Fall 2008
NURS 3209-002 Introduction to Professional Nursing
This course resides in the Department of Acute Nursing Care
This course is Web Enhanced with 
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
| This
course provides an introduction to professional nursing and the role of
the nurse in customizing the promotion and maintenance of health. Course
content includes the nature and history of professionalism and processes
underlying professional nursing, basic concepts of health and illness
transitions, and legal considerations in nursing practice. |
CREDIT AND TIME ALLOCATION
| 2
semester hours (2 hours class per week) |
PREREQUISITES
| Admission
to School of Nursing |
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Explain the use of nursing process in providing care to individuals
in a variety of settings.
- Discuss the roles of professional nursing in customizing
care to protect, promote, and restore optimal health.
- Describe appropriate communication techniques used in the
professional role.
- Relate the critical thinking process and scholarship to
the practice of nursing.
- Recognize the need for professional literature in customizing
nursing care.
- Participate with faculty members and peers in professional
partnerships.
- Describe ethical and legal guidelines that reflect the standards
of nursing practice.
- Relate professional responsibilities that lead toward active
participation in an integrated learning process.
Semester I Objectives
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Apply the nursing process to provide care to individuals in a
variety of settings.
- Participate as partners with individuals in the customized
therapeutic care process to protect, promote, and restore
optimal health.
- Use appropriate communication techniques when engaged in
the professional role.
- Use critical thinking and scholarship in relation to the
role of the professional nurse.
- Use professional literature to identify strategies for customizing
nursing care.
- Develop relationships based on a partnership model with
individuals, faculty, peers, and other professionals.
- Follow ethical and legal guidelines that reflect the standards
of nursing practice.
- Identify the professional nurse's responsibility for active
participation in integrated learning processes.
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CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION / GRADES
NURS 3209 is a theoretical course and class is 2 hours per week. Attendance
at class is required and absence jeopardizes the student's ability to
meet the course objectives. The course grade is the following:
| Graded Activities: |
Grading Scale: |
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20% - Exam 1
20% - Exam 2
25% - Professional Issue Paper
10% - Classroom Attendance/ Class Participation
25% - Final Exam
100% - Total
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A = 90-100%
B = 80-89%
C = 70-79%
D = 60-69%
F = Below 60% |
Successful completion of the course requires that the student achieve
an average grade of 70 on the three exams and a total average of 70 on
all graded activities.
General Student Policies, Grading Policies, and Presentation
information are found in the Course Packet. |
Assessment Technologies Institute®, LLC (ATI) RN Content Mastery
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UTHSCSA School of Nursing utilizes the ATI RN Content Mastery Series® & the
RN Comprehensive Predictor® practice and proctored exams to assist
students in preparing for the NCLEX-RN® exam (generic and LVN
flexible process students). Through practice and proctored examinations,
students are able to assess their own knowledge and receive feedback
and direction for content review throughout the program of study.
The
proctored exams are administered in specific courses in both undergraduate
tracks (i.e. ATI Pharmacology in N3312 Pharmacotherapeutics; ATI Fundamentals
in N3610 Chronic Health Transitions, ATI Leadership in N4410 Leader-Manager,
etc.). The proctored exam is required to complete the course.
In order
for a student to take the course related proctored exam, documentation
of achieving ≥ 70% on the content series practice
exam is required. The content practice exams can be taken as many times
as necessary to achieve ≥ 70%.
Students will receive additional points
added to the corresponding course grade for a Level 3 or Level 2 performance
on the proctored exam (after achieving ≥ 70% on graded course requirements).
For a Level 3 performance on the exam, 3 points will be added. For
a Level 2 performance on the exam, 1 point will be added.
SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY
| Students are expected to be above reproach in all scholastic activities. Students who engage in scholastic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties, including the possibility of failure in the course and dismissal from the university. "Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts." Regents Rules and Regulations, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3, Subsection 3.2, Subdivision 3.22. |
American with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accommodations
| Any student seeking ADA Accommodations under the American with Disabilities Act should contact the Associate Dean for Students within the first week of the semester so that appropriate accommodations may be arranged. A Request for Accommodations (Form 100) must be completed. These forms are available in the Office for Students Room: 1.118-16 |
REQUIRED TEXT / REFERENCE
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American Nurses Association. Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements. (2008).
American
Nurses Association. Nursing: A social policy statement. (2008).
Washington DC.
Chenevert, M. (2006). Mosby's Tour Guide to Nursing School: A Student's Road Survival Kit. (5th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier Science.
Potter, P. A., & Perry, A. G. (2009). Fundamentals of nursing: Concepts,
process, and practice (7th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.
Texas Occupations Code and Statutes Regulating the Practice of Professional
Nursing, as amended 2007. (Texas
Nursing Practice Act Nursing Peer Review and Nurse Licensure Compact.) .
Other Required Material
NURS 3209 Web Syllabus on SON Home Page and ,
NURS 3209 Course Packet on
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RECOMMENDED (OPTIONAL) TEXT / REFERENCE
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American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of American Psychological Association. (5th ed.).
Washington DC : Author
Nugent, P.M., & Vitale, B.A. (2008). Test Success: Test-Taking Techniques for Beginning Nursing Students
(5thed.). Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis
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CONTENT OUTLINE
| Found in the Course Packet on |
CALENDAR - First Week Only
Please check the Fall 2008 Schedules for recent updates on Class Dates & Room.
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Topic
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Thursday August 28, 2008
1:00PM - 2:50PM
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1:00-3:00 P.M. Orientation - Room TBA
Read course packet on . Bring course packet and web syllabus to orientation.
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