View New Course Proposal New Undergraduate Course Proposal Form 1. Department and Contact Information Tracking Number Date & Time Submitted 832 2009-10-20 08:16:53 Department College Budget Account Number Nursing Nursing HSC--006201-10000 Contact Person Phone Email Cheryl Zambroski x2024 czambros@health.usf.edu 2. Course Information Prefix Number Full Title NUR 4465L Maternal and Pediatric Nursing Care Clinical Is the course title variable? Is a permit required for registration? Are the credit hours variable? N N N Credit Hours Section Type Grading Option 4 Laboratory Only Total Clock Hours Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum) Maternal & Pediatric Clinical Prerequisites NUR 4216, NUR 4216L Corequisites NUR 4355, NUR 4455 Co-Prerequisites Course Description Provides clinical experiences in diverse settings. Focuses on nursing care designed to prevent and reduce risk of disease and injury, promote health, and treat illness and injury in childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. 3. Justification A. Indicate how this course will strengthen the Undergraduate Program. Is this course necessary for accreditation or certification? Currently using NUR 4635L, which includes community, and this proposed course with its emphasis on maternal and pediatric care better reflects the content and distinguishes the course from comunity health. The credit hours are not variable. There are 120 hours of lab experience in simulation and in the clinical arena (whether acute care or community-based settings.) B. What specific area of knowledge is covered by this course which is not covered by courses currently listed? Emphasizes maternal and pediatric care, rather than community. C. What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This is a required course for the upper division and second bachelor's degree pre- http://www.ugs.usf.edu/ugc/proposals/view_new.cfm?id=832[10/20/2009 4:16:43 PM]
View New Course Proposal licensure majors. D. Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, what was the enrollment? No. E. How frequently will the course be offered? What is the anticipated enrollment? Every semester - 90-108 students. F. Do you plan to drop a course if this course is added? If so, what will be the effect on the program and on the students? (Please forward the nonsubstantive course change form regarding the course to be deleted to the Council secretary.) No; however the proposed course will replace NUR 4635L, which is currently listed in the program of study. A copy of the programs with the change will be sent via e-mail. G. What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Minimum of a Master's degree in Nursing or related field. Must be licensed as an RN or ARNP or CNM. 4. Other Course Information A. Objectives / Outcomes Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: Objectives: 1. Incorporate concepts of health promotion, disease prevention, genetics/genomics, and health restoration in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care for childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families in diverse settings. 2. Provide culturally sensitive therapeutic nursing interventions for childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families in a multicultural environment. 3. Reduce the likelihood that childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families will develop complications related to existing conditions, treatments or procedures. 4. Apply principles and theories of growth and development when providing care to childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. 5. Apply research findings to the nursing care of childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. 6. Apply knowledge of legal/ethical issues relevant to childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. 7. Identify health policies related to care of childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. 8. Use effective communication in providing nursing care to childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. B. Major Topics This is a clinical course with no discussion topics. C. Textbooks Ball, J. W., Bindler, R. C., & Cowen, K. J. (2010). Child Health Nursing: Partnering with Children & Families (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc. (The textbook includes specific Case Studies, and an access code for My Nursing Lab. The Class ID for My Nursing Lab is cm607407. Holloway, B., Moredich, C., Aduddell, K. (2006). OB Peds Women s Health Notes: Nurse s Clinical Pocket Guide. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Company. (Student's may purchase the PDA version, but must have the resource available during each clinical day.) Lowdermilk, D.L., Perry, S.E. (2007). Maternity & Women s Health Care (9th ed.). St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby Elsevier Lowdermilk, D.L., Perry, S.E. (2007). Maternity & Women s Health Care (9th ed.). Study guide. St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby Elsevier. University of South Florida College of Nursing (2006) Skills Checklist (Available at Pro Copy). Blackboard will be utilized in this clinical course for posting of additional readings and guidelines. Students are responsible for checking http://www.ugs.usf.edu/ugc/proposals/view_new.cfm?id=832[10/20/2009 4:16:43 PM]
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University of South Florida College of Nursing Undergraduate Program Course Syllabus Course Number and Title: Course Credit: NUR 4465L Maternal and Pediatric Nursing Care Clinical Four (4) Credit Hours Clinical Team Coordinators: TGH Team: VA/Moffitt/Shriners Team: St. Joseph s Team: UCH Team MPM Team: BMC/ACH Team: Jenny Molloy MS, ARNP-BC, RNC-OB E-mail: jmolloy@health.usf..edu Office: 1048 Cas Cahill, DNP, ARNP E-mail: kcahill@health.usf.edu Office: 1053 Allison Edmonds, MS, ARNP E-mail: aedmonds@health.usf.edu Office: 1050 Catherine O Neil RN, MSN Email: coneil@health.usf.edu Office: 813-974-9211 Cassandra Vonnes, MS, ARNP-BS FAHA E-mail: cvonnes@health.usf.edu Office: 1042 Lisa Huhn, MSN, RN E-mail: lhuhn@health.usf.edu Office: 1039 Pre-Requisites: NUR 4216, NUR 4216L Co-Requisites: NUR 4455, NUR 4355
