NLNAC
APPENDICE 2011
College of DuPage
Associate Degree Nursing Program
Table of Contents
Section
Page #
Section IV: Appendices
1.2A
1.2B
1.2C
1.2D
1.3A
1.3B
1.5A
1.5B
1.9A
1.9B
College of DuPage Administration Organization Chart
Academic Affairs Staffing
Nursing Department Organizational Chart
Nursing Department Committee membership
Flyer for Clinical Faculty Academy
New Faculty Hire Checklists
Director of Nursing Job Description
Director of Nursing Résumé
Grade Review Form
Student Concern Form
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121
122
124
125
127
129
133
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2.3A
2.5A
2.6A
2.7A
2.7B
Laboratory Assistant Job Description
Professional Activities (of Full-time Nursing Faculty)
Administrative Assistant Job Description
New Faculty Hires Checklist
Faculty Mentor Checklist
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153
156
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3.1A
3.2A
3.2B
ADN Program Admission Policy
Academic Advising Policy
Academic Alert Policy and Communication Form (SBAR)
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171
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4.3A
4.3B
4.3C
4.5A
4.5B
4.5C
4.5D
4.5E
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193
215
219
248
251
252
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4.8.A
4.8B
4.8C
(Select) Clinical Performance Evaluation tools
Active Course Files
Syllabus Template
Laboratory Skills Checklist
A.D.N. Laboratory Policies
Clinical Contract
Suspension from Clinical Policy
Appeal Process for Unsatisfactory/Unsafe Clinical
Performance
Clinical sites used for the Nursing Program
Template for Clinical Affiliation Agreements
Clinical Site Evaluation Survey
5.2.A
Health Sciences Building/Nursing Learning Space
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6.1
6.2
Evaluation calendar
Systematic Evaluation plan
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260
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Appendices related to
Standard 1
Appendix 1.2A
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Appendix 1.2B
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Joseph E. Collins, Ph.D.
Vice President, Academic Affairs - x3203
Admin Asst: Cindy O'Neil x2690
Admin Asst: Tracey Frye x3249
Glenda Gallisath, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs - x2652
Honors Program
College Curriculum
Central Scheduling Office
Mary Klinefelter
Director of Academic Partnerships x2853
Regional Centers
High School Partnerships
Articulation
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Adult Fast Track
Part-Time Faculty Centers
Academic Program Review
Field & Experiential Learning
Study Abroad Program
International Education
Workforce Investment Board
Perkins Grants
Business & Technology-x2592
Dean: Karen Randall x3978
Interim Assoc Dean-Business: Kris Fay x3505
Assoc Dean-Technology: John Kronenburger x3614
Admin Asst: Linda Hickman x4286
Business
Accounting
Architecture/Construction Management
Business
Business Law
Cosmetology
Facility Management
Fashion Merchandising & Design
Foodservice
Hotel/Motel
Interior Design
Management
Marketing
Paralegal
Real Estate
Travel & Tourism
Center for Entrepreneurship
Small Business Development Cntr
Procurement Technical Assistant Cntr
International Trade Cntr
Technology
Automotive Technology
HVAC
Horticulture
Electro-Mechanical Technology
Electronics Technology
INET (Mecomtronics)
Manufacturing Technology
Welding
Computer Information Systems
Computer & Internet Technologies
Library Information Technology
Office Technology
Vocational Skills
Health Info Technology
Medical Transcription
Medical Coding & Billing
Long-Term Care Admin.
Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA)
Radiation Therapy
Respiratory Care
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Anthropology
Criminal Justice
Economics
Geography
Political Science
Social Science
Math & Physical Sciences
Astronomy
Earth Science
Meteorology
Physics
Mathematics
Engineering
Speech-Language Pathology Assistant
Sociology
Health & Sciences- HSC bldg x8331--IC bldg x2010
Dean: Tom Cameron, x2291
Assoc Dean-Health & Biological Sciences: Karen Solt, x2292
Assoc Dean-Math & Physical Sciences: Tom Schrader x3890
Assoc Dean-Social & Behavioral Sciences: Jaime Lewandowski x3408
Assoc Dean-Physical Education: Paul Zakowski, x2895
Director of Nursing: Vickie Gukenberger, x8425
Admin Asst: Peggy Lindstrom, x2617
Health & Biological Sciences
Health Sciences
Medical Assistant
Clinical Lab Science
Pharmacy Technician
Phlebotomy/EKG
Dental Hygiene
Diagnostic Medical Imaging (DMI)
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DMI Mammography
DMI Nuclear Medicine
DMI Radiography
DMI Sonography
DMI Vascular
Fire Science
EMT-B & Paramedic
Liberal Arts-x2047
Dean: Daniel Lloyd, x2865
Surgical Technology
Therapeutic Massage
Anatomy & Physiology
Chemistry
Biology
Botany
Microbiology
Zoology
Learning Resources
Dean: Lisa Stock, x2351
Psychology
Human Services
Education
Early Childhood
Physical Education
Continuing Education/Extended Learning-2208
Dean: Joseph Cassidy, x2316
Assoc. Dean: Ellen Sutton, x2659
Assoc Dean-Communications: Bev Reed x4218
Interim Assoc Dean-Humanities: Laura Ortiz, x2791
Assoc Dean-Fine & Applied Arts: Cathryn Wilkinson, x2425
Director: Stephen Cummins, x3007
Admin Asst: Cathie Walker, x2156
Communications
English
Journalism
Speech
Developmental Reading and Writing
Academic ESL
Fine & Applied Arts
Art
Graphic Arts Technology
Graphic Design
MPTV
Music
Photography
Theater Arts
Humanities
History
Humanities
Languages
Philosophy
Religious Studies
The McAninch Arts Center
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Nursing
Nurse Assistant (CNA)
Practical Nurse (PN)
Associate Degree Nursing (ADN)
Student Services
Dean: Susan Martin, x3224
Athletic Director: Paul Zakowski
x2895
Assoc Dean: Maria Martinez-Valiukenas, x3269
Asst. Dean: Roberta Sell, x2643 (thru 12/30/10)
Admin Asst: Nancy Haines, x2354
Library
Manager: Carol Smith, x2193
Adult Continuing Education
AdminAsst: Bonnie Shalin, x2485
Athletics
Academic Support Center
Youth Education
Student Life
CIL Support
Older Adult Institute
Career Services
Information Literacy Instruction
Program
Adult Education & ESL
Special Student Services
Suburban Law Enforcement Academy (SLEA)
Counseling & Advising
Office of Instructional Development
COD Business Solutions
C.O.D. Online
Childcare Center
Teaching & Learning Center
Testing Center
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Nursing Department Committee Membership 2010-2011
Fname
Lname
Bob
Donna
Theresa
Vickie
Janice
Karen
Maureen
Linda
Berry
Badowski
Bucy
Gukenberger (ex officio)
Miller
Troller
Waller
Barkoozis
<open>
<open>
Broche
Bucy
Engelmann
Finan
Gallyott
Gukenberger (ex officio)
Dave
Theresa
Lynn
Kathleen
Dilyss
Vickie
Naheed
Donna
Carol
Kim
Donna
Nancy
Dave
Lynn
Kathleen
Vickie
Harlan
Colette
Rosa
Hasan
Perchatsch
Stewart
Oosterhouse
<open>
Badowski
Boutcher
Broche
Engelmann
Fauth
Gukenberger (ex officio)
Schweer
Wright
Colella-Melki
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Type
FT Nursing Faculty
FT Nursing Faculty
FT Nursing Faculty
Director of Nursing
FT Nursing Faculty
TLC
FT Nursing Faculty
FT Nursing Faculty
PT Nursing Faculty
Student
Student
FT Nursing Faculty
FT Nursing Faculty
A&P Instructor
FT Nursing Faculty
Director of Nursing
Professor of
Psychology
Lab assistant
FT Nursing Faculty
FT Nursing Faculty
PT Nursing Faculty
FT Nursing Faculty
Admin Asst
Student
FT Nursing Faculty
Student
Director of Nursing
Office of Research
Student
FT Nursing Faculty
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Email
berryr@cod.edu
badowski@cod.edu
bucyth@cod.edu
gukenbergerv@cod.edu
millerja@cod.edu
troller@cod.edu
waller@cod.edu
barkoozi@cod.edu
broched@dupage.edu
bucyth@cod.edu
engelman@cod.edu
finank@cod.ed
gallyot@cod.edu
gukenbergerv@cod.edu
hasann@cod.edu
perchat@cod.edu
stewart@cod.edu
oosterho@cod.edu
badowski@cod.edu
boutchern@cod.edu
broched@dupage.edu
engelman@cod.edu
klfauth@sbcglobal.net
gukenbergerv@cod.edu
schweer@cod.edu
colette.u@gmail.com
colella-melkir@cod.edu
Faculty
Dev&
Welfare
Curriculum
& Design
Appendix 1.2D
Assessment
& Outcome
Chair
member
member
member
member
member
Recorder
Chair
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
Recorder
Chair
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
Recorder
Student
Participation
Program
Learning
Resources
Fname
Dilyss
Nancy
Rosa
Larinda
Vickie
Deb
Lisa
Haley
Janice
Emily
Kendra
Jim
Theresa
Donna
Jennifer
Bob
Larinda
Vickie
Debbie
Kim
Donna
Tish
Maureen
Janice
Lname
Type
Gallyott
<open>
Boutcher
Colella-Melki
Dixon
Gukenberger (ex officio)
FT Nursing Faculty
Registrar's Office
Admin Asst
FT Nursing Faculty
FT Nursing Faculty
Director of Nursing
Jeffay
<open>
La Rose
McCauley
Miller
Rezabek
Ross
Health Admissions
Specialist
PT Nursing Faculty
Student
Student
FT Nursing Faculty
student
PT Nursing Faculty
Ryan
Bucy
Badowski
<open>
<open>
Beaman
Berry
Dixon
Gukenberger (ex officio)
Kukak-Smith
Oosterhouse
Perchatsch
Richardson
Waller
Miller
Health Programs
Advisor
FT Nursing Faculty
FT Nursing Faculty
PT Nursing Faculty
Student
Student
FT Nursing Faculty
FT Nursing Faculty
Director of Nursing
Reference Librarian
FT Nursing Faculty
Lab assistant
Lab assistant
FT Nursing Faculty
FT Nursing Faculty
Email
gallyot@cod.edu
boutchern@cod.edu
colella-melkir@cod.edu
dixonl@cod.edu
gukenbergerv@cod.edu
jeffay@cod.edu
larosel@dupage.edu
millerja@cod.edu
rezabeke@dupage.edu
rosske@cod.edu
ryanja@cod.edu
bucyth@cod.edu
badowski@cod.edu
Faculty
Dev&
Welfare
Curriculum
& Design
Assessment
& Outcome
Student
Participation
Program
Learning
Resources
Chair
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
Recorder
Chair
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
member
Recorder
beaman@dupage.ed
berryr@cod.edu
dixonl@cod.edu
gukenbergerv@cod.edu
smithkak@cod.edu
oosterho@cod.edu
perchat@cod.edu
richardsonl3670@cod.edu
waller@cod.edu
millerja@cod.edu
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Appendix 1.3A
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Appendix 1.3B
Nursing Department New Faculty Hire Checklist
Faculty Member___________________________________________________
Directions: Initiate upon hiring; place in faculty member's file when completed
#
ACTIVITY
WHEN
WHO
1
Human Resources paperwork
reviewed; signed and taken to HR;
distribution of Department of
Nursing Manual
Within one week
of hire offer
Director of Nursing;
Administrative
Assistant
2
Direction(verbal/written) provided
to new hire regarding: (1) getting
ID card; (2) office space and
location; (3) mailbox; (4) keys; (5)
phone; (6) copy machine
operations; (7) fax machine
operations
Within one week
of hire offer
Administrative
Assistant
3
Assignment of mentor (FT nursing
dept faculty member in same
course as new faculty member) will
facilitate: (1) course orientation
(2)Bb orientation(3) provide
administrative assistant with
course textbook needs and (4)
testing procedures
Within one week
of hire offer
Faculty Development
and Welfare
Committee
Member(s)
4
College and Department
orientation
Within first week
of start of class
Director of Nursing
5
Tour of campus with special
attention to (1)Library; (2) TLC (3)
Division office; (4) Nursing Labs; (5)
HR; (6) Public Safety(7) PT Faculty
Office
Within first week
of semester
Faculty Mentor
6
Distribute textbooks for new
faculty member
Within one week
of hire offer
Admin. Asst.
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#
ACTIVITY
Distribution of course specific
materials including but not limited
to (1) syllabi; (2) clinical eval tool;
(3) course calendar: (4) course
materials related to maintaining
consistency in the
curriculum/course.
7
WHEN
WHO
At time of hire
Faculty Member Signature
Date
Faculty Mentor Signature
Date
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Identified course FT
faculty in
consultation with
Faculty Development
and Welfare
Committee
Appendix 1.5A
Job Description for Director of Nursing of the Associate Degree Nursing Program
Administrator Position
Description
Full time exempt
Position number
12245
Title
Director of Nursing
Department
Nursing
Function of Positions
Administrator of Nursing Programs
Duties of Position
*1. Administration and supervision of nurse assistant, practical nurse, and
associate degree in nursing programs.
*2. Recruitment, hiring, supervision and evaluation of all nursing faculty.
*3. Completion of didactic, laboratory, and clinical assignments for all
nursing faculty.
*4. Supervision of work assignments for laboratory assistants.
*5. Management of budgets and capital acquisitions.
*6. Leadership of program approvals and accreditation processes.
*7. Procurement and evaluation of clinical sites for all nursing programs.
8. Represent the college and programs with external agencies and groups.
9. Lead faculty to pursue appropriate grant funding opportunities.
*10. Oversee curriculum, student progress, and student performance
issues.
*11. Maintain clinical affiliation agreements; assure faculty and student
compliance with placement requirements.
*12. Coordinate and schedule regular program advisory committee(s)
meetings.
*13. Evaluation of programs, goals and outcomes.
14. Promotion of departmental efficiency and effectiveness of operations
and resource utilization.
15. Other related duties as assigned.
SUPERVISION:
Received by Employee: Dean of Health and Sciences Division
Exercised by Employee: 2 Laboratory Assistants, Student Worker, Faculty
; Administrative Assistant
EDUCATION:
Required: Master's Degree in Nursing; current active license as Registered
Nurse in Illinois or license-eligible.
Preferred: Additional coursework or advanced degree in education.
EXPERIENCE:
Required: 5 years experience as RN; 5 years experience in nursing
education.
Preferred: Teaching and/or administrative experience in a community
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college; management or administrative experience in educational setting;
knowledge/experience with NLN-AC self-study preparation; ability to guide
faculty through accreditation process.
Or equivalent combination of education and experience.
EQUIPMENT AND/OR
MACHINES USED
Personal computer, telephone, FAX, copy machine, classroom technology.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Office environment
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Appendix 1.5B
VICKIE GUKENBERGER
1552 W Ethans Glen Palatine, IL 60067
Cell: 224-558-1041 gukenberger@gmail.com
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS & ACCREDITATION SERVICES MANAGEMENT
PH.D. IN ADULT EDUCATION | MSN WITH EMPHASIS IN NURSING EDUCATION
Dynamic educator and administrator with extensive accreditation, enrollment, curriculum development, and
program management experience at the college level. Proven ability to increase student enrollment and
retention; implement in-demand certificate and degree programs; and build strong relationships with
hospitals, community health agencies, and internal stakeholders. Excels in leading strategic initiatives that
drive productivity, efficiency, and profitability.
Strategic Planning People, Product & Program Management Needs Assessment Curriculum
Development Operational Streamlining Proposal Development Budgeting Staff Recruitment &
Development Enrollment Management
Alternative Instructional Delivery Student Recruitment & Retention
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
COLLEGE OF DUPAGE, Glen Ellyn, IL, 2009-present
Third-largest single-campus community college in the nation and the second-largest institution of higher
education in Illinois
DIRECTOR OF NURSING
Oversee Associate Degree, Practical Nursing, and Certified Nursing Assistant programs encompassing 400
students and 55 faculty and staff members. Develop accreditation self study for the Associate Degree
program; devise annual schedule; forecast staffing requirements; manage $5 million annual budget.
Led merger of three programs into one cohesive department, resulting in streamlined operations,
increased efficiency, and improved resource utilization.
Enhanced student satisfaction while ensuring program accuracy by standardizing the requirement
identification process for all career programs within the Health Sciences Division.
Maintained an overall student retention rate of 80+ %.
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TRUMAN COLLEGE, Chicago, IL, 2009
Largest of the City Colleges of Chicago with a yearly enrollment of 23,000+ students
INTERIM DIRECTOR OF NURSING PROGRAM
Hired following initial consultant role to administer the Associate Degree Nursing Program, serving up to 180
students yearly, and prepare for National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission (NLNAC) reaccreditation visit. Managed 15 full-time faculty and adjunct instructors supporting day, evening, and
weekend classes.
Key contributor to program's successful accreditation visit and self-study submission. .
VICKIE GUKENBERGER, PHD, RN, Palatine, IL, 2007 to present
Career education consulting services
Provide curriculum development, outcomes assessment, program approval, needs assessment, and related
services. Selected engagements include:
College of DuPage and Illinois Community Board: Created nursing education curriculum plan pathway
from high school through college.
Harper College: Developed student learning assessment faculty development manual, Assessment to
Improve Learning: Meeting and Exceeding Expectations.
Moraine Valley Community College: Led development and approval of Associate Degree and Practical
Nursing program curriculum, policies, and assessment plan; scheduled implementation in Fall 2010.
Truman College: Directeddata collection and creation of the National League for Nursing Accreditation
self-study; program, which received the maximum eight-year accreditation.
ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY, Schaumburg, IL, 2007 to 2008
Private higher educational institution with campus locations in Chicago and Schaumburg
FOUNDING DIRECTOR & PROFESSOR OF NURSING
Charged with developing, implementing, and evaluating BSN and MSN degree programs, including a BSN
hybrid version with classroom and online learning. Developed BSN partnership program with area community
colleges.
Received Illinois Board of Higher Education HECA Innovations grant in March 2008.
HARPER COLLEGE, Palatine, IL, 2002 to 2007
Locally administered campus of the Illinois Community College System, with 40,000 students
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DEAN, HEALTH & PUBLIC SAFETY CAREERS DIVISION / DIRECTOR OF NURSING & RELATED
PROGRAMS, 2006 to 2007
DEAN, HEALTH & PUBLIC SAFETY CAREERS DIVISION, 2005
DEAN, LIFE SCIENCE AND HUMAN SERVICES, 2002 to 2005
Directed one of five Academic Affairs divisions with oversight for 40+ full-time faculty, nearly 100 adjuncts,
and technical/support staff. Led scheduling, budgeting, hiring, accreditation, and program review activities
related to
life/biological sciences and health / public safety careers. Participated in / chaired committees for
Instructional Technology, Centers for Excellence, and Alternative Program Scheduling and Packaging. Led
inter-departmental work team to create health careers program admission policy; developed health science
core curriculum to improve learner access, program effectiveness, and resource utilization efficiency.
Increased enrollment from 6% to 10+ % by implementing enhancements such as:
Three new degrees and three new certificate programs in a two-year period.
Initiatives addressing healthcare worker shortage that received a Critical Skills Shortage Initiative
grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO).
Partnerships with five local hospitals.
BSN degree program at Northern Illinois University/Harper College.
Radiation Therapy curriculum funded by a grant from the American Society of Radiation Therapists.
Additional educational opportunities in the areas of Mammography, Radiology, Forensics,
Paramedics, Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Cardiac Technology, and Environmental and
Occupational Health.
Key participant in the construction of an $88 million, 292,000 square foot Avante’ Center, which houses
heath, emerging technology and science programming; responsible for acquiring 50% of the space.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Allen College, Waterloo, IA: Dean of Academic Affairs, 2001 to 2002
Mid-State Technical College, Wisconsin Rapids, WI:
Dean, Health Careers Division & Director of Nursing Program, 1996 to 2001;
Director of Nursing Program, 1989 to 1996
EDUCATION & LICENSES
PhD in Adult Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
MSN in Nursing Education, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
BSN (magna cum laude), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
Illinois RN License
DACUM Facilitator
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AFFILIATIONS
Illinois Nurses Association American Nurses Association Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders Illinois
Association for Colleges of Nursing Illinois Coalition for Nursing Resources (2010-2012 President, past board
member) National League for Nursing American Association of College of Nursing Metropolitan Chicago
Health Care Workforce Council North/Northwest Suburban Health Care Task Force
Illinois Council of ADN Program Deans and Directors (2009-present); Chair 2010-2011
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Appendix 1.9B
College of DuPage
Health and Sciences Division
Student Concern Form
Date ________________
Course # ___________________
Section # __________________
Student Name __________________________
Instructor Name ____________________
Telephone (home)_________________________
(cell) __________________________
Address _______________________________________________________________________________________
Have you discussed this concern with the
e-mail Address ____________________________________
faculty member? _____ Yes ____No
Note: Your concern will be taken seriously and will be fully investigated by the Associate Dean or
Director responsible for the area. You will be contacted to further discuss your concerns.
Write a short description of your concern – include date(s), names of faculty or students involved, names
of any witnesses, where the situation occurred. Please be as complete as possible, listing facts that you
can confirm, and any other pertinent information about your concern.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________(please continue on back if more space is
needed)
Expected
resolution:____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
For Internal Use Only:
Name of Associate Dean/Director handling this concern _________________________________
Date Student was contacted __________
Type of meeting with student (circle one)
Method (circle one)
In person
phone
phone call
e-mail
home address
e-mail conversation
Resolution to the concern _______________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Attach any pertinent notes or e-mails to this form.
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Appendices related to
Standard 2
Appendix 2.3A
Classified Position Description
POSITION NUMBER:
19073
College of DuPage
Human Resources
Full Time X
Part Time
Non Exempt
TITLE:
Laboratory Assistant III - Nursing
Exempt
DEPARTMENT:
Health & Sciences
Grant
X
Temp
FUNCTION OF POSITION:
Coordinate the use of the laboratory learning space for all nursing programs in the Department
of Nursing; secures needed
resources; collaborates with faculty on supplies and resources required for operating the lab
learning; skilled at managing high
fidelity simulation.
Duties of Position
*1. Propose nursing programs' budget capital, supplies, and equipment for laboratory learning
and consistent with the Department of Technology plan. Purchases and inventories ordered
supplies and equipment. Maintain security of the lab learning space. Maintain order, cleanliness
and inventory on labs, return demo rooms and off-site labs (TCD and DCCC).
*2. Prepare supplies and equipment for each lab session and return demonstration experience.
Clean and store equipment after use. Properly dispose of biohazardous waste; arrange for use of
outside services in maintaining lab (i.e., laundry service, equipment maintenance programs, etc.).
*3. Prepare and manage scheduled lab teaching, open lab and return demonstration sessions.
*4. Prepare lab usage schedules and post in each room; monitor overall utilization of the labs.
*5. Conduct scheduled student orientation to the labs, equipment and supplies; develops,
communicates and implements policies for participation in and usage of the skills lab.
*6. Assist nursing faculty with evaluating the laboratory learning experience to promote
improvement.
*7. Supervise students during open lab sessions.
8. Evaluate vendors' products, cost and availability when making recommendations for
purchase or service.
*9. Prepare requisitions for supplies for signature by the Director of Nursing.
*10. Work with faculty to design learning modules and (high) fidelity learning scenarios for
use of labs; recommend changes in current lab to accommodate simulation and 'mock hospital"
learning.
11. Meet regularly with lab faculty to discuss student and faculty issues.
12. Other duties as assigned.
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SUPERVISION:
Received by Employee
Director of Nursing programs
Exercised by Employee
EDUCATION:
Required
RN with a bachelors degree (in any field)
Preferred
Bachelors degree with a major in nursing or Masters degree with a major in Nursing
EXPERIENCE:
Required
FTE of two (2) years of practice in clinical nursing as a RN
Preferred
Current practice in a variety of settings
EQUIPMENT AND/OR MACHINES USED:
Computer, telephone, patient care related equipment and machines; low to high fidelity
simulators.
WORKING CONDITIONS
On campus; approximately 20 hours per week year around; climbing stairs, lifting up to 20 lbs.
regularly.
Revision Date: 1/21/2010
Range:
Factor:
12
Supervisor
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Area Administrator
Cabinet
Appendix 2.5A
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
DETAILED LIST OF ACTIVITIES BETWEEN
January, 2008 through December, 2010
FULL-TIME FACULTY
FACULTY
Linda
Barkoozis
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
Illinois Education
Association (IEA)
National Education
Association (NEA)
National League for
Nursing (NLN)
Registered Nurse
Basic Life Support
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
Coursework:
Earned 36 semester credits through
course offerings in TLC, College of
DuPage, Aurora University, and
Concordia College
Developed three college-wide field
study classes
Developed second year student
nursing community clinic trips:
Springfield, IL and Washington DC
Seminars/Workshops/Conferences
Presenter:
April 2008, Wellness Day
presentation: Theosophical Society,
Wheaton, IL
September 2010, Hospice Care
Presentation, Concordia College,
Mequon, WI
Attended:
PUBLICATIONS
2010: Text Reviewer:
th
Medical-Surgical Nursing (12
edition, Brunner &Suddarth)
HONORS/
AWARDS
2009,
nominated for
COD: Teacher of
the Year Award
2007, Selected
for inclusion in
the 11th Edition
of Who’s Who
Among
America’s
Teachers,
2006/2007
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
Parish Nurse
projects: Messiah
Lutheran Church,
Elmhurst, IL
Director of Music
and Music Therapy,
Messiah Lutheran
Church, Elmhurst, IL
Health Fair at
community park
district, DuPage
County
Meals on Wheels:
Messiah Lutheran
Church branch
District Science Fair
Judge, Junior High
Schools
April 2008, IHA: Nurses in War: Past,
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
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FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
PUBLICATIONS
HONORS/
AWARDS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
Present, and Future
Activities:
Committee member: College-wide
Semester/Sabbatical Leave
Illinois Education
Association (IEA)
National Education
Association (NEA)
National League for
Nursing (NLN)
Registered Nurse
Basic Life Support
Robert
Berry
Coursework:
2008, Successfully defended Doctoral
Dissertation, Northern Illinois
University
2008, Graduated from Northern
Illinois University (Ed.D.)
Seminars/Workshops/Conferences
Attended:
2010, Human Rights Campaign
Convention “No Excuses”
Washington, D.C.
2010, Stroke Conference
2007, Keeping the Passion in Nursing
2007 & 2006, Nursing Scholarship
Reviewer
2007-Present, Human Rights
Campaign Annual Convention
Illinois Education
Association (IEA)
National Education
Association (NEA)
National League for
Nursing (NLN)
Rosa
CollelaMelki
138
Coursework:
2010, Windows 2007
2010, MCHC Clinical Faculty Academy
2009, Getting Results: A Professional
Development Course for Community
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Human Rights
Campaign
2007-2009, Board of
Governors
2007-2010,
Chairperson,
Diversity Outreach,
Human Rights
Campaign (HRC)
2007-2009 Founder,
College Outreach
Co-Founder, College
of DuPage Nursing
Reunion and Alumni
Scholarship Fund
Church Deacon, First
United Church Oak
Park, IL
College of DuPage
Open house
Precepted BSN
student in leadership
course for North
Park University
FACULTY
Rosa
CollelaMelki
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
Registered Nurse
Basic Life Support
Sigma Theta Tau
College Educators
2009, Completed New Faculty
Orientation, TLC, College of DuPage
Dixon
HONORS/
AWARDS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
Presentations:
2007, Diabetes Overview and
Medications, Adventist Health Care,
Hinsdale Hospital
2007, Severe Sepsis, Adventist Health
Care, Hinsdale Hospital
(continued)
Larinda
PUBLICATIONS
Illinois Education
Association (IEA)
National Education
Association (NEA)
National League for
Nursing (NLN)
Registered Nurse
Basic Life Support
Association of Black
Nursing Faculty
American Nurses
Association
Kappa Delta Pi
International Honor
Society
Member, INCR
Coursework
2008, Preparing to teach online,
University of St. Francis
Seminars/Workshops/Conferences
Presenter:
2007-2009, The Nursing Profession,
Dare to Dream Project, College of
DuPage
Attended:
2009, ActivSim Symposium, McGrawHill
2010, National Healthcare
conference, Stroke
2010, Nursing Simulation Strategies
2010, NLNAC Self-Study Forum
2010: McGraw Hill CoAuthored textbook & faculty
resource guide, Cases for
Clinical Simulation
2010: McGraw-Hill Authored
Chapter for Fundamentals of
Nursing Textbook,
Perioperative Nursing
2010: McGraw-Hill Content
Reviewer/ ActivSim
Simulation
2010: Text Reviewer:
Medical-Surgical Nursing (12th
edition, Brunner &Suddarth)
2009: McGraw-Hill, Content
Reviewer, ActivSim
Simulation
2007, Authored, The
Terminally Ill Client with
PancreaticCancer, Glen Ellyn,
2007 & 2006, ViceChair of Virginia
Estates Homeowners
Association
2006, President of
Virginia Estates
Homeowners
Association
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
139
FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
2010, Embedding Outcomes:
Assignment Design Tips
2008, Practical Strategies in the
Prevention and Management of
Venous Thromboembolic Disease in
Cancer Patients
2008, National League for Nursing
Faculty Leadership Conference
2008, Africa and the AIDS Crisis
2008, Orem Self-Study Workshop
2008, Nurses in War: Past, Present,
and Future
2008, Practical Strategies in the
Prevention and Management of
Venous Thromboembolic Disease in
Cancer Patients
2008, National League for Nursing
Education Summit: The Power of
Diversity in Nursing Education
Larinda
Dixon
(continued)
Activities
2009-2010, Committee Member for
Doctoral Dissertation, Northern
Illinois University
2007-2010 COD Dare to Dream
Project
2008-2006, Nursing Scholarship
Reviewer
2008, Grant: Designing the Education
Climate: Fostering the Collective
Whole
140
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Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
PUBLICATIONS
IL: College of DuPage Press
2007, Content Reviewer for
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publishing, Fundamentals of
Nursing Textbook
2007, Content Reviewer for
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publishing, Pathology,
Textbook
HONORS/
AWARDS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
PUBLICATIONS
HONORS/
AWARDS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
2007, Virtual Focus Group, On-Line
Conferencing & Conference Calling.
