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NURS8020C
Health Assessment for Advanced Nursing
Practice
Summer 2016
May 9, 2016 August 6, 2016
Syllabus
Course Information
Course Number: NURS 8020C
Corequsities/Pre-requisites: N/A
Course Description
This course provides opportunities for students to develop the knowledge and skills
necessary for the performance of both a comprehensive and focused health
assessment. This course addresses health assessment across the life span to
include pediatric, adult, and geriatric content. Data to collect when eliciting a health
history, principles of performing a physical assessment, diagnostic study
interpretations (EKG, X-rays) and examination techniques will be stressed in the
didactic portion of the course. Critical thinking is emphasized as the basis for
synthesis of knowledge regarding the performance of a health assessment. During a
concurrent laboratory experience, students will obtain health histories, perform
physical assessments and identify potential diagnostic tests for alterations in health
patterns in specific client systems. Emphasis will be placed on the differentiation of
normal and abnormal findings.
Bickley, L (2013) 11th ed. Bates guide to physical examination & history taking.
The Shadow Health Digital Clinical Experience (DCE) provides a dynamic, immersive
experience designed to improve your skills and clinical reasoning through the
examination of a digital standardized patient, Tina Jones.
Tina Jones, your digital standardized patient, is a 28-year-old woman who has come to
receive treatment for an infected foot wound, fever, and decreased appetite.
Although a digital patient, Tina Jones breathes, speaks, and has a complex medical
and psychosocial history. We will be accessing and completing Shadow Health
assignments throughout the course. Each assignment represents one piece of Tinas
comprehensive assessment within the same 8am hour at Shadow General. By
breaking Tinas assessment into individual assignments, you are able to apply your
knowledge and practice your skills to each system in greater depth.
If at any time you have any questions or encounter any technical issues, Shadow Health has
a dedicated team of helpful and knowledgeable Learner Support specialists who will
patiently assist you. Please visit the Learner Support page at
http://support.shadowhealth.com for contact information and hours. You may email
the Learner Support team directly at support@shadowhealth.com at any time.
Recommended
Psychological
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
FAQs: http://www.uc.edu/bblearn/Resources-
Training/Instructors.html (scroll down to the
documentation labeled 'Working with Video')
Video FAQs:
Screen Capture- http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/xs03l
Embedding a Video- http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/otnkj
Weekly patient
Each week you will need to practice the system assessment on a friendly
volunteer that you provide. You are not to use a patient in your workplace. This
person can be a friend, spouse, neighbor it would be preferable to have a different
one for each assignment. There are different chief complaints for each system and
your patient will have one of those and then can create their own history so you
can write it up.
Please note that performing breast and pelvic exams on a friendly
volunteer are not a part of this health assessment course. You will be
learning the techniques but are not responsible for performing the assessments.
You will still interview a friendly volunteer for the history section but you will then
write up a normal exam. You will be acquiring that skill in your Practicum courses
Learning Activities
Multimedia
There are a variety of multimedia presentations available to assist students to
prepare for the exam and accommodate differing learning styles. The module
learning objectives and multimedia will provide an overview to assist students in
focusing their studies. Your text has a CD included as well. Under multimedia you
will find demonstrated physical assessments of the various systems through the
Bates series. Students should view the appropriate assessments for each module.
The Multimedia may include items such as: Lectures, Supplemental Lecture Notes,
Supplemental Pictures, and Videos/Animations, ShadowHealth
Writing Assignments, Projects, and Assessments:
Lab Assessments
You will be assigned (by week 2) to your lab faculty. The lab faculty are
practicing NPs and know what you need to be successful. The expectation is
that they will return your graded assignments to you within 4 days. They will
give you very important feedback it is expected that you review their
comments and make these adjustments on your next assessment. Please
take advantage of this wonderful information. Feedback should be
reflected in subsequent assignments, if it is not the grade will be
affected. So please review and learn from feedback.
The assignments are required in order to meet two needs: one is to practice
the assessment skill and secondly to practice the documentation of how to
write up a patient encounter. Both of these skills require practice and that is
why we utilize ShadowHealth. ShadowHealth is a software teaching strategy
that gives you the virtual lab time to see the assessment skill and practice
the write up to augment both the physical & the documentation components.
The Shadow Health work remains within that site the assignment that you
turn in each week for grading to your lab faculty is the write up that you
complete on your friendly volunteer.
Each week you will complete a focused assessment the templates for each of
these will be posted in the lab section of the weekly module and must be
used. There is a guide to help you include the important components of the
history and physical. This is guide and is not to be submitted but to be used
to assist you in the writing of the focused assessment.
The CON has contracted with Examity to provide online proctoring for this course, enabling
you to take exams remotely from a location of your choosing during the scheduled testing
window. Detailed instructions on using Examity will be provided to you by your
Please check ahead of time that the PC with which you plan to take your exam meets the
following Examity technical requirements:
NOTE: If your PC does not meet these requirements, you may be unable to complete your exam
and asked to reschedule.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact Examitys technical support team at
support@examity.com or (855)-392-6489.
There will a test review done by the faculty after the closing and review
of the exam. There will be an announcement posted as to when the
review will be available. You will not be able to access your exam for
review.
Please be very cautious with your time. It is YOUR responsibility to
keep up with your time, so please set a timer or closely monitor your
time. Five (5) points will be deducted for each minute exceeding the
minute limit. You do not want to fail the course because you exceeded
the time on a test.
The kaltura video review will be done after all students have taken the
exam. If you have questions regarding the test after all grades have
been posted, please contact Dr. Colella with your questions.
** Your final exam (only) for this course will be taken remotely (online) and
proctored by a service called Examity. Detailed instructions on using
Examity will be provided in Blackboard.
Please check ahead of time that the computer with which you plan to take
your exam meets the following Examity technical requirements:
NOTE: If your computer does not meet these requirements, you may be
unable to complete your exam and will be asked to reschedule.
Grading Policy
Test 110%
Test 210%
Test 310%
Test 410%
Lab weekly write-ups 10% (each assignment is graded and then the
average becomes 10% of your grade)
ShadowHealth 5% (you will get a point for each one you complete this
then becomes 5% of your grade)
Grading: 94-100 A
90-93 A-
87-89 B+
84-86 B
80-83 B-
77-79 C+ (NOT PASSING requires repeating the course
>77 F
All College of Nursing masters degree students must earn a B- grade or better for
the MSN degree core and advanced nurse practice nurse program core courses.
Students earning grades below a "B-", in any course, will have to repeat the course.
Please note that the University of Cincinnati Graduate School requires that masters
degree students maintain a grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.0 to remain in
good standing and obtain a masters degree at the University of Cincinnati.
Course Policies
It is your responsibility to check the announcement page and your e-mail frequently
for any changes or announcements. It would be advisable to check at least daily.
E-MAIL
All e-mail correspondence is to be conducted through your University of Cincinnati
e-mail account and must be respectful and professional.
SYLLABUS
The syllabus is subject to change. An announcement will be posted in the event of a
change.
LATE WORK
Lab Assessments and Final Lab Assessments
Students with extenuating circumstances need to contact the Course Faculty for
assignment extensions prior to the due date.
Exams
Zero points (0 points) will be earned for exams not completed by the due date if
faculty is not notified prior to the due date.
The final will be done within Examity (see information above)
ASSESSMENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
Adhere to the following requirements to successfully complete all assessments
during this course.
No books, notes, or collaborating with students or others during testing is
permitted, unless otherwise specified.
The questions will be multiple choice, true or false, or matching.
Any problem accessing or submitting a quiz/test contact the Blackboard help
desk at (513) 556-1602 or email (blackboard@uc.ed). Please also notify your
SPECIAL NEEDS
If you have any special needs related to your participation in this course, including
identified visual impairment, hearing impairment, physical impairment,
communication disorder, and/or a specific learning disability that may influence
your performance in this course, you should notify the Course Faculty to arrange for
reasonable provisions to ensure an equitable opportunity to meet all the
requirements of this course. At the discretion of the Course Faculty some
accommodations may require prior approval by Disability Services.
GRADE DISPUTE
Any question or dispute over the earned points for a quiz, assignment, discussion,
or extra credit should be addressed by first appealing in writing to the Course
Faculty. An appeal of a negative decision may then be made to the Program
Director, who will follow the grade dispute policy of the University.
NETIQUETTE
Communication using Web-based tools has created the need for a protocol called
"netiquette" that encourages efficient and effective communication while
discouraging abuse of e-mail, chat sessions, and message boards. There is a link on
the Blackboard page for this please review.