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Introduction to Community-Based Nursing Syllabus for 2014-2015
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Instructor

Angie Ross (Curriculum Vitae)

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Course

RNSG-1110-001 Introduction to Community-Based Nursing

Prerequisites

Prerequisites: RNSG 1248 and RNSG 2213  Corequisite: RNSG 2163

Course Description

Overview of the delivery of nursing care in a variety of community-based settings; application of systematic problem-solving processes and critical thinking skills, focusing on the examination of concepts and theories relevant to community-based nursing; and development of judgment, skill and professional values within a legal/ethical framework.

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Department Expectations

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Hours

(1 sem hr; 1 lec, 1 lab)

Class Type

Online Course

Syllabus Information

Textbooks

Foundations of Nursing in the Community: Community Oriented Practice

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Community/Public Health Nursing online for Stanhope and Lancaster: Foundations of Nursing in the Community 4th Edition

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Marcia Stanhope, RN DSN FAAN and Jeanette Lancaster< RN PhD, FAAN 

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October 30,2013  ISBN: 9780323188999

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Ross, Angie  Course Manual for RNSG 1110/2163.  ADN Department, 2014-2015 (online).

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Suggested:

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Any pharmacology text, laboratory manual (or cards) and medical dictionary

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Supplies

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  • \ Clinical Uniform: Blue Pants, White Nursing  Polo, Blue Jacket; Conservative makeup and hair
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    Student Performance

     Course Outcomes

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    Upon completion of Introduction to Community-Based Nursing, the graduate of the ADN Program will be a: 

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     Member of the Profession

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    1. Discuss an ethical-legal framework and professional standards and requirements applicable to nursing practice in community-based nursing.
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    2. Identify methods of developing competence in community-based nursing practice.
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    3. Discuss characteristics of quality nursing care in community settings and ways to promote community-based nursing practice.
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     Provider of Patient-Centered Care

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    1. Articulate strategies to assist in the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of the health of patients and families along the developmental lifespan in community settings.
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    2. Utilize a systematic process and clinical reasoning to plan holistic care for patients and families in community-based practice settings.
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    3. Discuss nursing concepts specific to meeting unique psychosocial needs of patients and families within community settings.
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    4. Formulate effective health teaching strategies for patients and families in community-based practice settings.
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    5. Identify both basic and advanced nursing skills in the care of patients and families in community-based settings.
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    6. Discuss compassionate behaviors and appropriate communication skills that are appropriate to use with diverse patients and families within community settings.
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    7. Select appropriate resources to meet the needs of patients and families for comprehensive, quality care in community-based practice settings.
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     Patient Safety Advocate

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    1. Locate evidence-based practice data to improve the safety and quality of patient-centered care in community settings.
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    2. Discuss Texas Nursing Practice Act regulations and Texas Board of Nursing rules that pertain to the promotion of patient safety in community-based practice settings.
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     Member of the Healthcare Team

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    1. Explain various approaches to working collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to provide holistic patient-centered care in community settings.
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    2. Discuss effective interdisciplinary communication skills to accomplish holistic patient-centered care for patients and families within community settings.
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    3. Summarize how information systems and technology can be utilized in community-based practice settings to efficiently manage holistic patient-centered care.
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    4. Discuss principles and practices of effective assignment, delegation and supervision in the community-based practice settings..
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    Students Rights and Responsibilities

    Student Rights and Responsibilities

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    Expected Student Behavior

    Civility Statement:  Students are full partners in fostering a classroom environment which is conducive to learning.  In order to assure that all students have the opportunity to gain from time spent in class, unless otherwise approved by the instructor; students are prohibited from engaging in any form of behavior that detracts from the learning experience of fellow students. Inappropriate behavior in the classroom may result in a request for the offending student to leave class. See “Professional Conduct” and the “ANA Code of Ethics” in the ADN Student Handbook, and “Student Conduct and Responsibilities” in the AC Students Rights and Responsibilities.  

