TFN 1M

Question 1

A confirmed, credible, and consistent proponent of
timeless nursing values, committed to a professional
progression, attuned and responsive to local and global
challenges

Answer 1

Vision

Question 2

Guided by the motto: Primum Homo Esto: Let Him
First be a Man, the College of Nursing binds itself to graduate
caring professional nurses, cognizant of their commitments
and accountabilities to God and the people they serve, in the
pursuit of health and healthful living in any setting in answer to
our belief that, Nursing Is Where People Are.

Answer 2

Mission

Question 3

CDU-CN’s Objectives

Answer 3

1.) Provide excellent nursing education through an enhanced
curriculum responsive to the constant dynamics of the
profession in the country and abroad.

2.)Educate future nurses who are motivated, dedicated and
inspired to practice their profession with utmost integrity,
respect for human dignity and a compassionate heart to serve
diverse clients across the lifespan in various settings.

3.) Pursue an effective faculty development program committed to
support the faculty in their personal and professional
advancements so as to generate competent and well-rounded
nurses.

4.)Develop critical thinking, effective communication techniques
and interpersonal skills utilizing the nursing process in
performing any nursing function in the health-illness
continuum.

5.) Enhance the learners’ capacity to administer safe, appropriate,
holistic, “caring care” independently pr in collaboration with
others guided by scientific, ethico-moral, legal principles
inspired by the CDU-CN values.

6.) Contribute to the advancement of health in general and nursing
in particular through varied research undertakings.

7.) Inspire learners to preserve and promote the Filipino heritage
with openness and sensitivity to individual and cultural
uniqueness.

Question 4

Program Educational Objective that refers to being capable of
providing safe, effective, and holistic “caring care” to different clients across the lifespan in various settings.

Answer 4

Competent and Compassionate Nurses

Question 5

Program Educational Objective that refers to contributing to the advancement of knowledge and utilizes evidence-based
practice to enhance nursing education and practice.

Answer 5

Empowered Nurse Researchers

Question 6

Program Educational Objective that refers to managing health
and health-related teams, programs and services.

Answer 6

Organized and Inspiring Nurse Leaders

Question 7

CDU-CN CORE VALUE
(Respecting Human Dignity)

Answer 7

Compassion and Courtesy

Question 8

CDU-CN CORE VALUE
(Genuine Service to Man)

Answer 8

Dedication and Discipline

Question 9

CDU-CN CORE VALUE
(Personal and Professional Integrity)

Answer 9

Uprightness

Question 10

CDU-CN CORE VALUE
( Towards God through Man)

Answer 10

Competence and Commitment

Question 11

CDU-CN CORE VALUE
(In person and in work)

Answer 11

Neatness

Question 12

CDU-CN Graduate Attributes

Answer 12

• Holistic “Caring Care”
• Critical Thinker
• Good Manners
• Effective Communicator
• Lifelong Manners
• Team Collaborator
• Socially Involved * Clean
• Research Productive
• Ethically Responsible
• Professionally Competent
• Global Mindset
• Technically Experienced

Question 13

Values and Graduate Attribute that refers to:
➢ Holistic “Caring Care” - accept, understand, and
respect the client’s strengths and limitations in the
process of care.
➢ Good Manners - show good manners in dealing with
clients, peers, and superiors.

Answer 13

Compassion and Courtesy

Question 14

Values and Graduate attribute that refers to:
➢ Lifelong Learner - pursue continuing education for
personal and professional development.
➢ Socially Involve - participate in socio-civic-spiritual
activities to enhance the community through one’s
profession.
➢ Research Productive - participate in the advancement
of knowledge through various research endeavors.

Answer 14

Dedication and Discipline

Question 15

Values and Graduate attribute that refers to:
➢ Ethically Responsible - practice the profession
conforming to social and professional ethics, morals,
and values.

Answer 15

Uprightness

Question 16

Values and Graduate attribute that refers to:
➢ Professionally Competent - show professional
competence in the delivery of nursing care practice.
➢ Global Mindset - adopt universal innovations attuned
to the changing demands of time.
➢ Technically Experienced - utilize various technologies
in nursing practice.
➢ Critical Thinker - apply critical analysis and decision-
making skills to in various learning opportunities.
➢ Effective Communicator - communicate effectively and
therapeutically among diverse clients across the
lifespan.
➢ Team Collaborator - involve in discussions and
activities that fosters collaboration with and among
professionals in varied disciplines.

