Region a Nursing Consortium

Region A Nursing Consortium

NUR 113/HY1 Family Health Concepts Summer 2014

Instructors: Debbie Hogan, RN, Office # 835-4246 [email protected] Office hrs M 0900-1400 Susan Fowler, RN, Office # 835-4252 [email protected] Office hrs M 0900-1400 Candice Laney, RN Office # 835-4232 [email protected] Office hrs Wednesday 0800-1500

Class Times: Lecture: Class: Tuesdays 0900-1530 Tri-County Community College, Room 101 Documents (Power Points to support lecture) and Announcements can be accessed through TCCC Moodle.

Clinical Location & Times: Wednesday—Thursday (see clinical schedule for specific info) Campus Instructional Support Hours: 0800-1900 Region A Nursing Consortium Director: Wendy Hines, RN, Haywood Community College (HCC) Nursing Department Divisional Secretary: Chris Campbell (HCC) Office #: 828-627-4651

COURSE SYLLABUS Course Description: Family Health Concepts This course is designed to further develop the concepts within the three domains of the individual, healthcare, and nursing. Emphasis is placed on the concepts of oxygenation, sexuality, reproduction, grief/loss, mood/affect, behaviors, development, family, health-wellness-illness, communication, caring interventions, managing care, safety and advocacy. Upon completion, students should be able to provide safe nursing care incorporating the concepts identified in this course.

Prerequisite: NUR 111 Instructional Materials:  Ricci,Kyle & Carman, Maternity and Pediatric Nursing

 Drug Calculation Book  Taber’s Cyclopedia Medical Dictionary (20th ed)

Course Requirements:  The student is responsible for all the information in the course documents that are given on the first day of class and any information posted on Moodle. The Moodle site can be found at www.tricountycc.edu. The student is also responsible for knowing all policies contained in the Region A Nursing Consortium Policy Manual posted on the blog site at http://regionanursing.blogspot.com  Students need to be familiar with keyboarding, checking e-mail, accessing Blackboard, using computer programs, Web searching, creating and saving documents, and sending emails with attachments. Students who are unfamiliar with these tasks should discuss this with the instructor.  In order to successfully pass the course, students must pass a pediatric drug calculation test. A student will have three opportunities to pass this exam. The first test will be given during the first meeting day. If the student does not pass the first test, a second version of the test will be given two weeks later at the end of class. A third version of the test will be administered, if necessary, the next week after class. Failure to pass the third test will result in an unsatisfactory grade in the course, and will result in a “D” for NUR 113.  Dress code will depend on clinical site. Hospitals, physician offices, and clinics will require the clinical uniform. Day care sites will require the professional dress described in the Region A Policy Manual under “Professional Behavior.” All aspects of the dress code will be adhered to including hair, jewelry and fingernails.  Students are not allowed to have cell phones in the clinical area. You are expected to dress and behave professionally and be motivated to participate in all clinical areas. Supervisors in the clinical areas have been instructed to dismiss a student if they feel the student has compromised professional behavior, and to notify Wendy Hines, Program Director of the incident. Region A Nursing Consortium Program Outcomes The graduate of Region A Nursing Consortium will be able to: 1. Independently utilize the nursing process to formulate and provide culturally appropriate, safe, individualized nursing care throughout the life cycle. 2. Utilize verbal and written communication skills with individuals, health care team members, and in self-evaluation. 3. Implement teaching plans independently and collaboratively to meet the health education needs of individuals. 4. Demonstrate professionalism through accountability and responsibility for personal actions, nursing practice and by maintaining ethical-legal standards. 5. Manage nursing care for individuals/groups. 6. Work as a member of an interdisciplinary team. 7. Utilize nursing informatics in a classroom lab and clinical settings. 8. Utilize evidence-based research to enhance patient care.

Course Competencies Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:  See Region A Nursing Consortium Objectives for NUR 113

Upon course completion, students will be able to: 1. Teamwork – Work with others to:  analyze a situation;  establish priorities;  apply resources for solving a problem; and  accomplish established mission, goals, and objectives. 2. Responsibility - Employ individual behaviors to  work within established guidelines  support mission, goals, objectives  accomplish designated tasks within identified deadlines 3. Communication – Appropriately exchange ideas and information in:  oral formats  written formats  visual formats 4. Problem Solving - Identify problems & potential causes to  develop solutions  implement action plans 5. Information Processing - Use current technologies to  develop solutions  communicate information 6 Adaptability - Employ flexible behaviors to  adapt to changing work environments  foster workable interpersonal relationships  profit from cultural diversity

Task Completion Policy For complete information regarding Region A Consortium task completion policy see the Student Policy Manual.