Instructors from different geographic
areas, programs, and disciplines
explore topics related to health and
diseases. Sponsored by Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins
Clinical
2007-2009, St. James Hospital-RN
staffing, ICU & ER
2007, Intelistaf, Staffing for Post
Anesthesia Care Units and Intensive
Care Units
Mary Lynn
Engelmann
Illinois Education
Association (IEA)
National Education
Association (NEA)
National League for
Nursing (NLN)
Registered Nurse
Certified Nurse
Educator (CNE)
National League for
Nursing
Basic Life Support
National
Organization for
Associate Degree
Nursing
Sigma Theta Tau,
Seminars/Workshops/Conferences
Presenter:
2010, National League for Nursing
Summit, Las Vegas, NV (2)
2009, New Jersey Council of
Associate Degree Nursing, New
Jersey
2009, National League for Nursing
Summit, Philadelphia, PA
2008, Drexel, Atlantic City, NJ
2008, Chamberlain School of Nursing,
St. Louis, MO
2008, Arkansas-Nurse Educator
Institute, Harrison, AR
2008, Ohio League for Nursing,
Engelmann, L. (2010). Clinical
learning: Do faculty teach how
to learn? Teaching and
Learning inNursing 5(3), 93-94.
Engelmann, L. (2010). So
You’re a Teacher, Now What
Do You Do? In Caputi, L. Ed.
Teaching Nursing: The Art
andScience, 2nd Ed. Glen
Ellyn, IL: College of DuPage
Press.
Engelmann, L. (2010).
Teaching in the
Community/Home Health
Setting. In Caputi, L. Ed.
Teaching Nursing: The Art
andScience, 2nd Ed. Glen
2008, Elected
Nursing
Education
Advisory Council
(NEAC), NLN
2008,
Appointment
ANEF Review
Panel
2008, Inducted
to Academy of
Nursing
Education, NLN
2007, Who’s
Who of
American
Women
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
141
FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
International Honor
Society of Nursing
Kappa Delta Pi,
International Honor
Society/Education
Mary Lynn
Engelmann
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
Columbus, OH
Webinars:
2010, National League for Nursing
Webinars (10/27 and 11/3)
2010, Nurse Tim, Inc. Webinar
(11/11)
Activities
(continued)
2010, Item reviewer: Elsevier HESI
2010, Focus Group, NLN
2010, Committee Member, NEAC,
NLN
2010, Member, NLN Educational
Competency Work Group (Published
NLN Monograph: Outcomes and
Competencies for Graduates of
Practical/Vocational, Diploma,
Associate Degree, Baccalaureate,
Mater’s, Pracice Doctorate, and
Research Doctorate Programs n
Nursing. 2010) NLN: New York, New
York.)
2009, Grant: Program of Study
Demonstration Project of Nursing,
Funded by the Illinois Community
College Board: advisory Member
2008, Grant: Designing the Education
Climate: Fostering the Collective
Whole
2008, WIA grant
142
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Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
PUBLICATIONS
Ellyn, IL: College of DuPage
Press.
Engelmann, L. (2009). To Sim
or not to Sim: Some
considerations. Teaching and
Learning inNursing 4(3), 69-70.
Engelmann, L. (2008).
Establishing Civil Working
Relationships. Tineaching and
Learning inNursing 3(3), 85-86.
Engelmann, L., et al. (2008).
Tapping into your center of
excellence. Nursing
EducationPerspectives. 29(6),
383-5.
Caputi, L. and Engelmann, L.
(2008) Teaching Nursing: The
Art and Science: It’s All About
Student Success. College of
DuPage Press.
Engelmann, L. (2007).
Becoming a teacher: Working
together can make us good.
Teaching and Learningin
Nursing. 2(3), 61-62.
Caputi, L., Engelmann, L. and
Stansinopoulos, J. (2006). An
interdisciplinary approach to
the needs of non-native
speaking nursing students:
Conversation circles. Nurse
Educator 31(3), 107-111.
HONORS/
AWARDS
2007,
Appointment as
Associate Editor
of Teaching and
Learning in
Nursing, Official
Journal of the
National
Association for
Associate
Degree Nursing
2006,
Appointment to
NLN
Ambassadors
2006,
Nominated
Outstanding
Faculty Member
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
FACULTY
Mary Lynn
Engelmann
(continued)
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
2008, Test Item Reviewer, Drexel
2008 Aurora University Advisory
Board
IHSA Scholarship application review
2008 Benedictine University Advisory
Board
Development of Critical Thinking
Case Study: The Patient with
Cirrhosis (in press)
2007, NLN Task Force on Excellence
in Nursing Education
PUBLICATIONS
HONORS/
AWARDS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
Engelmann, L. (2005). NCLEXRN examination. In Cherry, B.
& Jacob, S., Eds.
Contemporary nursing: Issues,
trends andManagement, 3rd
Ed., St. Louis: Mosby.
Engelmann, L. and Miller, J.
(2005). Empowering One
Another. In. L. Caputi (Ed.),
Teaching Nursing: The Art
andScience. Glen Ellyn, Ill.:
College of DuPage Press.
Engelmann, L. and Caputi, L.
(2005). Ideas to develop
critical thinking in the
classroom and clinical setting.
In L. Caputi (Ed.), Teaching
Nursing: TheArt and Science.
Glen Ellyn, Ill.: College of
DuPage Press.
Caputi, L. and Engelmann, L.
(2004). Teaching Nursing:
TheArt and Science. College of
DuPage Press.
Engelmann, L. (2002). An
exploration of strategies to
help students identified at
risk for passing NLCEX-RN and
implications for nurse
educators. UMI Number:
3055437
Engelmann, L. and Caputi, L.
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
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FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
PUBLICATIONS
HONORS/
AWARDS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
(2000). Coaching Your
®
Studentsto NCLEX-RN
Success. Glen Ellyn, Ill.:
College of DuPage.
Illinois Education
Association (IEA)
National Education
Association (NEA)
National League for
Nursing (NLN)
Registered Nurse
Basic Life Support
Advanced Cardiac
Support, (ACLS)
Recertification
Pediatric Advanced
Life support (PALS)
recertification
American
Association of
Critical Care Nurses
Certified Critical
Care Nurse
Sigma Theta Tau
Golden Key
National Honors
Society
Sigma Iota Epsilon
Member of ICNR
Dilyss
Gallyot
144
Coursework:
2009, earned Master of Business
Administration degree, Northern
Illinois University
Seminars/Workshops/Conferences
Attended:
2009, Disruptive Innovations in
Teaching
2009, Becoming a Resonant Leader
2008, Information Literacy and
Research Skills
2008, Current Issues in Adult
Education II
2008, Facilitate Learning Among
Adults II
2007, Web Development for
Educators
2007, Facilitate Adult Learning I
2007, Current Issues in Adult
Education I
2007, The Power of the Spreadsheet
Modeling, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, IL
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
2010-2009,
Nominated for
Outstanding
Faculty Award
2009, Sigma
Iota Epsilon,
National
Honorary and
Management
Fraternity
2008, CIEP
Faculty
Champion
Fall 09 - Open House
for Health Science
for College of
DuPage
Spring 10 - NIWI,
Nurses Internship in
Washington for
AACN
FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
PUBLICATIONS
HONORS/
AWARDS
2006 Case Study on Diabetes
inPregnancy, College of
DuPage Press
2006 Case Study on
Hypertension in Pregnancy,
College of DuPage Press
2008 & 2007
Nominated for
Outstanding
Faculty
2008,
Nominated for
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
Student Study Skills Seminar
2007, The Power of the Web Page
Design 103, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, IL
2007, SHEIFGAB the World! A Unique
Perspective on Career Transitions
2007, Why Ireland Never Invaded
America, A Look at Corporate
Strategy, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, IL
2007, Critical Care Review & New
Concepts, Loyola University Medical
Center
Activities:
Dilyss
Gallyot
(continued)
2008, 2007 & 2006 Nursing
Externship Cooperative Education
Program
Clinical:
2007 - Staff Nurse Interventional
Radiology, Central DuPage Hospital
2008 - American Access Care Interventional Radiology
2008 - Maxim Home Health Care
Janice
Miller
Illinois Education
Association (IEA)
National Education
Association (NEA)
National League for
Nursing (NLN)
Coursework:
2009, Doctoral Candidate Northern
Illinois University, Adult Higher
Education
2007, Enrolled in Course Offerings at
February 2007,
Medical Mission to
Kenya Africa
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
145
FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
Registered Nurse
Basic Life Support
Sigma Theta Tau
since 2001
Kappa Delta Pi,
International Honor
Society / Education
Janice
Miller
(continued)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
the College of DuPage
Seminars/Workshops/Conferences
Presenter
2008, Keynote Speaker, College of
DuPage Alumni Dinner, Africa and the
AIDS Crisis
AHE Summer 2009
Attended:
PUBLICATIONS
HONORS/
AWARDS
Developed two interactive
case studies on PIH and
Pregnancy and Diabetes and
Pregnancy, 2007
Contributed a chapter in
textbook, The Art and
Scienceof Nursing Education,
Dr. Linda Caputi and Dr. Lynn
Engelmann, co-authors, 2004
Outstanding
Faculty Advisor
2006, Who’s
Who Among
America’s
Teachers
Publications in preparation Oosterhouse, K. J. and
Vincent, C.U. “The
Interactional Model of Client
Health Behavior: A
Theoretical Analysis and
Evaluation” & “The Use of
Vignettes in Research”
Phi Kappa Phi
Honor Society,
UIC Chapter
2009, Golden
Key,
International
Honor Society
2009,
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
February 2010, March of Dimes
Conference
December 2007, NLN Preparation
Course for Certification as a Nurse
Educator
2006, Enrolled in Adult Higher
Education Doctoral Program at
Northern Illinois University
Activities
Spring 2009, Adjunct Faculty NIU;
Mentored NIU Graduate Student
Illinois Education
Association (IEA)
National Education
Association (NEA)
National League for
Nursing (NLN)
Registered Nurse
Basic Life Support
Kim
Oosterhouse
146
Activities:
2007-Present, Doctoral Student,
Nursing Research, University of
Illinois at Chicago
Healthcare Leadership Council (01)
Northern Illinois University Preceptor
for MSN Candidate, Patricia Bauman
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
2008, Career Day
presenter
Instructor, ACLSRush Community
Training Center,
Chicago, IL
AED Committee,
College Church,
FACULTY
Kim
Oosterhouse
(continued)
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
ACLS
American
Association of
Critical Care Nurses
Critical Care
Registered Nurse
Advanced Cardiac
Life Support
Instructor
Sigma Theta Tau;
Gamma Phi Chapter
Gerontological
Society of America
ANA/INA
International
Association for
Clinical Simulation
& Learning
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
Adjunct Faculty, NIU
Walden University Preceptor for
MSN Candidate, Katherine Cabai
Seminars/Workshops/Conferences
Technology in Nursing Education
Seattle, WA
Activities
Developed data collection tool
Collaborated with Heath Sciences
Librarian, to incorporate information
literacy into the nursing curriculum
Coordinated to develop “Stress
Management” in-service for nursing
Students
Coursework
2010, Qualitative Methods in
Educational Research, University of
Illinois at Chicago
2009, Clinical Instruction in Nursing
Education, Rush University
2009, Public Health and the Older
Adult, University of Illinois at Chicago
2008, Theory Development for
Nursing Research
2008, Loss, Dying, and Bereavement,
University of Illinois at Chicago
2007-2008, Issues in Adult Education
I & II
PUBLICATIONS
Manuscript Submission
“Theory Analysis of the
Interaction Model of Client
Health Behavior” To Research
in Nursing and Health
HONORS/
AWARDS
Presidential
Who’s Who
2007,
Outstanding
Faculty
Nomination
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
Wheaton, IL
AHA Walk
2007, Careers in
Healthcare: Nursing,
Glenbard East High
School, Carol
Stream, IL
Als Instructor Rush
Community Training
Center, Chicago, IL
2008-2009 Advances
the Nursing
Education Grant,
Chicago City Colleges
of UIC, Tutor
2008, Keeneyville
Career and Job Fair
2008, Teaching
Association,
Statistics and
Nursing Research,
UIC
2007-2008,
Facilitating Learning
Among Adults I and
II, College of DuPage
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
147
FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
Illinois Education
Association (IEA)
National Education
Association (NEA)
National League for
Nursing (NLN)
Registered Nurse
Basic Life Support
Licensed Advance
Practice Nurse:
Clinical Specialist
Certified Psychiatric
Mental Health
Clinical Nurse
Specialist
Certified Alcohol &
Drugs Counselor
National
Association of the
Mentally Ill, DuPage
Chapter
American
Psychiatric Nurses
Association
Member, Illinois
Coalition for
Nursing Resources,
2010
Carol
Stewart
Carol
Stewart
(continued)
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
Coursework
2010, COD, Getting Results: A
Professional Development Course on
Classroom Development
2009, COD, Changing Minds
2008, COD: Leading Change
2008, COD: Facilitating Learning
Among Adults
2008, COD, Word Processing I
2008, COD, Getting the Right Things
Done
2008, COD, Celebration of Teaching
2008, St. Xavier University,
Adolescent Psychology and Its Effects
on Learning
2008, Facilitating Learning Among
Adults, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn,
IL
Conferences
2008-2009, IAODAPCA conference
2010, NLNAC Self Study Forum
2010, Seventh Annual Evidence
Based Practice Conference, Edward
Hospital
2010, 16th Annual Summer Institute
on Addictions
2010, Moving Psychiatric Nursing in
the New Millennium
2010, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
and Mindfulness
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
PUBLICATIONS
HONORS/
AWARDS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
Community Activities
2009-Presenter, COD
Expert Speaker
Guide
2005 Good
Samaritan Magnet
Application
FACULTY
Carol
Stewart
(continued)
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
PUBLICATIONS
HONORS/
AWARDS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
2010, Multimedia Tools for Educators
2010, Understanding of Basics of
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
2010, The Empowered Nurse:
Advocating for our Consumers and
Ourselves
2010, Edward Hospital: Innovations
and Updated in the Treatment of
Eating Disorders Conference
2009, Very Best Treatment for ADHD
and the Processing Disorders
2009, Healing Our Heroes: Strategies
to help returning veterans and their
families to Cope with the Invisible
Injuries of War
2009, Beyond the Yellow Ribbon:
Diagnosing and Treating Anxiety and
PTSD in Returning Veterans
2009, Haymarket Center; 15th Annual
Summer Institute of Addictions
2009, Lessons Learned: Innovative
Approaches to Mental Health Courts
and Related Services
2009, NLN: Reinventing Curriculum
2009, NLN: Self-Study Forum, New
Orleans, LA
2009, Rush University: Clinical
Instruction in Nursing Education
2009, IAODAPCA: Annual Spring
Conference
2009, Linden Oaks Hospital: Nursing
Seminar: Between Care and
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
149
FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
PUBLICATIONS
HONORS/
AWARDS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
Clinical—A Nurse’s Perspective
2009, AATP: Drawing Outside the
Lines and Expressive Therapies
2009, PESI: Ultimate Diabetes
Course
2009, Battling Burnout
2009, Surviving Trauma and
Continuous Victimization
2009, Positive Psychology
2009, Teens and Suicide
2008, Making Good
Decisions/Education
2008, Surviving Trauma and
continuous victimization
2008, Teens and Suicide
2008, Psychiatric Medication
2008, Africa and the AIDS Crisis
2007, Keeping the Passion in Nursing
2007, One Day Seminar on Diabetes
Carol
Stewart
(continued)
Illinois Education
Association (IEA)
National Education
Association (NEA)
National League for
Nursing (NLN)
Registered Nurse
Basic Life Support
Association of
Women’s Health
Obstetric &
Neonatal Nursing
Maureen
Waller
150
Continuing Education:
2010, Surgery and the Neonate
2010, Late Preterm Newborns: A
Neonatal Nursing Challenge
2010, SIDS and Sleep Environment
2010, Nutrition in Neonates with
Gastroschisis
2010, Preconception Nutrition:
Improving Outcomes for Mother and
Baby
2010, Disruptive Behaviors in the
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Reviewer:
Content Reviewer, MaternalChild Nursing by Adele
Pilliterri, 6th Edition,
Lippincott, Williams and
Williams
2008,
Nominated for
Outstanding
Faculty Award,
College of
DuPage
2007, Received
Outstanding
Faculty Member
Award, College
of DuPage
2006,
2007 & 2006
Founder and
Facilitator, Cancer
Support Group,
College of DuPage
2007-2009,
Volunteer, PADS
Homeless Shelter,
Matteson, IL
2007 & 2006,
Secretary,
Providence Catholic
FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
(AWHONN)
Sigma Theta Tau
International Honor
Society of Nursing
Certifications
Maureen
Waller
(continued)
RNC (Neonatal
Intensive Care
Nursing), NCC
Certified Childbirth
Educator
Certified Perinatal
Grief Counselor
American Heart
Association CPR
Certificate, Long
Term Care
Administration,
College of DuPage,
2005
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
Workplace: No Longer Tolerated
th
2010, 35 Annual March of Dimes
Perinatal Conference
2010, NLNAC Self-Study Forum,
Chicago, IL
2010, Genetic Issues for Perinatal
Nurses (March of Dimes)
2010, Preemie for a Day
2010, Breastfeeding: New Strategies
for Improved Outcomes
2010, Preparing for the Certified
Nurse Educator Certification
2009, Nursing Ethics
2009, Cultural Perspectives in
Childbearing
2009, Folic Acid—The Hope for the
Future
2009, Parental Reactions to Having a
Child with Disabilities
2009, Uncovering Gestational
Diabetes for the Health of Mother
and Child
2009, Uncovering Abuse in Pregnant
Women
2009, Trends in Pediatric Genetics for
Maternal Child Nurses
2009, Genetic Testing
2009, Preventing Perinatal HIV
Transmission
2009, Genetic Risk Assessment
2009, The Sobering Facts About Fetal
Alcohol Exposure
PUBLICATIONS
HONORS/
AWARDS
Nominated
Outstanding
Faculty
Member,
College of
DuPage
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
Women’s Club
2008 & 2007, VicePresident, High
School Women’s
Club
2009 & 2008,
President,
Providence Catholic
High School
Women’s Club
Lector, St. Stephen
Deacon and Martyr
Catholic Church
Homeless Shelter
Volunteer, St.
Stephen Deacon and
Martyr Catholic
Church
Co-Founder, College
of DuPage Nursing
Reunion and Alumni
Scholarship Fund
Designated Nurse
Planner, DuPage
Continuing
Education Program,
2009-present
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FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS/
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
ACTIVITIES
2009, The Challenge of Short Bowel
Syndrome in the Pediatric Patient
2009, Late Preterm Infants Need
Special Care
2009, Newborn Screening
2009, Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
2009, Document it Right
rd
2009, Advocate Health Care 33
Annual Symposium on Perinatal
Medicine
2009, University of Chicago Perinatal
Center—Neonatal Respiratory
Disorders
2009, Newborn Transition
2008, Africa and the AIDS Crisis
2008, Eight Habits of Highly Effective
Nurse Educators
Clinical:
Maureen
Waller
(continued)
2007-2009, Staff Nurse, ProMed
Staffing
Activities:
2006-2008, COD Nursing Alumni
Scholarship Committee
2010, Advisory Council PESI Health
Care
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HONORS/
AWARDS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES &
ACTIVITIES
Appendix 2.6A
Classified Position Description
College of DuPage Human Resources
POSITION NUMBER:
21113
X Full Time
Part Time
X Non Exempt
TITLE:
Administrative Assistant V
Exempt
DEPARTMENT:
Health & Sciences
Grant
Temp
FUNCTION OF POSITION:
Provide administrative assistance to the Director of Nursing and the three programs therein
(Associate Degree Nursing, Practical
Nursing and Certified Nursing Assistant).
Duties of Position
*(DENOTES ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS)
*1. Maintain student databases for students in nursing programs based on admission database
started by Admission Office and including student and faculty clinical participation readiness.
This includes any tracking related to Criminal Background checks or other resources used to
meet these clinical placement/participation requirements.
*2. Maintain the share drive accuracy and integrity for the Nursing Department; assist with
development of process and procedure manuals to improve operations of the department.
*3. Staff the department and program faculty meetings; including arranging for rooms, taking
minutes and securing any documents associated with meetings; assist as liaison among
administrators, faculty and staff on behalf of the Director of Nursing; assist with coordinating
department wide activities and professional development activities.
*4. Complete communications and reports needed for facilitating the programs' offerings
including monitoring clinical site affiliation agreements currency, clinical site participation
requirements, sending letter of clinical site requests and student rosters, faculty contact
information, and student/faculty clinical participation readiness as required by the individual
agencies. Assist with communicating class information to faculty, particularly adjunct, and
assist with providing needed orientation materials/services to new hires.
*5. Manage communications (i.e., mail, email, fax, package delivery, etc.) of the Director of
Nursing. This also includes managing calendar and making appointments.
*6. Assist with completion of and submission of needed documentation to IDPH and SIU for
C.N.A. Program, and the same to I.D.F.P.R. for A.D.N. and P.N. Programs; as well as NLNAC;
coordinate annual program review.
*7. Assist with the completion of and reconcile purchase requisitions. Work with Nursing
Department Lab Coordinator for those requisitions specific to lab resources and the
reconciliation of those requisitions. Monitor and facilitate ordering of faculty desk copy
textbooks.
*8. Maintain student and department faculty personnel, performance and clinical participation
files, insuring confidentiality. Comply with faculty contract including student surveys of
department faculty, schedule classroom observations, prepare letters of recommendation for
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tenure and D to E range change. Facilitate part-time faculty evaluation. Coordinate search
committee functions.
*9. Collect, compile and prepare data and information for various reports with varying degree
of difficulty and often multi-year in nature.
*10. Answer, screen, and relay telephone calls and questions from students, faculty, staff and
the public, resolving routine inquiries or referring questions and concerns as appropriate.
11. Carry out recurring office procedures.
*12. Assist with scheduling of courses and rooms in college approved system; monitoring of
faculty workload. Submit course cancellation information.
*13. Work with program faculty and admissions office to insure updated information on
program orientation; admissions, health requirements, etc. for use in advising sessions and
posted on the web; also work with admissions on class records and registration documents
including grade and attendance sheets, mid-term verifications, final grade sheets, permits to
register, add/drop forms, etc. Organize and schedule nursing program advising sessions,
soliciting faculty sign-up for hosting.
*14. Maintain curriculum information for each program, including, but not limited to course
syllabi and course evaluation information.
15. Other duties as assigned.
SUPERVISION:
Received by Employee
Division Office Manager.
Exercised by Employee
None
EDUCATION:
Required
Associates degree
Preferred
Associates degree or Bachelors degree with emphasis in office management, computer technology and/or
business
EXPERIENCE:
Required
Two years in an administrative or executive assistant role; high level of skill with MS Office Suite.
Preferred
Two years in an administrative or executive assistant role in education; high level of skill with MS Office Suite
and web page
development experience.
EQUIPMENT AND/OR MACHINES USED:
Office equipment including computers, fax, copiers, printers, etc.
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WORKING CONDITIONS
Office environment; high and fast paced regulatory in nature.
Revision Date: 3/23/2010
Range:
Factor:
10
Supervisor
Area Administrator
Cabinet
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Appendix 2.7A
Nursing Department New Faculty Hire Checklist
Faculty Member___________________________________________________
Directions: Initiate upon hiring; place in faculty member's file when completed
#
ACTIVITY
WHEN
WHO
1
Human Resources paperwork
reviewed; signed and taken to HR;
distribution of Department of
Nursing Manual
Within one week
of hire offer
Director of Nursing;
Administrative
Assistant
2
Direction(verbal/written) provided
to new hire regarding: (1) getting
ID card; (2) office space and
location; (3) mailbox; (4) keys; (5)
phone; (6) copy machine
operations; (7) fax machine
operations
Within one week
of hire offer
Administrative
Assistant
3
Assignment of mentor (FT nursing
dept faculty member in same
course as new faculty member) will
facilitate: (1) course orientation
(2)Bb orientation(3) provide
administrative assistant with
course textbook needs and (4)
testing procedures
Within one week
of hire offer
Faculty Development
and Welfare
Committee
Member(s)
4
College and Department
orientation
Within first week
of start of class
Director of Nursing
5
Tour of campus with special
attention to (1)Library; (2) TLC (3)
Division office; (4) Nursing Labs; (5)
HR; (6) Public Safety(7) PT Faculty
Office
Within first week
of semester
Faculty Mentor
6
Distribute textbooks for new
faculty member
Within one week
of hire offer
Admin. Asst.
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Distribution of course specific
materials including but not limited
to (1) syllabi; (2) clinical eval tool;
(3) course calendar: (4) course
materials related to maintaining
consistency in the
curriculum/course.
At time of hire
Identified course FT
faculty in
consultation with
Faculty Development
and Welfare
Committee
Faculty Member Signature
Date
Faculty Mentor Signature
Date
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Appendix 2.7B
Nursing Program
Faculty Mentor Checklist
Faculty Member:________________________ Faculty Mentor: _________________________
#
1
Activity
Initial Contact with Faculty Member
2
Course Orientation
(Including Materials to Maintain Course Consistency)
Date:_____________
3
Syllabus/Case/Calendar/Textbook/Information provided
Date:_____________
4
Overview/Utilization of Clinical Evaluation Tool
Date:_____________
5
Information Provided Regarding Blackboard Training in
TLC
Date:_____________
6
Overview of Blackboard
Date:_____________
7
Overview of My Access ( Mid-term Verification, Final
Grading)
Nursing Faculty Communication Tools:
Tools
Outlook
Nursing Department Portal
Date:_____________
8
Completed/Date
Date:_____________
Date:_____________
9
Faculty Resources at COD
Staff Services
Copy Center
TLC
Library Resources
Administrative Assistant Support
Date:_____________
10
Tour of Campus
Date:_____________
Library
TLC
Division Offices (Mailboxes)
Nursing Labs
Part-Time Faculty Office
Human Resources
Public Safety
Signature Upon completion
Faculty Member:_______________________ Faculty Mentor: ___________________________
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Appendices related to
Standard 3
Appendix 3.1A
Revised 11/12/2010
College of DuPage
Associate Degree Nursing Program
Online Admissions Packet
Fall 2011
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The Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) program at College of DuPage has been approved by
the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation/Board of Nursing and the
Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) and received reaccreditation in 2008 by The Higher
Learning Commission – North Central Association. The ADN program has currently received candidate status
recognition through the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, Inc. (NLNAC), 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 500, Atlanta,
GA 30326, phone: (404) 975-5000, fax (404) 975-5020, www.nlnac.org.
Revised for Fall 2011 Admissions by The Nursing Admissions Committee
*Note: Requirements are subject to change.
Note: Students are not accepted into this program until they receive an official acceptance letter from
the Health Sciences Admissions office.
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Admission Criteria
Students interested in the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) program will need to complete all of the
following steps to be considered for admission.
Deadline for completion is Feb. 1, 2011.
Step 1 ___
Fill out the College of DuPage Admission Form online at home.cod.edu/admissions/apply
or in person at the College of Du Page Admissions office, SRC 2046. If you have previously
attended COD, you can omit this step.
Step 2 ___
Attend an ADN Advising Session and bring a photo ID. Current Advising Session dates can
be located at home.cod.edu/admissions/hsAdmissions.
Step 3 ___
Complete the online Health Sciences Application for Admission form at:
https://home.cod.edu/admissions/apply/applicationlisting.aspx and follow the
instructions. Select Nursing on the second page of the online application. NOTE: You can
only submit the application online, and you must pay a $50 non-refundable application
fee online by credit card. If you do not have a credit card, please call the Admissions office
at (630) 942-2380.
Step 4 ___
Complete requirements for Chemistry AND Anatomy & Physiology. Chemistry and
Anatomy & Physiology must be completed prior to the application deadline (Feb. 1,
2011).
A.
CHEMISTRY
The ADN Admissions Committee will accept:
College Chemistry 1105, 1211, 1551, 1552, 2551, 2552, 2213 or equivalent
with a grade of “C” or better
Note: If you plan to pursue a BSN degree after graduation, please take Chemistry
1211.
B.
ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY
The ADN Admissions Committee will accept:
Anatomy and Physiology 1551 or 1571 or equivalent
with a grade of “C” or better
Must be completed between Feb. 1, 2006, and Feb. 1, 2011
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Step 5 ___
Fill out the Program Evaluation Form located on this web site to ensure related
coursework towards your degree will be evaluated and then sent to the Health Science
Admissions from other colleges and College of DuPage:
ssdev.cod.edu/Media/Website%20Resources/pdf/admissions/hsAdmissions/HSevaluati
on.pdf
RECORDS OFFICE, SRC 2015, (630) 942-3833
425 FAWELL BLVD, GLEN ELLYN, IL 60137
*IMPORTANT: If you have an international transcript from high school or college, it MUST be
evaluated by Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. Forms may be obtained online at:
www.ece.org.
Step 6 ___
Take the National League for Nursing Pre-Admission Examination, RN (PAX-RN). Testing
information can be obtained at: home.cod.edu/admissions/hsAdmissions. The test can
be taken once every six months; test scores are submissible for two years from the date of
the examination.
