1. WELCOME TO NRS 320 INSTRUCTOR: Cathi Collings, RN, MSN
OFFICE – FIRST FLOOR Room 114
NUMBERS - OFFICE: 3671, CELL:
Meet: Mondays :30PM in ‘C’
Wednesdays 5 – 7:30 PM in ‘C’
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2. All exams cover material from Craven book and from lectures
CLASS FACTS
See syllabus for details
Five Exams total 70% of grade
Exam % of grade
Content from WEEK 1
Exam % of grade
Over content from week 2
Exam 3– 14% of grade
Over content from weeks 3 & 4
Exam 4 – 14% of grade
Over content from weeks 4 & 5
Exam 5 – 14% of grade [Take Home Exam ]
over content from weeks 6-9
All exams cover material from Craven book and from lectures
Chapters may vary!!!
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3. Assignments HESI EXAMS 20% (10% each exam) Foundations Lab - P/F
Taken in week 8 [11/19] &week 10 [12/3] as comprehensive final
HESI Case studies [12] – 5%
Done at home or in LRC, Computerized
Evolve link - need password used for HESI
Due 11/14
Group case study presentations 5%
Presentations pertaining to a case study provided and corresponding to a unit of study will be presented in week 11
Foundations Lab - P/F
Reflective analysis of Sensory perception exercise [P/F] due 11/26
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4. ASSIGNMENTS Please complete and print assignments BEFORE the due date
Late assignments are subject to a 5% per day penalty
No excuses
Pass/Fail assignments not submitted will result in a 5% deduction of your COURSE Grade
Group Presentations are graded using a combination of rubrics and peer evaluation
Use the grading rubric as a guide to your assignment
Homework assignments are used to make up class time missed due to HESI, Holidays
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5. HINTS FOR SUCCESS READ the BOOK Follow the RUBRICS
Vocabulary Write Care Plans
Get assignments in ON TIME
5% reduction for late assignments
Participate in Class Activities
READ the BOOK
Case Studies
Use the LRC
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6. What is Foundations About?
Critical thinking
NOT black and white, memorization
Application, Analysis
NCLEX – style questions
Choose the BEST of two or more possible answers
Prioritize
Nursing Process:
Learning to think and communicate in the Nursing realm
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7. Why do we need to know this now?
This class is the FOUNDATION for all future classes
Basic concepts, terminology, thinking processes that are built on
Apply concepts, processes to case-study patients, situations, life events
Learn to think like a Nurse
Communicate verbally with patients, other HCP, Document
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8. What is Nursing?
How would you define Nursing?
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9. Definitions of Nursing
Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations. (ANA)
(Nursing's Social Policy Statement, Second Edition, 2003, p. 6 & Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2004, p. 7)
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10. Definitions of Nursing
"the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery (Nightingale,1860) Notes on Nursing; what it is and what it is not.
the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease (ibid)
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11. Nursing: Art or Science?
Evidence – Based Practice makes Nursing a science-based profession
Sources are important
Scholarly Journals NO wiki
Clinical Judgments based on observation, experience, patient preference/values and research – experience/opinion alone is not enough
Justify decisions – what to do, how it is done, why it is important
Measure outcomes
Document facts
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12. ART Can you ‘pretend’ to care? Will patients know?
What made you want to be a nurse?
Chances are, it was another nurse!
Caring is the ART of nursing
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14. Visual Cognition Test
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15. End of section
Questions?
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16. STOP
Go to Unit 1
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