Care of the Childbearing Family Syllabus for 2019-2020
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Office Location

West Campus Jones Hall 228

Office Hours

Course Information

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Administrative Drop Policy

Students who do not attend class on or prior to the census date will be administratively dropped. Effective Fall, 2016

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Course

RNSG-1151-002 Care of the Childbearing Family

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: RNSG 1331 or admission to Transition (LVN to RN) Corequisite: RNSG 1160

Course Description

Study of concepts related to the provision of perinatal nursing care for childbearing families. Content includes knowledge judgment, skills and professional values within a legal/ethical framework. This course lends itself to a blocked approach.

Student ResourcesStudent Resources Website

Department Expectations

Occupational License Disclaimer

Notice to Students enrolled in an educational program for preparation of issuance of certain occupational licenses:

Students enrolled in an educational program in preparation for obtaining certain occupational licenses are potentially ineligible for such license if the student has been convicted of an offense. For further information, please contact:

Melodie Graves
Justice Involved Advocate
Student Service Center 117
mgraves24@actx.edu
806-371-5995
Make appointment at https://melodiegraves.youcanbook.me

You can also contact the Legal Clinic, or the faculty member in charge of the educational program that you seek to enroll in. The further information you will receive will include notification to you of your right to request a criminal history evaluation letter from the licensing authority in order to clarify your particular situation.

Hours

(1 sem hr; 1 lec, 1 lab)

Class Type

On Campus Course

Syllabus Information

Textbooks

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS:

  • McKinney, E., James, S., Murray, S., Nelson, K., Ashwill, J., (2013). Maternal-Child Nursing. (5th Ed.). Saunders/Elsevier.
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  • SUGGESTED TEXTBOOKS:

Any textbook designed to help students analyze and interpret lab results

Study Guide for Maternal Child Nursing 5th Edition McKinney, James, Murray, Nelson, Ashwill

Taber’s Cyclopedia Medical Dictionary (F.A. Davis)

Documentation in Action (Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins)

  • Deglin, J., Vallerand, A., & Sanoski, C.(2012). Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses(13th Ed.), F.A. Davis.

Supplies

 

   
   

COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS:

Required Computer/Mobile Device (Laptop/Tablet) with Webcam:

 System Requirements

Minimum

Recommended

Operating System

Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 10
Mac OSX 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, or 10.9

Windows 10
Mac OSX 10.7, 10.8, or 10.9

Processor

1 GHz processor

2 GHz or faster processor

Memory

2 GB of RAM

4 GB of RAM or higher

Monitor Resolution

1024 x 768

1024 x 768 or higher

Free Hard Disk Space

32 GB of free disk space

64 GB or higher of free space

Internet Connection

Broadband (high-speed) Internet connection with a consistent minimum speed of 1.5 Mbps.

Broadband (high-speed) Internet connection with a speed of 4 Mbps or higher

Internet Browser**

Respondus Lockdown Browser and IE8, IE9, Safari 4+, Chrome or Firefox

Respondus Lockdown Browser and Firefox

Java

Java is required to use Blackboard. Download Java.

Macromedia Flash Player

Flash is required to play videos within the Blackboard system. Download Flash

Students are required to have regular, reliable access to a computer with a stable Internet connection. (Any system older than 4 years may not have the processing power to work with our current version of Blackboard and its components

Student Performance

COURSE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:

MEMBER OF THE PROFESSION:

1.         Discuss an ethical-legal framework and applicable professional standards to utilize while  caring for childbearing patients and families.

2.         Identify personal strengths to promote own professional development in the care of  childbearing families.

3.         Describe quality nursing care practices for the childbearing family.

PROVIDER OF PATIENT-CENTERED CARE:

4.         Discuss interventions to assist in the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health of the childbearing family.

5.         Utilize a systematic process and clinical reasoning to plan holistic patient-centered care for childbearing patients and their families.

6.         Identify nursing concepts specific to meeting unique psychosocial needs of the childbearing family.

7.         Summarize the principles of health teaching specific to the care of the childbearing patient and family.

8.         Identify basic nursing skills utilized in the care of the childbearing patient and family.

9.         Select compassionate behaviors and appropriate communication skills for providing care to diverse childbearing patients and families.

10.       Identify possible community resources to meet the needs of childbearing patients and families.

PATIENT SAFETY ADVOCATE:

11.       Discuss evidence-based practice data from current literature that supports safe, quality nursing care for childbearing patients and their families.

12.       Outline governmental and organizational accreditation requirements and professional standards pertinent to the safe care of the childbearing patient and family. 

MEMBER OF THE HEALTHCARE TEAM:

13.       Explain the role of the professional nurse in participating with other disciplines to provide holistic patient-centered care to childbearing patients and families.

14.       Discuss appropriate communication skills to use while interacting with other healthcare team members in the care of childbearing patients and families.

15.       Explain ways that current technology can be utilized in the efficient management of holistic patient-centered care for childbearing patients and families.

16.       Discuss the role of the professional nurse within the healthcare team while providing care to childbearing patients and their families

Students Rights and Responsibilities

Student Rights and Responsibilities

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In order to receive your AC Connect Email, you must log in through AC Connect at https://acconnect.actx.edu .

If you are an active staff or faculty member according to Human Resources, use "Exchange". All other students, use "AC Connect (Google) Email".

Expected Student Behavior

BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES:

 

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 instructors, 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. (For additional information see ADN Student Handbook: Professional Conduct, ANA Code of Ethics and AC Student Rights and Responsibilities).

 

Grading Criteria

GRADING CRITERIA/GRADE SCALE:

Module exams (2) will comprise 70% of the grade. 

One EVOLVE Maternity Nursing specialty exam will be administered toward the end of the semester.  The Evolve Specialty/Customized Exam is worth 5% of the classroom grade (Conversion score: %). 