Priority for admission:
a. In-district applicants
b. Out-of-district applicants and Out-of-district applicants working full-time in-district (proof of
in-district employment will be required each semester).
Applicants who have completed steps 1 to 6 will have their file reviewed by the ADN Admissions
Committee. The application deadline is Friday, Feb. 1, 2011.
The College of Du Page Admissions office will not accept any additional application materials after the
deadline. Notification letters will be sent no later than March 18, 2011, after the Admissions Committee
has reviewed all applications.
Provisional admission is based on a merit evaluation. Applicants meeting all admission criteria will be
ranked on a point system. If you would like to calculate your potential merit points, you can visit:
http://home.cod.edu/Media/Website%20Resources/pdf/academics/programs/nursing/rankscore.pdf
If you have questions regarding this criteria and your ranking, please contact a nursing faculty member
at: http://home.cod.edu/academics/programsdegrees/nursing/faculty.aspx. Points will be awarded on
the following criteria:
a. GPA from prerequisites and required general education courses (minimum of 2.75)
b. Number of general education courses completed for A.A.S. in Nursing
c. Degrees earned
d. Percentile scores on the PAX-RN examination
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What Else Can I Be Doing?
HLTHS 1105
A&P 1552
or
Nursing Assistant (or equivalent Illinois CNA certification)
Human Anatomy & Physiology II**
6
4
A&P 1572
Human Anatomy & Physiology with Cadaver II**
4
** Anatomy & Physiology 1552 or 1572 must be completed between Feb. 1, 2006, and prior to Fall
2011.
These courses must be completedprior to Fall 2011 and prior to the beginning of the Nursing course
sequence.
Courses listed below fulfill general education degree requirements
Associate in Applied Science Degree – Nursing
General Education
English 1101
Speech 1100
Speech 1120
Credit Hours
English Composition I
Fundamentals of Speech Communication
Small-Group Communication
* Foods 1110
Basic Nutrition
Math
Any Math course 1102 or higher , except for Math
1340 (Math 1102 is recommended)
* Micro 1420
Microbiology
^Psych 2237
Developmental Psychology: The Lifespan
One course must be selected from Humanities to satisfy A.A.S. requirements.
3
3 or
3
3
4
3
^ Psychology 1100 is a prerequisite for Psychology 2237 at the College of DuPage. Psychology 2237
must be completed by the end the second semester of the program.
* These courses must be completed prior to the third semester of the program.
Costs of the Program
Courses that have a NURSI prefix have an increased tuition cost as compared to standard in-district tuition
rates. Further information on the costs of the program can be found at
http://www.cod.edu/nursing/adn/adnfaqs.htm.
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What Else Do I Need to Know?
Standard Skills in Health Care Programs
To participate in any health career program at College of DuPage which has a direct patient care or
clinical education component, applicants must possess additional non-academic skills. These
occupational standards are consistent with the duties of the entry-level professional in that field and are
set by the individual program. These skills, which protect the health and well-being of patients, may
include but are not limited to the ability to:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Lift and carry 30 pounds of weight.
Lift and transfer patients to and from wheelchairs, stretchers, beds and imaging tables.
Move, adjust and manipulate equipment.
Position patients for exams.
Respond appropriately to sounds such as the patient's voice and movements at a normal
conversational volume.
Respond appropriately to equipment signals such as sound and light.
Manipulate the necessary hospital equipment for patient care such as dials, switches, push
buttons and keyboards.
Perform for a prolonged period without breaks in a typical shift of eight hours.
Communicate orally and in writing with patients, doctors and other personnel clearly and
effectively. Must be able to follow verbal and written directions.
Students who do not meet these standards may be considered ineligible for a program and can be
withdrawn from all program classes. If you are unsure whether you can meet these requirements, you
are advised to consult an adviser, counselor or member of the program faculty to discuss the situation,
and/or schedule an appointment with your physician prior to making application or enrolling for classes.
If an acute condition arises while enrolled in the Nursing program, a written statement must be
obtained by the student from the physician stating the student’s ability to move, lift and transfer
patients without restriction. The above requirements also pertain to pregnancy.
Non-Discrimination Policy
The college will not discriminate in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, religion or
creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, arrest record, military status or
unfavorable discharge from military service, citizenship status, use of lawful products while not at work,
physical or mental handicap or disability. (Board Policy 15-5,
home.cod.edu/generalInfo/about/nonDiscrimination.aspx)
Non-discrimination applies to all areas of the college, including the following departments: Admissions,
Educational Services, Employment, Financial Aid, Placement and Recruitment. The lack of English
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language skills shall not be a barrier to admission and participation in educational programs. Admissions
criteria and descriptions of educational programs are available in the college’s printed and online
semester Class Schedule (myaccess.cod.edu) and Catalog: (www.cod.edu/catalog).
The following individuals have been designated to handle inquiries and concerns about the nondiscrimination policy and procedures at the college:
Student Inquiries concerning Non-Discrimination Policy
Dean of Student Services
Student Resource Center, Room 2044
(630) 942-2693
For Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations, call (630) 942-2141 (voice)
TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf): (630) 858-9692 (TDD).
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College of DuPage
Health Sciences Programs
POLICY FOR PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AT CLINICAL SITES
Revised SPRING 2008
Socialization of students to appropriate professional conduct is a significant component of the Health Sciences Programs of
College of DuPage (the “Programs”). Students in the Programs are expected and required to be reliable and competent,
exercise sound judgment, act with a high degree of personal integrity, represent College of DuPage (the “College”) in a
respectful manner, and observe all the rules and regulations of the clinical sites to which they are assigned. Students also
have a responsibility to protect the welfare and safety of the patients/clients for whom services are being provided.
In accordance with these expectations, when assigned to clinical sites, students in the Programs must adhere to the following
Policy for Professional Conduct. This Policy is in addition to the Student Code of Conduct outlined in College catalogs and/or
policy. The Policy of Professional Conduct includes, but is not limited to,
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Providing competent and reliable services to patients/clients using sound judgment and discretion. Students are
expected to:
a. be on time
b. refrain from excessive absenteeism
c. remain in assigned work areas, leaving only with permission
d. not leave patients unattended
Demonstrating respect and courtesy to patients/clients and their families
Demonstrating respect and courtesy to instructors, supervisors and all other members of the health care provider team
at the site
Cooperating with faculty, staff and peers without insubordination
Providing care and/or services on a non-discriminatory basis
Performing only procedures and/or services authorized by supervisor(s) in accordance with accepted
professional standards.
Observing the rules and regulations of all clinical facilities, including (but not limited to):
a. Proper use of equipment and other property
b. Not removing property of clinical facilities
c. Not distributing, possessing, and/or being under influence of illegal drugs or controlled substances,
d. Not possessing and/or being under the influence of alcohol
e. Complying with drug testing and criminal background checking requirements
f. Not possessing or using any type of weapon
Maintaining the confidentiality of patient/client information in accordance with recognized professional and
institutional rules; without unauthorized release and/or misuse of patient/client information or institutional data
Maintaining proper dress, appearance, hygiene and decorum in accordance with the standards set by the program,
clinical site, and professions
Complying with the ethical and professional standards set by the profession and the Programs, including (but not
limited to):
a. Never taking prescription blanks or writing prescriptions
b. Never falsifying documents regarding student performance or the care of patients
The penalty for violating the Policy for Professional Conduct will be discipline up to and including suspension or dismissal
from the Programs. Due to the sequential design of the curriculum in most Health Sciences programs, any period of
suspension or dismissal may result in a delay in program completion.
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If the disciplinary action is suspension or dismissal from one of the Programs, the student may appeal that disciplinary action
to the Health Sciences Professional Conduct Review Board within 10 days of the discipline imposed. This appeal must be in
writing using the Request for Professional Conduct Review form available in the Health and Sciences Division office. The form
must be submitted to the Associate Dean for Health Sciences.
The student will not be permitted to participate in the Programs during the appeal process. The appeal will result in a hearing
before the Health Sciences Professional Conduct Review Board, comprised of faculty from other COD Health Sciences
programs within 30 days of the date the appeal is filed with the Associate Dean. Both the student and faculty involved in the
disciplinary action may make an oral presentation to the Board in addition to written comments. There is no further appeal;
the decision of the Board is final. If the decision to dismiss or suspend a student from a Program is upheld, no refund of
tuition or fees or equipment or books will be provided.
College of DuPage Health Services will perform drug testing at the student’s expense. Drug testing will precede clinical
experience in all cases and will be required prior to admission in some programs. Positive results on a drug screen or
misrepresentation regarding drug use will lead to immediate dismissal from the Programs. Criminal background checks are
performed at the student’s expense, and are required for many Programs prior to admission. Positive results will be handled
by individual program faculty, as per program policies.
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Nursing (PAX-RN) ~ Pre-admission Examination Test
The Pre-Admission Examination – Nursing (PAX-RN) is an application requirement for
students applying to the College of DuPage Nursing program.
What can you expect?
The exam will last approximately three (3) hours.
The exam includes verbal, science and math components.
The exam is offered on the Glen Ellyn campus.
The exam is taken on a computer.
Registration and payment are completed online. The cost of the exam is $55 and is nonrefundable.
PLEASE NOTE: When registering online, you will be asked to read and agree to the Refund
and Rescheduling policy:
Refunds: All costs and fees associated with PAX-RN are NON-REFUNDABLE.
Rescheduling: Requests to reschedule must be made at least three (3) weeks prior
to the exam date for which you are registered. Log in to the Registration System using
your login name and password. A $15 rescheduling fee will be assessed each time
you reschedule an exam date.
Repeating the exam: You must wait six (6) months before repeating an exam.
Examinees will not be permitted to retest before this time.
TO REGISTER FOR AN EXAM:
1)
What you’ll need:
2)
A computer with a printer
Your photo ID
Your charge card
A piece of paper and pencil
Log on to www.nlnonlinetesting.org and create an account.
Two important reminders:
REMEMBER to write down your login ID and password that you create.
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BE SURE to use the information as it appears on your photo ID to create your
account.
3)
After creating your account, you will be directed to the opening page.
On the opening page, select Registration Store from the options.
You will see a picture of payment methods accepted (VISA, MasterCard, American
Express, and Discover), a list of tests to choose from, and General Exam Policies FAQ
(frequently asked questions). Read the General Exam Policies before proceeding.
4)
Locate Pre-Admission Exam (PAX) on the screen and select Read More/Register.
5)
On the Read More/Register screen,
Choose Register Now in the upper left corner of the page.
6)
The next page that opens up asks you to choose an exam.
Choose an exam as follows:
From the SELECT EXAM drop-down menu, select Registered Nurse (RN)
Program
From the STATE drop-down menu select Illinois
From the INSTITUTION drop-down menu, select College of DuPage
From the choices displayed, choose your preferred date and time for the exam
(see the list below of the options that will be available).
7)
Within the display of your chosen test date and time, select Register for ComputerBased Exam.
8)
Read and agree with the General Exam Policies.
9)
Pay for your selected examination. A confirmation screen will then appear. Specific
instructions for test day (room, time, what to bring/not to bring, etc.) will be displayed on
your confirmation.
10)
Print your confirmation and bring it with you to the testing center on your exam day,
along with your log in ID, password (from when you created the account), photo ID and
another form of ID.
OPTIONAL Study Guide information: The NLN Review Guide for RN Pre-Entrance Exam
(Third Edition, Mary E. McDonald, RN, MA, Educational Assessment Consultant) is available in
bookstores.
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Test Dates: Registration for a session closes 72 hours prior to the test date OR when the
maximum number of seats has filled. Register early!
Session 1: Friday, Oct. 15
Start Time: 1:30 p.m. End Time: 5 p.m.
Session 2: Tuesday, Oct. 26
Start Time: 5:30 p.m. End Time: 9 p.m.
Session 3: Saturday, Nov. 13
Start Time: 1:30 p.m. End Time: 5 p.m.
Session 4: Tuesday, Nov. 30
Start Time: 5:30 p.m. End Time: 9 p.m.
Session 5: Tuesday, Dec. 7
Start Time: 5:30 p.m. End Time: 9 p.m.
Session 6: Saturday, Dec. 11
Start Time: 1:30 p.m. End Time: 5 p.m.
Session 7: Monday, Dec. 20
Start Time: 5:30 p.m. End Time: 9 p.m.
Note: Four more test sessions will be scheduled in January. Check www.nlnonlinetesting.orgin
early November to register for those dates.
Tests are administered in the Health and Science Center – Room 2301. Please arrive 15
minutes early. Doors close promptly at the start time listed. Students arriving late will not
be admitted.
Analyzing the PAX-RN Scores
In order to be eligible to apply to the Nursing program, you must achieve a composite percentile
of 50 or higher.
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Appendix 3.2A
Nursing Department
NOTE: College policy on Faculty Advising in conjunction with this policy. This policy can be found at:
http://home.cod.edu/studentservices/advising/faculty/index.aspx
POLICY: Student advising
PURPOSE: To promote student success in programs in the nursing department, all students in the
Associate Degree Nursing and Practical Nursing programs will be assigned a faculty advisor.
GUIDELINES:
1. The faculty advisor will be a full-time faculty in the Nursing Department. Faculty will be
assigned in the semester the students are accepted into the nursing program major.
2. Nursing students will have the same faculty advisor for their duration in the program
provided:
a. There is no break in the student’s plan of study, and
b. The faculty advisor is still employed by the College.
3. Faculty will be informed of student advisees within the first week of each semester by
the PROGRAM PARTICIPATION Committee.
4. The assigned faculty advisor will connect with their advisees during the first two weeks
of each semester the student is enrolled.
5. Students must meet with their assigned advisor at least one time* per semester.
*Students deemed a “Student at Risk” must meet more often per the recommendations
of the SBAR form.
The purpose of this meeting is to:
a. Monitor student’s progress with the program plan of study, including
identification of potential barriers to success, i.e. time management, financial
resources, previous academic difficulties, etc.
b. Provide insight into registration for next semester; refer to the degree audit.
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c. FOR GRADUATING STUDENTS, during the final semester of study, the faculty
advisor will:
i. Direct advisees to complete petition to graduate
ii. If appropriate, discuss review courses or opportunities that promote
success on licensure/certification exam(s).
d. Provide information on such things as, but not limited to:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
Time management
Academic support services
Learning resources
Scholarship information
Factors that promote progression through the program.
6. The faculty advisor will maintain a record of the advising sessions.
a. The tool used for recording of these advising sessions is the Student Planning
Worksheet
(http://home.cod.edu/studentservices/tools/studentplanning.aspx) and the
Advising Rubric (Attachment to this policy).
b. All entries should be dated and timed by the advisor and the student.
c. Records will be placed in the students’ academic file in the Nursing Department
office when the student exits the program. Program exit is defined as program
completion, failure or withdrawal.
Attachment: Advising Rubric
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This record can be
maintained electronically.
NURSING DEPARTMENT
ADVISING RUBRIC
Student Name
Program of
Study
Admission
(Semester/Year)
Faculty Advisor
Anticipated completion
(Semester/Year)
Date of contact:
Contact by phone
Contact in person
Activities
Accomplished
Time
management
Review
schedule
Graduation
Scholarship
Supportive
services
Success
factors
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Plan for
success
Other
(specify)
Licensure or
certification prep
ideas
Faculty
initial/signature
Student
initial/signature
Use a check ( ) for activities covered. Document specifics in narrative page attached.
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NURSING DEPARTMENT
ADVISING RUBRIC
Date
Notes
Faculty signature
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NURSING DEPARTMENT
ADVISING RUBRIC
Date
Notes
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Faculty signature
Nursing Department
Appendix 3.2B
Academic Alert for Student “at Risk”
NOTE: The Nursing Department Academic Alert program is offered in collaboration with the COD’s
Standards of Academic Progress; this protocol can be found at”:
https://ssdev.cod.edu/Media/Website%20Resources/pdf/student_services/soap.pdf
PURPOSE:
If a student is identified demonstrating behaviors that jeopardize their success and put them at risk for
failure, they will be placed on Academic Alert.
Behaviors that are identified, but not limited to, as placing the student at risk are
Attendance and tardiness issues
Graded activities (i.e. test, papers) of <78%
Attaining a “C” grade in NURSI 1100, NURSI 1104, NURSI 1105
Working more than 16 hours per week
Repeated attempts at the general education courses in the nursing program
Readmission to the program (with the exception for illness or changes in health
status that would prevent a student from meeting course objectives).
GUIDELINES
1. Any program faculty involved in a student’s instruction can identify a student “at risk”.
2. The faculty identifying the student at risk initiates the Faculty/Student Communication
Record (SBAR).
3. The faculty meets with the student to clarify the behavior(s) of concern.
4. The faculty and student will sign the SBAR. Signature by student implies understanding
of the timeline for any corrective plan of action and the consequences therein.
5. The faculty provides a signed copy of the SBAR to
a. The student
b. The student’s file in the department office, with student’s signature
c. The student’s faculty advisor if the faculty completing the SBAR is not the faculty
advisor of record
d. Places the SBAR on the Nursing Department Portal > Private Documents >
Students at Risk Information > Students at Risk > (choose program) > (create file)
6. The faculty advisor will assure continuity in and compliance related to the SBAR and
student overall success and progression.
7. If a student exits the program either because of withdrawal or failure, an SBAR is
completed by the faculty advisor and student. The SBAR will note evidence based
actions to be followed for consideration for readmission.
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Faculty/Student Communication Record
Department of Nursing
Make 2 copies: 1 for student, 1 for student's file
Return file copy to Division Office
Program:
ADN ____
PNC ____
CNA ____
Date: ____________________
Student Name:_________________________________________________
Nursing Course Number and Name: _______________________
Theory ___
S
B
A
R
Clinical ___
Lab ___
Situation:
Exam Performance:
Attendance/Punctuality:
Skill Competency:
Clinical Performance:
Professional Behaviors:
Health Requirements:
Other (specify):
Background:
Assessment:
Recommendation:
Due Date for Follow Up:
Consequences:
Faculty Signature: _________________________________________________________________________
Student Signature : _________________________________________________________________________
Student signature indicates confirmation of receipt of this notice.
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Appendices related to
Standard 4
Appendix 4.3.A
Sample Behaviors identified for Clinical Evaluation Tool – Nursing 1105
S = Satisfactory
U = Unsatisfactory
NO = Not observed (only applies at midterm)
NI = Needs Improvement (only applies at midterm; must be accompanied by an action plan)
1 = Knowledge
2 = Skills
3 = Attitude
A. Critical Thinking: Utilizes critical thinking skills in the application of the nursing process to provide safe,
quality care.
Sample Behaviors
A.1
Describe the developments of the nursing profession and the nursing process.
Satisfactory: Identifies components of the Nursing Process.
Identify safe practice of medication administration and basic skills.
Needs Improvement: Frequently forgets steps of the nursing process.
Requires instructor’s assistance to safely administer meds & perform basic skills.
Unsatisfactory: Does not consistently identify components of the Nursing Process.
Fails to identify safe practices of medication administration and basic skills.
A.2
Identify stressors that impact patient health.
Satisfactory: Identifies primary and secondary medical diagnoses.
Formulates nursing diagnoses based on patients condition to promote health and health
maintenance.
Needs Improvement: Forgets to obtain secondary diagnoses.
Has difficulty formulating nursing diagnoses.
Unsatisfactory: Does not identify a patient’s primary and secondary medical diagnoses.
Is unable to formulate priority nursing diagnoses based on a patient’s condition.
A.3
Identify objective and subjective data.
Satisfactory: Appreciates the value of collecting measureable data.
Appreciates the difference in gathering objective and subjective data.
Needs Improvement: Has difficulty differentiating subject from objective data.
Has difficulty formulating measurable outcome criteria.
Unsatisfactory: Does not collect relevant and measurable data.
Fails to understand and collect objective and subjective data.
B. Communication: Demonstrates effective communication utilizing technology, written documentation, and
verbal expression.
Sample Behaviors
B.1 Define therapeutic communication.
Satisfactory: Understands the purpose of taking a complete health history.
Understands the need to vary communication styles.
Needs Improvement: Not consistent in recognizing blocks to communication.
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B.2
B.3
Does not complete and communicate pertinent health history.
Unsatisfactory: Fails to understand the purpose of taking a complete health history.
Does not utilize different communication styles when communicating with patients.
Demonstrate communication skills.
Satisfactory: Receives report from the primary nurse and acquires pertinent patient data.
Develops therapeutic rapport with the patient.
Needs Improvement: Needs instructor assistance to initiate communication with RN and/or patient.
Does not instill confidence in the patient.
Unsatisfactory: Fails to receive or illicit a report from the patients primary nurse.
Consistently fails to develop a therapeutic rapport with the patient.
Identify personal values that may impact interpersonal communication.
Satisfactory: Appreciates the need to maintain patient confidentiality.
Reflects on interactions with staff, patients, and peers.
Needs Improvement: Needs to be instructed on maintaining confidentiality.
Is not reflective on ways to improve communication and collaboration.
Unsatisfactory: Does not maintain a patient’s confidentiality.
Consistently is unable to reflect on interactions with staff, patients and peers and
determine therapeutic effectiveness.
C. Caring: Incorporates empathetic, compassionate, caring interactions and behaviors.
Sample Behaviors
C.1 Describe strategies to communicate caring.
Satisfactory: Identifies basic human needs.
States basic comfort care strategies – i.e. ADL’s and positioning.
States ways to promote patient dignity, applying holistic care concepts.
Needs Improvement: Forgets to plan basic comfort care strategies.
Needs to be reminded to provide privacy.
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to consistently state basic comfort care strategies.
Consistently is unable to state ways to promote patient dignity.
C.2
C.3
Explore strategies to create caring relationships.
Satisfactory: Identifies caring behaviors toward the patient and significant support person.
Maintains a safe environment.
Needs Improvement: Needs to remediate basic care in the lab.
Needs a reminder to maintain a safe environment.
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to consistently demonstrate caring behaviors toward the patient and significant
support people.
Does not maintain a safe environment.
Recognize the value of the nurse/patient relationship.
Satisfactory: Reflects on interactions with the patient.
When caring for patients, identifies barriers to caring behaviors.
Needs Improvement: Focuses on self and tasks to be performed, not on the patient’s response.
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to reflect on interactions with the patient to determine caring interactions and
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behaviors.
Is unable to determine barriers to caring when working with patients and staff.
D. Diversity: Demonstrates professional nursing care that incorporates sensitivity to culturally diverse clients
across the lifespan.
Sample Behaviors
D.1 Describe the impact of culture and diversity on health.
Satisfactory: Identifies cultural and diversity issues which impact nursing care.
Recognizes the role of the nurse in managing care of patients from diverse cultural and
spiritual backgrounds.
Needs Improvement: Has difficulty identifying resources for exploring cultural & spiritual diversity.
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to consistently identify cultural and diversity issues that impact nursing care.
Is unable to identify and verbalize the role of spirituality in patient care.
D.2 Share personal perceptions of diversity.
Satisfactory: Adapts care in consideration of the patient’s values, customs, culture, and or habits.
States 2 resources to assist in meeting a patient’s needs.
Needs Improvement: Instructor needs to redirect to evaluate cultural needs.
Forgets to inquire about special preferences and cultural/spiritual needs.
Unsatisfactory: Consistently is unable to adapt patient care in consideration of the patient’s values,
customs, culture and or habits.
Is consistently unable to identify 2 resources in meeting a patient’s needs.
D.3 Recognize personal attitudes about working with diverse populations.
Satisfactory: Recognizes own ethnocentric beliefs.
Identifies strengths and weaknesses when delivering care to diverse patients.
Needs Improvement: Occasionally makes ethnocentric judgments/ comments
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to determine individual ethnocentric beliefs which may impact patient
interactions.
Is unable to identify individual strengths and weakness when delivering care to diverse
patients.
E. Quality Improvement: Utilizes data to ensure quality improvement and support of evidence-based practice.
Sample Behaviors
E.1 Define quality in relation to healthcare delivery.
Satisfactory :Identifies Evidence Based Practice.
Identifies standards of pain assessment.
Needs Improvement: Difficulty finding resources for evidenced based practice
Occasionally forgets to assess for pain or follow-up evaluation
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to identify evidence based practice.
Consistently is unable to identify standards of pain assessment.
E.2 Gather data.
Satisfactory: Performs and documents Head to Toe assessments.
Collects Data accurately and tailors assessments based on data.
Identifies the etiology and pathophysiology of patients’ health problems.
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E.3
Needs Improvement: Requires instructor assistance in performing a head to toe assessment.
Frequently forgets pertinent assessment data.
Needs to be reminded to look up patients’ health primary health problem.
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to consistently perform and document a complete head to toe assessment.
Is unable to collect appropriate data and make appropriate assessment based on patient’s
condition.
Does not identify the etiology and pathophysiology of patients’ health problems.
Appreciate the significance of data collection.
Satisfactory: Recognizes the need to gather complete data.
Determine factors that may inhibit a patient’s recovery.
Needs Improvement: Needs to be reminded of relevance of complete data collection.
Unsatisfactory: Consistently does not collect complete data.
Is unable to communicate factors that may inhibit a patient’s recovery.
F. Leadership: Demonstrates knowledge of basic delegation and leadership management skills.
Sample Behaviors
F.1
Define the scope of practice of multidisciplinary healthcare team members.
Satisfactory: Identifies the nursing chain of command on a nursing unit.
Needs Improvement: Seeks out inappropriate parties for questions or problems
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to state the nursing chain of command on a nursing unit.
F.2
Identify settings in which healthcare is delivered.
Satisfactory: Begin to identify nursing tasks that may be delegated.
Recognizes the ethical and legal implications of caring for patients and their families.
Needs Improvement: Needs assistance determining what the nurse may delegate to the CNA.
Needs reinforcement of ethical and legal issues.
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to identify tasks that may be delegated.
Violates of ethical and legal constraints (e.g., patient rights, HIPPA)
F.3
Appreciate the roles and dynamics of a multidisciplinary team.
Satisfactory: Reflects on nursing roles on unit and specialty areas.
Needs Improvement: Reflects on experiences, but not on nursing roles.
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to communicate the differences in nursing roles on the assigned unit and specialty
areas.
G. Information Management: Demonstrates and utilizes information systems in the healthcare system.
Sample Behaviors
G.1 Identify principles of data collection.
Satisfactory: Uses Micromedex or other EBP resources for patient care and teaching.
Can access data from the computerized chart.
Needs Improvement: Frequent difficulty accessing data from the computer chart.
Needs assistance in order to navigate Micromedex or other resources.
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to collect and develop patient care and teaching resources.
G.2 Identify essential information for safe patient care.
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Satisfactory: Identifies the importance of peer reviewed researched based information.
Begins to organize data to give report and patient status updates.
Needs Improvement: Needs assistance recognizing priority information for report (Allergies, code status, IV)
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to identify the importance of peer reviewed researched based information.
Is unable to consistently organize data to give report and patient status updates.
Recognize the need for timely communication of information.
Satisfactory: Effectively communicates patient information to the staff, and instructor.
Needs Improvement: Makes late data entries.
Data provided to the instructor is incomplete after reminders.
Unsatisfactory: Consistently does communicate pertinent and timely patient information to the staff, and
instructor.
H. Professionalism: Demonstrates knowledge of professional development and incorporates evidence-based
practice in the nursing profession.
Sample Behaviors
H.1
Identify the Standards of Care in the nursing profession.
Satisfactory: Identifies elements of professionalism in the nursing practice.
Needs Improvement: Needs assistance recognizing professional roles of the RN from the Nurse Practice Act.
Unsatisfactory: Is consistently unable to identify elements of professionalism in the nursing practice.
H.2 Describe the role of the nurse as a healthcare professional.
Satisfactory: Practices within defined nursing standards.
Develops a positive nurse- patient relationship.
Actively seeks out opportunities for professional development.
Needs Improvement: Avoids new learning experiences.
Does not recognize boundaries for the nurse-patient relationship.
Unsatisfactory: Consistently practices outside of the defined nursing standards.
Is unable to consistently develop a positive nurse patient relationship.
H.3 Assess commitment to the nursing profession.
Satisfactory: Maintains a professional role.
Reflects on own learning needs in the development of a professional nurse.
Needs Improvement: Does not develop a plan for self improvement, when needed.
Occasionally displays inappropriate behavior or appearance as a professional.
Unsatisfactory: Does not maintain a professional role.
Is unable to determine own learning needs in the development of a professional nurse.
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Sample Behaviors identified for Clinical Evaluation Tool – Nursing 1208
S = Satisfactory
U = Unsatisfactory
NO = Not observed (only applies at midterm)
NI = Needs Improvement (only applies at midterm; must be accompanied by an action plan)
1 = Knowledge
2 = Skills
3 = Attitude
A. Critical Thinking: Utilizes critical thinking skills in the application of the nursing process to provide safe,
quality care.
Sample Behaviors
A.1
Applies critical thinking by defining nursing concepts, principles and theories as they apply to clinical
situations/simulations
Satisfactory: Identify the components of the nursing process as applied to the person with mental health
concerns
Needs Improvement: Limited ability to identify key factors in the nursing process as they apply to the
person with mental health concerns.
Unsatisfactory: Defines patient care in terms of specific tasks without awareness of patient as a dynamic,
changing person.
A.2
Utilizes systematic, sequential thinking process.
Satisfactory: Researches treatments (medications, ECT, group and individual therapies) accurately and
based on a specific patient.
Differentiate symptoms of patient presentations across the treatment continuum.
Analyzes concurrent medical conditions that occur in patients with mental illness.
Needs Improvement: Makes generalities about treatments ordered for patient, rather than taking the
individual patient into consideration.
Does not look at individual response to treatment.