Course Description: Provides clinical experiences in diverse settings. Focuses on nursing care designed to prevent and reduce risk of disease and injury, promote health, and treat illness and injury in childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: Objectives: 1. Incorporate concepts of health promotion, disease prevention, genetics/genomics, and health restoration in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care for childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families in diverse settings. 2. Provide culturally sensitive therapeutic nursing interventions for childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families in a multicultural environment. 3. Reduce the likelihood that childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families will develop complications related to existing conditions, treatments or procedures. 4. Apply principles and theories of growth and development when providing care to childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. 5. Apply research findings to the nursing care of childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. 6. Apply knowledge of legal/ethical issues relevant to childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. 7. Identify health policies related to care of childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. 8. Use effective communication in providing nursing care to childbearing women, infants, children, adolescents and families. Expectations: Students are required to attend all scheduled classes, laboratory preparations, acute care and community clinical experiences, and scheduled simulations. The student must complete all assignments. Failure to complete any one of the assignments at the specified grade may result in a failure in the course. Clinical performance: Class, laboratory, post-conference, and clinical experiences are essential components of nursing education and required of all students, and students must arrive on time. Tardiness (more than five minutes) may result in an unexcused absence and zero for the day. Persistent tardiness (more than two times i.e. simulations, clinical, post-conferences) may result in a course grade of U. Absences are excused only in cases of documented illness or emergency. Students are required to provide written documentation of the illness (i.e. physician/nurse practitioner statement stating that the student was treated and can return to clinical) or other documentation of the emergency as deemed appropriate by the clinical faculty. In order for an absence to be excused the student must call/page the clinical instructor prior to the designated time. In addition, the student must call the clinical preceptor prior to the designated shift. Failure to contact the clinical instructor and clinical preceptor prior to the designated shift may result in a course
grade of U. A specific date to make-up the absence will be coordinated and scheduled by the clinical instructor and preceptor. The maximum clinical days allowed for makeup will be for two (2) excused absences. More than 2 absences may result in a course grade of U. Teaching Strategies: Laboratory instruction and practice Clinical experiences in a variety of settings Scheduled simulated clinical experiences in Lab Clinical post-conference discussion and participation Computer-assisted instruction Written Patient Assignments Grading: S (Satisfactory) U (Unsatisfactory) Failure to pass any one of the required clinical assignments may result in a final grade of U for Clinical, regardless of satisfactory performance in the other areas of this course. A grade of S must be achieved in order to progress in the nursing major. Evaluation Methods: Clinical Performance Students will be evaluated during their clinical rotation. Specific criteria for this evaluation are identified in the Clinical Evaluation Form. Faculty will discuss specific expectations for the clinical rotation prior to the beginning of clinical. Anecdotal records (written by the clinical preceptors) are kept on each student's performance and are used by the faculty member to assist in determining the student s grade for the rotation. Students are encouraged to review these records throughout the semester and to schedule conferences as needed. Faculty will schedule an evaluation conference with each student at midterm and the end of the clinical rotation. The student is expected to prepare a thoughtful self-evaluation noting strengths and areas for improvement prior to the midterm and final evaluation conference and actively participate in the conference. The student s clinical performance evaluation is based on preceptor input and faculty evaluation. The Clinical Evaluation Form will be used to determine the clinical performance grade. Grading will consist of an score. A failing grade of "U may be assigned for the final course grade if the performance evaluation is unsatisfactory in any one of the listed components. An overall unsatisfactory score on the Clinical Evaluation Form will result in a final grade of U in the course regardless of satisfactory performance on any other evaluation. Each medication the patient receives must be investigated and verbally presented to the Preceptor or Clinical Faculty before administering. NOTE: Patient safety and welfare are the most critical criteria of your clinical rotation. If at any time during the clinical rotation, the student places the patient in an actual or potential hazardous or unsafe situation, the student may fail the course regardless of previous clinical performance.