Grading Practices and Test Information 1. The grading scale for Region A Nursing Consortium is as follows: A = 93 – 100 B = 85 – 92 C = 78 – 84 D = 70 – 77 F = Below 70

2. Grades for NUR 113 will be calculated based on:  Seven unit tests at 80%  Comprehensive Final Exam at 20%.

Revised 5/2012 2 3. Unit tests will be given at the beginning of each class day and test review will be done at the end of class. Challenges to test questions will be taken by written request only on the form provided. The unit tests may contain from 50-100 questions depending on material covered and will be paper and pencil format. Answers must be circled on the test paper and the Scantron sheet must be completely filled out. Your answer on the Scantron sheet is your final answer . Scantron sheets will not be returned during test review. The student will receive the unit test back during test review and the test must be returned to the instructor before leaving. The final exam will be 100 questions (50 OB/50 Peds) and will be given on the last day of class. There will be no test review for the final exam. All test grades may be accessed on the TCCC Moodle web site.

Attendance Policy Students who miss 10% or more of the total possible time for a course (including class and clinical), before the "last day to withdraw from a course," as set forth in the Academic Calendar, will receive a grade of W (withdrawal) for that course. Students who fail to meet attendance requirements after the "last day to withdraw from a course" will receive a WF (withdrawal failing). WF grades are counted in a student's GPA.

ADA Notification: Alternate Learning Styles/Additional Support Region A Nursing Consortium is invested in full compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). The Special Services Office of the College ensures that the programs and facilities of the College are accessible to all students. The College focuses on the student as an individual and works toward equal opportunity, full integration into the campus environment, physical accessibility, and the provision of reasonable accommodations, auxiliary aids, and services to students. If you are a student with a disability and require the services of interpreters, readers, note takers, or need other accommodations, please see our Special Needs Counselor located in the Harper Building Counseling Office. Federal Law prohibits the College from making pre-admission inquiries about disabilities; therefore, the student is responsible for making these requests known. In order to access each disabled student’s needs and to provide the necessary support services, current professional documentation of a disability or disabilities must be furnished to the Special Needs Counselor. Information provided by the student is voluntary, and appropriate confidentiality is maintained.

Changes in Syllabus Other documents provided by the instructor are incorporated by reference into this syllabus and are binding. Changes announced or posted in class or via Blackboard take precedence over the syllabus. It is the students’ responsibility to keep abreast of such changes.

Course Instructional Methods  lecture  discussion  cooperative learning  inquiry-based learning  problem-based learning  project-based learning  on-line activities  technology based instruction

Inclement Weather/ Delayed Class Schedule / See student handbook for inclement weather policy Academic Honesty Students may not engage in academic dishonesty. The Region A Nursing Consortium Policy Manual defines Academic Dishonesty as “Taking or acquiring possession of any academic material (test information, research papers, notes, etc.) from a member of the college staff or student body without permission; receiving or giving help during tests; submitting papers or reports (that are supposed to be original work) that are not entirely the student’s own; not giving credit for others’ work (plagiarism)” (Student Handbook 2011-2012). Students who violate the Academic Integrity Policy will be sent to the Vice President of Student Services for expulsion from the College or other sanction.

 Cheating: Cheating includes, but is not limited to:  copying, faxing, emailing, or in any way duplicating assignments that are turned in, wholly or in part, as original work  exchanging assignments with other students, either handwritten or computer generated, whether you believe they will be copied or not  using any form of memory aid during tests or quizzes without the expressed permission of the instructor Revised 5/2012 3  giving or receiving answers during tests or quizzes. (It is the student’s responsibility to secure his or her papers so that other students will not have the opportunity to copy from them or the temptation to do so.)  taking credit for group work when the student has not contributed an equal or appropriate share toward the final result  accessing a test or quiz for the purpose of determining the questions in advance of its administration  using summaries/commentaries (Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, etc.) in lieu of reading the assigned materials.

 Plagiarism: Plagiarism consists of taking another’s ideas and/or words and presenting them as if they were your own. Students submitting plagiarized material, in whole or in part, will be subject to penalty at the discretion of the instructor. Plagiarism results in a zero grade on the assignment, loss of credit in that course, and/or other administrative action. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:  taking someone else’s assignment or portion of an assignment and submitting it as your own  submitting material written by someone else or rephrasing the ideas of another without giving the author’s name or source  presenting the work of tutors, parents, siblings, spouses, or friends as your own  submitting papers from the Internet written by someone else as your own  supporting plagiarism by providing your work to others, whether you believe it will be copied or not

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Our thanks go to the English Department of North Hunterdon-Voorhee Regional High District of Annandale, NJ, for allowing Region A Nursing Consortium to use part of North Hunterdon’s existing academic honesty policy. The Hunderton policy is available at http://www.nhvweb.net/nhhs/English/cheatingplagiarismpolicy.htm.

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