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GENERAL INFORMATION:
Course title: NU 135 Health, Illness and Nursing I |
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Campus: National Campus |
Initiator: Kathleen Benjamin |
Date: August 2021 |
Course description: |
COURSE HOURS/CREDITS:
Hours per Week |
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No. of Weeks |
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Total Hours |
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Semester Credits |
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Lecture |
3 |
x |
16 |
x |
48 |
= |
3 |
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Laboratory |
12 |
x |
16 |
x |
192 |
= |
4 |
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Workshop |
x |
x |
= |
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Total Semester |
Credits |
7 |
PURPOSE OF COURSE:
[X] Degree requirement
[ ] Degree elective
[ ] Certificate
[ ] Other
PREREQUISITES: NU 125 Health Promotion in Nursing
CO-REQUISITES: NU 133 Pharmacology, NU 134 Pathophysiology
PSLOs OF OTHER PROGRAMS THIS COURSE MEETS: None
PSLO# |
Program |
CAC Chair signatures:________ Date recommended:___________
VPIA signature::______________ Date approved:____________
1. INSTITUTIONAL STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
[X] | 1. Effective oral communication: capacity to deliver prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors. |
[ ] | 2. Effective written communication: development and expression of ideas in writing through work in many genres and styles, utilizing different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images through iterative experiences across the curriculum. |
[X] | 3. Critical thinking: a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion. |
[X] | 4. Problem solving: capacity to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal. |
[X] | 5. Intercultural knowledge and competence: a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts. |
[X] | 6. Information literacy: the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand. |
[X] | 7. Foundations and skills for life-long learning: purposeful learning activity, undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence. |
[ ] | 8. Quantitative Reasoning: ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations; comprehends and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats. |
2. PROGRAM STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (PSLOs): At the end of Level I, the student will be able to:
3. COURSE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (CSLOs) - (General):At the end of Level I, the student will be able to:
4. COURSE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMESCSLOs)- (Specific):
The student will be able to:
CSLO (General) 1: Demonstrate behaviors that display development of the professional role: self- reflection, lifelong learning, accountability, ethical conduct, and commitment to the profession of nursing. | |||
Student Learning Outcomes (specific) | ISLO | PSLO | Assessment Strategies |
1.1 Demonstrate standards of nursing practice for the care of the individual and family across the lifespan, during childbearing, child rearing, and common acute and chronic health alterations. | 7 | 1 |
Quizzes, exams |
1.2 Determine the influence of changing issues and trends in health care on nursing practice for the individual and family with common acute and chronic health alterations. | 7 | 1 |
Quizzes, exams |
CSLO (General) 2: Use clinical judgment and evidence-based data to plan, implement and evaluate the care of individuals across the lifespan, during childbearing, child-rearing, and common acute and chronic health alterations. | |||
Student Learning Outcomes (specific) | ISLO | PSLO | Assessment Strategies |
2.1 Apply critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills in the care of the individual and family across the lifespan during common acute and chronic health alterations. | 3 | 4 | Quizzes, exams Case scenarios and presentation (scored by rubric) Health assessment; nursing care plan (scored by rubric) Reflective journal, Clinical evaluation tool (scored by rubric), |
2.2 Demonstrate safety and critical thinking when implementing intermediate level nursing skills in the clinical and/or laboratory settings. | 3*, 7 | 1 |
Quizzes, exams |
CSLO (General) 3: Apply leadership management when supervising unlicensed assistive nursing personnel and other health care teams. | |||
Student Learning Outcomes (specific) | ISLO | PSLO | Assessment Strategies |
3.1 Utilize evidence-based information to deliver safe, holistic care to individuals during childbearing, childrearing and with common acute and chronic health alterations across the lifespan. | 6*, 7 | 4 |
Quizzes, exams |
3.2 Demonstrate safety and critical thinking when implementing intermediate level nursing skills in the clinical and/or laboratory settings. | 3, 7* | 1 |
Quizzes, exams |
3.3 Demonstrate the teaching-learning process as an intervention to promote individual self-management during childbearing, childrearing, and common acute and chronic health alterations across the lifespan. | 7 | 2 |
Quizzes, exams |
CSLO (General) 4: Incorporate communication and collaboration strategies among the health care team members. | |||
Student Learning Outcomes (specific) | ISLO | PSLO | Assessment Strategies |
4.1 Incorporate strategies to manage and prioritize care activities to efficiently utilize resources and achieve positive health outcomes for individuals with common health alterations across the lifespan. | 4, 7 | 2 |
Quizzes, Exams |
4.2 Identify common barriers to communication with the health team and with individuals during childbearing, childrearing, and with common acute and chronic health alterations. | 6 | 4 |
Quizzes, Exams |
4.2 Demonstrate effective communication strategies to support client safety. | 1 | 4 | |
CSLO (General) 5: Implement relationship-centered care, demonstrate a caring culturally safe environment which reflects the values of Micronesians. | |||
Student Learning Outcomes (specific) | ISLO | PSLO | Assessment Strategies |
5.1 Identify the influence of cultural beliefs on individual health behaviors, developmental expectations, and health practices across the lifespan. | 5 | 5 |
Quizzes, exams |
5.2 Demonstrate evidence-based interventions to address barriers to culturally competent care. | 5 | 5 |
Quizzes, exams Case scenarios and presentation graded by rubric); Reflective journal graded by rubric. Clinical Evaluation Tool, Portfolio graded by rubric |
CSLO (General) 6: Develop nursing care plans appropriate for use in primary care and public health settings for individuals to promote community wellness. | |||
Student Learning Outcomes (specific) | ISLO | PSLO | Assessment Strategies |
6.1 Demonstrate personal and wellness practices to prevent complex acute illness and preparation for disasters. | 7 | 6 |
Quizzes, exams Case scenarios and presentation (scored by rubric); Reflective journal graded by rubric, Clinical Evaluation Tool graded by rubric) |
6.2 Identify the roles, scope of practice, and standards of practice for nurses in primary care health, population-based health, community health, and public health, globally and in the United States Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI.). |
7 | 6 |
Quizzes, exams |
5. COURSE CONTENTS
6. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
[X] Lecture [X] Cooperative learning groups
[X] Laboratory [X] In-class exercises
[X] Audio visual [X] Demonstration
[] Other
7.REQURIED TEXT(S) AND COURSE MATERIALS
8. REFERENCE MATERIALS (Note: Available at the Health Sciences library)
9.INSTRUCTIONAL COSTS: None
10. EVALUATION:
Grading for this course involves two sets of competencies, classroom and lab/clinical. Students must demonstrate mastery of competencies in both the classroom and lab/clinical to pass the course. The benchmark for passing in the classroom component is a 70%. The benchmark for passing the lab/clinical component is an “S” for satisfactory performance.
This nursing course must be passed with a “C” or better to receive the Practical Nursing Certificate of Achievement.
11. CREDIT BY EXAMINATIONNone
NU 135 Health, Illness, and Nursing I | Approved by VPIA: 04/08/22 |
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