Medication Calculation Exam Students must achieve a score of 95% on the medication calculation exam. The first medication calculation exam will be administered during the first week of the semester. Failure to score 95% on the first exam will require a re-take. Students need to schedule a date and time for any re-takes with their Team Coordinator. The maximum number of exam re-takes is three (3), for a total of four (4) attempts. Students must score 95% on the medication calculation exam by the last test date. Failure to score 95% or above on this exam may result in a course grade of U. Medications cannot be administered in the clinical area until the student has successfully completed the medication calculation exam. Skills Checklist Manual OB/Pediatric skills completed should be documented in the pediatric/ob (red section) of the skills checklist by the end of this semester. Skills Day Failure to participate in the laboratory skill check-offs will result in delay in the student's progression into the clinical area. Mandatory videos are loaded on blackboard (4355 Child and Adolescent Health & 4455 Women s Health under the Skills Day Tabs) and must be viewed prior to skills day. Instructions for skills day will be posted in advance on Blackboard. Clinical Expectations: A minimum of 60 clinical hours will be scheduled in each of the following areas: Obstetrics and Pediatrics. Professionalism and taking initiative to gain the most knowledge from each clinical experience is expected. Child and Adolescent Health Students will be assigned to clinical groups with clinical time allocated between in-patient pediatric units and pediatric community sites (as determined by the individual team and clinical sites). Clinical Objectives The clinical objectives should be reviewed prior to attending the clinical site. Provide a copy of the objectives to the preceptor. They are a reference to both the student and the preceptor to guide the clinical experience. Pediatric Plan of Care
Complete one Pediatric Plan of Care for a pediatric patient. If less than 95% is obtained on this written assignment, it must be corrected and resubmitted. Pediatrics Evidence-Based Practice Presentation A 10-minute oral presentation regarding one pediatric health alteration will be completed on a scheduled date. The topic must be approved by the Clinical Instructor. Include all of the information identified in the presentation guidelines. A.T.T.A.C. (AHEC Tobacco Training and Cessation ) Students will participate in a community educational experience for school-age children during the semester (Friday, October 16th). Participation is mandatory for all students and is included in the total number of pediatric clinical hours. Each student must complete the following three online educational modules found at www.tobaccocme.com: 1) Children and Tobacco 2) Smokeless Tobacco 3) Julie: Pregnancy and Smoking Copies of the completed certificates must be submitted to the Child & Adolescent Health Instructor via 4355 Child & Adolescent Health Blackboard e-mail by Friday, October 2, 2009. Simulated labs are scheduled during the semester to reinforce material covered in the didactic course and to augment the clinical experience. Simulated labs are considered clinical time and will be an unexcused absence if missed. Women's Health Students will be assigned to clinical groups with clinical time allocated between in-patient Women s Health units and Women s Health community sites (as determined by the individual team and clinical sites). Evidence-Based Practice Presentation A 10-minute oral presentation related to a particular obstetric diagnosis from an assigned patient from the Labor/Delivery/Recovery or High Risk Antepartum area will be completed on a scheduled date. Include two peer-reviewed articles from the Cochrane Pregnancy & Childbirth Database related to current evidence-based practice for the diagnosis; articles will be collected by faculty. Include all of the information identified in the guidelines for this presentation. Labor and Delivery assignment: Students will complete a total of one OB data sheet on a patient during their Labor & Delivery or High Risk OB rotation. The student will collaborate with the clinical
