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This course will introduce students to the role of the baccalaureate prepared health professional.  Students will transition from clinicians to professionals, and acquire a deeper understanding of their professional role.

Upon successful completion of the course, each participant should be able to:

1. Use skills of inquiry, analysis, and information literacy to address practice issues.
2. Use written and emerging technology methods to communicate effectively.
3. Describe state and national statutes, rules, and regulations that authorize and define professional nursing practice.
4. Explore the impact of sociocultural, economic, legal, and political factors influencing healthcare delivery and practice.
5. Compare/contrast the roles and perspectives of the nursing profession with other care professionals on the healthcare team (i.e., scope of discipline, education and licensure requirements).
6. Assume accountability for personal and professional behaviors.