    Grading Criteria

      The following criteria and grading scale will be used to determine the course grade:

    1.   Module I (20%), Module II (20%), Module III (20%) and Final Exam (20%) are 80% of the course grade.

    2.   One EVOLVE Community Health specialty examination will be administered during the semester 15% of the course grade. 

    3.  Discussion forum Module I, Module II, Module III questions are 3% of the course grade.

    4.  Quizzes Module I, Module II, and Module III are 2% of the course grade.

    5.  The grading scale is no rounding:

                90-100=   A

                80–89.9= B

                75–79.9= C

                60-74.9= D

                < 60    =  F

     

    6.  Any make-up exam must be taken within one week of the scheduled exam. Make up exams will be in essay format. 

    7. All exams are timed online and given in a generous time window.  

     

    Detailed Module Summary

    Module I     Exam-online Module I opens Sep.12@0800-closes Sept 16@2400

    Concepts

    SP, C, CR, CP, D, HP, HR, HM, ELP, EBP, S, IST, PC, CC

    Course Outcomes

    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

    Module Objectives

    1. Explain community-based nursing practice.
    2. Describe community-oriented nursing practice.
    3. Describe methods for developing cultural competence.
    4. Develop culturally competent nursing interventions to promote positive health outcomes for clients.
    5. Identify the steps and principles that guide health education.
    6. Explain strategies that nurses can use to provide effective health education.
    7. Define public health, public health nursing, and local, state, and national roles.
    8. Describe the purpose of Healthy People 2020 and focus areas that encompass the national health objectives.
    9. Explain the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary care and give examples of how each may be provided in community-based settings.
    10. Define family, family nursing, family health, and healthy/nonhealthy/resilient families.
    11. Understand the interrelationships among individual health, family health, and community health.
    12. Explain the relevance of knowledge about family structures, roles, and functions for family and community-focused nursing.
    13. Explain the application of the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation) to reducing family health risks and promoting family health.

    CONTENT

    LEARNING ACTIVITIES

    I.  Introduction to the Course

    II. Concepts of Community-Based Nursing

    1. Community-oriented Nursing and Community-Based Nursing
    2. Cultural Influences in Nursing in Community Health
    3. Using Health Education and Groups in the Community

    V.  Nursing Practice at the Local, State, and National           

          Levels

          A.  Healthy People  2020

          B. Levels of health prevention

    IV.  Issues and Approaches in Family Health Care

    1. Family Development and Family Nursing Assessment
    2. Family Health Risks

     

     

     

     

    Required:

    AC Online Lecture  Notes

    1. Community-Oriented Nursing and Community-Based Nursing
    1. Cultural Influences in Nursing in Community Health
    2. Using Health Education and Groups in the Community
    3. Nursing Practice at the Local, State, and National Levels
    4. Issues and Approaches in Family Health Care

    Textbook: Stanhope and Lancaster Chapters: 1,5,11,

    28, 18&19

    Laboratory: (4.5hrs)

    1. Internet: National Institute of Health: Dietary Supplements
    2. Internet: healthypeople2020.gov
    3. Internet: US Department of Health and Human Services
    4. Perform a family assessment with a genogram and/or ecomap.

     

    Module II      Ex-online Module II opens Oct. 3@0800-closes Oct 7@2400

    Concepts

    SP, C, CR, CP, D, HP, HR, HM, ELP, EBP, S, IST, PC, CC

     

    Course Outcomes

    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

    Module Objectives

    1. Discuss the various roles played by registered nurses in community-based practice.
    2. Explain how nurses in home care work with interprofessional teams
    3. Recognize how nurses in home care use quality improvement strategies and promote client safety.
    4. Assess trends in home care as related to promoting the achievement of national health objectives
    5. Differentiate between the many roles and functions of school nurses.
    6. Describe the different variations of school health services and coordinated school health programs.
    7. Assess the nursing care given in schools in terms of the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention.
    8. Distinguish among continuity of care, care management, case management, and advocacy.
    9. Describe nursing measures to promote child and adolescent health within the community.
    10. Explain nursing measures designed to reduce risks for adults in the community.
    11. Describe the health status of rural populations on selected health measures.
    12. Discuss access to service issues of rural underserved populations.
    13. Define “migrant farmworker” and discuss common health problems of this group and their families and barriers they experience when seeking health care.
    14. Explain the nursing role for serving persons in rural areas, including migrant farmworkers.

