LA HARBOR COLLEGE
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) Assessment Report
Course Assessment
Division: Health Sciences
Discipline/Program: Nursing
Course Number and Name: Nursing 311 Communication in Nursing
Program Contact Person: ___Edie Moore__________________________________ Phone: __310-233-4377_____________________
Reviewed by: Joachin Arias, Ph.D.
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(SLO Coordinator)
Date_January 2015
Spring 2015
Institutional Learning
Outcomes
2, 3
Cognition
Information Competency
Course Intended Outcomes
1. Relate the components of the
nursing process to the delivery of
nursing care for the adult client.
1, 4
Communication
Social Responsibility
2. Develop behaviors for
professional nursing practice.
2, 4
Cognition
Social Responsibility
3. Identify assessment data with
which to formulate clinical
decisions.
Means of Assessment and
Criteria for Success
Mean: Unit C Client
Education examination
(mirrors the nursing
process)
Criteria: 80% of the
student’s will achieve >75%
on the unit examination
Mean: Unit A
Communication
examination
Criteria: 80% of the
student’s will achieve >75%
on the unit examination.
Mean: Cultural Diversity
Group Project
Criteria: 90% of the
students will achieve >80%
on rubric for Cultural
Summary of Data
Collected
Use of Results
Diversity Group Project
1, 2, 4
Communication
Cognition
Social Responsibility
4. Provide safe, patient-centered
care.
Mean: Unit B Culture and
Ethnicity examination.
Criteria: 80% of the
students will achieve > 75%
on unit examination
1, 2, 4
Communication
Cognition
Social Responsibility
5. Describe roles of health care
team members and develop
effective strategies for
communication.
Mean: Unit D Group Process
examination.
Criteria: 80% of the
student’s will achieve >75%
on the unit examination.
6. Identify evidence-based
practices to support clinical
reasoning.
Mean: Selection and
evaluation of evidencebased study that support
selected stress reduction
technique used in teaching
assignment.
Criteria: 80% of the student
will select an appropriate
evidence-based study.
7. Implement a personal quality
improvement project.
Mean: Process recordings
Criteria: 85% of process
recordings submitted will
score >15/20 (75%) on this
evidence-based tool.
Mean: Culture Presentation
Peer Evaluation
Criteria: 100% of students
will submit peer evaluation
forms
EMR not utilized in this
2,3
Cognition
Information
Competency
2,4
Cognition
Social Responsibility
2,3,4
8. Identify the impact of
n/a
n/a
Cognition
Information
Competency
Social Responsibility
information technology in the
clinical setting and guidelines for
protected health information.
course
Fall 2014
Institutional Learning
Outcomes
2, 3
Cognition
Information
Competency
Course Intended Outcomes
1. Relate the components of the
nursing process to the delivery of
nursing care for the adult client.
1, 4
Communication
Social Responsibility
2. Develop behaviors for
professional nursing practice.
2, 4
Cognition
Social Responsibility
3. Identify assessment data with
which to formulate clinical
decisions.
Means of Assessment and
Criteria for Success
Mean: Unit C Client
Education examination
(mirrors the nursing
process)
Criteria: 80% of the
student’s will achieve >75%
on the unit examination
Mean: Unit A
Communication
examination and in-class
Communication exercise.
Criteria: 80% of the
student’s will achieve >75%
on the unit examination and
in-class communication
exercise.
Mean: Cultural Diversity
Group Project
Criteria: 90% of the
students will achieve >80%
on rubric for Cultural
Diversity Group Project
Summary of Data Collected
Use of Results
UNMET: 77% of students
achieved >75% on
combined Unit C/D Exam
Plan to separate unit exams to
target issues and trend results.
MET: 80% (36/45) students
achieved >75% on
combined Unit A/B exam
Plan to separate unit exams to
target issues and trend results.
n/a
Piloted Cultural Diversity Group
Project from an in class
exercise to a take home group
project. Rubric created. Will
evaluate next semester.
1, 2, 4
Communication
Cognition
Social Responsibility
4. Provide safe, patient-centered
care.
Mean: Unit B Culture and
Ethnicity examination.
Criteria: 80% of the
students will achieve > 75%
on unit examination
MET: 80% (36/45) students
achieved >75% on
combined Unit A/B exam
Plan to separate unit exams to
target issues and trend results.
1, 2, 4
Communication
Cognition
Social Responsibility
5. Describe roles of health care
team members and develop
effective strategies for
communication.
Mean: Unit D Group
Process examination.
Criteria: 80% of the
student’s will achieve >75%
on the unit examination.
UNMET: 77% of students
achieved >75% on
combined Unit C/D Exam
Plan to separate unit exams to
target issues and trend results.
6. Identify evidence-based
practices to support clinical
reasoning.
Mean: Selection and
evaluation of evidencebased study that support
selected stress reduction
technique used in teaching
assignment.
Criteria: 80% of the student
will select an appropriate
evidence-based study.
Not implemented for Fall
2014.
Piloted new teaching project
for logistics. Will add evidencebased component next
semester.
7. Implement a personal quality
improvement project.
Mean: Process recordings
Criteria: 80% of students
will score 15/20 (75%) or
higher per rubric on this
evidence-based tool that
improves therapeutic
communication.
Mean: Culture Presentation
Peer Evaluation
Criteria: 100% of students
will submit peer evaluation
forms
EMR not utilized in this
MET: 87% (117/135) of
process recordings achieved
>75%
Continue to monitor
2,3
Cognition
Information
Competency
2,4
Cognition
Social Responsibility
2,3,4
8. Identify the impact of
MET: 100% of students
submitted peer evaluation
n/a
n/a
Cognition
Information
Competency
Social Responsibility
information technology in the
clinical setting and guidelines for
protected health information.
course