preceptor to complete this assignment during their clinical day. This assignment is for the purpose of learning and will be turned in to the clinical faculty at the end of the clinical day it was completed. Clinical Documentation Students will complete documentation on one mother/baby couple using either the agency documentation or the postpartum assessment located on the NUR4455 Blackboard site. Documentation: This includes chart notes that the RN is responsible for keeping on patients in the OB setting. The mother-baby note should include an admission and/or discharge if possible. The documentation will be reviewed by the clinical instructor. Study Guide Assignments Assigned homework pages from the study guide are to prepare students for each clinical rotation ie: labor & delivery, Mother Baby/Newborn nursery, and High Risk OB, and must be completed prior to the respective clinical day. Simulated Clinical Labs Simulated labs are scheduled during the semester to reinforce material covered in the didactic course and to augment the clinical experience. Simulated labs are considered clinical time and will be an unexcused absence if missed. Required Texts and Clinical Resources: Ball, J. W., Bindler, R. C., & Cowen, K. J. (2010). Child Health Nursing: Partnering with Children & Families (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc. (The textbook includes specific Case Studies, and an access code for My Nursing Lab. The Class ID for My Nursing Lab is cm607407. Holloway, B., Moredich, C., Aduddell, K. (2006). OB Peds Women s Health Notes: Nurse s Clinical Pocket Guide. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Company. (Student's may purchase the PDA version, but must have the resource available during each clinical day.) Lowdermilk, D.L., Perry, S.E. (2007). Maternity & Women s Health Care (9 th ed.). St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby Elsevier Lowdermilk, D.L., Perry, S.E. (2007). Maternity & Women s Health Care (9 th ed.). Study guide. St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby Elsevier. University of South Florida College of Nursing (2006) Skills Checklist (Available at Pro Copy). Blackboard will be utilized in this clinical course for posting of additional readings and guidelines. Students are responsible for checking Blackboard and their HSC email account for
frequently updated information. PDA & Cellphone Etiquette: During clinicals PDAs must have the Bluetooth capability off at all times, PDA usage is strictly for resource & reference checking. Students MUST not take photographs in patient care areas. In areas where cell p hones are permitted they must be in the silent mode. Otherwise the Team Coordinator may serve as the point of student contact for emergency/urgent situations. College of Nursing Policies: Withdrawal Policy: Withdrawals are limited to 1 per course, with a limit of 2 per undergraduate or graduate program. Withdrawals are defined as officially withdrawing from any class after the Drop/Add period, and before the final Withdrawal date as outlined in the Academic Calendar. Any student withdrawing in excess of the stated policy may be dismissed from the College of Nursing unless the College of Nursing has pre-approved a documented Medical and/ or Emergent situation. In the event of an emergency: it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information. The following College of Nursing policies may be found by accessing the following link: Academic Policies and Procedures: Student Handbook at: http://health.usf.edu/nocms/nursing/resources_for_students/handbooks.html# Attendance at First Class Meeting: Religious Practices Policy Academic Progression Policy - Undergraduate Academic Calendar Academic Dishonesty Professional Behavior Student Success Center Student Disability Services: http://www.ugs.usf.edu/catalogs/0809/disguide.htm Resale of Course Materials: The sale of course materials is not permitted. August 16, 2009