     

    CONTENT

    LEARNING ACTIVITIES

    I.  Nursing Practice in the Community:   Roles and Functions

          A.  The Nurse in Home Health and            

               Hospice

          B. The Nurse in the Schools

    II.  Case Management

    III. Health Risks Across the Life Span

    IV.  Rural Health and Migrant Health

     

     

     

    Required:

    AC Online Lecture  Notes

    1. Nursing Practice in the Community: Roles and Functions.
    2. Case Management
    3. Health Risks Across the Life Span
    4. Rural Health and Migrant Health

    Textbook: Stanhope and Lancaster

    Chapters: 30-31,13,20,22

    Laboratory: (2hrs)

    1. Internet: US Department of Health and Human Services
    2. Internet:  World Health Organization.

     

     

     

     

     

    Module III     Exam Online- Module III opens Oct 31@0800-closes Nov 4@2400

    Concepts

    SP, C, CR, CP, D, HP, HR, HM, ELP, EBP, S, IST, PC, CC

     

    Course Outcomes

    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

    Module Objectives

    1.  Describe the essential elements of epidemiology and an epidemiological approach.

    2.  Explain the basic epidemiological concepts of population at risk, natural history of disease, levels of prevention, host-          agent-environment relationships, and the web-of-causation model.

    3.  Identify primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies for selected health threats.

    4.  Discuss and apply commonly used terms such as mortality rates, incidence rates, and prevalence rates.

    5.  Discuss types of disasters, including natural and human-made.

    6.  Evaluate the effects of disasters on people and their communities.

    7.  Describe the disaster management phases of prevent, preparedness, response, and recovery and explain the nurse’s          role in each phase.

    8.  Identify how community groups and other organizations such as the American Red Cross can work together to prepare        for, respond to, and recover from disasters.

    9.  Identify steps in planning, analyzing, interviewing, and evaluating surveillance.

    10. Describe role of the nurse in surveillance and outbreak investigation to the national core competencies for public health       nurses.

    11. Provide examples of infectious disease control interventions at the three levels of public health prevention.

    12. Explain the multisystem approach to the control of communicable diseases.

    13. Discuss the factors contributing to newly emerging or reemerging infectious diseases.

    14. Discuss the illnesses most likely to be associated with the intentional release of a biological agent.

    15.   Discuss issues related to obtaining and maintaining appropriate levels of immunization against vaccine-preventable            diseases.

    CONTENT

    LEARNING ACTIVITIES

     

    I.   Epidemiological Applications

    II. Issues and Approaches in Health Care

          Population                                            

               A. Disaster management

               B. Surveillance and Outbreak

                    Investigation

    IV.  Infectious Disease Prevention & Control

    V.   HIV infection, hepatitis, TB and STD’s

        

     

    Required:

    AC Online Lecture  Notes

    1. Epidemiological Applications
    2. Issues and Approaches in Health Care

                Population  

          3.   Infectious Disease Prevention & Control

          4.   HIV infection, hepatitis, TB and STD’s

    Textbook: Stanhope and Lancaster  Chapter 9,14-15, 26-27.

    Laboratory: (9.5 hrs)

    1. Internet: Red Cross and FEMA websites
    2. Internet: Texas: Ready or Not?
    3. Internet: Texas Department of State health
    4. Internet: Center for Disease Control and Prevention
    5. Internet: World Health Organization 
    6. Emergency/Disaster Preparedness Certificate
    7. Completion of Video list

    Exam Specialty In Testing Center Nov 11@0930-1045

    Exam Online- Final opens Nov 14@0800-closes Nov. 18@2400

     

    Attendance

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    Calendar

    Class calendars will be available online through the course.

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    Mandatory on-line  course/clinical orientation will be available first day of classes through the course lessons.

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    Syllabus Created on:

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    Last Edited on:

    11/30/-1 12:00 AM