Transition to Professional Nursing Syllabus for 2015-2016
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Course

RNSG-1227-001 Transition to Professional Nursing

Prerequisites

Corequisite: RNSG 1261

Course Description

Content includes health promotion, expanded assessment, analysis of data, critical thinking skills and systematic problem solving process, pharmacology, interdisciplinary teamwork, communication, and applicable competencies in knowledge, judgment skills and professional values within a legal/ethical framework throughout the life span. This course lends itself to either a blocked or integrated approach.

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Hours

(2 sem hrs; 2 lec, 1 lab)

Class Type

On Campus Course

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Textbooks

 

Required Textbooks:

Doenges, M., Moorhouse, M.F., & Murr, A.  (2016).  Nursing Diagnosis Manual (5^th ed.).  Philadelphia: E.A. Davis Co.  

Harrington, N., & Terry, C. L. (2009).  LPN to RN transitions:  Achieving success in your new role (4^rd ed.).  Philadelphia:  Lippincott,   Williams, & Wilkins.

               ISBN-13: 978-1-60913-691-8      

Hinkle, J.  & Cheever, K.  (2014).  Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical – Surgical Nursing (13^th ed.).  Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

               ISBN-978-1-4511-3060-7 (Volume 1)   ISBN-978-1-4511-4666-0 (Volume 2)

 

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Transition to Professional Nursing

Course Description:

Content includes health promotion, expanded assessment, analysis of data, critical thinking skills and systematic problem solving process, pharmacology, interdisciplinary teamwork, communication, and applicable competencies in knowledge, judgment, skills and professional values within a legal/ethical framework, throughout the lifespan.  This course lends itself to either a blocked or integrated approach (2 sem hrs; 6 clinical).

 

Student Learning Outcomes:

Member of the Profession:

1.  Discuss an ethical-legal framework and applicable professional standards and requirements in caring for adults.

2.   Identify personal strengths to promote professional development in nursing.

3.   Summarize activities that promote the development and practice of professional nursing.

Provider of Patient-Centered Care:

4.  Explain the role of the professional nurse in the promotion, maintenance and restoration of heath of adult patients.

5.  Utilize a systematic process and clinical reasoning to plan holistic patient-centered care for adults.

6.  Identify nursing concepts specific to meeting unique psychosocial needs of adults.

7.  Summarize the principles of health teaching in the care of adults.

8.  Identify basic nursing skills utilized in the care of adults.

9.  Discuss compassionate behaviors and appropriate communication skills for providing care to diverse adults.

10.  Identify community resources in meeting the needs of adults.

Patient Safety Advocate:

11.  Locate evidence-based practice data in current literature to provide safe, quality nursing care.

12.  Summarize governmental and organizational accreditation requirements and professional standards to promote and ensure patient safety.         

Member of the Healthcare Team:

13.  Describe the process of collaboration with other disciplines to provide holistic patient-centered care to adults.

14.  Discuss appropriate communication skills to interact with other health care team members in the care of adults.

15.  Discuss use of current technology in the efficient management of holistic patient-centered care for adults.

16.  Explain the role of the professional nurse within the health care team in providing care to adults.

Makeup Policy:

It is the responsibility of the student to contact the instructor to schedule make-up exam.

Behavioral Expectations/Classroom Ground Rules:

See Associate Degree Nursing Student Handbook, Professional Conduct; American Nurses Association Code of Ethics; and Amarillo College Student Rights and Responsibilities.

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 results in a request for the offending student to leave class.

Course Schedule/Outline:

Class calendar will be distributed the first day of class.  The final exam schedule will be posted at the beginning of the course.

Students who have a general education course exam which conflicts with a nursing exam may re-schedule their nursing exam on an individual basis with the consent of the appropriate nursing faculty and computer testing lab assistant.

Time Allotment:

Two credit hours: 2 hours lecture (32 hours per semester); 1 hour lab (16 hours per semester) for total of 48 contact hours. 

Teaching Strategies:   

Demonstrations, independent assignments, graphics, small group discussions, critical thinking exercises, lecture, case study analysis, computer tutorials, and simulated labs.

Teaching Personnel:

Associate Degree Nursing Faculty and guest speakers.

 

Course Content:

          Module I

1. Lifelong Learning:  Returning to School
2. Role Development and Transition
3. Adapting to Change
4. Learning at the Associate Degree Nursing Level
5. Intravenous Therapy                                                                                                                                                                                                  

           Module II

1. Practicing within Regulatory Frameworks
2. Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment in Nursing
3. The Nursing Process:  Assessment and Caring Interventions
4. The Nurse as a Communicator
5. The Nurse as a Teacher

Module III

1.  Managing Unique Client Care
2. Managing Time, Conflict, and the Nursing Environment
3. Professional Responsibilities
4. Legal Accountability
5. Ethical Issues

Course Requirements: (32 Hours – including testing time)

Concurrent enrollment in RNSG 1227 and RNSG 1261 is required.  Both courses must be taken and successfully completed in the same semester.  If a withdrawal, drop or unsatisfactory grade (failure) occurs in either RNSG 1227 or RNSG 1261; both courses must be taken concurrently during a subsequent semester and successfully completed to progress in the program.

1. Completion of all assignments including homework, online case studies and specialty exams.  Students who do not take the Evolve specialty exam will not pass the course.
2. Satisfactory completion of all laboratory components of the course.
3. Completion of any assigned online discussions, evaluations and/or surveys.
4. Attend at least 90% of classroom meetings (90% of the total hours for the classroom).
5. A 75% (or above) combined average.  This means a 75% average of the combined scores from examinations (75% of grade) and final examination (25% of grade).

 Laboratory Experience: (16 Hours)

     1.  Demonstrate proficiency in lab competencies which may include, but is not limited to:

      a. Venipuncture insertion and management

      b. Piggy-back medication administration

      c. Changing a continuous intravenous infusion to a saline lock

      d. Phlebotomy

      e. Central-line dressing change

      2.     Completion of online case studies and/or patient reviews.

      3.     100% attendance is required.

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Grading Criteria

1 Exam	25%
2 Exam	25%
3 Exam	25%
Final Exam (Evolve Specialty Exam)	20%
Evolve remediation plan	5%
Total Exams and remediation	100%

Attendance

Regular attendance is necessary for satisfactory achievement.  Students must attend at least 90% of lecture, and 100% of lab.  Clinical absences may result in class failure unless special arrangements have been made.  

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