 104
NCM 105
NCM 106

Fundamentals of Nursing Practice

Care of Mother, Child and Family
Care of clients with problems in Oxygenation,
Fluids and Electrolyte Balance Metabolism
and Endocrine Disorders
CARE of clients with problem in Inflammatory
and Immunologic Responses, Perception and
Coordination
Care of clients with Maladaptive Patterns of
Behavior
Care of Clients with Cellular Aberrations, Acute
Biologic Crisis and Concepts on Emergency
Disaster Nursing

AREA/CONDITION:
BMC is a 500 bed capacity, tertiary hospital located along
Panganiban drive, Naga City. Specifically, students are assigned at
the emergency room which is located on the ground floor and
composed of the following areas, a nurses station, 3 major cubicles
(surgical, medical and pediatric), supervisors office and nurses
lounge. It caters to client with different emergency needs,
treatment and managements. Clients are assigned in their
respective rooms depending on their case, need and urgency.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
After 36 hours exposure, the BSN 4 students are expected to
have practiced the functions, roles and activities of a beginning
nurse utilizing the nursing concepts and other health-related
concepts learned in the school.
They are also expected to imbibe the values of the university and
the college of nursing, using the nursing core competencies expected of the profession, thus, behaving as mature, Vincentian nurses
as they care for clients in the emergency room.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
After the exposure, the students are expected to:
1. Be familiarized with the agencys set-up and discuss
philosophy & objectives of the organization.
2. Identify and actualize roles, functions & responsibilities of
an emergency room nurse
3. Provide safe and effective nursing care with the aid of the
nursing process
4. Demonstrate professionalism & caring attitude
5. Imbibe the core values cherished by the nursing profession
such as love of God, country, people and the environment.
6. Demonstrate ethico-legal and moral responsibilities in the
care of client and their significant others.
7. Explain the dynamics of the normal process and disease
process of patients undergoing emergency procedures and
clients with complicated cases.
8. Use thoroughly the concept and process in assessment and
triage in the care of patients.

ROUTINE FOCUS:
Key Area of Responsibilities
Expected
Outcome

Routine
Activities

Familiarize with the

routines
and
procedure

Orient students to
set
up,
review
procedure

Core Competencies

Communications
Collaboration
Personal &
Professional growth
and development
Core values: CoResponsibility,
Respect for Human
Dignity/Environment,
Social Commitment
& Commitment to
Vincentian Excellence

Acquaint themselves
with the personnel
and staff in the unit
and their specific
position and
functions

Discuss the
organizational set
up and introduce
the staff in the unit

Safe & quality

nursing care, EthicoMoral
Responsibilities,
Communication,
teamwork Quality
improvement, health
education, legal
responsibility,
management of
resources

Core values: CoResponsibility,

Respect for Human
Dignity/Environment,
Social Commitment
& Commitment to
Vincentian
Excellence
Function as a SN/HN
of the unit using
concepts, principles
and theories of
nursing leadership
and management

Individual/group
conference on the
roles and function
of SN/HN

Safe & quality

nursing care Legal
and Ethico-Moral
Responsibility,
Records
management,
Communication,
teamwork, Quality
improvement, &
Collaboration
Core values: CoResponsibility,
Respect for Human
Dignity/Environment,
Social Commitment,
Commitment to
Vincentian
Excellence, &
Solidarity

Thorough
assessment of the
client in
cephalocaudal
manner

Identify existing
and potential
problem

Legal and ethico

moral responsibility,
personal and
professional growth,
development and
safe quality care,
record management
Core values: CoResponsibility,
Respect for Human
Dignity/Environment,
Social Commitment,
& Commitment to
Vincentian
Excellence

Plan appropriate
nursing
interventions based
on identified
needs/problems of
the client

Provide safe and

effective quality
care to client
utilizing the
nursing process

Communication,
collaboration,
teamwork, quality
improvement, legal
responsibility,
management of
resources
Core values:
Advocacy for persons
who are poor,
Compassionate
Service, CoResponsibility,
Respect for Human
Dignity/Environment,
Social Commitment,
& Commitment to
Vincentian
Excellence

Evaluates the
progress & outcome
of nursing
intervention

Proper recording
and documentation

Legal responsibility,
ethico-moral
responsibility,
Personal &
professional
development,
research,
communication,
collaboration &
teamwork
Core values:
Compassionate
Service, CoResponsibility,
Respect for Human
Dignity/Environment,
Social Commitment,
& Commitment to
Vincentian
Excellence