The final exam which will be a second EVOLVE specialty exam will comprise 25% of the grade. 

The grades earned will be based on the following scale;

A= 90%-100%

B= 80%-89%

C= 75%-79%

D= 74%-60%

F= below 60%

** Grades will not be rounded for any exam- including the Evolve scores.

Make up exams must be completed before the next scheduled examination.  An appointment may be made with the instructor to review the examination for 1 week after the classroom review of the module examination.

Attendance

ATTENDANCE POLICY:

 

Regular attendance (90%) is necessary for satisfactory achievement.  Therefore, it is the responsibility of the student to attend class.  Please review the student contract for specific requirements.

According to the Academic Progression and Graduation Requirements for All Students, “a student may repeat any nursing course or combination of concurrently enrolled nursing courses (class and concurrent clinical course) one time only…Students may not repeat a course more than once or continue with more than two strikes or course combination in total while enrolled in the program.  The term ‘repeat’ shall be interpreted to mean re-enrollment following withdrawal, audit, drop, or unsatisfactory grade.”  Amarillo College ADN Student Handbook 2016. 

Calendar

AMARILLO COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING

RNSG 1151-Care of the Childbearing Family

RNSG 1160- Clinical

                                                                                   

JoDean Kile, RNC-OB, MHA, MSN                                               Catherine Stout, MSN, RN, RNC-MNN

Office phone:  356-3658                                                                       Office phone:  354-6029

 B Building-104     

Calendar is attached to course manual.      

RNSG 1151 Tuesday’s 10:40 to 12:40 for lecture.  Lab time is Wednesday’s 9:30 to 11:30.

 

 

 

Additional Information

TIME ALLOTMENT:

This course  will consist of 1 Semester Hours of credit.  Included in the credit hours are 1 hours of classroom instruction and 1 hour of lab experience, which equals 16 hours of lecture and 16 hours of lab experience throughout the semester.  Lab experience will be comprised of audio-visual, classroom case studies, and EVOLVE online activities to increase the student’s understanding of the course content.

TEACHING STRATEGIES:

The course content will be taught by lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and audiovisual/online aids- including AC Online.  Instructors are Level 2 Associate Degree Nursing Faculty. 

PREREQUISITES:

Course Prerequisites:

BIOL 2401, BIOL 2402, PSYC 2301, Math, RNSG 1209, RNSG 1105, RNSG 1301, RNSG 1331, and RNSG 1362.

Co-requisites:

RNSG 1160

DISABILITY STATEMENT:

Any student who, because of a disabling condition, may require some special arrangements in order to meet course requirements should contact disAbility Services (SSC 119 Phone 371-5436) as soon as possible. They are located in Ware 305L.  https://www.actx.edu/disability/pagesmith/12

STUDENT RESOURCES:

First Steps to Resources - Jordan Fajardo and the link is www.actx.edu/resources  

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Satisfactory completion of all assignments including EVOLVE case studies and Maternity Nursing specialty exam at the end of the semester. 
  2. Satisfactory average grade of 75% or above for course
  3. Regular class attendance of 90% or more
  4. All assignments must be submitted at required time.
  5. Satisfactory completion of online evaluations
  6. Class and clinical must be taken concurrently and satisfactorily completed in the same semester.  If a failure occurs in either class or clinical, both must be repeated in order to progress in the program.
  7. Completion of required labs with the required lab sheet being submitted the last day of class
  8. Remediation Statement for all courses except Introduction to Nursing (Level 4 Leadership and Advanced Concepts already have a remediation process in place):

    All students must access the on-line remediation through HESI Assessment after the course’s HESI specialty exam.  All students will develop an individualized study packet, and review areas designated as needing improvement. Completion of remediation and development of a study packet is due by the due date listed on the course calendar. If remediation is not completed, then the student will not be allowed to sit for the course’s final examination and will earn a grade of zero (0) for the final examination. This will lead to failure of the course.  

    Start with the essential packets then move to the recommended packets; completed remediation includes:

  9. Completing the pre-test
  10. Reviewing provided content in the packet
  11. Completing the post-test
  12. Score

    Minimal Number of Packets

    Remediation Time

    900 or higher

    2

    1 hour

    899-850

    4

    2 hour

    849-800

    6

    3 hour

    799-750

    8

    4 hour

    749-700

    10

    5 hour

    699 or below

    12

    6 hour

  13. Completing the required remediation time
  14. Completing the required number of packets
  15. Optional: self-made quizzes for low scoring areas using the EAQ
    1.  

    2.  
  16. Achieved at least 90% on the Dosage and Solution Test prior to administering medications in the clinical setting. Students may retake the Dosage and Solution Test only twice each semester. Students who do not achieve 90% or greater on the first scheduled test and first retake test will be required to review the questions they missed with the instructor and placed on contract for self-directed remediation. Students who do not achieve 90% or greater by the third attempt will fail the clinical course(s) that require the Dosage and Solution Test.1.

  17. Students who do not achieve a minimum passing score of at least 75% on a module exam are required to attend tutoring with the instructor prior to the course’s next Module Exam. Students who do not complete required tutoring will not be allowed to take the next exam in the course and will receive a grade of “0” for that next exam.

LABORATORY EXPERIENCE:

  1. Sixteen (16) hours of laboratory experience are required in this course.  The specific guidelines for each laboratory hour are located in the “Learning Activities” section of the course manual and on the course schedule.
  2. EVOLVE case studies and EAQ quizzes are highly recommended to complete.  Any specific assignments and due dates will be discussed and listed on course calendar.

Syllabus Created on:

10/16/19 12:47 PM

Last Edited on:

03/23/20 11:55 AM