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Fall 2017 N375P #57760 1 Fall 2017 N375P Public Health Nursing Practicum - RN Only Course Unique #57760 Table of Contents Course Information ................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Practicum Hour Guide ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 COURSE SCHEDULE ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Practicum Log ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Reflections ........................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Independent Applications of Public Health Nursing Process ............................................................................. 7 Community Health Resource Investigation ............................................................................................................................. 7 Community/population health assessment: Windshield Survey and Secondary Data Assessment .............. 7 Epidemiology Case study ................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Home Environment Health Assessment ................................................................................................................................... 8 Practicum Agency Experience ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Clinical Project ................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Clinical Project Deliverables: Project Plan and Evaluation ............................................................................................... 9 Clinical Project Paper ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 Policies ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 University Policies .............................................................................................................................................................. 9 Student Conduct Policy .................................................................................................................................................. 10 Course Policies ................................................................................................................................................................ 11 PRACTICUM PERFORMANCE EVALUATION TOOL .................................................... 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Fall 2017 N375P #57760 2 Course Information PLACEMENT N375P is a senior-level course taken concurrently with N275 CREDITS/CLOCK HOURS 3 credit hours; 135 clock hours (Determined by the university’s semester credit hour to clock hour per week ratio: 1 semester credit hour: 3 clock/hours x 15 weeks in the semester = 135) CLINICAL 8 hours per week in instructor-supervised or precepted practicum arranged with faculty approval, and independent application activities CLINICAL CONFERENCE MEETING TBA on selected Fridays 12:30 – 1:30 NUR 5.174 Course Flag: N375P has been designated a writing flag for the University of Texas at Austin Core Curriculum FACULTY Dr. Carol Gaskamp PhD, RN, PHNA-BC Office NUR 5.122 Office Phone 512-471-7306 Email cgaskamp@nursing.utexas.edu Office Hours: 8-9 am, Tues, Weds, Thurs & by appointment Jennifer Murray-Chavez MSN, RN Office NUR 4.172 Office Phone 512-232-8343 Email: jmurraychavez@nursing.utexas.edu Office Hours: Friday mornings by appointment Course Description: This practicum requires students to apply public health nursing concepts, theories, and processes used in health promotion, disease or injury prevention, health protection, and risk reduction with individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. Course Objectives: 1. Holistically assess the health status of a group, community or population using data, public resources, and input from community partners. 2. Analyze health disparities and root causes in communities and populations. 3. Plan public health nursing interventions addressing health promotion, health protection, and disease or injury prevention and risk reduction. 4. Evaluate changes in aggregate or public health status to determine effectiveness of interventions. 5. Practice public health nursing with individuals, families, groups and communities that reflects ethical, legal, and professional standards of public health nursing. Fall 2017 N375P #57760 5 The required practicum hours are met as described in the following table: Practicum Hour Guide Estimated Time Agency Experience • Orientation, Observations, work on clinical agency project and other activities as directed by preceptor or clinical instructor • Documented through weekly entries in Reflective Learning Log, project plan and project evaluation • Clinical Paper Deliverable meets writing flag for course 90 hours Independent Public Health Nursing Learning Experiences 1. Community Resource Investigation (8 hours) 2. Community/population health assessment (16 hours) 3. Epidemiology Case study (3 hours) 4. Asthma Home Environment Assessment (3 hours) Documented through: • Reflective Learning Logs • Completion of Assignment Guides 30 hours Clinical conferences (online or face-to-face) 15 hours Total 135 COURSE SCHEDULE Practicum Conference Schedule: SELECTED FRIDAYS 1230-1330 in NUR 5.174 • Face-to-face conferences will be coordinated with N322 Transition to Professional Nursing meeting dates; Canvas discussion board will be used for sharing experiences during weeks we are not meeting in person. N322 online: 9/8, 9/22; 10/13; 10/20; 11/10; (11/24); 12/8. Schedule for meetings may change depending on N322 schedule • Conference time will be used for sharing experiences, troubleshooting issues, discussion of assignments and expectations • Assignments will be turned in via Canvas unless otherwise indicated; assignment due dates may change due to external circumstances • Weekly log of practicum hours to be turned in via Canvas WEEK DATE ASSIGNMENT CONFERENCE PRACTICUM ACTIVITY 1 9/1/17 Read Chapter 9 in Garcia, Schaffer & Schoon. ‘Establishes and maintains caring relationships with