Utilize management
strategy in dealing
with peers and
group

Assume nursing
leadership in
health care setting

Ethico-Moral
responsibility quality
improvement, record
management,
Research,
collaboration &
teamwork
communication
Core values: CoResponsibility,
Respect for Human
Dignity/Environment,
Social Commitment,
& Commitment to
Vincentian
Excellence

Competency on: Controlling and Ethico-Moral Aspects of Nursing Practice

COMPETENCY

A. Concepts on Controlling

B. Nursing Service
Control System

C. Other concepts on
Controlling

INSTRUCTIONAL
ACTIVITIES

INSTRUCTIONAL
FUNCTIONS

a. Identifies methods of
Controlling.
b. Discuss the different
methods and its uses in
the control process.
c. Enumerate and
differentiate the different
evaluation tools such as:
* Anecdotal/ Incidental
reports
* Checklists
* Peer review
* Appraisal
* Interview
d. Give examples of each
tool and explain its
importance
e.Uses some of these tools
in the actual clinical
setting.

Gives the students a chance

to perform:
a. Safe
and
quality
nursing care
b. Legal Responsibilities
c. Ethico-moral
responsibilities
d. Personal and
Professional
Development
e. Quality Improvement
f. Records Management
g. Communication
h. Collaboration and
Teamwork

a. Describe and
differentiate
the controlling methods
used in the nursing
service.
b. Apply some of the
methods in the clinical
area integrating the
principles of controlling.

Provides the students to do:

a. Safe
and
quality
nursing care
b. Management of
resources and
environment
c. Legal Responsibilities
d. Ethico-moral
responsibilities
e. Personal and
Professional
Development
f. Quality Improvement
g. Records Management
h. Communication
i. Collaboration and
Teamwork

a. Define each concept and

explain how they are
used in the control
process.
b. Cite examples of
situations using these
concepts.
c. Give the implications of
each concept in the
management process.

Offers the students a chance

to do:
a. Safe and quality
nursing care
b. Management of
resources and
environment
c. Legal Responsibilities
d. Ethico-moral
responsibilities
e. Personal and
Professional
Development
f. Quality Improvement
g. Records Management
h. Communication
i. Collaboration and
Teamwork

COMPETENCY

A. Professional Ethics

INSTRUCTIONAL
ACTIVITIES

INSTRUCTIONAL
FUNCTIONS

a. Differentiate the Ethical

Theories
b. Cite situations integrating
the different theories.
c. Apply some of the ethical
theories to actual nursing
care.

Provide the students to

perform the following:
a. Safe
and
quality
nursing care
b. Management of
resources and
environment
c. Legal Responsibilities
d. Ethico-moral
responsibilities
e. Personal and
Professional
Development
f. Quality Improvement
g. Records Management
h. Communication
i. Collaboration and
Teamwork

d. Enumerate and explain

the
different legal principles:
*Beneficence
*Non-maleficence
*Autonomy
*Justice
*Honesty
*Informed consent

Gives
the
students
an
opportunity to do:
a. Safe
and
quality
nursing care
b. Management of
resources and
environment
c. Legal Responsibilities
d. Ethico-moral
responsibilities
e. Personal and
Professional
Development
f. Quality Improvement
g. Records Management
h. Communication
i. Collaboration and
Teamwork

e. Know the International

Code of Ethics for Nurses

DEBRIEFING / EVALUATION:
Sharing of learning experiences, difficulties and
suggestions to improve performance.

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES:
TIME
6:00 6:30 am

6:30 7:00 am
7:00 5:30 pm

ACTIVITIES
Checking of attendance
Orientation on the Area/Cubicles
Pre-conference
Area Tour
Giving of Assigned Cubicles
Direct patient care, NPI, assess-

ment, giving of specific nursing

interventions and management
5:30 6:00 pm

Post-conference
Giving of Homeworks
Dismissal

Note:
*Breaks are done individually or by pairs and alternately from 11:30-1:00 and 3:304:30pm. Students will be given 10-15mins. to have their break.
REQUIREMENTS:

Prepared by:
Mr. Rhandy V. Salvani, RN, MAN
Clinical Instructor - Level 4
Noted by:
Mrs. Lani P. Obenia RN, MAN
RLE Coordinator, A/Y 2011-2013

Approved by:
Mrs. Salve T. Zuniga, RN, MAN
Dean, College of Health Education

Structured learning experience

Performance checklist, competency checklist
Area project