Unsatisfactory: Fails to research treatments appropriately that are ordered for patient.
A.3
Examines subjective/objective data.
Satisfactory: Questions commonly held assumptions regarding mental illness.
Needs Improvement: Frequently underestimates persons with mental health concerns.
Limited awareness of own biases regarding mental illness
Unsatisfactory: Accepts negative stereotypes as facts. Assumes a judgmental attitude when working with
patients, family and community members
B. Communication: Demonstrates effective communication utilizing technology, written documentation, and
verbal expression.
Sample Behaviors
B.1
Describes different communication styles.
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B.2
B.3
Satisfactory: Discuss communication factors such as body language, disease process, verbal expression and
incongruencies in patient patterns of expression.
Needs Improvement: Expresses continued confusion on the role communication plays while delivering in
patient care
Unsatisfactory: Fails to show an awareness of personal communication styles and how this effects patient
care.
Applies strategies to augment therapeutic communication
Satisfactory: Shows improvement over time in communicating effectively with patients and others.
Needs Improvement: Limited awareness of and ability to analyze therapeutic communication interventions
Unsatisfactory: Rigidly adheres to ineffective communication strategies.
Values the observation of health care situations “through the patient’s eyes”.
Satisfactory: Appreciates what the patient is trying to say and how they are saying it.
Needs Improvement: Student is more focused on what the student is feeling rather than what the patient is
feeling.
Unsatisfactory: Fails to develop awareness of own perceptions in terms of accepting patient.
C. Caring: Incorporates empathetic, compassionate, caring interactions and behaviors.
Sample Behaviors
C.1 Integrates understanding of the care concept in nursing
Satisfactory: Distinguishes between enabling behaviors as opposed to caring behaviors and their impact on
patient care.
Needs Improvement: Struggles with the concept that some nursing actions are enabling behaviors.
Unsatisfactory: Consistently defends the view that enabling behaviors are appropriate.
C.2 Demonstrates awareness of communicating a genuine caring attitude.
Satisfactory: Determines appropriate role of the nurse in the nurse/patient relationship by maintaining
boundaries.
Needs Improvement: Shares personal information with the patient
Iss inconsistent with maintaining professional boundaries.
Unsatisfactory: Unable to maintain appropriate boundaries with a patient or family.
Breaks confidentiality.
C.3 Appreciates the significance of a caring attitude.
Satisfactory: Expresses sensitivity toward persons and communities touched by mental health concerns,
including health care providers.
Needs Improvement: Needs assistance to recognize the impact of mental health concerns on all parties
involved
Unsatisfactory: Unable to reflect on the significance of mental health issues on patients, families and the
community.
D. Diversity: Demonstrates professional nursing care that incorporates sensitivity to culturally diverse clients
across the lifespan.
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D.2
D.3
Describes limits and boundaries of caring relationships in relation to diversilty.
Satisfactory: Recognizes the impact patient life experiences have on the nurse/patient relationship.
Identifies methods to provide sensitive care to the person with mental health needs in the
medical setting.
Needs Improvement: Requires persistent effort to identify differences between patients
Unsatisfactory: Is unable to determine key aspects of diversity as they impact the patient.
Demonstrates a respectful attitude and nonjudgmental attitude of care.
Satisfactory: Adapts treatment alternatives for diverse disease populations.
Needs Improvement: Discusses the patient in disparaging terms in student or staff conferences.
Unsatisfactory: Treats patients in a manner that makes the patient feel ashamed of aspects of themselves or
in regards to their illness processes.
Accepts and respects cultural differences.
Satisfactory: Values strengths as well as specific needs of each patient.
Recognizes diversity in many forms.
Needs Improvement: Has difficulty seeing life experiences of others beyond own ethnocentric experiences.
Unsatisfactory: IsUnable to express empathy about each individual patient. Does not value diversity among
individuals with mental illness.
E. Quality Improvement: Utilizes data to ensure quality improvement and support of evidence-based practice.
Sample Behaviors
E.1 Describes the quality improvement process
Satisfactory: Describes role data collection has in determining appropriate interventions.
Needs Improvement: Difficulty expressing how differential assessment is key to treatment strategies.
Unsatisfactory: Unable to discuss keys aspects of data collection in persons with varying mental health
concerns.
E.2 Seeks quality improvement projects in the health care setting
Satisfactory: Organizes patient assessment in standard formats for consistency in data gathering and
analysis.
Needs Improvement: Needs consistent prompting to do comprehensive work.
Unsatisfactory: Assessments are inaccurate and too general.
E.3 Values measurement and its role in quality care.
Satisfactory: Able to see role of measurement in terms of determining patient progress
Needs Improvement: Views patients as needing simply acute symptom management.
Unsatisfactory: Unable to appreciate importance of the role of measurement in determining patient
progress.
F. Leadership: Demonstrates knowledge of basic delegation and leadership management skills.
Sample Behaviors
F.1
Explain the healthcare institutional chain command in respect to the nurse
Satisfactory: Describes how the nurse functions in a mental health setting.
Needs Improvement: Limited ability to discuss the role of the nurse within a mental health care team..
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F.2
F.3
Unsatisfactory: Unable to explain how a multidisciplinary team work with respect to the mental health care
setting.
Initiates plan for self-development as a team member
Satisfactory: Utilizes diverse clinical experiences to explore roles of the nurse and the team
Needs Improvement: Frequently avoids participating in diverse patient care settings.
Unsatisfactory: Does not participate in programming and clinical activities
Respects the different attributes that members bring to the team.
Satisfactory: Appreciates the contribution the nurse makes to the treatment plan.
Needs Improvement: Sees the nurse in terms of working as a single entity, not a part of a team.
Unsatisfactory: Devalues the nurse as part of the health care team.
G. Information Management: Demonstrates and utilizes information systems in the healthcare system.
Sample Behaviors
G.1 Describes the role of the nurse in information management.
Satisfactory: Discusses how the nurse communicates relevant data to other team members.
Needs Improvement: Difficulty determining key components of the nurses role in sharing information
Unsatisfactory: Unable to determine mechanisms for communication of key data.
G.2 Utilizes valid resources for data collection.
Satisfactory: Reviews legal documentation, medications, and related information in computer or hard copy
record.
Needs Improvement: Neglects to consistently access information from the medial record.
Unsatisfactory Unable to identify key resources of information and how to access them.
G.3 Values the need for accurate communication of data.
Satisfactory: Realizes how accuracy in data collection and retrieval of information is essential to safe and
effective patient care.
Needs Improvement: Has difficult appreciating the role d information management has on effective patient
care.
Unsatisfactory: Does not see how means of communicating important data can impact effective treatment
strategies of patients.
H. Professionalism: Demonstrates knowledge of professional development and incorporates evidence-based
practice in the nursing profession.
Sample Behaviors
H.1 Examines nursing roles that contribute to coordination and integration of care
Satisfactory: Identifies safe and ethical care based on nursing standards and evidence based practice.
Identifies the role of the nurse in the delivery of nursing care including pharmacologic and
biologic treatments.
Needs Improvement: Has diifficulty identifying components of maintaining safe and effective care.
Unsatisfactory: Unable to discuss means to promote comprehensive patient care
Unable to identify keys aspects of nursing standards for the patient with mental illness
H.2 Apply the nursing process and methods of health promotion and maintenance.
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H.3
Satisfactory: Practices within the scope of the registered professional nurse.
Promotes safety of patients, self and others.
Maintains confidentiality
Uses personal reflection to identify needs for professional development
Needs Improvement: Does not come prepared for the clinical day on an occasional basis.
Unsatisfactory: Does not protect patient or institution confidentiality.
Consistently comes unprepared for the clinical
Contributes to unsafe situations.
Seeks professional opportunities
Satisfactory: Values the role of personal reflection.
Needs Improvement: Does not value the use of learning tools for self-development.
Unsatisfactory: Does not understand why self-examination for nurses are necessary.
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Sample Behaviors Identified for Clinical Evaluation Tool – Nursing 2201
S = Satisfactory U = Unsatisfactory
NO = Not observed (only applies at midterm)
NI = Needs Improvement (only applies at midterm; must be accompanied by an action plan)
1 = Knowledge
2 = Skills
3 = Attitude
A. Critical Thinking: Utilizes critical thinking skills in the application of the nursing process to provide safe,
quality care.
Sample Behaviors
A.1
Displays analytical attitude toward problem-solving issues.
Satisfactory: Interprets problems and uses problem-solving methods that consider both risks and benefits.
Needs Improvement: Frequently requires assistance in problem identification. Needs suggestions for problem-solving issues.
Unsatisfactory: Cannot identify problems or verbalize rationale for nursing interventions.
A.2
Reframes problems.
Satisfactory: Prioritizes problems that characterize the keystone nursing diagnoses.
Needs Improvement: Has difficulty prioritizing problems and verbalizing rationale for nursing interventions.
Unsatisfactory: Cannot make judgments between patient’s present state and desired outcomes.
A.3
Values healthy skepticism in data analysis.
Satisfactory: Evaluates the integrity and comparability of data and identifies gaps in data sources.
Needs Improvement: Has difficulty interpreting data. Requires frequent assistance in data interpretation.
Unsatisfactory: Cannot decode or interpret relevant data.
B. Communication: Demonstrates effective communication utilizing technology, written documentation, and
verbal expression.
Sample Behaviors
B.1 Integrates therapeutic communication.
Satisfactory: Uses appropriate verbal/non-verbal communication techniques. Accurately interprets verbal/nonverbal cues of
patent/family.
Needs Improvement: Has difficulty expressing therapeutic communication strategies with healthcare team and/or clients.
Unsatisfactory: Refrains from active communication. Rarely initiates discussion or interest in active listening.
B.2
Engages patients/families in unique plans of care.
Satisfactory: Identifies strengths and limitations in the family decision-making process. Interprets family-specific roles and
family decision-making strategies.
Needs Improvement: Has difficulty interpreting family dynamics. Requires encouragement to participate in family discussion.
Unsatisfactory: Does not value family input in decision-making process. Avoids family interaction.
B.3
Values continuous improvement of individual communication styles and conflict resolution skills.
Satisfactory: Listens to others in unbiased manner. Respects points of vie of others and promotes he expression of diverse
opinions and perspectives.
Needs Improvement: Has difficulty managing personal point of view at the expense of others.
Unsatisfactory: Does not demonstrate active listening skills. Fails to use therapeutic communication skills to resolve
differences in opinion.
C. Caring: Incorporates empathetic, compassionate, caring interactions and behaviors.
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C.1 Assimilates the nursing concept of care in the healthcare delivery system.
Satisfactory: Justifies the implementation of selected nursing actions. Identifies nursing interventions that
are independent v. collaborative; preventative, maintenance, promotional, or restorative.
Needs Improvement: Frequently neglects to consider nursing interventions that impact the physical and
psychosocial wellbeing of patient/family.
Unsatisfactory: Cannot rationalize nursing interventions or define standards of care.
C.2 Demonstrates an integrated understanding of a caring attitude.
Satisfactory: Provides the patient/family resources to cope and adapt to stressful events and changes in
health status.
Needs Improvement: Needs encouragement to explore caring interventions appropriate for patient/family.
Unsatisfactory: Demonstrates caring interventions as mere tasks, without developing a caring attitude.
C.3 Recognizes patient/family expectations influence outcomes of nursing care.
Satisfactory: Adapts the provision of patient care to changing healthcare settings, qualified assistant
personnel, and management systems. Updates plans of care to correlate with changes in patient situation.
Needs Improvement: Need prompting to identify and/or adapt nursing interventions related to patient and
family needs.
Unsatisfactory: Remains inflexible to providing nursing interventions that meet the unique needs of
patient/family.
D. Diversity: Demonstrates professional nursing care that incorporates sensitivity to culturally divers clients
across the lifespan.
Sample Behaviors
D.1 Describes culturally sensitive strategies that empower patients.
Satisfactory: Utilizes culturally sensitive strategies. Demonstrates assessment skills to do a competent
cultural assessment for ny patient in a home or healthcare setting.
Needs Improvement: Needs frequent prompting to assess patient cultural issues.
Unsatisfactory: Fails to include cultural concerns I patient plan or care.
D.2 Adapts care to be congruent with patient’s unique cultural needs.
Satisfactory: Provides nonjudgmental nursing care when confronted with values and practices that conflict
with medical regimen or self values.
Needs Improvement: Needs to be reminded of judgmental statements that are culturally insensitive.
Unsatisfactory: Uses judgmental statements that are disrespectful and show cultural insensitivity and
personal bias.
D.3 Incorporates therapeutic, culturally sensitive communication throughout the healthcare delivery system.
Satisfactory: Demonstrates ability to practice transcultural nursing care in an ethically and legally defensible
manner, consistent with nursing code of ethics and within the scope of legal practice.
Needs Improvement: Needs reminding of culturally insensitive remarks.
Unsatisfactory: Does not display a respectful manner when addressing culturally sensitive issues with
patients and/or healthcare team.
E. Quality Improvement: Utilizes data to ensure quality improvement and support of evidence-based practice.
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E.1 Recognizes the impact of effective nursing care on patient/family outcomes.
Satisfactory: Demonstrates accountability for quality patient care. Identifies possible courses of action with
potential outcomes. Relates data to outcome criteria.
Needs Improvement: Requires assistance in identifying outcome measurements. Lacks ability to recognize
“cause and affect” patterns of care.
Unsatisfactory: Not able to identify outcome measures as a means of supporting quality patient care.
E.2 Identifies gaps between local and best practice.
Satisfactory: Capable of measuring the degree of attainment of criteria and standards. Interprets strengths
and weaknesses of such measurements.
Needs Improvement: Has difficulty recognizing the value of quality patient care as a means of supporting
positive patient outcomes.
Unsatisfactory: Unable to correlate quality patient care with positive patient outcomes.
E.3 Appreciates how unwanted variation affects care.
Satisfactory: Demonstrates accountability for actions. Demonstrates ethical responsibility for mistakes,
errors in judgment, and/or unforeseen circumstantial events.
Needs Improvement: Has difficulty admitting to judgment errors. Needs assistance to alter plan of care.
Unsatisfactory: Attempts to hide mistakes. Fails to report mistakes of others that could have negative a
patient impact. Unable to seek alternative approaches when unexpected circumstances exist.
F. Leadership: Demonstrates knowledge of basic delegation and leadership management skills.
Sample Behaviors
F.1
Provides a visionary thinking process on issues that impact patient care.
Satisfactory: Fully embraces the imperative of a healthy work environment. Pursues collaboration.
Creatively uses problem-solving skills.
Needs Improvement: Focuses on a task completion model. Shows little interest in a team approach.
Unsatisfactory: Demonstrates no initiative for collaboration or interest in team activity.
F.2
Functions completely within the scope of practice of the professional nurse.
Satisfactory: Demonstrates an understanding of the boundaries of the registered nurse role. Appropriately
accepts registered nurse responsibilities and delegates within appropriate work description boundaries.
Needs Improvement: Unconfident of the registered nurse scope of practice.
Unsatisfactory: Cannot identify specific nursing actions as part of the RN scope of practice. Cannot identify
differences in various healthcare team member roles.
F.3
Contributes to resolution of conflict and disagreement.
Satisfactory: Accepts mistakes of self and others, thereby creating a culture in which risk-taking is not only
safe but expected.
Needs Improvement: Needs support and counsel to admit to error of judgment. Cannot see value in a risktaking judgment opportunity.
Unsatisfactory: Denies mistakes and takes issue with others who make mistakes.
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G. Information Management: Demonstrates and utilizes information systems in the healthcare system.
Sample Behaviors
G.1 Discriminates resources for research for credibility and scientific validity.
Satisfactory: Differentiates between research and information materials. Utilizes current nursing research in
appropriate clinical situations. Efficiently investigates resources for appropriate research data.
Needs Improvement: Requires guidance to find evidence to support practice.
Unsatisfactory: Does not attempt to support interventions with need evidence and information materials.
G.2 Integrates new information and resources to develop comprehensive, contemporary plans of care.
Satisfactory: Integrates information from various assessments to determine patient needs. Accurately
interprets lab data, assessment data, and considers patient developmental status. Relates data to patient
situation.
Needs Improvement: Needs assistance to collect appropriate data. Needs assistance to interpret data and
find relevance in the data.
Unsatisfactory: Proceeds with patient care based on verbal cues and without data collection.
G.3 Values professional lifelong learning to develop and maintain information technology skills.
Satisfactory: Shares health-related news items from journals and media. Attends healthcare seminars.
Seeks opportunities for educational growth outside of academic responsibilities.
Needs Improvement: Needs encouragement to engage in extracurricular events
Unsatisfactory: Lacks interest in extracurricular events. Sees no value in education outside of academic or
professional demands.
H. Professionalism: Demonstrates knowledge of professional development and incorporates evidence-based
practice in the nursing profession.
Sample Behaviors
H.1
Describes evidence-based practice to include the components of research evidence, clinical expertise,
and patient/family values.
Satisfactory: Challenges nursing interventions for evidence of sound rationale. Defends nursing
interventions with appropriate rationale. Appropriately cites professional resources to support
interventions.
Needs Improvement: Requires reminders to support nursing interventions with research evidence.
Unsatisfactory: Cannot support nursing interventions with research evidence.
H.2 Bases individualized plans of care on patient values, clinical expertise, and evidence.
Satisfactory: Begins to function as an interdisciplinary team member. Recognizes patient/family unit as part
of the interdisciplinary team. Coordinates patient care using patient input. Demonstrates patient advocacy.
Needs Improvement: Needs prompting to join team meetings and contribute. Develops plan of care with
little patient input.
Improvement: Does not participate in team decisions or gives no input. Shows no consideration of patient
values when developing plan of care.
H.3 Values the concept of evidence-based practice as integral to detecting best professional practice.
Satisfactory: Interprets data using the scientific method of inquiry. Demonstrates professional skepticism.
Verbalizes a personal creed of professionalism. Abides by the ADN Nursing Handbook policies.
Needs Improvement: Accepts data without inquiry to reliability/validity. Has difficulty expressing the
concept of professionalism. Needs to be reminded of ADN program policies.
Unsatisfactory: Cannot give rationale for action. Violates ADN program policies as defined in the ADN
Student Handbook.
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Course Title:
Course Number: 1100
Introduction to Healthcare
SemesterCredit Hours:3
Clinical Hours:0
Lecture Hours:3
Lab Hours:0
Course description to appear in catalog:
Concepts and principles related to health, health care delivery and nursing. Emphasis is placed on the
communication process, the impact of culture and ethnicity on health-seeking behaviors, the role of the
interdisciplinary health team and the theoretical foundation of beginning nursing skills. Strategies for
success in the nursing program are introduced.
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria: Admission to Associate Nursing Degree Program or consent of instructor.
A.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
1. Describe the historical development of the profession of nursing
2. Identify the standards of care of the nursing profession
3. Describe Florence Nightingale's beliefs about health and nursing
4. Explain the concepts of holistic nursing care
5. Summarize the impact of culture, diversity, and spirituality on the perception of health, illness
and health-seeking behaviors
6. Identify settings in which healthcare is delivered
7. Identify members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team
8. Explain the role of therapeutic communication in establishing the nurse-patient relationship
9. Describe principles of infection control
10. Describe methods of health promotion and maintenance from a wellness perspective
11. Discuss management of a patient's basic needs
12. Interpret vital signs
13. Recognize basic units of measurements for dosage calculation
14. Assess personal commitment to nursing as a profession
15. Describe the role of the nurse as a caring healthcare provider
16. Identify basic principles of basic safety
B.
Topical Outline:
1. Historical development of nursing
2. Florence Nightingale
3. Wellness, health, and illness
4. Culture and diversity
5. Healthcare delivery systems
6. Interdisciplinary healthcare team
7. Therapeutic communication
8. Infection control and hygiene
9. Vital signs
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11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
C.
Dosage calculations
Commitment to nursing profession
Spirituality
Nutrition
Elimination
Strategies for success
Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Students will be evaluated by tests, projects, and class participation. Class attendance may
also be a factor in evaluation.
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Course Title:
Course Number: 1104
Introduction to Physical Assessment
SemesterCredit Hours:1
Clinical Hours:0
Lecture Hours:1
Lab Hours:0
Course description to appear in catalog:
Theory and skills related to history taking, physical assessment, and completing a head-to-toe
assessment of the adult patient. Significant assessment differences in the pediatric patient will be
discussed.
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria:Admission to ADN program and NURSI 1100 with a grade of C or higher
A.
B.
C.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
1. Explain the purpose of health assessment
2. Apply beginning critical thinking skills as they apply to health assessment
3. Explain the purpose of health assessment from both a wellness and illness perspective
4. Demonstrate the four techniques of physical assessment
5. Demonstrate a complete head-to-toe assessment
6. Describe the normal assessment findings for each body system
7. Describe deviations from normal findings
8. Document the findings of a head-to-toe assessment that deviate from wellness
9. Identify how deviations from wellness affect the patient and significant others
10. Discuss the impact of diversity and culture when performing a health assessment
Topical Outline:
1. Nurse's role in health assessment
2. Purpose of health assessment
3. Normal assessment findings
4. Head-to-toe assessment
5. Documentation
Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Quizzes, mid-term and final examinations
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Course Number: 1105
*Curricular Area: NURSING
Course Title:
Medical-Surgical I
SemesterCredit Hours:7
Clinical Hours:6
Lecture Hours:4
Lab Hours:1
Course description to appear in catalog:
Principles of nursing practice including major concepts, basic knowledge and nursing skills related to the
care of patients are introduced. Pharmacology, pain control, nursing process, care of the surgical patient,
and care of patients with alterations in: musculoskeletal system, skin integrity, fluid and electrolytes and
shock states (hypovolemic and septic) are main foci. Lecture, discussion, college laboratories and clinical
practice are used as learning experiences. Clinical experiences include acute and/or non-acute settings.
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria: Admission to ADN program, NURSI 1100 with a grade of C or higher, Anat 1552
or 1572 with a grade of C or higher, and current CNA in IL
A.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
1. Identify the effects of internal and external stressors that may contribute to common health
problems and the adaptation necessary to achieve health
2. Identify alterations in basic needs
3. Apply the concepts of holistic nursing care
4. Explain the role of the nurse in managing the care of patients from diverse cultural
backgrounds
5. Identify culturally sensitive care delivered in the healthcare setting
6. Identify the etiology and pathophysiology of common health problems
7. Describe methods of health promotion and maintenance for specific populations
8. Describe the nursing processs for patient and family care
9. Construct teaching plans specific to the learning needs of patients and families
10. Demonstrate therapeutic communication in the care of patients and families
11. Recognize critical thinking in patient care decisions
12. Recognize the ethical and legal implications of caring for patients and their families
13. Demonstrate competency in the performance of nursing skills and medication administration
14. Apply nursing concepts, principles, and theories to clinical situations/simulations
15. List the collaborative interdisciplinary healthcare team members and their roles
11. Identify caring behaviors used when interacting with patients
12. Identify valid resources for teh collection of data
13. Identify ethical care based on nursing standards and evidence-based practice
14. Describe commonly prescribed phamacological agents
B.
Topical Outline:
1. Internal and external stressors
2. Holistic nursing
3. Cultural components of care
4. Etiology and pathophysiology
5. Health promotion
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7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
C.
Nursing process
Teaching plans
Therapeutic communication
Pharmacodynamics
Critical thinking
Legal and ethical implications
Special care units
Clinical application
Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Students will be evaluated by tests, clinical performance, and demonstration of skills.
2. Projects and/or class attendance may also be a factor in evaluation.
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Initiator
Date
Division Dean
MAUREEN WALLER
Sponsor
09-23-2009
Date
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Course Title:
Course Number: 1206
Medical-Surgical 2
SemesterCredit Hours:3
Clinical Hours:4.50
Lecture Hours:1
Lab Hours:0.50
Course description to appear in catalog:
Application of the nursing process in the care of patients with diabetes mellitus, gerontological,
oncological, acid-base, and male reproductive disorders. Lecture, discussion, laboratory, and clinical
practice are used as learning experiences. Clinical experiences include acute and/or non-acute settings.
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria:NURSI 1104 & 1105; PSYCH 2237 or concurrent enrollment.
A.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
1. Analyze the effects of internal and external stressors that may contribute to common health
problems and the adaptation necessary to achieve health
2. Apply holistic nursing interventions in patients with alterations in basic needs
3. Demonstrate safe and culturally sensitive care to maintain or enhance patient health
4. Apply critical thinking in the evaluation of assessment data to plan patient care
5. Apply the nursing process and methods of health promotion and maintenance
6. Implement teaching plans specific for the learning needs of the patient and family
7. Demonstrate therapeutic communication in the care of patients
8. Identify ethical and legal issues when caring for patients
9. Analyze the professional role of the nurse n a special care unit/general medical-surgical unit
10. Demonstrate competency in the performance of nursing procedures
11. Describe safe administration of pharmacologic agents used n the management of patients
12. Utilize valid resources for the collection of data
13. Deliver ethical care based on nursing standards and evidence based practice
B.
Topical Outline:
1. Internal and external stressors
2. Holistic nursing
3. Cultural components
4. Etiology and pathophysiology
5. Health promotion
6. Nursing process
7. Teaching plans
8. Therapeutic communications
9. Critical thinking
10. Ethical and legal implications
11. Special care units
12. Nursing skills
13. Clinical applications
14. Pharmacological application
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Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Students will be evaluated by tests, clinical performance, and demonstration of skills.
2. Projects and/or class attendance may also be a factor in evaluation.
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Initiator
Date
Division Dean
MAUREEN WALLER
Sponsor
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Date
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Course Number: 1207
*Curricular Area: NURSING
Course Title:
Childbearing Family
SemesterCredit Hours:5
Clinical Hours:6
Lecture Hours:2.50
Lab Hours:0.50
Course description to appear in catalog:
Nursing care of the woman and family during the reproductive years. Focus on the childbearing process
and wellness of the family in the childbearing years. Women's health and wellness is emphasized.
Adverse outcomes of pregnancy are presented. Care of the well and hospitalized child and family are
discussed. Clinical experiences include acute and ambulatory care settings, as well as community based
experiences.
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria: NURSI 1104 & 1105; PSYCH 2237 or concurrent enrollment.
A.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
1. Analyze the role of the nurse in assisting patients and families during the childbearing
process
2. Assume the role of team member or team leader in the maternal-child nursing care setting
3. Communicate with patients, significant support persons, and members of the healthcare team
to promote the safe and effective care of women and their families
4. Assess the teaching-learning needs of patients and families during the childbearing and early
childrearing years
5. Deliver ethical care based on nursing standards and evidenced-based practice
6. Analyze the components of optimal health care of families and young children
7. Describe physiological and psychological changes of clients and families during the
antenatal, intrapartal and postnatal periods
8. Identify common pharmacological agents utilized during the childbearing years
9. Explain the effects of hospitalization on the child and family
10. Demonstrate competency in the performance of nursing skills
11. Apply critical thinking when providing patient care to childbearing/childrearing families
12. Apply the nursing process in promoting an optimal level of wellness in women and their
families
13. Deliver safe, compassionate, and culturally sensitive care to diverse populations to maintain
or enhance the wellness of women and their families
14. Utilize the electronic medical records and additional technical resources to promote safe
processes of patient care
15. Identify actual and potential health care problems to promote an optimal level of wellness for
women and their families
B.
Topical Outline:
1. Nursing process
2. Role and function of the nurse
3. Teaching and learning needs
4. Optimal health care
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6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
C.
Developmental tasks
Diversity
Physiological and psychological changes
Pharmacological agents
Nursing procedures
Clinical applications
Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Students will be evaluated by tests, clinical performance, and demonstration of procedures
2. Projects and/or class attendance may also be a factor in evaluation
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Initiator
Date
Division Dean
Date
MAUREEN WALLER
Sponsor
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Date
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Course Title:
Course Number: 1208
Neuropsychiatric Nursing
SemesterCredit Hours:5
Clinical Hours:6
Lecture Hours:2.50
Lab Hours:0.50
Course description to appear in catalog:
Application of the nursing process to management of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders.Mental
health enhancement of diverse populations. Not the role of the professional nurse as partner in a
multidisciplinary team. Lecture discussion, laboratory, and clinical practice are used as learning
experiences
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria:NURSI 1104 and 1105; PSYCH 2237 or concurrent enrollment.
A.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
17. Develop an understanding of the effect of mental illness on the patient, significant others, and
the community
1. Question commonly held assumptions regarding mental illness
2. Apply nursing concepts, principles and theories to clinical situations/simulations
3. Organize patient assessment in standard formats for consistency in data gathering and
analysis
4. Utilize valid resources of information for data collection and analysis
5. Differentiate symptoms of patient presentations within the health continuum
6. Analyze concurrent medical conditions that occur in patients with mental illness
7. Describe treatment alternatives for diverse disease populations
8. Adapt treatment alternatives for diverse disease processes
9. Apply principles of therapeutic communication in interactions with patients and others
10. Value the registered nurse's role in collaboration with members of the healthcare team to
promote healthy patient outcomes
11. Identify the role of the registered nurse in the delivery of pharmacologic and biologic
treatments
12. Protect legal rights for patients, families, and staff
13. Identify safe and ethical care based on nursing standards and evidence based practice
14. Identify methods to provide sensitive care to the person with mental health need in the
medical setting
15. Distinguish between enabling behaviors as opposed to caring behaviors and their impact on
effective patient care
B.
Topical Outline:
1. Disease entities
2. Nursing process
3. Role and function of the nurse
4. Optimal health care
5. Legal and ethical framework
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6. Nursing procedures
7. Clinical applications
8. Pharmacology/biological treatments
C.
Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Students will be evaluated by tests, clinical performance, and demonstration of skills.
