Welcome back to nursing! Unit 1 will review the nursing process, guidelines for professional practice, the role of the nurse and critical thinking and patient rights. The Unit has 4 modules and a Unit post test. Each module has assigned reading, a lesson or lessons and practices and links. The practices are to test your knowledge as you go and are not graded. After completing all the modules you will take the Unit post test. Good Luck!

Upon completion of this activity, the learner will be able to:

1. Identify the role of the nurse as caregiver, educator, advocate, leader, manager, and researcher.
2. Review the phases of the nursing process and how they are interrelated.
3. Review standards of practice and the code of ethics that guide nursing practice.
4. Identify key elements of patient rights.
5. Determine how to determine RN and LVN scope of practice.