NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE

COURSE SYLLABUS

  

COURSE AND INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

 

 

Course title: Clinical I

Course prefix, number, and section number: VNSG 1360 0100

Semester/Year of course: Spring 2023

Semester start and end dates: January 17, 2023 through May 12, 2023

Modality (Face to face/Synchronous or Asynchronous online/Hybrid): Face to face

Lab meeting location, days, and times: Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Semester credit hours: 3

Course description: This course provides clinical experience in fundamental nursing skills.  The nursing process is applied to provide individualized care designed to meet a patient’s particular needs. This is a health-related, work-based learning experience that enables the student to apply specialized occupational theory, skills and concepts.  Clinical experiences include care of the adult patient with focus on cultural nursing aspects, therapeutic communication, nutrition, geriatrics, diabetes, mental health and illness, and muscular-skeletal pathophysiology. 

Course prerequisites: None

Required course materials:

• Internet access
• ATI access: ATI (Assessment Technologies Institute) - Web-based learning and assessment program includes standardized exam and EHR Tutor.
• EAQ to Accompany Introduction to Medical Surgical Nursing. 7th ed. (2020) St. Louis: Elsevier

 

Name of instructor: Tiffany McQuien, RN

Office location: HSB 2411-H

Telephone number: 940-668-7731 ext 4917

E-mail address: tmcquien@nctc.edu

Office hours for students: Monday 9am-4pm Tuesday 2pm-4pm Wednesday 2pm-4pm

 

 

SYLLABUS CHANGE DISCLAIMER

 

 

The faculty member reserves the right to make changes to this published syllabus if it is in the best interest of the educational development of this class. Any such changes will be announced as soon as possible in person and/or writing.

 

 

 

SUMMARY OF COURSE ASSIGNMENTS

 

List of graded assignments: Skills Checkoffs

Final grade scale:

90-100 = A

80-89 = B

77-79 = C

65-76.99 = D

Below 65 = F

Late work policy: No late work will be accepted.

 

SEE CANVAS FOR THE COMPLETE COURSE CALENDAR, OUTLINE, DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF GRADED WORK, AND OTHER RELATED MATERIAL.

COURSE POLICIES

 

Academic Integrity Policy: Scholastic dishonesty shall include, but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, academic falsification, intellectual property dishonesty, academic dishonesty facilitation and collusion.  Faculty members may document and bring charges against a student who is engaged in or is suspected to be engaged in academic dishonesty.  See Student Handbook, “Student Rights & Responsibilities: Student Conduct”. 

 

Consequences for academic dishonesty may include:

1)         Implement a VN Program Contract.

2)         Dismissal from the VN Program.

 

Attendance Policy: Regular and punctual attendance is expected of all students in all classes for which they have registered.  All absences are considered to be unauthorized unless the student is absent due to illness or emergencies as determined by the instructor.  It is the student responsibility to provide documentation as to the emergency for approval and judgement by the faculty member.  Approved college sponsored activities are the only absences for which a student should not be held liable and only when provided by a college official ahead of the absence.  Valid reasons for absence, however, do not relieve the student of the responsibility for making up required work.  Students will not be allowed to make up an examination missed due to absence unless they have reasons acceptable to the instructor.  A student who is compelled to be absent when a test is given should petition the instructor, in advance if possible, for permission to postpone the exam.  Student will be dropped from a class by the Registrar upon recommendation of the instructor who feels the student has been justifiably absent or tardy a sufficient number of times to preclude meeting the course’s objectives.  Persistent, unjustified absences from classes or laboratories will be considered sufficient cause for College officials to drop a student from the rolls of the College. From Board Policy.

All policies in the Vocational Nursing Student Handbook will be in effect.

•          Students must attend class regularly.

•          More than two (2) absences in a course per semester will result in dismissal.

•          Three (3) tardies equals one absence.  No one will be allowed into class if she/he is tardy until the first break. A tardy will be recorded in the gradebook.

•          Leaving early is considered an absence for the whole day.

Withdrawal Policy

A student may withdraw from a course on or after the official date of record. It is the student’s responsibility to initiate and complete a Withdrawal Request Form.

Last day to withdraw from the course with a “W” is: April 3, 2023

Student Learning Outcomes:

1.Discuss the uniqueness of the gerontology patient related to physical, mental, and emotional changes associated with the aging process.

2.Describe the psychosocial, growth and development, and physiological needs of patients across the life span.

3.Identify primary health care needs of the client.

4.Identify the basic interventions to support the patient and family during life stages including death and dying.

COLLEGE POLICIES