Answer 16

Competence and Commitment

Question 17

Values and Graduate attribute that refers to:
➢ Clean - present oneself with good grooming,
composed and maintains neatness in work process
and output.

Answer 17

Neatness

Question 18

(OUTCOME) Apply knowledge of physical, social, natural and health science and
humanities in the practice of nursing.
▪ Integrates principles and concepts of human behavior in
managing clients and teams.
▪ Distinguishes the different concepts used in nursing
management.

Answer 18

Outcome 1

Question 19

(OUTCOME) Provide safe, appropriate, and holistic care to individuals, families,
population, group and community utilizing nursing process.
▪ Assess with the client (individual, family, population group,
and/or community), one’s health status/competence.
▪ Formulate with the client a plan of care to address the
health conditions, needs, problems and issues based on
priorities.
▪ Implement safe and quality interventions with the client to
address the health needs, problems, and issues.
▪ Provide health education using selected planning models to
targeted clientele (individual, family, population group,
and/or community).
▪ Evaluate the client the health status/competence and/or
process/expected outcomes of the nurse-client working
relationship.
▪ Documents nursing care services rendered and
processes/outcomes of the nurse client working
relationship.

Answer 19

Outcome 2

Question 20

(OUTCOME) Apply guidelines and principles of evidence-based practice in the
delivery care.
▪ Provide appropriate evidence-based nursing care using a
participatory approach based on:
✓ Variety of theories and standards relevant to
health and healing
✓ Research
✓ Clinical practice
✓ Client preferences
✓ Client and staff safety
✓ Customer care standards

Answer 20

Outcome 3

Question 21

(OUTCOME) Practice nursing in accordance with existing laws, legal, ethical-moral
principles.
▪ Adheres to ethico-legal considerations when providing safe,
quality, and professional nursing care.
▪ Applies ethical reasoning and decision- making process to
address situations of ethical distress and moral dilemma.
▪ Adheres to established norms of conduct based on the
Philippine Nursing Law and other legal, regulatory, and
institutional requirements relevant to safe nursing practice.
▪ Protects client’s rights based on clients’ and nurses’ rights.
▪ Implements strategies/policies related to informed consent
as it applies in multiple contexts.

Answer 21

Outcome 4

Question 22

(OUTCOME) Communicate effectively in speaking, writing, and presenting using
culturally appropriate language.
▪ Ensure a working relationship with the client and/or support
system based on trust, respect and shared decision making
using appropriate communication/interpersonal
techniques/strategies.
▪ Establishes rapport with client and/or support system
ensuring adequate information about each other as
partners in a working relationship.
▪ Addresses with respect, trust and concern for safety, team
needs, issues, or problems related with psychosocial
adaptation using appropriate communication/interpersonal
strategies/techniques.
▪ Communicates both in oral and written form, the results of
the quality improvement project in partnership with the
quality improvement team/quality assurance/nursing audit
team.

Answer 22

Outcome 5

Question 23

(OUTCOME) Report and document up-to-date client care accurately and
comprehensively.
▪ Document client’s responses/nursing care services
rendered and processes/outcomes of the nurse client
working relationship.
▪ Ensures completeness, integrity, safety, accessibility and
security of information.
▪ Adheres to protocol and principles of confidentiality in
safekeeping and releasing of records and other information.
▪ Implements system of informatics to support the delivery of
health care.

Answer 23

Outcome 6

Question 24

(OUTCOME) Work effectively in collaboration with inter-intra and multi-disciplinary,
multi-cultural teams.
▪ Ensure intra-agency, inter-agency, multidisciplinary and
sectoral collaboration in the delivery of health care.
▪ Implement strategies/approaches to enhance/support in
the capability of the client and care providers to participate
in decision making by inter-professional team.
▪ Maintain a harmonious and collegial relationship among
members of the health team for effective, efficient, and safe
client care.
▪ Coordinate the tasks/functions of the nursing personnel
(midwife, BHW, and utility workers).
▪ Collaborate with other members of the health team in the
implementation of programs and services.
▪ Apply principles of partnership and collaboration to improve
delivery of health services.
▪ Collaborate with GOs, NGOs, and other socio-civic
agencies to improve health care services, support
environment protection policies and strategies, and safety
and security mechanisms in the community.
▪ Participate as a member of a quality team in implementing
the appropriate quality improvement process on identified
improvement opportunities.