2. Projects and/or class attendance may also be a factor in evaluation.
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Date
Division Dean
Date
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Sponsor
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Date
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Course Title:
Course Number: 1210
Transition Course for LPNs to the ADN Program
SemesterCredit Hours:4
Clinical Hours:0
Lecture Hours:2.50
Lab Hours:3
Course description to appear in catalog:
Advanced concepts and skills used by the Registered Nurse when caring for patients with normal and
common health problems requiring perinatal, mental health, and general medical/surgical interventions.
Application of the nursing process for health promotion, health maintenance, and disease prevention.
Nursing skills and techniques are developed and demonstrated in the nursing skills laboratory. Includes
intravenous therapy and medications administered through central lines.
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria:Students must be a licensed practical nurse and provisionally admitted to the ADN
program.
A.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
1. Discuss the history of nursing
2. Identify the steps of the nursing process
3. Develop teaching plans specific for the learning needs of patients requiring perinatal, mental
health, and general medical/surgical interventions
4. Describe the effects of fluids, electrolytes, and acid/base balance on the health of patients
requiring perinatal, mental health, and general medical/surgical interventions
5. Describe how the teaching/learning process is applied to patients requiring perinatal, mental
health, and general medical/surgical interventions
6. Develop nursing diagnoses for patients requiring perinatal, mental health, and general
medical/surgical interventions
7. Describe physiological and psychological changes of patients and families experiencing a
high-risk pregnancy or high-risk neonate
8. Apply the nursing process in promoting an optimal level of wellness for children
9. Apply the nursing process and explain principles and treatment modalities for patients
experiencing mental health disorders and Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
10. Explain the nurse's role in crisis intervention
11. Apply the nursing process and explain principles and treatment modalities for patients
diagnosed with brain tumors or a stroke
12. Demonstrate nursing skills including administering medications and IV fluids through a central
line, IV push medications, administering blood transfusion, and oral/pharyngeal suctioning
13. Write a brief paper using APA style formatting
B.
Topical Outline:
1. The history of nursing
2. The nursing process
3. Teaching and learning in nursing
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5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
C.
APA format
Calculating IV dosages based on body weight per minute (lab)
Administering blood transfusions (lab)
IV push medications (lab)
Central line therapies(lab)
Oral/pharyngeal suctioning (lab)
Fluids, electrolytes, and acid/base balance
High risk neonatal and perinatal care
Well child care
Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
Crisis intervention
Therapeutic
Relationship/communication in mental health nursing
Legal and safety issues in mental health nursing
Nursing assessment in mental health nursing
Schizophrenia
Mood/anxiety disorders
Personality disorders
Stroke/brain tumor
Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Students will be evaluated by examinations and return demonstration of skills.
2. Research papers, concept maps, projects, and/or class attendance may also be a factor in
evaluation.
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Date
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MAUREEN WALLER
Sponsor
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*Curricular Area: NURSING
Course Title:
Course Number: 2109
Medical-Surgical 3
SemesterCredit Hours:5
Clinical Hours:7.50
Lecture Hours:2.50
Lab Hours:0
Course description to appear in catalog:
Application of the nursing process in the care of clients of all age groups with cardiovascular, respiratory,
and endocrine disorders. Clinical experiences include acute and/or non-acute settings. Lecture,
discussion and clinical practice re used as learning experiences.
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria:
Prerequisite: NURSI 1206 Medical-Surgical 2with a grade of "C" or better, or equivalent.
Prerequisite: NURSI 1207 Childbearing Family with a grade of "C" or better, or equivalent. and
Prerequisite: NURSI 1208 Neuropsychiatric Nursingwith a grade of "C" or better, or equivalent. or
A.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
1. Implement professional, ethical and legal principles when caring for patients with
cardiovascular, respiratory, and/or endocrine disorders
2. Apply therapeutic communication skills with patients, significant support persons, and
members of the healthcare team to promote safe, effective care of patients
3. Interpret critical assessment data using valid resources when caring for patients
4. Apply critical thinking in the delivery and evaluation of patient care
5. Prioritize therapeutic nursing interventions in the management of multiple patients
6. Perform safe, compassionate, and culturally sensitive care for diverse populations
7. Evaluate teaching plans that address the healthcare needs of patients
8. Develop collaborative relationships with patients, significant support persons, and members
of the healthcare team for the purpose of providing or enhancing patient care for patients
9. Delegate aspect of patient care to qualified assistive personnel when managing care of the
patient
10. Examine the role of the nurse in caring for patients in special care units
11. Demonstrate competency in the performance of complex nursing procedures
B.
Topical Outline:
1. Holistic nursing care
2. Cultural components of care
3. Etiology and pathophysiology
4. Health promotion
5. Nursing process
6. Teaching plans
7. Therapeutic communication
8. Pharmacodynamics
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C.
Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Students will be evaluated by tests, clinical performance, and demonstrations of skills
2. Projects and/or class attendance may also be a factor in evaluation
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Date
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*Curricular Area: NURSING
Course Title:
Course Number: 2110
Contemporary Issues in Nursing
SemesterCredit Hours:2
Clinical Hours:0
Lecture Hours:2
Lab Hours:0
Course description to appear in catalog:
Current issues and trends in professional nursing are explored. Career opportunities for professional
registered nurses are discussed. Components of professional nurse practice act are explored.
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria: NURSI 1206 and either 1207 or 1208 or NURSI 1210 for ADN Bridge Students
A.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
1. Explain the influence of nursing history and educational preparation for nursing practice on
current professional nursing practice and education
2. Analyze the legal and ethical accountability and responsibility of professional nursing practice
3. Analyze the impact of the economy and political process on professional nursing practice
4. Evaluate career opportunities for the professional nurse
5. Develop a personal definition of professional nurse/nursing
6. Construct a cover letter and resume for an entry level professional nurse position
7. Explore a current nursing issues and trends
8. Examine the nurse practice act for its impact on the nursing role
B.
Topical Outline:
1. Nursing education and practice
2. Development of nursing as a profession
3. Economic and political aspects of professional nurse practice
4. Legal and ethical responsibility and accountability of professional nurse practice
5. Career opportunities and professional growth for professional nurses
C.
Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Students will be evaluated by tests and projects.
2. Class participation and/or class attendance may also be a factor in evaluation.
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Date
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Course Title:
Course Number: 2201
Medical-Surgical 4
SemesterCredit Hours:10
Clinical Hours:15
Lecture Hours:5
Lab Hours:0
Course description to appear in catalog:
Application of the nursing process in the care of patients of all age groups with burns, gastrointestinal,
hepatic, pancreatic, biliary, renal, hematological, immunological, neurological, and sensory (eye/ear)
disorders. Integration of theory for the management of acute and chronic conditions including concepts of
emergency care, basic first aid, sexually transmitted diseases and domestic violence. Concepts of
community nursing including home care are introduced. Clinical experiences include acute and/or nonacute settings.
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria: NURSI 2109
A.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
1. Formulate holistic nursing interventions for patients/families with acute, chronic, and complex
healthcare needs
2. Defend a plan of care using the nursing process for patients/families with acute, chronic, and
complex healthcare needs in the home and community settings
3. Distinguish methods of health promotion and maintenance in diverse populations
4. Design teaching plans that address the learning needs of the patient/family in diverse settings
5. Utilize therapeutic communication in the care of patients/families in diverse settings
6. Interpret critical assessment data using valid resources when caring for patients/families
7. Apply critical thinking in decision making for the care of patients /families with acute, chronic,
and complex healthcare needs
8. Identify ethical and legal perspectives when caring for patients/families with acute, chronic,
and complex healthcare needs
9. Practice a variety of nursing roles: critical care, medical/surgical, clinic/community-based
10. Perform safe, compassionate and culturally sensitive care for diverse populations and
settings
11. Determine adaptations of nursing procedures in diverse populations
12. Demonstrate safe administration of pharmacologic agents used in the management of
patients
13. Prioritize the application of nursing concepts, principles, and theories to clinical
situations/simulations
B.
Topical Outline:
1. Leadership and management
2. Holistic nursing
3. Cultural components of care
4. Etiology and pathophysiology
5. Health promotion/disease prevention
6. Nursing process
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7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
C.
Teaching plans
Pharmacodynamics
Critical thinking
Ethical and legal implications
Clinical experience encompassing advanced nursing procedures/skills
Delegation
Community based nursing practice
Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Students will be evaluated by projects, testing, and clinical performance.
2. Class attendance may also be a factor in evaluation.
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*Curricular Area: NURSING
Course Title:
Course Number: 2202
Clinical Decision Making
SemesterCredit Hours:1
Clinical Hours:0
Lecture Hours:1
Lab Hours:0
Course description to appear in catalog:
Cumulative integration of concepts learned throughout the nursing curriculum. Emphasis will be placed
on analysis of critical thinking skills and synthesis of clinical decision making through evaluation of case
studies and clinical simulations.
Repeatable for credit: No
Pre-Enrollment Criteria: NURSI 2109
A.
General Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following:
1. Analyze clinical decisions based on application of knowledge and evidence-based practice
2. Synthesize the roles of the nurse in the care of patients, families and communities
3. Design a prioritized patient care scenario based on ethical principles in nursing
4. Formulate clinical decisions based on principles of physical assessment, knowledge of
medical diagnostics and pharmacological concepts
5. Develop a complex plan of care for patients/families/communities
6. Apply pathophysiological principles in the formulation of clinical decisions
7. Apply nursing concepts, principles and theories to clinical situations/simulations
B.
Topical Outline:
1. Nursing process
2. Role and function of the nurse
3. Critical thinking process/skills
4. Patient, family and community through the lifespan
5. Clinical decision making exercises
6. Pharmacology
C.
Methods of Evaluating Students:
1. Students will be evaluated by tests and/or projects.
2. Class attendance may also be a factor in evaluation.
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Date
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Appendix 4.3C
College of DuPage
Associate Degree Nursing Program
Course Syllabus
(Circle applicable semester)
Fall
Spring
Summer
Year: 20___
Course Title and Number:
Course Description:
Obtain from active course file
Semester Credit Hours:
Obtain from active course file
Pre-enrollment Criteria:
Obtain from active course file
General Course Objectives:List objectives as written on the ACF:
Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
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Course Map
Unit Topical
Outline/Content*
Learning Activities
(This includes class, lab and clinical
learning activities, as well as those done
outside of the course such as reading
assignments)
Assessment Activities
by each unit. These are
intended to document
student attainment of the
outcomes.**
* Unit objectives are derived from the general course objectives and contextualized to each topical outline/content
area.
**Student Learning Outcomes(list each one as they appear as the outcome on the clinical evaluation tool).
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Textbooks / Materials:
Required:
Optional:
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*Some materials may be web based. Additional materials may be on reserve in the library.
Program Policies and Procedures:
This course will be conducted according to the policies and procedures of the college, as described in
the College Catalog
and Nursing Department policies, as described in the ADN Student Handbook. The ADN Student
Handbook is available via the ADN webpage. This handbook contains policies on testing, grade
computation/grading scale, absence/make-up,
and uniform requirements. The handbook also includes reference for college-wide policies on academic
dishonesty, professional behavior, grade grievance, and withdrawal/readmission. Students are required
to abide by the policies as stated in the handbook. Additional policies and procedures may be required
by specific instructors and/or clinical facilities. Any additional policies and procedures will be identified
by such instructors.
Course Calendar:
A course calendar with the location and lecture topics is located in the appendix of this syllabus.
Dosage Calculation:
Students must pass a dosage calculation test with a score of ____% by the deadline noted on the course
calendar.
Grading Scale:
Percentage
Grade
90.0% - 100%
A
84.0% - 89.9% B
78.0% - 83.9% C
70.0% - 77.9% D
Below 70.0%
F
The numeric value of exams and final course grades will not be rounded.
Grade Worksheet:
Item Description*
Points Possible
Your Score
Total
*Item Description: As needed specific information about and guidelines/rubrics for will be found in
appendices.
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** Test questions are developed from lecture content, class discussion, assigned readings, handouts,
and assignments.
The syllabus is subject to change. Students will be notified of any changes as soon as possible.
APPENDICES
General (required for all courses):
Faculty contact information including: phone number, office room number, email address, office
hours, department and program web page links
Calendar with class topics and assignment/exam dates
Course Evaluation Tool
Course Specific:
Grading Scale and Grade Worksheet
Clinical Site Evaluation Tool
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Administration of Oral Medications
Student Name: ___________________________________
Student Signature: ________________________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt ________________ Date: __________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt ________________ Date: __________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt ________________ Date: __________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
** Critical Behaviors that need to be stated or done in order to pass the skill.
PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS
Assessment
1. Check physician’s order for accuracy.
a. Date
b. Patient name
c. Drug name and dosage
d. Time for administration
e. Route of administration
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2. Check if patient
a. Is NPO?
b. **Has allergies?
c. Has swallowing challenges?
d. Does the patient have a fluid restriction?
Planning
3. Identify patient outcomes: know actions, special nursing considerations, safe
dose ranges, purpose of administration, and adverse effects of medications to
be administered.
4. Identify what teaching you might need to provide to the patient.
5. Assemble equipment
a. Medication Administration Record (MAR)
b. Medication cup(s) and tray
c. Medication cart
d. Water if appropriate
Implementation
6. **Perform hand hygiene.
7. Prepare medication for one patient at a time.
State the **6 rights of medication administration using the MAR.
Read the MAR and select the correct medication. **(First check).
Repeat if necessary if more than one medication is to be administrated.
Check expiration date.
8. Compare MAR to the label on the medication (Long Term Care Card, PYXIS, or
bottle), verifying correct medication. **(Second check).
Check expiration date.
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Repeat as needed for each medication to be administered.
9. Verbalize that you will calculate the correct amount of the drug to be given.
10. Place medications in cup.
a. Place unit dose-packaged medications in a disposable cup. Do not open
wrapper until at bedside. Keep narcotics and medications that require
special nursing assessments in a separate container.
b. When removing tablets or capsules from a bottle, pour the necessary
number into bottle cap and then place tablets in a medication cup. Break
only scored tablets, if necessary, to obtain proper dose.
11. When pouring liquid medication, set the cup on a flat surface and read the
level of liquid at the lowest point of the meniscus. Palm the label of the bottle.
12. Check the label of all medications comparing to MAR before returning them to
the storage area **(Third check).
13. Carry prepared medication and MAR to patient’s room.
14. Upon entering room:
a. **Perform hand hygiene
b. Identify self
c. **Identify patient using two forms of identification (i.e., Name, birth date,
medical record number) while comparing MAR to patient wrist band
d. **Check Allergies
e. Assure privacy
f. Explain what is about to occur and what medications are being
administered.
g. Allow for patient questions
h. **Perform necessary assessments (i.e., Apical heart rate, blood pressure,
what are the parameters for medications on hold)
15. Position patient to facilitate comfort and swallowing of medications.
16. Compare each unit dose medication to the MAR
**(3rd check for unit dosemeds).
17. Administer medications.
a. Offer water or other permitted fluids with pills, capsules, tablets, and some
liquid medications.
b. Ask patient’s preference regarding medication to be taken by hand or in a
cup and one at a time or all at once.
c. If capsule or tablet falls to the floor, discard it and administer a new one.
d. Record any fluid intake if I/O measurement is ordered.
18. Remain with patient until each medication is swallowed and check to be sure
medication has been swallowed.
19. Prior to leaving room:
a. Reposition patient for comfort
b. Lower bed
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c. Raise appropriate rails
d. Place call light and belongings within reach
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20. **Correctly record medication on MAR:
a. medication given and dose
b. time and route
c. record any significant assessment data such as BP, pulse, pain rating, etc.
d. signature and initials
21. Verbalize need to follow up on therapeutic effects of medication (i.e., pain,
blood pressure, heart rate, fluid status, blood sugar, etc.) in timely manner.
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Head to Toe Assessment
Student Name: ___________________________________
Student Signature: ________________________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt _______________ Date: ____________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt ______________ Date: ____________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory ^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt ______________ Date: ____________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory ^
** Critical Behaviors that need to be stated or done in order to pass the skill.
PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS
1. Gather equipment needed for assessment
a. Stethoscope
b. Appropriate sized blood pressure cuff
c. Pulse Oximeter
d. Penlite
e. Thermometer
f. Gloves
2. Upon entering room,
a. **Perform hand hygiene
b. Identify self
c. **Identify patient
d. **Verify Allergies
e. Assure privacy
f. **Explain what is about to occur
g. Allow for patient questions
h. Raise bed to comfortable working height
i. Don gloves
3. **Assess level of consciousness and orientation to person, time, and
place.
4. Perform pain, pulse Oximetry, blood pressure, and temperature
assessments.
5. Assess head and PERRLA
a. Observe for any gross abnormalities of the head and face.
6. **Throughout assessment observe and note condition of hair, skin, and
nails.
7.
**Assess and compare bilateral upper extremities for:
a. Hand grasps for equality and strength
b. Temperature and color
c. Radial pulses
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d. Capillary refill
e. Sensation
8. **Assess apical pulse.
a. Auscultate heart sounds at left mid-clavicular line and fifth intercostal
space. Point of maximal impulse (PMI)
b. Listen for one minute, noting rate, and regularity.
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9. **Assess lungs.
a. Listen and observe rise and fall of chest and count respirations.
b. Auscultate breath sounds.
i. Assess anterior chest in 4 sites and 2 lateral sites.
ii. Assess posterior chest in 4 sites and 2 lateral sites.
10. ** Assess abdomen.
a. Auscultate for bowel sounds in all four quadrants.
b. Palpate abdomen for firmness, tenderness, and lower abdomen for
bladder distention.
11. **Assess and compare bilateral lower extremities for:
a. Movement and strength
b. Temperature and color
c. Dorsalispedis and posterior tibial pulses
d. Capillary refill
e. Sensation
12. Assess posterior lung sounds (if not previously done) and skin.
13. **Check equipment:
a. IV? solution, rate, site.
b. O2? Setting/type
c. Drains (including urinary catheter).
14. Survey environment for safety concerns.
15. Prior to leaving the room
a. Reposition patient for comfort
b. Lower bed
c. Raise appropriate rails
d. Place call light and belongings in reach
e. **Perform hand hygiene
f. Gather and remove equipment
16. **Document assessment per facility policy.
17. Write a sample nursing note:
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Nasogastric Tube Insertion
Student Name: ______________________________
Student Signature: _______________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt _____________________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt _____________________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt _____________________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
** Critical Behaviors that need to be stated or done in order to pass the skill.
PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS
Assessment
1. Check physician’s order.
2. **Check chart for allergies.
Planning
3. Identify expected outcomes.
4. Gather necessary equipment
a. Nasogastric tube
b. Gloves
c. Cup of water
d. Lubricating jelly
e. Tape
f. Safety pin
g. pH paper
h. Rubber band
i. Stethoscope
j. Irrigation tip syringe
k. Bath towels or blue pad
l. Emesis basin
m. Flash light.
5. Provide for privacy
Implementation
6. Upon entering:
a. **Perform hand hygiene
b. Identify self
c. **Identify patient
d. **Check allergies
e. Assure privacy
f. Explain what is about to occur
g. Allow for patient questions
h. Raise bed to comfortable working height
i. Don clean gloves
7. Using a flashlight, assess condition of nares and oral cavity.
8. Position patient in high Fowler’s position with pillow behind head and shoulders.
9. Stand at the right side of patient if right handed and the left side of patient if
left handed.
10. Place bath towels or blue pad over chest and give tissues to patient.
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11. Prepare split tape.
12. **Mark length of tube to be inserted with tape. Measure distance to insert
tube measuring from the tip of the nose, to the earlobe, to the xiphoid process.
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13. Curve tip of tube tightly around index finder and release.
14. **Lubricate end of tube generously with water soluble lubricating jelly.
15. Instruct patient to extend neck back against pillow and begin to insert tube into
naris with curved end pointing downward.
16. Continue to pass tube along floor of nasal passage; aiming down toward ear.
When resistance is felt apply gentle downward pressure to advance the tube (do
not force past resistance).
Note: If resistance continues, withdraw tube, allow patient to rest, relubricate tube
and insert into other naris.
17. Continue insertion of tube until just past nasopharynx by gently rotating tube
toward opposite naris
a. Stop tube advancement, allow patient to rest
b. Explain that the next step requires swallowing.
18. **With tube just above oropharynx, instruct patient to flex head forward and
dry swallow or suck air in through a straw; advance with each swallow; if patient
has trouble swallowing and is allowed fluids, offer a glass of water; advance tube
with each swallow of water until tape marking is at the nose.
19. ** Attach irrigation tip syringe, inject 30 ml of air and auscultate woosh over
epigastric area, then aspirate gently back to obtain gastric contents.
20. Measure pH of gastric contents with color coded pH paper.
21. If tube is not in stomach, advance another 2.5-5 cm and repeat step 18 and 19.
22. **Secure tube to nose with tape; avoid pressure on nares.
23. Fasten end of tube to gown by looping rubber band around tube in a slip knot ,
or by applying tape, and pin to gown.
24. Remove irrigation tip syringe and attach tube to suction as ordered.
25. Unless otherwise ordered by physician, head of bed should remain elevated to
30 degrees.
26. Before leaving room
a. Dispose of equipment
b. Position patient comfortably
c. Lower bed
d. Raise appropriate side rails
e. Leave call light and belongings in reach
f. **Perform hand hygiene
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27. **What information do you need to gather to assure that the nasogastric tube
is functioning properly? What are your observations since insertion? How has
the patient responded to the procedure? Write a sample nursing note.
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Nasogastric Tube Removal
Student Name: ____________________________
Student Signature: ________________________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt _____________________ Date: _________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt _____________________ Date: _________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt _____________________ Date: _________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
** Critical Behaviors that need to be stated or done in order to pass the skill.
PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS
Assessment
1. Check physician’s order.
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2. **Check chart for allergies.
Planning
3. Identify expected outcomes.
4. Gather necessary equipment
A. Bath towel or blue pad
B. Tissues
5. Provide for privacy
Implementation
6. Upon entering:
a. **Perform hand hygiene
b. Identify self
c. **Identify patient
d.**Check allergies
e. Assure privacy
f. Explain what is about to occur
g. Allow for patient questions
h. Raise bed to comfortable working height
i. Don clean gloves
7. If tube is attached to suction, turn off suction.
8. Assess nares, oral cavity and presence of bowel sounds.
9. Place towel across patient’s chest.
10. Disconnect tubing from wall suction. Auscultate for placement. Measure pH of
gastric contents with color coded pH paper. If tube is in place, instill 10 ml
water. If tube is not in place, do not instill water.
11. Remove tape from nose and unfasten pin from gown.
12. Instruct patient to take a deep breath and hold; pinch tube with fingers or
clamp; quickly and smoothly remove tube into towel while patient is holding
breath.
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13. Provide patient with tissues.
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14. Place tubing in plastic bag or towel.
15. Provide oral and nasal care; make patient comfortable.
16. Inspect condition of nares and oral cavity.
17. Before leaving room
a. Dispose of equipment
b. Position patient comfortably
c. Lower bed
d. Raise appropriate side rails
e. Leave call light and belongings in reach
f. **Perform hand hygiene
Evaluation
18. **What information do you need to gather to assure that the patient has
tolerated the tube removal procedure and that the patient is tolerating being
without the tube?
19. Write a sample nursing note:
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Performing a Wet to Dry Dressing Change
Student Name: ___________________________________
Student Signature: ________________________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt __________________ Date: _________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory ^
Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt __________________ Date: _________
Satisfactory *
Unsatisfactory ^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt __________________ Date: _________
Satisfactory *
Unsatisfactory ^
** Critical Behaviors that need to be stated or done in order to pass the skill.
PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS
Assessment
1. Check physician’s order.
2.
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**Identify the patient.
3. **Check for allergies, including latex, tape, and antiseptics.
4. **Determine patient’s need for pain medication for the dressing
change.
If premedicating, allow sufficient time for the medication to take
effect, using pre- and post- pain assessment rating scale (0-10).
5. Assess condition and type of current dressing.
Planning
6. Gather necessary equipment
a. Sterile saline
b. Sterile 4X4 gauze – 2 packages
c. Packaged sterile 4X4 loose gauze
d. Sterile gloves
e. 2 Sterile cotton tip applicators
f. Single use measuring device
g. Sterile ABD pad
h. Tape
i. Clean gloves
Implementation
7. Upon entering room:
a. **Perform hand hygiene
b. Identify self
c. **Identify patient
d. **Verify allergies
e. Assure privacy
f. Explain what is about to occur
g. Allow for patient questions
h. Move waste bin within reach.
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i. Raise bed to comfortable working height
j. **Don clean gloves
8. Position patient comfortably. Drape to expose only wound site.
9. Remove tape of previous dressing by pulling it towards the old
dressing.
Remove dressing and packing, keeping the soiled surface away
from the patient.
10. **Note drainage amount, color, consistency, and odor on/from
the old dressing.
Discard dressing along with soiled gloves.
11. Prepare sterile field:
a. On over bed table, open dressing supply packages preparing
and maintaining a sterile field (do not cross sterile field &
place items in order of use).
b. Check date on sterile saline.
c. Palm label of sterile saline and pour a small portion out
into the garbage (lip the bottle).
d. Pour prescribed solution onto the open package of loose
4X4 gauze.
e. Prepare tape, including time, date and initials.
12. Don sterile gloves.
13. **Inspect wound for appearance, size, depth, drainage, integrity,
edema, odor, undermining, and tunneling. Obtain measurement
of wound.
14. Cleanse wound with saline soaked 4X4.
a. Wring saline from one 4X4.
b. Grasp 4X4 by the corners.
**(Do not allow sterile groves to touch the wound)
c. Clean from least contaminated area to most contaminated.
d. Use sterile, dry gauze to blot and dry wound.
**(Do not allow sterile gloves to touch the wound)
15. Apply dressing.
(Note: hydrogel would be applied to the wound at this point,
prior to packing)
a. Wring out excess solution from 4X4 and open the gauze.
b. Loosely pack gauze into wound until wound surfaces are in
contact with moist gauze with a cotton tipped applicator.
**Do not have gauze touch surrounding skin.
c. Ensure that dead space is loosely packed with gauze.
d. Apply dry, sterile 4 X 4 gauze over moist gauze.
e. Cover with ABD pad.
f. Apply tape to secure dressing without causing trauma to
healthy tissue.
16. Prior to leaving room:
a. Dispose of gloves and used equipment
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17. Ask patient to rate pain level.
18. **Document and report wound assessment, dressing, and
patient’s response.
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Replacement of Intravenous Tubing and Intravenous Solution
Student Name: ___________________________________
Student Signature: ________________________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt ________________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt ________________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt ________________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
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PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS
Assessment
1. Consult physician’s order for correct IV infusion: solution, volume
and flow rate.
2. **Check allergies and sensitivities to tape.
3. Verify IV access; assess site and patency.
Planning
4. Identify patient outcomes.
5. Identify what teaching you might need to provide to the patient.
6. Assemble equipment.
a. IV Infusion Record or MAR
b. Correct IV solution
c. Primary IV Tubing
d. Tubing label
e. Alcohol swabs
f. Tape
Implementation
7. **Perform hand hygiene.
8. Prepare IV solution for only one patient at a time. Read MAR or IV
Infusion Record and select correct IV solution **(First check).
9. Compare MAR to label on IV solution bag **(Second check). Check
expiration date as well as clarity of IV solution.
10. **Verbalize that you will calculate correct IV rate.
11. Before going to patient’s room:
a. spike new bag of IV solution, maintaining sterile technique
b. fill drip chamber halfway
c. prime tubing, purging air within the tubing
d. label tubing with date/time/initials
e. label primary bag with completed timing strip
f. perform **Third check against IV Infusion Record or MAR
12. Take the new bag and tubing to patient’s room with other supplies
and MAR.
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13. Upon entering room:
a. **Perform hand hygiene
b. Identify self.
c. **Identify patient (using two forms of identification while
comparing MAR to patient wrist band)
d. Assure privacy
e. Explain what is about to occur
f. Allow for patient questions
g. Raise bed to comfortable working height.
h. **Don gloves
14. **Collect data about condition of existing IV site and dressing.
15. Prepare to remove old tubing:
a. Loosen any tape
b. Clamp old IV tubing
c. Close slide clamp on catheter between insertion site and hub
d. Loosen luer lock at hub
16. Remove and replace:
a. Secure existing IV catheter at hub with non-dominant hand.
b. Pull old tubing out of catheter hub, being careful not to pull out
the IV catheter itself.
c. **Clean IV port with alcohol.
d. Quickly place new tubing into the hub. **Maintain sterile
technique.
e. Secure new luer lock at hub; open slide clamp, anchor tubing
with tape.
17. **Set rate of fluid flow according to the order. (For return, set
rate at 5 drops per 15 seconds or 20 drops per minute.)
18. Instruct patient to report any redness, pain, drainage, or swelling
that may occur during infusion of the IV fluid.
19. Prior to leaving room:
a. Dispose of gloves, dressing, old IV bag and tubing, and other
used materials.
b. Position patient comfortably
c. Lower bed
d. Raise appropriate rails
e. Place call light and belongings within reach
f. **Perform hand hygiene
Evaluation
20. a. Verbalize the need to return to the patient’s room to reassess
the site and flow rate.
b. Verbalize need to follow up on therapeutic effects of
intravenous therapy
(i.e., bp, heart rate, fluid status, infection, etc.) in a timely
manner.
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Tracheostomy Care and Suctioning
Student Name: ___________________________________
Student Signature: ________________________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt _______________ Date: ___________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory ^
Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt _______________ Date: ___________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory ^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt _______________ Date: ___________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory ^
** Critical Behaviors that need to be stated or done in order to pass the skill.
PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS
Assessment
1. Check physician’s order.
2. **Check chart for allergies.