communities, systems, individuals, and families’ Meet • Course Orientation • Begin Court Ward Visitor online training module • Select community for Community Assessment assignment and plan community assessment • Receive Community Resource Investigation Assignment and plan investigation 2 9/4/17- 9/8/17 Read Chapters 2 &3 in Skemp et al, “Culturally Informed community health practice” and “Learning the culture and health of communities Online 3 9/11/17- 9/15/17 Community Resource Investigation Assignment Post due before midnight 9/17/17 Meet • Complete Court Ward Visitor Training • Receive Ward assignments and plan visits 4 9/18/17- Reflective Log Weeks 1-4 - Online Fall 2017 N375P #57760 6 WEEK DATE ASSIGNMENT CONFERENCE PRACTICUM ACTIVITY 9/22/17* includes Clinical Agency Project Plan due before midnight 9/24/17 • Continue community assessment • Complete Community Resource Investigation • Complete Epidemiology Case Study • Write 1st draft of clinical paper 5 9/25/17- 9/29/17 Epidemiology Case Study Assignment Guide due before midnight 10/1 Meet 6 10/2/17- 10/6/17 Draft of clinical paper for peer review due before midnight 10/8/17 Meet 7 10-9/17- 10/13/17* 1. Peer review completed Population/Community Assessment Assignment Guide due before midnight 10/15/17 Online • Agency experience • Finish Population/Community Assessment Guide • Work on Home Environment assessment • Write 2nd draft of clinical paper 8 10/16- 10/20/17* Reflective Log Weeks 5-8 due by midnight 10/15/17 Meet individually with faculty (in person or by phone) Online 9 10/23- 10/27/17 Draft of clinical paper for faculty review due before midnight 10/29/17 Meet 10 10/30- 11/3/17 Home Environment Assessment Guide due before midnight 11/5/17 Meet • Agency experience • Finish Home Environment Assessment • Write Final copy of clinical paper 11 11/6- 11/10/17 Online 12 11/13- 11/17/17 1. Reflective Log Weeks 9- 12 due by midnight 11/19/17 Final copy of clinical paper due before midnight 11/19/17 Meet 13 11/20- 11/24/17 HOLIDAY – NO SCHOOL Nov 22-24 No meeting 14 11/27- 12/1/17 Meet – informal sharing of agency projects Wrap up Agency experience Individual meeting with faculty 15 12/4- 12/8/17* Reflective Log Weeks 13-15, includes Clinical Agency Project Evaluation due before midnight 12/11/17 Individual conferences Description of Course Requirements The aims of the practicum are to provide experiences at different levels of public health nursing practice (individual/family, community and system), and to provide opportunities to develop public health nursing competencies. The expected level of PHN practice and competencies to be practiced are provided with each assignment. Fall 2017 N375P #57760 7 Levels of Practice: “Practicing Public Health Nursing”, Garcia, Schaffer & Schoon, pages 16-19 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals: Garcia, Schaffer & Schoon, pages 451-454 (Appendix Participation in Clinical Conferences (15 hours). Faculty and students will connect weekly either as a group for one hour to review progress on practicum assignments and experiences in clinical agencies, or an asynchronous discussion in Canvas. The course schedule indicates which conferences are as a meeting or online. Students are expected to attend the meetings and to notify faculty in case of tardiness or absence. If distance or work schedules interfere with attending weekly conferences, student will arrange to have individual conferences with faculty (in person or using distance technology) Individual mid-term and final evaluation conferences (Include time in practicum log). Faculty and students will meet individually at mid-term and end of term to review practicum performance. The Practicum Performance Evaluation Tool will be used to guide the conference discussion. Practicum Log Account for your practicum hours by completing the weekly hour log assignment in Canvas. Time used for both the clinical agency work and independent applications will be included. Complete the worksheet provided with the Canvas log assignment. Reflections Reflecting on your clinical practice is an important facet of developing your nursing practice as a BSN prepared nurse. You will turn in 4 reflections over the semester, due as specified in the course schedule and Canvas Assignments. You will discuss what you are learning about public health nursing and how other courses you are taking for the BSN degree tie in with your practicum experience. Reflections 1 and 4 have additional requirements related to the practicum project that you are to include. More detailed information about what to include in the reflections is included on Canvas. Evaluation: See practicum evaluation tool. Independent Applications of Public Health Nursing Process • Community Resource Investigation (8 hours) • Community/population health assessment (16 hours) • Epidemiology Case study (3 hours) • Home Environmental Health Assessment (3 hours) Community Health Resource Investigation (8 hours) Level of PHN practice: Individual/family PHN Competency: Community Dimensions of Practice Learning outcome. By completing this assignment, you will be able to: Identify appropriate community resources to meet selected needs for chronic disease management in low- income, uninsured, under-insured, or undocumented immigrant populations. Complete the assignment as provided on Canvas Evaluation: Practicum Evaluation Tool See Canvas for detailed instructions for this assignment. Community/population health assessment: Windshield Survey and Secondary Data Assessment (16 hours of practicum experience) Level of PHN practice: Population, community or group Fall 2017 N375P #57760 10 The University of Texas at Austin has designated this course as a writing flag course. Writing Flag courses are designed to give students experience with writing in an academic discipline. In this course you will use writing as one tool to learn public health nursing concepts, synthesize ideas in the field of public health nursing, and demonstrate understanding of public health nursing skills. You can expect to write regularly during the semester and complete a major writing assignment. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from your written work. Writing Flag information for students is available through The University of Texas at Austin School of Undergraduate Studies: http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/core/flags/studentwriting Writing Center: We strongly encourage you to use the Undergraduate Writing Center, 471- 6222: http://www.uwc.utexas.edu/. Located in FAC 211 (Flawn Academic Center), the UWC is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday. They serve students on a walk-in or appointment basis (471-6222). The Undergraduate Writing Center offers free, individualized, expert help with writing for any UT undergraduate, by appointment or on a drop-in basis. Any undergraduate enrolled in a course at UT can visit the UWC for assistance with any writing project. They work with students from every department on campus, for both academic and non-academic writing. Whether you are writing a lab report, a resume, a term paper, a statement for an application, or your own poetry, UWC consultants will be happy to work with you. Their services are not just for writing with "problems." Getting feedback from an informed audience is a normal part of a successful writing project. Consultants help students develop strategies to improve their writing. The assistance they provide is intended to foster independence. Each student determines how to use the consultant's advice. The consultants are trained to help you work on your writing in ways that preserve the integrity of your work. Student Conduct Policy: Students and faculty in The School of Nursing each have responsibility for maintaining an appropriate learning environment. Faculty have the professional responsibility to treat students with understanding, dignity and respect and to guide the teaching/learning process. Students are expected to refrain from verbal and nonverbal behaviors in the classroom and clinical that may be distracting to others, such as, but not limited to: arriving late or leaving early, side conversations, text messaging, note passing, surfing the internet or answering e-mail on laptops, and answering cell phone or pager. Students who persistently engage in behaviors that are disruptive to the teaching/learning process may be required to leave the setting. For further information refer to General Information, Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities, Chapter 11: Student Discipline and Conduct. The School of Nursing is a professional school and we often have members of the public visiting our facility; therefore, we require students to dress in a professional manner at all times. There is a very specific School of Nursing uniform policy for clinical settings and within the School of Nursing building we can be a bit more relaxed; however, general rules of dress still apply. 1. Body piercing, other than ears, must not be visible. 2. Revealing clothing must not be worn or, at a minimum, must be covered while in the School of Nursing. Revealing clothing consists of: i. midriff baring shirts ii. short-shorts or short skirts iii. low-rise pants &/or low-cut shirts that reveal “cleavage” Please remember that you are representing the School of Nursing and the nursing profession. As such you are expected to maintain an appropriate level of professionalism at all times. Use of Canvas in Classes: This course uses Canvas, a Web-based course management system in which a password-protected site is created for each course. Student enrollments in each course are updated each evening. Canvas can be used to Fall 2017 N375P #57760 11 distribute course materials, to communicate and collaborate online, to post grades, to submit assignments, and to take online quizzes and surveys. You will be responsible for checking the Canvas course site regularly for class work and announcements. As with all computer systems, there are occasional scheduled downtimes as well as unanticipated disruptions. Notification of these disruptions will be posted on the Canvas login page. Scheduled downtimes are not an excuse for late work. However, if there is an unscheduled downtime for a significant period of time, I will make an adjustment if it occurs close to the due date. Canvas is available at http://courses.utexas.edu. Support is provided by the ITS Help Desk at 475-9400 Monday through Friday 8 am to 6 pm, so plan accordingly. University Electronic Mail Notification Policy (Use of E-mail for Official Correspondence to Students): All students should become familiar with the University's official e-mail student notification policy. It is the student's responsibility to keep the University informed as to changes in his or her e-mail address. Students are expected to check e-mail on a frequent and regular basis in order to stay current with University-related communications, recognizing that certain communications may be time-critical. It is recommended that e- mail be checked daily, but at a minimum, twice per week. The complete text of this policy and instructions for updating your e-mail address are available at http://www.utexas.edu/its/policies/emailnotify.html. In this course e-mail will be used as a means of communication with students. You will be responsible for checking your e-mail regularly for class work and announcements. Note: if you are an employee of the University, your e-mail address in Canvas is your employee address. Scholastic Dishonesty Policy and Professional Integrity: Refer to the General Information for information on the Scholastic Dishonesty Policy Sec. 11-802. Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, falsifying academic records, and misrepresenting facts. The Dean of Students Office records acts of dishonesty and notifies the School of Nursing of each incident. In addition to all of the University statements and policies relative to academic dishonesty, the School of Nursing recognizes the strong link between honesty in academic work and professional integrity. Any act of academic dishonesty, including fabrication of reports or records of interactions with clients, is considered incompatible with ethical standards of nursing practice. The School of Nursing does not admit students who have a record of violations to the professional sequence. Students who engage in scholastic dishonesty may be subject to dismissal and may jeopardize their eligibility for licensure as a registered nurse. Academic and Program Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: Refer to the General Information for information on Academic and Program Accommodations for Students with Disabilities or contact the Services for Students with Disabilities office in the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259. The School of Nursing works to ensure that students who have disabilities have equal access to the University’s programs and services. If you have any questions about services or accommodations for students with disabilities, please talk with the faculty member, the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs, or the Assistant Dean for Student and Clinical Affairs or directly call the Office of the Dean of Students, Services for Students with Disabilities, 471- 6259. Religious Holidays: Religious holy days sometimes conflict with class and examination schedules. If you miss an examination, work assignment, or other project due to the observance of a religious holy day you will be given an opportunity to complete the work missed within a reasonable time after the absence. It is the policy of The University of Texas at Austin that you must notify each of your instructors at least fourteen days prior to the classes scheduled on dates you will be absent to observe a religious holy day. Course Policies Fall 2017 N375P #57760 12 Course Repeat Policy: A student must earn a grade of at least "C" in each nursing course. A student may repeat a nursing course only one time. No more than two nursing courses may be repeated. If the student does not earn a grade of "C" or better the second time he or she takes the course, the student cannot continue in the School of Nursing. If, while repeating the course, the student drops the course or withdraws from the university (at a time when the student's performance in the course is considered to be inferior to that required for a grade of "C"), the student may not re-enroll in the course or continue in the School of Nursing. Student Responsibilities for Professional Behavior: Certain behaviors are consistent with the role of a professional person and are expected of a student representing the profession of nursing. The faculty view the behaviors exhibited by the student to be representative of the student’s behavior as a professional. Preparation – Students are required to be prepared for all clinical sessions, including clinical conferences and clinical site visits. Students should prepare for the clinical practicum by reading all sections of the syllabus prior to beginning the clinical practicum. Attendance - The student is required to complete 135 hours in clinical activities. Attendance is mandatory at all scheduled clinical activities (such as planned activities with your assigned agency, clinical conferences). The student is responsible for all material discussed and all announcements made, even if the clinical session was missed. If the student is unable to attend or will arrive late to clinical, the student must personally notify the instructor (for clinical conference) or the agency contact (for other clinical activities) prior to the scheduled starting time or as soon as possible when emergency circumstances arise. In the event that the student is unable to reach the instructor, the student should leave a message by phone at the instructor’s office at the School of Nursing. Failure to notify the instructor or agency contact may adversely affect the student's final clinical grade. If a student persistently is late to or misses clinical sessions, including conferences, faculty will schedule a meeting with the student to discuss possible strategies to enable the student to modify those behaviors. The student and instructor will agree on the action to be taken by the student. If the student does not comply with the agreed upon action, a grade reduction may result. Students may be dropped from a practicum course or may receive a failing grade for patterns of absences or tardiness. Missed Clinical Conference- If the student misses a clinical conference, the student must arrange an individual conference with instructor. Format for conference (face-to-face, phone or video) will be negotiated with the instructor. Unexcused Absences - Failure of proper notification or unacceptable reasons for missing clinical will be reflected in professional socialization grade and may adversely affect final clinical grade. Unexcused absences must be made up; contact clinical instructor for make-up assignments Expected Behaviors - Students are expected to keep faculty informed about clinical activities during individual and group clinical conferences; exhibit respectful behavior to faculty and classmates (including having cell phones off during clinical conference); complete all assignments on time; demonstrate non- judgmental behavior toward all clients regarding their philosophy, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds, moral code and life style; and show evidence of theoretical and skill preparation for daily assignment in clinical practicum. Honor Codes: The profession of nursing has a legacy of public respect and trust. We provide specialized care for the health needs of individuals and the public with integrity, honesty, compassion, and state of the art knowledge and skills. Learning and practicing responsible and ethical professional behavior is a vital part of professional education. The Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities given in the General Information Catalog