Answer 24

Outcome 7

Question 25

(OUTCOME) Practice beginning management and leadership skills in the
delivery of client care.
▪ Participate in the development and improvement of
policies and standards regarding safe nursing
practice and relevant to human resource
management.
▪ Manage resources (human, physical, financial, time)
efficiently and effectively.
▪ Apply management and leadership principles in
providing direction to manage a community/village-
based health facility, component of a health program,
nursing service.
▪ Use appropriate strategies/approaches to plan community
health programs and nursing service.
▪ Supervise the implementation of the nursing component of
the health services/programs.
▪ Ensure that all nursing personnel adhere to standards of
safety, bioethical principles and evidence-based nursing
practice.
▪ Evaluate specific components of health programs and
nursing services based on parameters/criteria.
▪ Maintain a positive practice environment.
▪ Participate in the planning and implementation of staff
development activities to enhance performance of nursing
support staff.
▪ Evaluate performance of nursing support staff using a
standard evaluation tool.

Answer 25

Outcome 8

Question 26

(OUTCOME) Conduct research with an experienced researcher.
▪ Prepare data collection and analysis plan as a member of
the quality improvement/quality assurance/nursing audit
team.
▪ Conduct collection and analysis of data with the team
members based on the agreed plan.
▪ Implements with the team the developed action plan for the
identified variance to improve the system or process.

Answer 26

Outcome 9

Question 27

(OUTCOME) Engage in lifelong learning with a passion to keep current with national
and global developments in general and nursing and health
development in particular.
▪ Develop a personal philosophy and career goals as a
professional nurse.
▪ Demonstrate accountability and responsibility on safe
nursing practice.
▪ Develop a professional nursing portfolio.
▪ Assume responsibility in lifelong learning, own personal
development, and maintenance of competence.
▪ Demonstrate continued competence and professional
growth.
▪ Engage in advocacy activities to influence health and social
care service policies and access to services.
▪ Model professional behavior.
▪ Engage in advocacy activities to deal with health-related
concerns and adopts policies that foster the growth and
development of the nursing profession.

Answer 27

Outcome 10

Question 28

(OUTCOME) Demonstrates responsible citizenship and pride of being a Filipino.
▪ Accepts the responsibility in paying relevant taxes in the
practice of the profession.
▪ Customizes nursing interventions based on Philippine
culture and values.
▪ Projects the good image of a Filipino nurse.

Answer 28

Outcome 11

Question 29

(OUTCOME) Apply techno-intelligent care systems and processes in health care
delivery.
▪ Uses appropriate technology to perform safe and efficient
nursing activities.

Answer 29

Outcome 12

Question 30

(Outcome) Adopt the nursing core values in the practice of the profession.
▪ Manifests caring as a core of nursing including the love of
God and people.

Answer 30

Outcome 13

Question 31

(Outcome) Apply entrepreneurial skills in the delivery of nursing care.
▪ Applies strategic entrepreneurial interventions to address
management concerns on any health care setting.

Answer 31

Outcome 14

Question 32

• You have a higher chance of getting a serious
  infection.
• You may experience more complications from
  surgery or hospitalization.
• Fewer nurses could mean life or death for acute care
  patients.

What causes this?

Answer 32

A World withoud Nurses

Question 33

What do nurses do?

Answer 33

✓ Nurses care for people not conditions.
✓ Evaluate the whole person
✓ Educate people
✓ Make prevention a priority

Question 34

Five Key Components (ADPIE)

Answer 34

1) Assessment
- Collect data
- Medical history
- Measure vital signs
- Head to toe assessment
- Ask questions about their lifestyle
2) Diagnosis
- Response of what is happening to the patient.
- The diagnosis reflects not only the patient in pain,
but that the pain has caused other problems such as
anxiety, poor nutrition, or has the potential to cause
complications.
3) Planning/Outcome
- Outcome identification is where you establish to go
or your expected outcome for your patient.
- You will set short and long range goals for the
patient.
4) Implementation
- Where you take action on planned interventions.
- The care they provide will be based on the
assessment data and the planning care they
developed in the previous step.
5) Evaluation
- Reassess the patient (remember that anything can
change at any moment)