Fall 2008
NURS
3802-001 Strategies for Professional Nursing: The Nature of Health Transitions
This course resides in the Department of Acute Nursing Care
Course
Packet available at UTHSCSA Bookstore on or about Monday August 18, 2008. Bring to first class.
Required course materials are located at the library home page, click on E-Reserves.
Password provided in "Jump Start Letter" .
Familiarize yourself with this process before the first day of class.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
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course provides an introduction to professional nursing care of adults
with transitions in health status requiring basic nursing care. The effects
of health transitions and the process of adaptation of individuals and
their significant others are analyzed through integrated learning experiences.
A clinical practicum based upon health assessment principles provides
an opportunity to plan, implement, and evaluate customized care in partnership
with individuals and their significant others in a variety of environments.
Health assessment addresses multiple methods and tools including physical
assessment principles and skills. Emphasis is on planning and providing
appropriate nursing interventions and basic psychomotor nursing skills
based on understanding the nature of health transitions and their effects
on the individual. The process and application of critical thinking is
designed to promote beginning scholarship. |
CREDIT AND TIME ALLOCATION
| 8
semester hours (4 hours class, 12 hours practicum/week) |
PREREQUISITES
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NURS.3209
Introduction to Professional Nursing
NURS.3310 Strategies for Professional Nursing/Pharmacotherapeutics.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
- 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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CLINICAL OBJECTIVES
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Clinical Objectives are listed in the course packet available in the campus bookstore.
Clinical Assignments: Students will develop 2 formal written nursing process papers and one perioperative nursing observation report during their clinical rotation.
Nursing Process #1 will include a complete written nursing process to cover one nursing diagnosis.
Nursing Process #2 will include a complete written nursing process to cover three (3) nursing diagnoses. Specific criteria for the nursing process papers are in the course packet available in the campus bookstore. Students must earn a satisfactory on the written nursing process in order to pass clinical.
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CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION / GRADES
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Successful completion of NURS. 3802 requires the successful completion
of both the clinical and theoretical components of the course.
To pass the course, a student must attain all of the following:
1. A passing clinical grade is required.
2. An average of 70% on all written exams is required.
3. Complete ATI Fundementals for Nursing Practice Exams
Theory is given a letter grade and if the student passes clinical, the
course grade will be the grade achieved in theory. The theory grade is
based on written examinations.
To pass the theory component,
the student must earn a minimum average of 70 percent on the written examinations. Each graded item is assigned a percentage value of the total grade.
The graded activities and their percentage of the
course grade are as follows: |
Final grades are based on the following scale: |
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25% - Exam
I
25% - Exam II
25% - Exam III
25% - Comprehensive Final Examination
100% - Total |
A = 90-100%
B = 80-89%
C = 70-79%
D = 60-69%
F = Below 60% |
Clinical performance is graded pass/fail and is evaluated on the basis
of the written clinical objectives.
If greater than 15% of clinical time is missed in courses with clinical hours greater than 100, the student will not progress in that specific course that semester. If greater than 10% of clinical time is missed in courses with clinical hours less than 100, the student will not progess in that specific course that semester.
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Assessment Technologies Institute®, LLC (ATI) RN Content Mastery
Series®
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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Bickley, L.S., Szeilagyi, P.G. (2007). Bates' guide to physical examination and history taking (9th ed.). Philadelphia:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Carpenito-Moyet, L.J. (2008). Handbook of nursing diagnosis (12th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins.
Lewis, S. M., Collier, I. C., & Heitkemper, M.M. (2007). Medical
surgical nursing: Assessment and management of
clinical problems (7th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.
Pagana, K.D. & Pagana, T.J. (2007). Mosby's diagnostic and laboratory test reference (8th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.
Potter, P. A., & Perry, A. G. (
2009). Fundamentals of nursing:
Concepts, process and practice (7th ed.). St. Louis:
Mosby.
Skidmore-Roth, L., (2008), Mosby's drug guide for nurses. (7th ed.). St.
Louis: Mosby.
Smith, Sandra, Duell, Donna, & Martin, Barbara (2008), Clinical nursing skills: Basic to advanced skills (7th ed.).
New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
CD-ROM, Basic, Intermediate, & Advanced. Nursing Skills: Prentice Hall.
ATI Supplemental Learning Packet
Note: To be purchased through Undergraduate Nursing Office.
Other Required Material:
NURS. 3802 Web Syllabus
NURS. 3802 Course Packet
Clinical Passport (available at UTHSCSA Bookstore Only)
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RECOMMENDED (OPTIONAL) TEXT / REFERENCE
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Anderson, K. N., Anderson, L.E., & Glanze, W.D. (Eds). (2006). Mosby's medical, nursing, and allied health
dictionary (7th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby
Dirksen, S.R., O'Brien, P.G., et. al. (2007). Clinical companion to medical-surgical nursing (7th ed.).
St. Louis: Mosby
Moore, M.C. (2004). Mosby's pocket guide series: Nutritional care (5th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.
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CONTENT OUTLINE
| Found in Course Packet |
CALENDAR - First Week Only
Please check the Fall 2008 Schedules for recent updates on Class Dates & Room.
| Date |
Topic / Assignment Due |
| Monday August 25, 2008
Mandatory: ACTIVITIES WILL LAST UNTIL 5:30 p.m.
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8:00 a.m -8:45 a.m. - Convocation-SON Auditorium. (All nursing students must attend)
9:00 a.m. -10:30 p.m.- 3802 Class Orientation (bring Web Syllabus, First Semester Combined Calendar & Course Packet with you to class)-Room 1.463.
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Clinical Skills Lab Orientation-Room 1.463.
4:00 p.m. -5:30 p.m. - Scholarship Convocation (Students who are receiving scholarships are required to attend).
Families will also be invited. Held in SON Hurd Auditorium.
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Friday August 29, 2008
Mandatory: ACTIVITIES WILL LAST UNTIL 5:00 p.m. |
8:00 a.m. -9:50 p.m. - First 3802 Class- Room 1.463.
10:00a.m. -5:00 p.m.- Attend first clinical skills lab session.
You will be assigned a specific time to attend Clinical Skills Lab.
Be prepared to attend skills lab during one of three sessions on this day.
Your session time will be posted on E-Reserves and the 1st semester bulletin board.
Lab sessions will be held in the Clinical Skills Lab Classroom located (Sub-Level- SON)-Room SL021. |
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