Planning
3. Identify expected outcomes.
5. Gather necessary equipment
a. Tracheostomy cleaning kit
b. Normal saline
c. Hydrogen peroxide
d. 2 pair of sterile gloves
e. Suction catheter
f. Bath towel
5. Provide for privacy
Implementation
6. Upon entering:
A. **Perform hand hygiene
B. Identify self
C. **Identify patient
D. **Check allergies
E. Assure privacy
F. Explain what is about to occur
G. Allow for patient questions
H. Raise bed to comfortable working height
I. Don clean gloves
7. Position patient in semi-Fowler’s position.
8. Position self at head of bed.
9. Auscultate lungs, monitor oxygen saturation.
10. Place bath towel or prepackaged drape under tracheostomy and across
chest.
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11. Prepare equipment and supplies:
1.
Open sterile tracheostomy kit.
2.
With clean hands and using only the edges of the drape,
remove drape and place on overbed table, this is your
sterile field.
3.
Open suction catheter and drop onto sterile field.
4.
Pour cleansing solution (equal parts hydrogen peroxide
and sterile normal saline) in one basin and rinsing solution
(normal saline) in two other basins.
5.
Turn on suction (120 mm Hg)
6.
Apply sterile gloves; keep dominant hand sterile.
7.
Arrange sterile 4x4s, trach dressing, brush, cotton-tipped
swabs on sterile field in order of use
12. **Keep dominant hand sterile throughout procedure.
13. Unlock and remove inner cannula with non-dominant hand; place in
hydrogen peroxide basin.
14. Suction inner aspect of outer cannula;
1. **Pick up suction catheter with dominant hand.
2. **Grab suction tubing with non-dominant hand and connect to
suction catheter.
3. **Aspirate sterile rinsing solution through catheter by occluding
suction control with thumb.
4. **Hyperoxygenate patient.
a) Ask patient to take several deep breaths.
b) Provide several deep breaths with Ambu-bag if patient is
unable to take deep breaths.
5. Remove thumb from suction control; insert catheter into trach
until resistence is met or patient coughs then pull back 1cm with
dominant hand.
6. Apply intermittent suction while twisting and withdrawing the
catheter, encourage patient to cough.
7. **Suction for maximum of 10 seconds.
8. **Reapply oxygen/encourage deep breathing and allow patient to
rest between each suction episode.
9. Rinse catheter with sterile normal saline and repeat if necessary.
10. Turn off suction, disconnect suction catheter dispose of suction
catheter while maintaining sterility of dominant hand.
15. Pick up the plastic face plate of the inner cannula with non sterile nondominant hand and cleanse the inner cannula with the sterile dominant
hand.
1. Use pipe cleaners and brush to clean inside inner cannula with
hydrogen peroxide solution using dominant hand.
2. Rinse inner cannula with sterile rinsing solution and rinse thoroughly.
3. Inspect inner and outer aspect of inner cannula and remove excess
liquid with sterile 2x2 using dominant hand wiping from clean to
dirty.
4. Insert inner cannula into outer cannula with non-dominant hand and
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16. Clean skin around tracheostomy and tabs of outer cannula with unused sterile
saline; use wipes that are free of lint around tracheal opening.
17. Change cotton ties:
1.
Untie one side of outer cannula and replace it with a clean one.
2.
Bring clean tape around back of neck.
3.
Untie other side of outer cannula and replace it with clean tape.
4.
Tie ends of 2 clean cotton ties together and position knot
appropriately.
17. Insert fresh tracheostomy dressing under clean ties and faceplate.
18. **Auscultate breath sounds; monitor oxygenation.
19. Provide oral care.
21. Before leaving room
A. Dispose of equipment
B. Position patient comfortably
C. Lower bed
D. Raise appropriate side rails
E. Leave call light and belongings in reach
F. **Perform hand hygiene
Evaluation
22. **Record and report suctioning and tracheostomy care, assessment findings
and patient’s response.
23. Write a sample nursing note:
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Urinary Catheterization with Indwelling (Retention) Catheter: Female and Male
Variations for Male will be italicized within this document and are expected to be verbalized during the return.
Student Name: ___________________________________
Student Signature: ________________________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt _________________ Date: __________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory ^
Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt _________________ Date: __________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt _________________ Date: __________
Satisfactory *
Unsatisfactory ^
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1. Check physician’s order.
2. **Check chart for allergies. (Noting Latex and Betadine)
Planning
3. Identify expected outcomes.
6.
Gather necessary equipment
a. Indwelling catheter kit
b. Clean wash cloth, basin with warm water, and towel
c. Blue pad
5. Provide for privacy
Implementation
6. Upon entering:
J. **Perform hand hygiene
K. Identify self
L. **Identify patient
M. **Check allergies
N. Assure privacy
O. Explain what is about to occur
P. Allow for patient questions
Q. Raise bed to comfortable working height
R. Don clean gloves
7. Adjust for proper lighting and position patient in lithotomy position
(on back with knees flexed) and have patient relax thighs.
8. Place a waterproof pad under patient. Cleanse patient’s perineal
area with warm water, pat dry. Remove and discard gloves. Wash
hands.
9. Open catheter kit, taking note of expiration date. Remove kit,
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reserving plastic bag for garbage. Place kit on bed surface
between patient’s legs. Open outer wrap, maintaining sterile
technique. Remove sterile gloves from kit and apply.
10. Extend sterile field using sterile drape supplied in kit.
11. Organize equipment.
12. Indwelling catheterization:
A. Check catheter balloon for patency and leave syringe attached
to catheter.
B. Lubricate catheter tip with water-soluble gel 1-2 inches.
C. Pour antiseptic solution over cotton balls.
D. Cleanse the urinary meatus with antiseptic solution.
1. Separate labia with fingers of nondominant hand to
fully expose urinary meatus.
2. Maintain position of nondominant hand until
catheter has been inserted.
3. **Clean the labia and urinary meatus from the
clitoris toward the anus. Use one cotton ball or
swab per stroke.
4. **Do not cross the sterile field with unclean cotton
swab/ball.
E. Gently insert catheter into urinary meatus advancing catheter
slowly a total of 2 to 3 inches or until urine flows. As soon as
urine appears, advance catheter another inch. **Do Not
Break Sterile Technique
F. Hold the catheter securely at the meatus with your
nondominant hand. Use your dominant hand to inflate the
catheter balloon.
G. Allow the bladder to empty fully unless institution policy
restricts maximal volume of urine drained, typically 1000ml.
H. Secure catheter to inner thigh with tape or catheter strap,
allowing for slack
to prevent tension.
I. Position drainage bag lower than bladder by attaching to a
non moving part
of the patients bed, not side rails.
13. Before leaving room
A. Dispose of equipment
B. Position patient comfortably
C. Lower bed
D. Raise appropriate side rails
E. Leave call light and belongings in reach
F. **Perform hand hygiene
Evaluation
14. Observe urine in drainage bag for amount, color, and clarity.
15. **Record and report catheterization, assessment findings and
patient’s response.
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Administration of Intravenous Piggyback Medication
Student Name: ___________________________________
Student Signature: ________________________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt ________________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory ^
Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt ________________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt ________________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
** Critical Behaviors that need to be stated or done in order to pass the skill.
PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS
Assessment
1. Check physician’s order for accuracy of correct IVPB Medication:
a. Date
b. Patient name
c. Drug name and dosage
d. Time for administration
e. Route of administration (note volume and rate)
2. **Check allergies and sensitivities to tape.
3. **Verify IV access; assess site and patency, and note IV solution
infusing.
4. **Verify compatibility of IVPB with current IV solution.
Planning
5. Identify patient outcomes: know actions, special nursing
considerations, safe doseranges, purpose of administration, and
adverse effects of medications to be administered.
6. Identify what teaching you might need to provide to the patient.
7. Assemble equipment.
a. MAR
b. Correct piggyback medication
c. Secondary IV tubing
d. Tubing label
e. Alcohol swabs
Implementation
8. **Perform hand hygiene.
9. Prepare IVPB for only one patient at a time. State the **6 rights of
medication administration using the MAR. Read MAR and select
correct IVPB
**(First check).Check expiration date.
10. Compare MAR to label on the IVPB piggyback **(Second check).
Check expiration date.
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11. Verbalize that you will calculate correct IV rate.
12. Before going to patient’s room:
a. spike IVPB, maintaining sterile technique
b. fill drip chamber halfway
c. **prime tubing, purging air within the tubing
d. label tubing with date/time/initials
e. perform **Third check against the MAR. Check expiration date.
13. Take the IVPB and tubing properly labeled, to patient’s room with
other supplies and the MAR.
14. Upon entering room:
a. **Perform hand hygiene
b. Identify self.
c. **Identify patient using two forms of identification while
comparing MAR to patient wrist band.
d. **Check Allergies
e. Assure privacy
f. Explain what is about to occur
g. Allow for patient questions
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a. Close the primary tubing with the roller clamp.
b. Lower the primary bag using provided hooks.
c. Hang piggyback from pole, higher than the primary bag.
d. **Confirm that the piggyback tubing is primed and the roller
clamp is closed.
e. Clamp old IVPB tubing and disconnect luer lock at hub.
f. Swab the secondary port on the primary tubing and attach the
secondary tubing to the port.
g. Open the piggyback roller clamp wide open.
h. **Set rate of fluid flow according to the order (For return, set
rate at 10 dropsper 15 seconds or 40 drops per minute.) using
the roller clamp on the PRIMARY bag.
17. Instruct patient to report any itching, redness, pain, drainage, or
swelling that may occur during infusion of the IVPB.
18. Prior to leaving room:
a. Dispose of gloves, dressing, old IV bag and tubing, and other
used materials.
b. Position patient comfortably
c. Raise appropriate rails
d. Place call light and belongings within reach
e. **Perform hand hygiene
Evaluation
19. a. **Verbalize the need to return to the patient’s room as the
piggyback infusion is ending to readjust the IV flow rate.
b. Verbalize need to follow up on therapeutic effects of
intravenous therapy (i.e., bp, heart rate, fluid status,
infection, etc.) in a timely manner.
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Administration of Medication Via Intramuscular Injection
Student Name: ___________________________________
Student Signature: ________________________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt _______________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt _______________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt _______________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
** Critical Behaviors that need to be stated or done in order to pass the skill.
PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS
Assessment
1. Check physician’s order for accuracy.
a. Date
b. Patient name
c. Drug name and dosage
d. Time for administration
e. Route of administration
2. **Check patient allergies.
Planning
3. Identify expected outcomes: know actions, special nursing
considerations, safe dose ranges, purpose of administration, and
adverse effects of medications to be administered.
4. Identify what teaching you might need to provide to the patient.
5. Gather equipment
a. MAR
b. **Proper size syringe and needle gauge (state acceptable
ranges)
c. Medication cart (medications)
d. Alcohol swabs and 2x2 gauze
e. Gloves
Implementation
6. **Perform hand hygiene
7. Prepare medication for only one patient at a time.
State the **6 rights of medication administration using the MAR.
Read MAR and select correct medication. **(First check)
Check expiration date.
8. Compare MAR to label on vial, ampule, or prefilled syringe,
verifying correct Medication. **(Second check) Check expiration
date.
9. Verbalize that you will calculate correct amount of drug to be given.
10. Prepare medication in syringe using proper technique.
a. Alcohol swab rubber stopper of vial
b. **Inject air into vial in quantity of desired volume to be drawn
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into syringe
c. **Withdraw correct dose.
d. **Recap syringe using scoop method for transport to patient’s
room
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11. Check label of vial, ampule, or prefilled syringe, comparing to
MAR, before disposing or returning to shelf. **(Third check)
Check expiration date.
12. Carry prepared medication, alcohol swab,2x2 gauze, and MAR to
patient’s room.
13. Upon entering room:
a. **Perform hand hygiene
b. Identify self
c. **Identify patient using two forms of identification (i.e., Name,
birth date, medical record number) while comparing MAR to
patient wrist band
d. **Ask patient if he/she has any allergies.
e. Assure privacy
f. Explain what is about to occur and what medications will be
administered.
g. Allow for patient questions
h. Raise bed to comfortable working height.
i. **Don gloves
14. Prepare site for injection
a. Choose appropriate intramuscular injection site
**(Verbalize all sites and landmarks for evaluator)
b. Cleanse site with alcohol swab in circular motion from center
of site outward
c. Displace skin in a Z-track manner or spread skin at the site using
your non-dominant hand.
d. Hold syringe between thumb and forefinger as if grasping dart
15. Administer injection
a. Inject needle quickly and firmly at **72-90 degree angle.
b. **Aspirate slowly (for at least 5 seconds) pulling back on the
plunger to determine whether the needle is in a blood vessel.
If blood is aspirated, discard needle, syringe , and medication.
Prepare a new sterile setup and select another injection site.
c. If no blood is aspirated, with dominant hand, inject medication
slowly (10 seconds per ml of medication) in a continuous
motion.
d. Withdraw needle quickly while placing 2x2 gauze gently site.
e. **Engage safety device if available.
16. Discard used syringe
a. **Never recap a used needle
b. Place in properly labeled container
17. Prior to leaving room
a. Dispose of gloves and used alcohol swab
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c.
d.
e.
f.
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Position patient comfortably
Lower bed
Raise appropriate rails
Leave call light and belongings in reach
**Perform hand hygiene
18. **Correctly record medication on MAR:
a. Any pertinent collected data such as pain level.
b. Medication given and dose
c. Time and route
d. Injection site
e. Signature and initials
Evaluation
19. Verbalize need to follow up on therapeutic effects of medication
(i.e., pain blood pressure, heart rate, fluid status, etc.,) in a timely
manner.
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Administration of Medication Via Subcutaneous Injection
Student Name: ___________________________________
Student Signature: ________________________________
Evaluator Signature: 1st attempt _______________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
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Evaluator Signature: 2nd attempt _______________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
Evaluator Signature: 3rd attempt _______________ Date: ________
Satisfactory*
Unsatisfactory^
** Critical Behaviors that need to be stated or done in order to pass the skill.
PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS
Assessment
1. Check physician’s order for accuracy.
a. Date
b. Patient name
c. Drug name and dosage
d. Time for administration
e. Route of administration
2. ** Check patient allergies.
Planning
3. Identify expected outcomes: know actions, special nursing
considerations, safe dose ranges, purpose of administration, and
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4. Identify what teaching you might need to provide to the patient.
5. Gather equipment
a. MAR
b. ** Proper size syringe and needle gauge ( state acceptable
ranges)
c. Medication cart (medications)
d. Alcohol swabs and 2x2 gauze
e. Gloves
Implementation
6. **Perform hand hygiene
7. Prepare medication for only one patient at a time.
State the **6 rights of medication administration using the MAR.
Read MAR and select correct medication **(First check). Check
expiration date.
8. Compare MAR to label on vial, ampule, or prefilled syringe,
verifying correct medication **(Second check). Check expiration
date.
9. Verbalize that you will calculate correct amount of drug to be given.
10. Prepare medication in syringe using proper technique.
a. Alcohol swab rubber stopper of vial
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b. **Inject air into vial in quantity of desired volume to be drawn
into syringe
c. **Withdraw correct dose.
d. **Recap syringe using scoop method for transport to patient’s
room
11. Check label of vial, ampule, or prefilled syringe, comparing to
MAR, before disposing or returning to shelf **(Third
check).Check expiration date.
12. Carry prepared medication, alcohol swab,2x2 gauze, and MAR to
patient’s room.
13. Upon entering room:
a. **Perform hand hygiene
b. Identify self
c. **Identify patient using two forms of identification (i.e., Name,
birth date, medical record number) while comparing MAR to
patient wrist band
d. **Ask patient if he/she has any allergies.
e. Assure privacy
f. Explain what is about to occur and what medications will be
administered.
g. Allow for patient questions
h. Raise bed to comfortable working height.
i. **Don gloves
14. Prepare site for injection
a. Choose subcutaneous injection **(Verbalize all sites for
evaluator)
b. Cleanse site with alcohol swab in circular motion from center
of site outward
c. Hold syringe between thumb and forefinger as if grasping dart
d. Pinch cleansed skin with non-dominant hand
15. Administer injection
a. Inject needle quickly and firmly at 45-90 degree angle.
Release skin.
b. Do not aspirate. With dominant hand, inject medication
slowly but smoothly. **Keep the syringe stable during
injection.
c. Withdraw needle quickly while placing 2x2 gauze gently over
site.
d. **Engage safety device if available.
16. Discard used syringe
a. **Never recap a used needle
b. Place in properly labeled container
17. Prior to leaving room
a. Dispose of gloves and used alcohol swab
b. Position patient comfortably
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d.
e.
f.
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Lower bed
Raise appropriate rails
Leave call light and belongings in reach
**Perform hand hygiene
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18. **Correctly record medication on MAR:
a. Any pertinent collected data such as BP, pulse, blood sugar,
pTT, PT, etc.
b. Medication given and dose
c. Time and route
d. Injection site
e. Signature and initials
Evaluation
19. Verbalize need to follow up on therapeutic effects of medication
(i.e., pain, blood pressure, heart rate, fluid status, blood sugar,
etc.,) in a timely manner.
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ADN Laboratory Policies
Appendix 4.5B
First Year Return Demonstrations and Second Year HAT Returns
If a student fails a 1st attempt, they lose the points for that return demonstration if
points are awarded
Students are not allowed to retest on the same day, after failing their 1st attempt, in
order to practice and learn from mistakes made
If a student fails a 2nd attempt:
o They need to get a Remediation Slip from the lab faculty member who evaluated
that attempt
o The slip must be discussed and signed with the clinical instructor
o An E-mail is sent by the clinical instructor to the full time faculty for that course,
“cc”ing the lab at nursinglab@cod.edu, indicating the 2nd attempt skill failure
and need for student to remediate with full time faculty
o Full time faculty will determine who will remediate the skill with the student,
and that faculty member will set the deadline for the 3rd demonstration
o The student will meet with the designated faculty member, bringing the signed
Remediation Slip for discussion, be retaught the skill, and is required to practice
in the lab (sign in dates and times will be noted)
o Two full time faculty will be present for the 3rd return demonstration
o The full time faculty member will contact the clinical instructor regarding the
outcome
If a student fails a 3rd attempt this will result in the establishment of a clinical contract
related to critical thinking and professionalism between the student and the clinical
instructor
o The contract will state that all future skill demonstrations will be successful by
the third attempt
o Failure to fulfill the terms of the contract will indicate that the student did not
successfully meet the objectives of the course
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If a student fails the 1st attempt they lose the points for the final, go to the practice lab,
and then repeat the skill at the end of student testing
If a student fails a 2nd attempt:
o They need to get a Remediation Slip from the lab faculty evaluating that attempt
o Full time faculty will determine who will remediate the skill with the student,
and that faculty member will set the deadline for the 3rd demonstration
o The student will meet with the designated faculty member, bringing the signed
Remediation Slip for discussion, be retaught the skill, and is required to practice
in the lab (sign in dates and times will be noted)
o Two full time faculty will be present for the 3rd return demonstration
o The full time faculty member will contact the clinical instructor regarding the
outcome
Cancelation of Scheduled Return Time
Cancelation of a return must occur the day prior to the scheduled timeslot, so that
someone else may test during that time
Failure to give prior notice the day before, will count as a missed return demonstration
and points for that return demonstration will be forfeited
In addition, 3 or more cancelations will be noted and brought to the clinical instructor’s
attention; issues of professionalism may be discussed
No Show for a Scheduled Return Time
Failure to give prior notice the day before, will count as a missed return demonstration
and points for that return demonstration will be forfeited
Missing Return Deadlines
Return demonstration deadlines will be posted in the labs
Return demonstrations must be successfully completed by the deadline
1st return demonstrations should NOT be scheduled on the deadline date
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Failure to complete the return demonstration successfully by the deadline will result in
the establishment of a clinical contract related to professionalism between the student
and the clinical instructor
The contract will state that all future deadlines will be met
Failure to fulfill the terms of the contract will indicate that the student did not successfully
meet the objectives of the course
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Appendix 4.5C
College of DuPage
Associate Degree Nursing Program
Clinical Contract
Area in Need of Improvement:
Plan of Action:
Criteria for Evaluation:
Evaluation of Implemented Plan:
Ongoing thought the semester
Student Signature:
Faculty Signature:
Date:
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Appendix 4.5D
Suspension from Clinical
Suspension
Students who have been suspended for either unsatisfactory or unsafe clinical performance will
first meet with the clinical instructor of record to review the clinical evaluation and discuss the
grounds for suspension.
Following the meeting with the clinical instructor of record, the student will be called to appear
before the Associate Degree Nursing Appeal Board.
Because there is a lag time between suspension, when a grade would be conferred, and ability
to file a formal appeal according to the college guidelines, the following internal appeal process
has been instituted.
Appeal Process
1. The Associate Degree Nursing Appeal Board will be convened in all cases of student
suspension from clinical.
2. The Coordinator of the ADN Program will convene the Associate Degree Nursing Appeal
Board within three days of the suspension, excluding times when classes are not in
session.
The Associate Degree Nursing Appeal Board may consist of:
Coordinator of the ADN program
One ADN program faculty
One College of DuPage Counselor (preferably from the Health Science
Division)
The instructor of record who evaluated the student as unsatisfactory or
unsafe.
Substitute members of the Associate Degree Nursing Appeal Board will be appointed in
the event of potential conflict of interest or inability to convene a full board to hear the
appeal.
3. The Associate Degree Nursing Appeal Board will hear the case, speaking individually
with both the student and the instructor of record, and both parties together, in any
order they deem fit to discern particulars of the case. Materials reviewed in the appeal
shall include, but are not limited to: the student handbook, the student's clinical
evaluation tools (all courses to date and in particular, course from which dismissed),
anecdotal notes, and any materials that would reflect clinical performance.
4. The Associate Degree Nursing Appeal Board decisions can not violate college or affiliate
policies or jeopardize program accreditation.
5. Decisions must carry by a majority vote. All votes will be rendered anonymously.
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6. The Associate Degree Nursing Appeal Board's decision will result in one of three
outcomes:
a. The student is not found to be unsatisfactory or unsafe and may return to clinical.
b. The student is evaluated as unsatisfactory. The student will be offered the option to
withdraw. If the student chooses not to withdraw, the student will earn a grade of
"F" for the course. A student who has been evaluated as unsatisfactory may not
continue in the course (clinical, classroom, and nursing skills laboratory).
c. The student is evaluated as unsafe. The student may not continue in the course
(clinical, classroom, and nursing skills laboratory) and will earn an F in the course. A
student evaluated unsafe may not return to the COD ADN Program.
Unsatisfactory/Unsafe Clinical Performance
Evaluation of Clinical Work
A student must achieve a satisfactory grade in all clinical behaviors by the end of the clinical
session. Skill performance is evaluated as commensurate with the level of the learner and
reflective of the specific clinical objective as delineated on the clinical evaluation tool.
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Appendix 4.5E
College of DuPage
Associate Degree Nursing Program
Appeal of Unsatisfactory/Unsafe Dismissal
Refer to Associate Degree Nursing Program Student Handbook for policy
DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT:
Date of incident _______________________________
Location of incident _______________ Name of Instructor: ____________________
Type of Dismissal ______________________________________________________
______________________________________
STUDENT APPEAL
The student is appealing to the Director of Nursing an instructor’s decision of a
violation of the Unsatisfactory/Unsafe Dismissal policy.
_______________________________ ___________________________
Print name of student
Day phone number_______________________________
Date of Appeal (within 5 days working days of occurrence) _______________________
___________________________________
INSTRUCTOR’S REPORT
The instructor is reporting an Unsatisfactory/Unsafe Dismissal Policy violation to the
Director of Nursing. This report is either in response to a student appeal OR for
information
purposes only.
___ ____________________________
Print instructor’s name
_________________________
Office phone number
APPEAL COMMITTEE REPORT
An individual is reporting to the Dean of Student Services an alleged academic
integrity violation occurring outside the classroom.
_________________________ ____________________________
Print name of individual Day phone number
______________________________________________________________________
_______
ACTION DESIRED:
Report to be kept on file by Director of Nursing
Appeal of Appeal Committee decision to Dean of Division
Other
____________________________________ ____________________________
Signature of individual completing this form Date
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Appeal of Unsatisfactory/Unsafe Dismissal
Student Appeal Report Form
Student Name___________________________________
Day phone number__________________________
Date of Appeal (within five working days of incident)
__________________________________
Description of Incident:
Date__________________________________________
Location ______________________________________
Instructor______________________________________
Type of Dismissal_______________________________
Describe occurrence:
Describe reason for appeal:
Student signature
____________________________________________________________
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Appeal of Unsatisfactory/Unsafe Dismissal
Faculty Report Form
Student Name___________________________________
Day phone number__________________________
Date of Incident __________________________________
Description of Incident:
Date___________________________________________
Location _______________________________________
Instructor______________________________________
Type of Dismissal_________________________________
Describe occurrence:
Describe reason for dismissal:
Faculty Name_____________________________________________________
Signature ________________________________________________________
Date_____________________________________________________________
Contact Information_______________________________________________
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Appeal of Unsatisfactory/Unsafe Dismissal
Appeals Committee Report Form
Student Name___________________________________
Day phone number_______________________________
Date of Incident _________________________________
Date of Appeal___________________________________
Outcome of Appeal:
Date of decision____________________________
Signatures of Committee members
_______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
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Appendix 4.8A
College of DuPage Nursing Department
Clinical Liaisons
Contact Information
2010-2011
Adventist Hinsdale Hospital
120 N. Oak St.
Hinsdale, IL 60521
Donna Kanak, RN, MSN
Coordinator, School Affiliations
630/856-3056
Adventist LaGrange Memorial
Hospital
5101 Willow Springs Rd.
LaGrange, IL 60525
Kathy Cook
Manager for Nursing Education
LaGrange Memorial Hospital, Adventist Health System
708.245.6820
Central DuPage Hospital
25 N Winfield Rd.
Winfield, IL 60190
Ruth Thurston
Clinical Education Associate
630/933-6835
Edward Hospital
801 S. Washington St.
P.O. Box 3060
Naperville, IL 60566
Elmhurst Memorial Hospital
200 Berteau Ave.
Elmhurst, IL 60126
donna.kanak@ahss.org
Kathleen.Cook@ahss.org
Ruth_Thurston@cdh.org
(630) 933-3531- Phone
(630) 933- 6685- Fax
Patti Foley, RN
Coordinator Special Projects
630/527-3309
pfoley@edward.org
Anne Stezowski RN, MS
Education Coordinator
630/833-1400, ext. 47051
astezow@emhc.org
Loyola University Medical
Center
2160 South First Avenue
Maywood, Illinois 60153
Pamela Clementi, Ph.D., APRN, BC-FNP
Manager, Nursing Education
Coordinator, LUHS AHA Training Center
Telephone: 708-216-9515
Fax: 708-216-4759
Pager: 708-216-8777-92484
Adventist Glen Oaks Hospital
Amy Peebles RN, MSN
Clinical Educator, Medical -Surgical Nursing
Adventist Glen Oaks Hospital
phone 630-545-7250
pcleme1@lumc.edu
701 North Winthrop
Avenue Glendale Heights, IL
60139.
Good Samaritan Hospital
3815 S. Highland Ave.
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Amy.Peebles@ahss.org
Elvira R. Stawarski, MS, RN
Clinical Affiliations Coordinator
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
Walt and Jo Lipinski Center for Learning and Innovation
GSAM-ClinicalAffiliations@advocatehealth.com
Office: 630-275-1811
Fax: 630-275-2944
elvira.stawarski@advocatehealth.com
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Provena-Mercy Center
1325 N. Highland St.
Aurora, IL 60506
Tammie Johnson, RN, MSN
ClinicalEducator
630/801-5891
Alexian Brothers Medical
Center
Mary Kane
Clinical Consultant
847-437-5500 x3310
Sally Strong
630-909-8023
Marianjoy Rehabilitation
26W 171 Roosevelt Rd.
Wheaton, IL 60187
tammie.johnson@provena.org
sstrong@marianjoy.org
Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital
500 Remington Blvd.
Bolingbrook, IL 60440
Joan Mazur
Nursing Education
630-312-6087
Sherman Health Care
Organization
1425 N. Randall Road
Elgin, IL 60123
Northwest Community Hospital
800 W. Central Road,
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Jane Wrede RN, MSN
Clinical Educator
224-783-2154
joann.mazur@ahss.org
jane.wrede@shermanhospital.org
Carol Ziolo, RN, MA
Clinical Educator
Mental Health Network
847.618.4113
847.618.4102 fax
cziolo@nch.org
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Appendix 4.8B
AFFILIATION AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
COLLEGE OF DUPAGE
AND
_____________________________________________
THIS AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is entered into this 1st day of October 2010, by
and between ____________________________ (“the Facility”) and College of DuPage("the
School").
WHEREAS, the School desires to utilize various Facility sites (Exhibit A) that may be
available for the purpose of providing practical learning and clinical experiences (see Exhibit B
for a list of programs and Exhibit C for program-specific requirements) in connection with
students of the School.
NOW, THEREFORE, it is understood and agreed upon by the parties hereto as follows:
A. SCHOOL RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Provision of foundational curriculum to students. The School shall have the total
responsibility for planning and determining the adequacy of the educational experience
of students in theoretical background, basic skill, professional ethics, attitude and
behavior, and will assign to the Facility only those students who have satisfactorily
completed the prerequisite didactic portion of the School’s curriculum.
2. Student professional liability insurance.
(i) State Colleges and Universities
If the School is a state college or university, the School shall require students
participating in the practicum to maintain and, the School shall provide proof to the
Facility, of a student professional liability insurance policy of at least One Million Dollars
($1,000,000.00) per occurrence or claim and Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000.00) in the
aggregate covering the acts of such student while participating in the program at the
Facility.
(a)
General Liability: Subject to applicable state law, neither party to this
Agreement shall be legally liable for the consequences, whether bodily injury or
property damage, occasioned by an act, omission, or neglect chargeable to the other
party.
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(b)
Where Worker's Compensation or other obligation for payment of
benefits may arise, this Agreement shall neither enlarge nor diminish such obligation.
(c)
Provided further, in the event required insurance coverage is not
provided or is canceled, the Facility may terminate the placement of the student.
(ii) Other Colleges and Universities
Unless otherwise specified in Exhibit C, the School shall require students participating in
the practicum to maintain, and the School shall provide proof to the Facility of a student
professional liability insurance policy of at least One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) per
occurrence or claim and Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000.00) in the aggregate; and
general liability coverage of at least One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) per occurrence or
claim and Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) in the aggregate covering the acts of such
student while participating in the program. Such insurance coverage must be placed
with an insurance carrier acceptable to the facility. Certificates of insurance evidencing
coverage as specified above must be produced prior to student participation in the
program. The School shall require students participating in the program to maintain
comprehensive health insurance. In the event required insurance coverage is not
provided or is canceled, the Facility may terminate the placement of the student.
3. Designation of liaison to Facility; communications relating to clinical placements.
The School will designate a faculty or other professional staff member to coordinate and
act as its liaison to the Facility. The assignments to be undertaken by the students
participating in the educational program will be mutually arranged and a regular
exchange of information will be maintained by on-site visits when practical, and by
letter or telephone in other instances.
The School shall notify the Facility in writing of any change or proposed change of the
person(s) responsible for coordinating clinical placements with the Facility.
4. Evidence of student certifications, vaccinations, etc. Where applicable, the School
shall provide evidence that student has met all requirements of CPR certification,
hepatitis B vaccination, and OSHA compliance for prevention of transmission of blood
borne pathogens and TB.
5. Criminal background check and drug screen compliance. Where applicable, a
criminal background check and drug screen, as specified in Exhibit C, and as required by
and acceptable to the Facility, are required of each placed student prior to participation
in the clinical rotation. It is the School’s responsibility to ensure that the background
check and drug screening have been completed and that students with unacceptable
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results will not participate at sites where students with such results are forbidden by
policy.
6. School notices to students. The School shall notify each student prior to his/her
arrival at the Facility that he/she is required to:
(a) Follow the administrative policies, standards, and practices of the Facility.
(b) Obtain medical care at his/her own expense for any injuries or illnesses sustained as a direct or indirect result of
his/her affiliation with the Facility.
(c) Provide his/her own transportation and living arrangements.
(d) Report to the Facility on time and follow all established regulations during the
regularly scheduled operating hours of the Facility.
(e) Conform to the standards and practices established by the School while
functioning at the Facility.
(f) Obtain prior written approval of the Facility and the School before publishing
any material relating to the clinical learning experience.
(g) Meet the personal, ethical and professional standards required of employees
of the Facility and consistent with the applicable professional Code of Ethics and
the applicable standards of JCAHO and/or other relevant accrediting or
regulatory bodies.
B. FACILITY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Provision of facilities for supervised clinical experiences. Subject to the provisions of
Section C.2 of this Agreement, the Facility agrees to make the appropriate facilities
available to the School in order to provide supervised clinical experiences to students.
Such facilities shall include an environment conducive to the learning process of the
students as intended by the terms of this Agreement and conforming to customary
Facility procedures.
2. Facility rules applicable to students during clinical assignments. Students are to
remain subject to the authority, policies, and regulations imposed by the School and,
during periods of clinical assignment, students will be subject to all rules and regulations
of the Facility and imposed by the Facility on its employees and agents with regard to
following the administrative policies, standards, and practices of the Facility.
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3. Patient care. While at the Facility, students are not to replace the Facility staff, and
are not to render service except as identified for educational value and delineated in the
jointly planned educational experiences. Any such direct contact between a student
and a patient shall be under the proximate supervision of a member of the staff of the
Facility. The Facility shall at all times remain responsible for patient care.
4. Emergency treatment of students. Emergency outpatient treatment will be available
to students while in the hospital for clinical training in case of accident or illness. In case
of emergency at a non-hospital site, standard procedure will be followed. It is the
student’s responsibility to bear the cost of the emergency treatment.
5. Designation of liaison to School; communications relating to clinical placements.
The Facility shall designate a liaison responsible for coordinating the clinical placements.
That person shall maintain contact with the School’s designated liaison person to assure
mutual participation in and surveillance of the clinical program. The Facility shall notify
the School in writing of any change or proposed change of the person(s)responsible for
coordinating the clinical placements.
6. Identity and credentials of Facility supervising personnel. The Facility shall designate
and submit in writing to the School, the name and professional and academic
credentials of the individual(s) overseeing student(s) experiences.
7. School tour of Facility. The Facility shall, on reasonable request and subject to legal
restrictions regarding patient health information, permit a tour of its clinical facilities and
services available and other items pertaining to clinical learning experiences, by representatives
of the School and agencies charged with responsibility for approval of the facilities or
accreditation of the curriculum.
8. Provision of relevant Facility policies. The Facility shall provide the student(s) and the
School the Facility’s administrative policies, standards and practices relevant to the
clinical placement.
9. FERPA compliance. The Facility shall comply with the applicable provisions of the Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 USC 1232 (g), otherwise known as FERPA or the
Buckley Amendment, and shall take all measures necessary to ensure the confidentiality of any
and all information in its possession regarding the School’s students who train at the Facility
pursuant to this agreement.
C. OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Compliance with patient privacy laws. The School agrees to abide by and require that its faculty and
students abide by all applicable state and federal laws, rules and regulations regarding patient privacy,
including but not limited to, the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information as
required under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Students shall be
required to comply with the Facility’s policies and procedures regarding the confidentiality of patient
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information and the use of all such information. The parties will notify one another if there are known
breaches of this confidentiality. If during the term of this Agreement, the Department of Health and Human
Services, Office of Civil Rights or any other empowered federal or state agency, court or administrative
tribunal determines that the School or any other educational institution similar to the School is a Business
Associate (“Business Associate”), as described in the federal privacy regulations, the School shall, upon a
date mutually agreed by the parties, abide by the conditions and requirements as stated in Exhibit D through
the remainder of the term of this Agreement.
2. Determination of instructional period. The course of instruction will cover a period of
time as arranged between the School and the Facility. The beginning dates and length
of experience shall be mutually agreed upon by the School and the Facility.
3. Determination of number of participating students. The number of students eligible
to participate in the clinical placement will be determined and may be changed by
mutual agreement of the parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Facility and the
School agree and understand that the availability of clinical placements at Facility during
the term of this Agreement may periodically be affected by a variety of factors. In such
event, Facility may reduce the number of students eligible to participate in the clinical
education program with prior notice to the School and adequate time for the School to
reassign the student(s) to another clinical site. The Facility agrees further to
accommodate students of the School who are similarly displaced from other clinical
affiliates of the School to the extent that clinical space is available at the Facility.
4. Evaluation of students’ clinical experiences. Evaluation of the clinical learning
experiences of the students will be accomplished jointly by the School and the Facility.
Appropriate School and the Facility staff will communicate on a regular basis for the
purpose of reviewing and evaluating current clinical experiences offered to students.
5. Removal of students.
(a) The School has the right to remove a student from a clinical education
program. The School shall notify the Facility of such removal in writing.
(b) The Facility may immediately remove any student participating in a clinical
education program from the Facility’s premises for behavior that the Facility deems to
be an immediate threat to the health or welfare of its patients, staff members, visitors,
or operations. In such event, the Facility shall notify the School in writing of its actions
and the reasons for its actions as soon as practicable. If the Facility desires to remove a
student for any other reason, it shall notify the School in writing of the reasons for the
removal and shall consult with the School before removing the student.
D. TERM OF AGREEMENT:
The term of this Agreement shall commence on September 15, 2010 and terminate on
December 31, 2013. Either party may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or
without cause, upon ninety (90) days prior written notice to the other party. In the
event that this Agreement is not renewed for a subsequent term, students who are
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participating in the clinical learning experiences at the time of termination shall be
allowed to complete such assignment under the terms and conditions herein set forth.
E. ADDITIONAL TERMS:
1. Stipulations as to liability. Subject to applicable state law, neither party to this Agreement
shall be legally liable for the consequences, whether bodily injury or property damage,
occasioned by an act, omission, or neglect chargeable to the other party. Where Worker's
Compensation or other obligation for payment of benefits may arise, this Agreement shall
neither enlarge nor diminish such obligation.
2. Additional insurance coverage. Any additional applicable insurance coverage
requirements shall be set out by the parties in Exhibit C to this agreement.
3. Qualifications of School faculty. The School represents and warrants that relevant
faculty members are appropriately certified and/or licensed. The School will provide the
Facility with copies of evidence of certifications or licensures.
4. Assignment of Agreement. This Agreement may not be assigned without the prior
written consent of the other party, which will not be unreasonably withheld.
5. Entire Agreement. This Agreement supersedes any and all other agreements, either
oral or written, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.
No changes or modifications of this Agreement shall be valid unless the same are in
writing and signed by the parties. No waiver of any provisions of this Agreement shall be
valid unless in writing and signed by the parties.
6. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof to any
person or situation shall, to any extent, be held invalid or unenforceable, the remainder
of this Agreement, and the application of such provision to persons or situations other
than those to which it shall have been held invalidor unenforceable, shall not be
affected thereby, but shall continue valid and enforceable to the fullest extent
permitted by law.
7. Non-Discrimination. The parties hereto shall abide by the requirements of Executive
Order 11246, 42 U.S.C. Section 2000d and the regulations thereto, as may be amended
from time to time, the Illinois Human Rights Act, and the Rules and Regulations of the
Illinois Department of Human Rights. There shall be no unlawful discrimination or
treatment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, military status,
sexual orientation or handicap in the employment, training, or promotion of students or
personnel engaged in the performance of this Agreement.
8. Employment status. No assigned student or School faculty member under this
Agreement shall in any way be considered an employee or agent of the Facility nor shall
any such student or faculty member be entitled to any fringe benefits, Worker’s
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Compensation, disability benefits or other rights normally afforded to employees of the
Facility.
9. Notice to Parties. Any notice, demand or request required or permitted to be given
under the provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have
been duly given under the earlier of (a) the date actually received by the party in
question, by whatever means and however addressed, or (b) the date sent by facsimile
(receipt confirmed), or on the date of personal delivery, if delivered by hand, or on the
date signed for if sent by an overnight delivery service, to the following addresses, or to
such other address as either party may request, in the case of the School, by notifying
the Facility, and in the case of the Facility, by notifying the School:
If to the Facility:
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
Attention: ______________________
Facsimile: _____________________
Telephone: _____________________
With a Copy to:
Facility Legal Counsel at:
________________________________
________________________________
________________________________
Attention: _______________________
Facsimile: (___) __________________
If to the School:
College of DuPage
425 Fawell Blvd.
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Attention: Director Business Affairs
Facsimile: (630) 942-2191
Program in ____________________
_____________________________
_____________________________
Attention: ____________________
Facsimile: (___) ___-____
Telephone: (___) ___-____
With a Copy to:
The School Legal Counsel at:
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________________________________
________________________________
Attention: _______________________
Facsimile: (___) __________________
or to such other addresses as the parties may specify in writing from time to time.
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10. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance with
the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to the conflict of laws provisions thereof.
11. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each
of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one
and the same instrument.
12. No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement shall inure exclusively to the benefit of
and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors, assigns,
executors and legal representatives. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, is
intended to confer on any person other than the parties hereto or their respective
successors and assigns any rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities under or by reason
of this Agreement.
13. Agreement binding on parties successors and assigns. This Agreement shall be
binding upon the School and the Facility, their successors, employees, agents and
assigns, during the initial term of this Agreement and any extensions thereof.
14.
Captions for reference only. The captions contained in this Agreement are for
convenience of reference only and do not define, describe, or limit the scope or intent
of this Agreement or any of its provisions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be executed in their
respective corporate names by duly authorized officers, all on the day and year first set forth
above.
For and on behalf of:
___________________________________
___________________________________
Facility
College of DuPage
Community College District No. 502
Counties of DuPage, Cook, and Will,
And State of Illinois
Printed Name: ________________________
Title: _______________________________
Date: _______________________________
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Printed Name: Scott A. Engel
Title: Director Business Affairs
Date: ______________________________
EXHIBIT A
Facility
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EXHIBIT B
Program
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EXHIBIT C
PROGRAM SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
(Each program shall have its own program specific requirement checklist)
Facility:
School: College of DuPage
Program:
Yes
Facility requires:
No
1. Proof of student professional and general liability insurance (paragraph A.2)
2. Proof of comprehensive health insurance (paragraph A.2)
3. Verification that students have met requirements for:
(paragraph A.4)
a. Current CPR health care provider card
b. Hepatitis vaccination
c. OSHA compliance for prevention of transmission of blood born pathogens and TB
d. Other ______________________________________________________________
4. Criminal background check (paragraph A.5)
If yes, type of check_______________________________________
5. Drug screen (paragraph A.5)
If yes, type of screening_____________________________________
6. Acceptance of faith-based provision addendum (if included)
7. Evidence of relevant faculties’ certifications or licensures
(paragraph E.3)
8. Additional insurance coverage (paragraph E.2)
If yes, type of insurance and coverage required
_____________________________________________________
9. Other_______________________________________________________________
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School requires:
1. Copy of relevant Facility policies (paragraph B.8)
2. Evidence of academic credentials, certifications and licensures of individual(s)
overseeing student(s) experiences (paragraph B.6)
3. Other
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EXHIBIT D
Confidentiality of Protected Health Information
1.
Definitions
The following definitions apply to this Exhibit to the Agreement.
a. Business Associate. "Business Associate" shall mean College of DuPage (“The School”).
b. Facility. “Facility” shall mean _____________________________(“Facility”).
c. Individual. "Individual" shall refer to a patient and have all the same meaning as the term
"individual" in 45 CFR §164.501 and shall include a person who qualifies as a personal
representative in accordance with 45 CFR §164.502(g).
d. Privacy Rule. "Privacy Rule" shall mean the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable
Health Information at 45 CFR Part 160 and Part 164, Subparts A and E.
e. Protected Health Information. Protected Health Information (“PHI”) shall have the same
meaning as the term "PHI" in 45 CFR §164.501, limited to the information created or received by
Business Associate from or on behalf of Facility.
f. Required By Law. "Required By Law" shall have the same meaning as the term "required by law"
in 45 CFR §164.501.
g. Secretary. "Secretary" shall mean the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human
Services or his designee.
h. Capital Terms. All other capital terms referenced herein shall bear the meaning ascribed
thereto in the Agreement.
2.
Obligations of Business Associate
a. Business Associate agrees to not use or disclose PHI other than as permitted or
required by the Agreement or as Required ByLaw.
b. Business Associate agrees to use appropriate safeguards to prevent use or disclosure of the PHI
other than as provided for by the Agreement.
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c. Business Associate agrees to mitigate, to the extent practicable, any harmful effect that is
known to Business Associate of a use or disclosure of PHI by Business Associate in violation of the
requirements of the Agreement.
d. Business Associate agrees to report to the Facility any use or disclosure of the PHI not provided
for by the Agreement of which it becomes aware.
e. Business Associate agrees to ensure that any agent, including a subcontractor, to whom it
provides PHI received from, or created or received by Business Associate on behalf of the Facility,
agrees to the same restrictions and conditions that apply through this Agreement to Business
Associate with respect to such information.
f. If Business Associate obtains PHI in a Designated Record Set, Business Associate shall provide
access, at the request of the Facility, and in the mutually agreed time and manner, to any such PHI
in a Designated Record Set, to the Facility or, as directed by the Facility, to an Individual in order
to meet the requirements under 45 CFR §164.524.
g. If Business Associate obtains PHI in a Designated Record Set, Business Associate agrees to make
any amendment(s) to PHI in a Designated Record Set that the Facility directs or agrees to
pursuant to 45 CFR §164.526 at the request of the Facility or an Individual, and in the mutually
agreed time and manner.
h. Business Associate agrees to make internal practices, books, and records, including policies and
procedures and PHI, relating to the use and disclosure of PHI received from, or created or
received by Business Associate on behalf of the Facility, available to the Facility or to the
Secretary, in a mutually agreed time and manner or as designated by the Secretary, for purposes
of the Secretary determining the Facility's compliance with the Privacy Rule.
i. Business Associate agrees to document such disclosures of PHI and information related to such
disclosures as would be required for the Facility to respond to a request by an Individual for an
accounting of disclosures of PHI in accordance with 45 CFR §164.528.
j. Business Associate agrees to provide to the Facility or an Individual, in a mutually agreed time
and manner, PHI obtained in accordance with this Agreement, to permit the Facility to respond to
a request by an Individual for an accounting of disclosures of PHI in accordance with 45 CFR
§164.528.
3.
Permitted Uses and Disclosures by Business Associate Except as otherwise limited in the
Agreement, Business Associate may use or disclose PHI to perform functions related to the clinical
portion of the Program under the Affiliation Agreement, provided that such use or disclosure
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would not violate the Privacy Rule if done by the Facility or the minimum necessary policies and
procedures of the Facility.
4.
Obligations of the Facility and Provisions for the Facility to Inform Business Associate of
Privacy Practices and Restrictions if Relevant to Business Arrangement
a. The Facility shall notify Business Associate of any limitation(s) in its notice of privacy practices
of Facility in accordance with 45 CFR §164.520, to the extent that such limitation may affect
Business Associate's use or disclosure of PHI.
b. The Facility shall notify Business Associate of any changes in, or revocation of, permission by
Individual to use or disclose PHI, to the extent that such changes may affect Business Associate's
use or disclosure of PHI.
c. The Facility shall notify Business Associate of any restriction to the use or disclosure of PHI that
the Facility has agreed to in accordance with 45 CFR §164.522, to the extent that such restriction
may affect Business Associate's use or disclosure of PHI.
5.
Permissible Requests by the Facility.The Facility shall not request Business Associate to use or
disclose PHI in any manner that would not be permissible under the Privacy Rule if done by the
Facility.
6.
Term and Termination
a. Term. The obligations of this Attachment shall be effective upon the same date as the Effective
date of the Agreement and shall continue until all PHI provided by Facility to Business Associate,
or created or received by Business Associate on behalf of the Facility, is destroyed or returned to
Facility. If it is infeasible to return or destroy PHI, all protections are extended to such PHI, in
accordance with the termination provisions in this Section of the Attachment.
b. Termination for Cause. Upon the Facility's knowledge of a material breach of this Attachment
by Business Associate, the Facility shall either:
(i) Provide an opportunity for Business Associate to cure the breach or end the violation
and terminate the Agreement if Business Associate does not cure the breach or end the violation
within the time specified by and to the satisfaction of the Facility;
(ii) Immediately terminate the Agreement if Business Associate has breached a material
term of this Agreement and cure is not possible; or
(iii) If neither termination nor cure is feasible, the Facility shall report the violation to the
Secretary.
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c. Except as provided in Section 7 of this Attachment, upon termination of the Agreement, for any
reason, Business Associate shall return or destroy all PHI received from the Facility, or created or
received by Business Associate on behalf of the Facility. If Business Associate destroys all or some
of the PHI, Business Associate shall deliver to the Facility an authorized and executed Affidavit,
attesting to the facts of such destruction.. Business Associate shall retain no copies of the PHI.
This subsection shall also apply to PHI that is in the possession of subcontractors or agents of
Business Associate
d. In the event that Business Associate determines that returning or destroying the PHI is
infeasible, Business Associate shall provide to the Facility notification of the conditions that make
return or destruction infeasible. Upon mutual agreement between Business Associate and the
Facility, that return or destruction of PHI is infeasible, Business Associate shall extend the
protections of this Attachment to such PHI and limit further uses and disclosures of such PHI to
those purposes that make the return or destruction infeasible, for so long as Business Associate
maintains such PHI.
7.
Interpretation. Any ambiguity in this Attachment shall be resolved to permit the Facility to
comply with the Privacy Rule.
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Appendix 4.8C
Evaluation of Clinical Site
College of DuPage Nursing Program
DIRECTIONS: For each of the following items, please write your answer in the space provided or
darken the circle that corresponds to your response. Please use dark ink. You do not need a scantron.
Thank you.
In the space provided below, write the name and number of your course and your hospital/unit/shift.
Course name/number _________________________________
Hospital/unit/shift ____________________________________
1. I am a:
O
Faculty Member
O
Student
2. If you are a student, are you in your first year or second year of study?
O
First year
O
Second year
3. Which clinical site did you attend?
OProvena Mercy
O Advocate Good Samaritan
O Central DuPage
O Edwards
O Elmhurst
O Hinsdale
O LaGrange
O Other, please specify __________________________________
4. How well did the clinical site meet the course objectives?
O
O
O
Very much so For the most part Somewhat
O
Only slightly
O
Not at all
5. Were you provided with an adequate orientation to the clinical site?
O
O
O
Very much so For the most part Somewhat
O
Only slightly
O
Not at all
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6. Did the clinical assignments contribute to your (or your students) learning?
O
O
O
Very much so For the most part Somewhat
O
Only slightly
O
Not at all
7. Would you recommend this clinical site to other students?
O
O
O
Very much so For the most part Somewhat
O
Only slightly
O
Not at all
8. What additional experiences were available at your clinical site? (Darken all that apply)
O
Operating Room
O
Inservices
O
Shadowing other professions)
O
None
9. How much did the additional experiences contribute to your learning?
O
O
O
Very much so For the most part Somewhat
O
Only slightly
O
Not at all
O
Not applicable
In the space provided below, please describe the strengths of your clinical site experience.
In the space provided below, please list areas for improvement you encountered in your clinical site
experience.
In the space provided below, please provide any other comments pertinent to your clinical site
experience you would like to relate to us.
Thank you for completing our survey! Your input is important to us.
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Appendices related to
Standard 5
Appendix 5.2A
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Appendices related to
Standard 6
Appendix 6.1
COLLEGE OF DUPAGE
NURSING PROGRAMS
SYSTEMATIC PLAN FOR EVALUATION
MASTER SCHEDULE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2010 T0 2011
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
Graduate Surveys 1 yr/6 mo
Employer Satisfaction Surveys 1 yr/6
mo
10/4 Course Evaluations
Nursi 1104 1207 1208 2109
Nursp 1104
ADN NLN Standards 4, 5, 6
12/8 Course Evaluations
Nursi 1105 1207 1208 2109 2110
Nursp 1105 1106
12/8 PN Exit Survey
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
2/28 Course Evaluations
Nursi 1206 1207 1208 2109 2110
ADN NLN Standards 1, 2, 3
4/27 ADN Exit Survey
Fingerprinting Day
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
5/9 Course Evaluations
Nursi 1206 1207 1208 2109 2110
2201 2202
Nursp 1101 1102
6/13 PN Student Satisfaction Survey
(Nursp 1103)
7/11 Course Evaluations
Nursp 1103
11/8 ADN Student Satisfaction
Survey
(Nursi 1105 1207 1208 2109 2110)
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Compliance with NLNAC 2008 Standards and Criteria
2010
Appendix 6.2
NOTE: If appropriate, specific assessment activities may be cross-referenced with Program Evaluation and Student Outcome Assessment Plans.
PLAN
Component
Standard I: Mission and Administrative Capacity
1.1
Expected level of
achievement
The mission/philosophy and
outcomes of the nursing
education unit are congruent
with those of the governing
organization.
Frequency of
assessment (by
whom)
Bi-annually by Council
of COD Nursing Dept.
Assessment Method
Comparison of
documents to
determine congruency
(even number years)
Review of nursing
department
representation on
governance activities,
i.e. committee’s
participation.
The governing organization
and nursing education unit
ensure representation of
students, faculty, and
administrators in ongoing
governance activities.
Bi-annually by Council
of COD Nursing Dept.
1.3
Communities of interest have
input into program processes
and decision making.
Semi-annually by
Advisory Committee
Advisory Committee
minutes review
1.4
Partnerships exist that
promote excellence in
nursing education, enhance
the profession, and benefit
the community.
Semi-annually by
Advisory Committee
and Learning
resources Committee
Advisory Committee
minutes
1.2
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(even number years)
IMPLEMENTATION
Results of Data
Collection and
Assessment Plan
College and ADN
Program philosophy
and mission have
been reviewed Biannual and are
congruent. Last
reviewed in Spring
2010.
Students, faculty, and
administrator
participate in college
wide committees.
Continued
participation of
comminutes of
interest
Continue to have to
have a positive
relationship with
clinical sites.
Action (Development,
Maintenance,
Revision)
Action is to maintain
current documents as
stand
Maintain participation
in committees.
Monitor for changes in
membership.
Continue to outreach
to committees of
interest for
participation
Maintain a positive
relationship with
clinical sites
PLAN
IMPLEMENTATION
Learning resources
committee minutes
related to clinical site
experiences
ADN will continue to
have articulation
agreements with
institutions of higher
education.
ADN program has
maintained a positive
relationship with
current clinical sites.
Learning resource
committee continues
to monitor clinical
sites and make
recommendations.
Noted reduction in
available clinical sites.
Reduction of available
clinical sites noted.
DON will explore and
recruit new clinical
sites.
DON reports to
Council of COD
Nursing Department
on available clinical
sites (see Council of
COD Nursing
Department Minutes)
1.5
The nursing education unit is
Whenever there is a
Review of Personnel
Faculty member will
be taking a sabbatical
in the Spring to recruit
new clinical sites.
Director of nursing
Review or personnel
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PLAN
1.6
administered by a nurse who
holds a graduate degree with
a major in nursing.
The nurse administrator has
authority and responsibility
for the development and
administration of the program
and has adequate time and
resources to fulfill the role
responsibilities.
change in the Nursing
program director (HR,
Administration)
Annual performance
review
(Dean/Director)
file of Director
Performance review
Minutes of meeting
(even number years)
1.8
284
With faculty input, the nurse
administrator has the
authority to prepare and
administer the program
budget and advocates for
equity within the unit and
among other units of the
governing organization.
Policies of the nursing
education unit are
comprehensive, provide for
the welfare of faculty and
staff, and are consistent with
those of the governing
organization; differences are
justified by the goals and
outcomes of the nursing
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file if there is a
change in
administration
DON position created
to manage newly
created Department
of Nursing.
CNA coordinator
position reinitiated in
Fall 2010.
Bi-annually by Council
of COD Nursing Dept.
1.7
IMPLEMENTATION
has a graduate
degree with a major in
nursing.
Coordinator position
for ADN, CNA, and
LPN programs were
eliminated in Fall
2009.
Whenever there is a
change in the Nursing
program director job
description (HR,
Administration)
Review of Director
Job Description
Bi-annually
Review of consistency
in policy and practice
as compared to
provisions of the
faculty contract.
(Faculty Development
and Welfare
Committee)
Due to the
reconstruction of
department lack of
administrative
assistance was noted.
Director of Nursing
position filled
September of 2009.
Job description was
reviewed at time of
hire.
Reviewed by faculty
and no conflicts were
found between the
contract and policies
and practices of the
Nursing Department.
New position for an
administrative
assistant for the DON
was approved in the
Spring of 2010.
Review job
description if any
changes in
administrative
structure occur.
Will continue to
monitor for deviations
from the contract.
PLAN
IMPLEMENTATION
1.9
1.10
education unit.
Records reflect that program
complaints and grievances
receive due process and
include evidence of
resolution.
Distance education, as
defined by the nursing
education unit, is congruent
with the mission of the
governing organization and
the mission/philosophy of the
nursing education unit.
Bi Annually by DON
Audit of Records
Complaints and
grievances are kept
with the DON.
Reviewed showed
evidence of
resolution.
Annually by
Curriculum and
Design committee
Curriculum and
Design Committee
Meeting Minutes
Compared and
discussed with
Curriculum and
Design Committee
and consistency
noted
Maintain consistency
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Component
2.1
Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
assessment
Assessment Method
Full-time faculty are
credentialed with a minimum
of a master’s degree with a
major in nursing and
maintain expertise in their
areas of responsibility.
Upon hire and
annually before
August 1
Review of personnel
files
1.
Standard II: Faculty and Staff
2.
The majority of parttime faculty are
credentialed with a
minimum of a master’s
degree with a major in
nursing; the remaining
part-time faculty hold a
minimum of a
baccalaureate degree
with a major in nursing.
Rationale is provided
for utilization of faculty
who do not meet the
minimum credential.
Upon hire and
annually before
August 1
Review of personnel
files
IMPLEMENTATION
Results of Data
Collection and
Assessment Plan
Compliant
Action (Development,
Maintenance,
Revision)
Continue to monitor
Compliant
Continue to monitor
Require that FT and
PT faculty submit
documentation of
Illinois licensure upon
renewal by May 31,
2012
Continue to monitor
Not applicable
2.2
Faculty (full- and part-time)
credentials meet governing
organization and state
requirements.
At time of Hire and
annually by August 1
of subsequent years
of employment (HR,
Director)
Review of personnel
and department files
Compliant;
documentation of
licensure on file for all
FT and PT nursing
faculty
2.3
Credentials of practice
laboratory personnel are
commensurate with their
level of responsibilities.
At time of hire and
annually before
August 1
Review of personnel
files
Compliant; all
laboratory faculty in
teaching roles have a
Masters Degree in
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PLAN
2.4
The number and utilization
of faculty (full- and part-time)
ensure that program
outcomes are achieved.
Each semester
Review of nursing
department faculty
workload data
2.5
Faculty (full- and part-time)
performance reflects
scholarship and evidencebased teaching and clinical
practices.
Annually
Submission of data to
update Professional
Activities Chart
(Appendix 2.5A)
IMPLEMENTATION
Nursing; Nursing
Laboratory
Assistants(nonteaching role) have
Bachelors Degrees in
Nursing
Compliant; all FT and
PT nursing positions
are filled; teaching
needs are met for all
laboratory, lecture
and clinical sections
Compliant; faculty are
engaged in scholarly
activity; Faculty
Development and
Welfare Committee
formed; will address
ongoing continuing
faculty scholarship
activities. Per the FT
Faculty Contract,
each FT faculty
member is awarded
$1800.00 per year for
scholarly activity. The
Nursing Department
supported the
attendance of several
faculty members (FT
and PT) at the
Metropolitan Chicago
Health Care Council’s
(MCHC) Clinical
Faculty Academy in
2010. FT and PT
faculty are encourage
to attend the
Continue to monitor;
monitor student/FT
faculty ratios
Faculty Development
and Welfare
Committee has
developed a monthly
Lunch and Learn
continuing education
activity for FT and PT
faculty; committee is
exploring licensing for
nursing webinar
series. FT and PT
faculty are encouraged
to attend the MCHC
Clinical Faculty
Academy being
presented at Harper
College in January.
Continue to monitor
faculty scholarly
activity.
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PLAN
2.6
The number, utilization, and
credentials of non-nurse
faculty and staff are
sufficient to achieve the
program goals and
outcomes.
Annually
Review job
description/tasks/roles
of Administrative
Assistant for Nursing
Department
2.7
Faculty (full- and part-time)
are oriented and mentored
in their areas of
responsibilities.
Upon hire and at end
of first semester of
hire
Faculty Orientation
Checklist; Faculty
Mentor Checklist;
review of personnel
files for completed
checklists
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continuing education
activities available
through the TLC
(Teaching Learning
Center)
The job description
for this role was
developed and
approved in 2010.
The current
Administrative
Assistant has been in
the role since Fall,
2010, and has had a
very positive impact
on Nursing
Department Activities
DON presented an
orientation session
for faculty prior to the
Fall, 2010 semester;
the Faculty
Development and
Welfare Committee
has developed
checklists to guide
the new faculty and
mentor through the
orientation process; a
Faculty Orientation
Manual was
developed; the
College has a new
initiative regarding PT
faculty and their role
at the College; the
DON serves on a
Work Team of this
Continue to monitor
Monitor effectiveness
of
orientation/mentoring
process; Nursing
Department will
implement new
policies/tools/programs
that are developed by
the PT Faculty Work
Team
PLAN
2.8
2.9
2.10
Systematic assessment of
faculty (full- and part-time)
performance demonstrates
competencies that are
consistent with program
goals and outcomes.
Non-nurse faculty and staff
performance is regularly
reviewed in accordance with
the policies of the governing
organization.
Faculty (full- and part-time)
engage in ongoing
development and receive
support in distance
education modalities
including instructional
methods and evaluation.
Annually
Annually
Annually
FT-Phase I, II and II
Evaluations in
accordance with FT
Faculty Contract; PTIn accordance with PT
faculty contract
As specified in
Classified Staff
Guidebook
Review of faculty
scholarly activities
IMPLEMENTATION
committee
Compliant
Continue to monitor
Administrative
Assistant is new to
role; evaluations are
conducted by DON
Continue to monitor
Compliant; FT and
PT faculty are
encouraged to attend
ongoing educational
activities on distance
education modalities
offered through the
TLC; FT faculty may
utilized faculty
development funds
provided through the
faculty contract for
additional training; all
faculty are required to
utlize Blackboard in
nursing courses
Encourage ongoing
training in distance
education modalities
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Component
3.1
Standard III: Students
3.2
3.3
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Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
assessment
Assessment Method
Student policies of the
nursing education unit are
congruent with those of the
governing organization,
publicly accessible, nondiscriminatory, and
consistently applied;
differences are justified by
the goals and outcomes of
the nursing education unit.
Student services are
commensurate with the
needs of students pursuing
or completing the associate
program, including those
receiving instruction using
alternative methods of
delivery.
Bi-annually by Council
of COD Nursing Dept.
Document review
Student educational and
financial records are in
compliance with the policies
of the governing organization
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New laboratory
policies to be
developed
(even number years)
or upon policy change
impacting the ADN
student.
Annually by
Assessment and
Outcomes Committee
IMPLEMENTATION
Results of Data
Collection and
Assessment Plan
Last performed fall
2010
Student Satisfaction
Survey
2009-2010 Health
Services eliminated
Action (Development,
Maintenance,
Revision)
Lab policies will be
reviewed for
congruency as stated,
and clearly
communicated
through the student
and faculty portal, and
student handbook
2009 IT notified of
need for increased
help desk needs
2010 Established
Division-wide health
requirements policy
Annually by Program
Participation
Committee in
conjunction with the
Departments of
Direct contact with the
Director of Finance
and the Registrar.
Last performed spring
2010; no changes to
current policies or
compliance in student
record keeping.
2010 Secured
contract with outside
vendor to review
student records; also
able to provide
services at a
competitive cost
Maintain current
review procedure
PLAN
IMPLEMENTATION
3.4
guidelines.
Records and Finance.
Compliance with the Higher
Education Reauthorization
Act Title IV eligibility and
certification requirements is
maintained.
Annually by Program
Participation
Committee in
conjunction with the
Director of Financial
Aid.
Direct contact with the
Director of Financial
Aid.
Last reviewed fall
2010. Student loan
default letter on file.
Maintain current
review procedure
1. A written,
comprehensive student
loan repayment program
addressing student loan
information, counseling,
monitoring, and
cooperation with lenders
is available.
2. Students are informed of
their ethical
responsibilities
regarding financial
assistance.
3.5
Integrity and consistency
exist for all information
intended to inform the public,
including the program’s
accreditation status and
NLNAC contact information.
Annually by Program
Participation
Committee and
Director of Nursing
(Administrator of
Website and Portal),
including annual
application document.
Review of documents
and electronic sites
displaying ADN
program information
Last reviewed fall
2010.
Maintain current
procedure for review
3.6
Changes in policies,
procedures, and program
information are clearly and
consistently communicated to
Annually by the
Assessment and
Outcomes Committee
Student Satisfaction
Survey
Refer to results of
Student Satisfaction
Surveys 2008, 2009,
Refer to “Actions
taken” in the Student
Satisfaction Survey
trended data in
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IMPLEMENTATION
2010
students in a timely manner.
3.7
3.8
292
Orientation to technology is
provided and technological
support is available to
students, including those
receiving instruction using
alternative methods of
delivery.
Information related to
technology requirements and
policies specific to distance
education is clear, accurate,
consistent, and accessible.
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Annually by the
Assessment and
Outcomes Committee
in conjunction with the
Learning Resources
Committee. Also by
individual faculty
teaching online or
hybrid courses.
Annually by the
Assessment and
Outcomes Committee
in conjunction with the
Learning Resources
Committee and the
Department of
Information
Technology
various table noted in
6.2 Standard.
Student Satisfaction
Survey
Last reviewed fall
2010.
Last reviewed fall
2010.
Maintain current
procedure for review
Student Satisfaction
Survey
Last reviewed fall
2010.
Maintain current
procedure for review
PLAN
Component
4.1
Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
assessment
Assessment Method
The curriculum incorporates
established professional
standards, guidelines, and
competencies, and has
clearly articulated student
learning and program
outcomes.
Annually by
Curriculum and
Design Committee
Review of documents:
syllabi, evaluation
tools, ADN Student
Handbook, textbooks,
COD General
Education Outcomes
(Spring Semester)
IMPLEMENTATION
Results of Data
Collection and
Assessment Plan
Last performed: Fall
2010. Committee
received report from
first year nursing
faculty on
fundamental nursing
textbook.
Action (Development,
Maintenance,
Revision)
Fundamental textbook
changed from Taylor
to Potter/Perry,
beginning Nursing
1100 (Spring/Summer
2011).
ADN Student
Handbook edited,
Spring 2010
Syllabi reviewed for
consistency in
wording.
Standard IV: Curriculum
Syllabi template
developed
implemented to
improve consistency.
ADN faculty submit
course mapping to
COD General
Education Outcome
Committee
4.2
The curriculum is developed
by the faculty and regularly
Throughout the
course by individual
Review of course
documents: syllabus,
Last performed: Fall
2010: Course
Dec. 2010: two of the
COD General Ed.
Outcome criteria
reports have been
submitted: Information
Literacy and Critical
Thinking
All syllabi were
reviewed by course
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PLAN
reviewed for rigor and
currency.
4.3
4.4
The student learning
outcomes are used to
organize the curriculum,
guide the delivery of
instruction, direct learning
activities, and evaluate
student progress.
The curriculum includes
cultural, ethnic, and socially
diverse concepts and may
also include experiences
from regional, national, or
global perspectives.
course faculty team.
All review/edits done
to meet printing
deadlines.
Annually by
Curriculum and
Design Committee
(Fall Semester)
Every semester by
course faculty
Every Spring by
community clinical
nursing faculty
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assignments, study
supplements,
textbooks
Review of documents:
Active Course Files,
ADN Curriculum Map,
COD General
Education Outcome
Explore college
campus opportunities
for course
enrichment: cultural
events, guest
speakers,
student/faculty
exchange
presentations
Explore the
community for clinical
sites that offer
culturally diverse
experiences
IMPLEMENTATION
outcomes needed to
be more clearly
identified in the syllabi
and clinical evaluation
tools.
Last performed: Fall
2010: Development of
the ADN Curriculum
Map
Performed ongoing:
attention to college
calendar, webpage,
event postings, faculty
email, community
calendar of local
event, College MAC
(Arts Center), Brown
Bag lunch events
Performed ongoing:
visits made to clinics
and community
organizations offering
health screenings and
education to the
underserved.
faculty for
consistency. All
course syllabi were
edited to include
course outcomes.
Maintain current
review procedure
Continue to regularly
check for appropriate
student experiences
that support culturally
diverse learning.
Spring 2010: two
additional clinical
opportunities were
added to community
health rotation.
Current exploration:
health relief trip to a
foreign country.
PLAN
4.5
Evaluation methodologies
are varied, reflect established
professional and practice
competencies, and measure
the achievement of student
learning and program
outcomes.
Every semester by
course faculty
Annually by DON
4.6
4.7
4.8
The curriculum and
instructional processes
reflect educational theory,
interdisciplinary collaboration,
research, and best practice
standards while allowing for
innovation, flexibility, and
technological advances.
Program length is congruent
with the attainment of
identified outcomes and
consistent with the policies of
the governing organization,
state and national standards,
and best practices.
Practice learning
environments are appropriate
for student learning and
support the achievement of
student learning and program
Review of course
documents: test
scores, evaluation
tools, assignments,
final grades
Review of student
performance:
program exit exam
and pass rates on
State Licensure Exam
IMPLEMENTATION
Last performed: Fall
2010: in individual
course team meeting
minutes.
Last performed: Fall
2010 as presented by
DON.
Course grades
reviewed and
reported to DON.
Report updates
continue from DON to
faculty.
Annually by
Curriculum committee
At the end of each
clinical rotation
Clinical site
evaluations
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PLAN
IMPLEMENTATION
outcomes; current written
agreements specify
expectations for all parties
and ensure the protection of
students.
1. Student clinical
experiences reflect
current best practices
and nationally
established patient
health and safety goals.
4.9
296
Learning activities,
instructional materials, and
evaluation methods are
appropriate for the delivery
format and consistent with
student learning outcomes.
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Standard V: Resources
PLAN
Component
Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
assessment
Assessment Method
5.1
Fiscal resources are
sufficient to ensure the
achievement of the nursing
education unit outcomes
and commensurate with the
resources of the governing
organization.
Annually, per SEP
calendar by Learning
resources Committee
Comparison of
document to
determine congruency
5.2
Physical resources
(classrooms, laboratories,
offices, etc.) are sufficient to
ensure the achievement of
the nursing education unit
outcomes and meet the
needs of faculty, staff, and
students.
Annually per SEP
calendar by Learning
resources Committee
Nursing department
will review
functionality/utilization
of classroom space
5.3
Learning resources and
technology are selected by
the faculty and are
comprehensive, current, and
accessible to faculty and
students, including those
engaged in alternative
Annually per SEP
calendar by Learning
resources Committee
Faculty will
collaborate with
Division Librarian to
review nursing
materials for weeding
and purchase
additional resources
IMPLEMENTATION
Results of Data
Collection and
Assessment Plan
Department operates
within the established
budgets.
Improvements have
been made in
resource availability
and usage with the
new building, securing
of qualified and
valued lab personnel,
and continued striving
to make cost effective
resource decisions
that optimize
utilization.
Improvements have
been made in
resource availability
and usage with the
new building, securing
of qualified and
valued lab personnel,
and continued striving
to make cost effective
resource decisions
that optimize
utilization.
Learning Resource
Committee, using
data and considering
its goals provided
input into budget
2011. Lab personnel
maintain data on and
Action (Development,
Maintenance,
Revision)
Establish a plan for
resource purchasing
based on LRC
Committee goals and
technology plans prior
to the budget cycle.
Establish a plan,
considering all health
programs, to increase
use of simulation in
and across programs;
investigate designing
of a “mock hospital
and extended care”
lab.
Continue to
sophisticate and
develop a
comprehensive
resources acquisition
and replacement plan.
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PLAN
methods of delivery.
5.4
298
Fiscal, physical,
technological, and learning
resources are sufficient to
meet the needs of faculty
and students and ensure
that students achieve
learning outcomes.
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Annually per SEP
calendar by Learning
resources Committee
Student evaluation
tools;
Teaching/learning
resources (faculty) of
professional
development
sessions; Library
offering of APA
training
IMPLEMENTATION
make
recommendations for
resources purchases.
See table “Student
Satisfaction Survey”
in writing for Criteria
6.2., pp 92-95 of this
report.
See table “Student
Satisfaction Survey”
in writing for Criteria
6.2., pp 92-95 of this
report.
NOTE: Data presented in Standard 6.2 speaks to the RESULTS OF THE DATA COLLECTION component of this SEP.
PLAN
Component
6.1
Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
assessment
Assessment Method
The systematic plan for
evaluation emphasizes the
ongoing assessment and
evaluation of the student
learning and program
outcomes of the nursing
education unit and NLNAC
standards.
Annual; consider
SEP calendar
Implementation of the
Systematic Evaluation Plan,
with decisions for
improvement or change
made on
Evidence/Data
Contemporary
practice and
initiatives in nursing
and education
Research
Standard VI: Outcomes
Identified committee
structure complies with
responsibility of monitoring
program and student
functioning based on the
defined committee roles.
6.2
Aggregated evaluation
findings inform program
decision making and are
used to maintain or
Annual; consider
SEP calendar
1. NCLEX-RN Results
2. Graduate satisfaction
survey results
3. Employer satisfaction
IMPLEMENTATION
Results of Data
Collection and
Assessment Plan
The SEP and
program evaluation
was authenticated
this past year
through a growing
understanding of
what it was;
revealing data that
has been available;
and select actions
on some of the
findings. More
sophistication in its
use and impact
needs to be
nurtured.
The expected level
of achievement was
generally met; in
some cases
Action
(Development,
Maintenance,
Revision)
12/2010 Define
excellence in
student outcomes
and program
evaluation, and
prioritize authentic
monitoring
standards with
measureable levels
of achievement and
valid assessment
methods, including
increasing the use of
more direct
methods.
The committee
structure is new. As
such, this year is a
growing and
transition year; will
continue to solidify
and evaluate
effectiveness in
terms of completing
identified roles and
responsibilities.
12/2010: Continue to
monitor; establish
more direct and valid
means to assess
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improve student learning
outcomes.
6.3
Evaluation findings are
shared with communities of
interest.
Annual; consider
SEP calendar
results
4. Job placement
5. EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
Exit test results
6. Mountain Measurement
results
7. Advisory Committee
input/feedback
accessing data is
difficult.
Select information of the
following are shared at the
Fall meeting of the Advisory
Committee and Clinical
Liaisons :
The expected level
of achievement was
generally met; in
some cases
accessing data is
difficult.
1. NCLEX-RN Results
2. Graduate satisfaction
survey results
3. Employer satisfaction
results
4. Job placement
5. EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
Exit test results
6. Mountain Measurement
results
7. Advisory Committee
input/feedback
6.4
300
Graduates demonstrate
achievement of
competencies appropriate
to role preparation.
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Annual; consider
SEP calendar
1. NCLEX-RN Results
2. Graduate satisfaction
survey results
3. Employer satisfaction
results
4. Job placement
5. EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
The expected level
of achievement was
generally met; in
some cases
accessing data is
difficult.
students’ attainment
of learning
outcomes.
Evaluate and
implement external
longitudinal testing
program for more
ongoing and timely
evaluation of student
performance, and
simulated learning.
12/2010; Need to
engage a more
vibrant involvement
of advisory
committees and
communities of
interest participation
in program
evaluation and
curriculum
improvement.
12/2010: Continue to
monitor; establish
more direct and valid
means to assess
students’ attainment
of learning
Exit test results
6. Mountain Measurement
results
7. Advisory Committee
input/feedback
8. Clinical performance in
NURSI 2201
6.5
The program demonstrates
evidence of achievement in
meeting the following
program outcomes:
1. The licensure
exam pass rates
will be at or above
the national mean.
2. Expected levels of
achievement for
program
completion are
determined by the
faculty and reflect
program
demographics,
academic
Annual; consider
SEP calendar
1. Performance on
licensure exam
2. Program completion
3. Program satisfaction
4. Job placement
outcomes.
Evaluate
andimplement
external longitudinal
testing program for
more ongoing and
timely evaluation of
student
performance, and
simulated learning.
Level of
achievement met or
exceeded.
Implement web
based survey tools
and graduating class
specific FACEBOOK
pages to try and
more regularly
connect with
graduates.
12/2010; Need to
engage a more
vibrant involvement
of advisory
committees and
communities of
interest participation
in program
evaluation and
curriculum
improvement.
Need to develop
tools to measure
program satisfaction
measures that are
more authentic and
value adding to
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302
progression, and
program history.
3. Program
satisfaction
measures
(qualitative and
quantitative)
address graduates
and their
employers.
4. Job placement
rates are
addressed through
quantified
measures that
reflect program
demographics.
The systematic plan for
evaluation encompasses
students enrolled in
distance education and
includes evidence that
student learning and
program outcomes are
comparable for all
students.
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decision making.
Implement web
based survey tools
and graduating class
specific FACEBOOK
pages to try and
more regularly
connect with
graduates.
Annual; consider
SEP calendar
At this point,
courses offered as
distance learning
are limited, and
even if taking that
sole course,
students are still
enrolled in campus
based courses.
NLNAC Program Evaluation
Program Outcomes
PROGRAM OUTCOMES SUMMARY
Required Program
Outcomes
Expected level of
Achievement
When and how
Actual Level of Achievement
Performance on
NCLEX and/or
Certifying
Examinations
Program Completion
COD’s ADN NCLEX
pass rate will be at or
above the national
pass rate average.
78% of students will
graduate within 3
years from
admission to the
major.
Annual NCLEX pass
rate reports from
IDFPR
2010 94% (Nat = 86%)
2009 91% (Nat = 88%)
2008 88% (Nat = 87%)
2007 91% (Nat = 85%)
2010 90%
2009 83%
2008 89%
2007 85%
Annual data review
with the office of
research
Program Satisfaction
78% of Alumni will
express program
satisfaction.
Graduating
Current student
satisfaction survey
administered in
November to current
1st and 3rd semester
students
Outcome met
Continue to monitor
Annually, October
Outcome met
Continue to monitor
Annually,
July
Based on feedback
from the current
student survey, the
following have been
implemented in 20092010:
Continue to monitor
per the Evaluation
calendar.
2010
100%
2009
100%
2008
100%
2007
100%
98%
95.2%
93.6%
NA
99%
100%
100%
May
2.
3.
100%
Dec
4.
Alumni Survey
administered 15-18
months after
graduation
Alumni
Current
Student
Resulting Action(s) Taken/To be taken with
Time Frame for Implementation I
Action(s)
Time Frame
100%
100%
100%
1.
Open lab
staffed with
RN
Newsletter
Email server
initiated
Faculty
advisors
assigned.
100%
Student exit survey
administered final
week of last semester
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Resulting Action(s) Taken/To be taken with
Time Frame for Implementation I
Student
78% of current
students will express
program satisfaction.
Employer
Employer satisfaction
survey administered in
various ways including
mailings, survey
monkeys and advisory
committee meetings
78% of graduating
students will express
program satisfaction.
78% of employers
will express
satisfaction with
COD ADN
graduates.
Other outcome(s)
identified by program
78% of Students in N
2202 will achieve a
minimum of 850 on
the
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
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EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
administered to
students in the final
two weeks of the last
semester
2010
2009
2008
2007
32%
13%
40%
With the 2010 offerings
of the
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
exam, the student
takes an exam as the
enter NURSI 2202 in
their final semester. If
they do not score an
850, they remediate,
Continue with year 2
(2011) of
administering
Evolve/HESI/Reach.
Need to move into
curriculum analysis
related to test
results, as well as
continue to work
PROGRAM OUTCOMES SUMMARY
Resulting Action(s) Taken/To be taken with
Time Frame for Implementation I
using a plan designed
with individual
to address areas of
students based on
concern in their test
those results.
results. At the end of
the final semester of
the program, all
students will take the
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
a 2nd time.
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nd
HESI Exam criteria for ACTION: (2 HESI exam started in 2010)
<850 score,
3 years in a row
Test areas with 10 questions or more
MOUNTAIN MEASUREMENT criteria for ACTION:
th
<50 percentile
3 years in a row
Trends for all data collection is defined as three reporting cycles
KEY:
Dx = Diagnosis
Rx = Treatment, Prescription, Care, Intervention
Fx = Function
NLNAC Program Evaluation
Student Learning Outcomes
12/1/2010
Meets standard
Does not meet standard three consecutive reporting cycles
Therapeutic Communication (Graduate Outcome #2)
Component
Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
Assessment
Assessment
Methods
The overall mean score of
COD students will meet or
exceed score of 850 when
taking the (2nd)
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH at
completion of NURSI 2202
in the following test plan
areas:
Annually, at
the completion
of NURSI
2202
Computerized
EVOLVE/HESI/REA
CH exit exam
1. Psychosocial
Integrity
2. Psych-Mental
Health: anxiety and
communication
3. Basic Care and
Comfort
4. NLNAC category:
Therapeutic
Communication
Results of Data Collection and
Analysis
2008
2009
B
769
2010
771
2009
A
780
776
817
869
887
824
806
813
831
768
820
859
827
747
5/2010: Level of achievement not
met
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Actions for program
development,
improvement,
maintenance and/or
revision
Spring 2010:
Implemented a plan of
administering the
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
exam twice to all
students. First exam is
taken as they begin
NURSI 2202. Based on
results, a remediation
plan is developed and
implemented. A second
exam is given in the final
week of the program.
Evaluation of 1st and 2nd
exam attempts, and
effects of remediation to
be conducted.
Additionally
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
exam/remediation is
counted in course grade
for NURSI 2202.
Component
Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
Assessment
Assessment
Methods
78% of students will achieve
a minimum of 78% of total
lab points.
Any offering of
NURSI 1208
Lab scores,
including group
process reporting,
data sheet,
individual process
recording and
teaching plan
Results of Data Collection and
Analysis
Year
2008-2009
%Score
93.49
2009-2010
90.92
%Students 100
100
Standard met.
Actions for program
development,
improvement,
maintenance and/or
revision
Explore adoption of the
QSEN standards and LN
Competencies as an
area to measure re:
defining expected level
of achievement.
Note that despite the
exit exam results, the
NCLEX rates meet or
exceed national
average.
11/12/2010 Continue to
monitor
Graduates score at or above
the 50th the percentile
compared to similar
programs in the NCLEX test
plan areas of:
1. Psychosocial
Integrity
2. Basic Care and
Comfort
3. Human Functioning:
Psych/Cultural Fx
4. Health Alterations:
PsychosocialCultural
Annually
Mountain
Measurements April
through September
NCLEX performance
report compared to
similar programs.
5/8/2010: Continue to
monitor
1
2
3
4
2007
2008
2009
2010
55
66
59
57
57
57
53
58
50
56
57
57
51
63
57
60
11/17/2010: Continue to
monitor; consider
increasing the percentile
score attempting to
achieve.
4/2010: Expected level of
achievement met; New NCLEXRN test plan implemented in
2010.
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(Graduate Outcome #4)
Critical Thinking
Component
308
Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
Assessment
Assessment
Methods
The overall mean score of
COD students will meet or
exceed the score of 850 on
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH at
completion of NURSI 2202
in the following test plan
areas:
Annually, at
the completion
of NURSI
2202
Computerized
EVOLVE/HESI/REA
CH exit exam
1. NURSING
PROCESS:
Assessment and
Analysis and
Evaluation
2. Reduce Risk
Potential
3. NLNAC Category:
Critical Thinking.
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Results of Data Collection and
Analysis
2008
2009
A
2009
B
2010
834
826
749
866
807
793
808
845
749
787
787
845
854
759
795
810
807
862
850
855
5/2010: Level of achievement not
met
Actions for program
development,
improvement,
maintenance and/or
revision
Spring 2010:
Implemented a plan of
administering the
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
exam twice to all
students. First exam is
taken as they begin
NURSI 2202. Based on
results, a remediation
plan is developed and
implemented. A second
exam is given in the final
week of the program.
Evaluation of 1st and 2nd
exam attempts, and
effects of remediation to
be conducted.
Additionally
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
exam/remediation is
counted in course grade
for NURSI 2202.
Explore adoption of the
QSEN standards and LN
Competencies as an
area to measure re:
defining expected level
of achievement.
Note that despite the
exit exam results, the
NCLEX rates meet or
exceed national
average.
Component
Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
Assessment
Assessment
Methods
100% of all NURSI 1105
students will receive a 80%
or above on the
Dosage/Calculations test by
week 12 of the semester;
With each
course
offering of
NURSI 1105,
1206, 2109
and 2201.
Dosage/Calculations
test
Annually
Mountain
Measurements April
through September
NCLEX performance
report compared to
similar programs.
100% of all NURSI 1206,
2109 and 2201 students will
receive a 100% or above on
a Dosage/Calculations test
by the established deadline
Graduates score at or above
the 50th percentile in the
NCLEX test plan areas of
compared to similar
programs:
1. NURSING
PROCESS:
Assessment and
Analysis and
Evaluation
2. Reduce Risk
Potential
Results of Data Collection and
Analysis
2007
2008
2009
2010
Actions for program
development,
improvement,
maintenance and/or
revision
5/8/2010: Continue to
monitor; consider
increasing the percentile
score attempting to
achieve.
1
57
57
58
56
55
45
53
64
64
58
54
65
2 58
59
57
55
4/2010: Expected level of
achievement met. New NCLEXRN test plan implemented in
2010.
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(Graduate Outcome #3)
Therapeutic Nursing Interventions
Component
310
Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
Assessment
Assessment
Methods
The overall mean score of
COD students will meet or
exceed the score 850
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH at
completion of NURSI 2202
in the following test plan
areas:
Annually, at
the completion
of NURSI
2202
Computerized
EVOLVE/HESI/REA
CH exit exam
1. NURSING
PROCESS:
Planning,
Implementation and
Evaluation
2. Safe and effective
environment
3. Safety and Infection
control
4. Basic Care and
comfort
5. Fundamentals:
Basic Skills
6. Pharm and Parental
Tx
7. Physiological
Integrity
8. Physiological
Adaptation
9. Reduce Risk
Potential
10. NLNAC Category:
Therapeutic Nursing
Interventions
NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Results of Data Collection and
Analysis
2008
810
2009
A
779
2009
B
769
807
774
783
862
845
854
832
774
809
837
779
817
831
806
813
847
813
834
851
854
810
871
804
803
932
804
836
850
749
759
855
820
859
2010
5/2010: Level of achievement not
met
Actions for program
development,
improvement,
maintenance and/or
revision
Spring 2010:
Implemented a plan of
administering the
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
exam twice to all
students. First exam is
taken as they begin
NURSI 2202. Based on
results, a remediation
plan is developed and
implemented. A second
exam is given in the final
week of the program.
Evaluation of 1st and 2nd
exam attempts, and
effects of remediation to
be conducted.
Additionally
EVOLVE/HESI/REACH
exam/remediation is
counted in course grade
for NURSI 2202.
Explore adoption of the
QSEN standards and
LN Competencies as an
area to measure re:
defining expected level
of achievement.
Note that despite the
exit exam results, the
NCLEX rates meet or
exceed national
average.
(Graduate Outcome #3)
Therapeutic Nursing Interventions
Component
Expected level of
achievement
Frequency of
Assessment
Assessment
Methods
Graduates score at or above
the 50 the percentile in the
NCLEX test plan areas of:
Annually
Mountain
Measurements April
through September
NCLEX performance
report compared to
similar programs.
1. NURSING
PROCESS:
Planning,
Implementation and
Evaluation
2. Safety and Infection
control
3. Basic Care and
comfort
4. Pharm and Parental
Tx
5. Physiological
Adaptation
6. Reduce Risk
Potential
7. Protective
Functioning
8. Comfort, rest,
activity, mobility.
Results of Data Collection and
Analysis
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
2008
2008
2009
2010
57
61
64
67
66
53
63
60
67
55
57
64
58
55
55
57
55
57
63
59
58
56
54
52
52
50
49
59
56
65
65
62
65
67
63
53
63
55
68
64
Actions for program
development,
improvement,
maintenance and/or
revision
5/8/2010: Continue to
monitor; consider
increasing the percentile
score attempting to
achieve.
4/2010: Expected level of
achievement met. New NCLEXRN test plan implemented in
2010.
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Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
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NLNAC Self Study 2011
Associate Degree Nursing Program
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois