UCC/UGC/ECCC
Proposal for Course Change
FAST TRACK
(Select if this will be a fast track item. Refer to Fast Track Policy for
eligibility)
If the changes included in this proposal are significant, attach copies of original and proposed
syllabi in approved university format.
1. Course subject and number: NUR 420
2. Units:
See upper and lower division undergraduate course definitions.
3. College:
Health and Human Services
5. Current Student Learning Outcomes of the
course.
4. Academic Unit:
3
Nursing
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being deleted. (Resources & Examples for
Developing Course Learning Outcomes)
Clinical Practice and Prevention
 Integrate theory, research-based evidence and
professional perspectives to provide holistic care to
families in community settings.
 Establish and maintain links to community resources
through multidisciplinary collaboration and coordination
of care with patients and families.
Clinical Practice and Prevention
 Integrate theory, research-based evidence and
professional perspectives to provide holistic care
to families in community settings.
 Establish and maintain links to community
resources through multidisciplinary collaboration
and coordination of care with patients and
families.
 Integrates theory, research-based evidence and
professional perspectives to promote familycentered care in community settings.
 Applies a multidisciplinary approach to improve
outcomes for complex health problems in
families.
Communication
 Incorporate effective communication into professional
nursing practice when interacting with patients, families
and health care professionals.
Communication
 Incorporate effective communication into professional
nursing practice when interacting with patients,
families and health care professionals.
Effective Fall 2012
Critical Reasoning
 Synthesize evidence and nursing knowledge to
evaluate and modify clinical nursing practice safe
comprehensive, patient-centered care in community
settings
 Analyze essential nursing roles relevant to care
coordinator and case management as applied to family
nursing.
Critical Reasoning
 Synthesize evidence and nursing knowledge to
evaluate and modify clinical nursing practice safe
comprehensive, patient-centered care in
community settings
 Analyze essential nursing roles relevant to care
coordinator and case management as applied to
family nursing.
 Synthesizes evidence and nursing knowledge to
evaluate safe, comprehensive, patient-centered
care in community settings.
 Analyzes essential nursing roles relevant to care
coordinator and case management in family
nursing.
Leadership
 Integrate knowledge and skills in leadership, quality
improvement, health care policy, and patient safety
into practice to provide high quality care to patients
and their families in community settings.
 Explore innovative approaches to improve health care
delivery for patients and their families.
Leadership
 Integrate knowledge and skills in leadership,
quality improvement, health care policy, and
patient safety into practice to provide high quality
care to patients and their families in community
settings.
 Integrates concepts of leadership, quality
improvement, health policy and safety when
examining the role of the nurse in familycentered assessment, health promotion and
prevention education.
 Explore innovative approaches to improve health care
delivery for patients and their families.
Professionalism and Professional Values
 Integrate professional values and their associated
behaviors into the practice of nursing care to families
in community settings.
 Incorporate ethical and legal principles and
professional standards into nursing practice with
patient/families.
 Analyze the influence of culture on family health and
incorporates patient/family values, preferences, and
experiences into holistic nursing care.
Professionalism and Professional Values
 Integrate professional values and their associated
behaviors into the practice of nursing care to
families in community settings.
 Incorporate ethical and legal principles and
professional standards into nursing practice with
patient/families.
 Analyze the influence of culture on family health
and incorporates patient/family values,
preferences, and experiences into holistic nursing
care.
 Describes professional values and behaviors
associated with family nursing practice.
 Incorporates ethical and legal principles to family
nursing practice.
 Analyzes the influence of culture on family
health.
Global Health
 Analyzes safety and quality of health care outcomes
for diverse family populations in community settings
incorporating principles of advocacy, leadership and
collaboration.
 Explores innovative approaches in holistic care that
promote health equity and social justice for families in
community settings.
Global Health
 Analyzes safety and quality of health care outcomes
for diverse family populations in community settings
incorporating principles of advocacy, leadership and
collaboration.
 Explores innovative approaches in holistic care that
promote health equity and social justice for families in
community settings.
Effective Fall 2012
6. Current title, description and units. Cut and
paste, in its entirety, from the current on-line
academic catalog*
http://catalog.nau.edu/Catalog/.
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NUR 420 FAMILY NURSING ROLES (3)
Description: Explores roles of nurses working
with families, including application of theories to
understand how families function and cope with
stress. Emphasizes family assessment, health
promotion and role of genomics. Letter grade
only.
Units: 3
Prerequisite: NUR 330 and 390W
NUR 420 FAMILY NURSING ROLES (3)
Description: Explores roles in family nursing
practice. Students examine how stressors
in the environment and genetics shape
health and illness experiences in families.
Assessment and intervention strategies
for primary, secondary, and tertiary
prevention are emphasized of nurses
working with families, including
application of theories to understand how
families function and cope with stress.
Emphasizes family assessment, health
promotion and role of genomics. Letter
grade only.
Units: 3
Prerequisite: NUR 330 and 390W
*if there has been a previously approved UCC/UGC/ECCC change since the last catalog year, please copy the approved
text from the proposal form into this field.
7. Justification for course change.
Course content is not changing; the changes to the course description and course outcomes
stem from external licensing entities, including State Boards of Nursing. Across the country,
State Boards of Nursing require their own oversight and approval for direct patient clinical
care for NAU students who live outside of Arizona. Because the RN-BSN program is offered to
out of state students, these changes to course descriptions and outcomes eliminate the
language referring to “direct patient care”.
8. Effective BEGINNING of what term and year?
Fall 2016
See effective dates calendar.
IN THE FOLLOWING SECTION, COMPLETE ONLY WHAT IS CHANGING
CURRENT
Current course subject and number:
PROPOSED
Proposed course subject and number:
Current number of units:
Proposed number of units:
Current short course title:
Proposed short course title (max 30 characters):
Current long course title:
Proposed long course title (max 100 characters):
Current grading option:
Proposed grading option:
Effective Fall 2012
letter grade
pass/fail
or both
Current repeat for additional units:
letter grade
pass/fail
or both
Proposed repeat for additional units:
Current max number of units:
Proposed max number of units:
Current prerequisite:
Proposed prerequisite (include rationale in the
justification):
Current co-requisite:
Current co-convene with:
Proposed co-requisite (include rationale in the
justification):
Proposed co-convene with:
Current cross list with:
Proposed cross list with:
9. Is this course in any plan (major, minor, or certificate) or sub plan (emphasis)? Yes
No
If yes, describe the impact. If applicable, include evidence of notification to and/or response
from each impacted academic unit.
Nursing RN-BSN
10. Is there a related plan or sub plan change proposal being submitted?
If no, explain.
This course description change will not require a related plan change.
Yes
No
11. Does this course include combined lecture and lab components?
Yes
If yes, include the units specific to each component in the course description above.
No
Answer 12-15 for UCC/ECCC only:
12. Is this course an approved Liberal Studies or Diversity course?
If yes, select all that apply.
Liberal Studies
Diversity
Yes
No
Yes
No
14. Is this course listed in the Course Equivalency Guide?
Yes
No
15. Is this course a Shared Unique Numbering (SUN) course?
Yes
No
13. Do you want to remove the Liberal Studies or Diversity designation?
If yes, select all that apply.
Liberal Studies
Diversity
Both
Both
FLAGSTAFF MOUNTAIN CAMPUS
Scott Galland
Reviewed by Curriculum Process Associate
3/25/2015
Date
Approvals:
Debera Thomas
Effective Fall 2012
4/28/2015
Department Chair/Unit Head (if appropriate)
Date
Chair of college curriculum committee
Date
Leslie Schulz
Dean of college
4/28/2015
Date
For Committee use only:
UCC/UGC Approval
Approved as submitted:
Approved as modified:
Date
Yes
Yes
No
No
EXTENDED CAMPUSES
Reviewed by Curriculum Process Associate
Date
Approvals:
Academic Unit Head
Date
Division Curriculum Committee (Yuma, Yavapai, or Personalized Learning)
Date
Division Administrator in Extended Campuses (Yuma, Yavapai, or Personalized
Learning)
Date
Faculty Chair of Extended Campuses Curriculum Committee (Yuma, Yavapai, or
Personalized Learning)
Date
Chief Academic Officer; Extended Campuses (or Designee)
Date
Approved as submitted:
Approved as modified:
From: Leslie Olmstead Schulz
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 2:25 PM
To: Joanna Holmes-Garcia
Subject: RE: Fast Track Approval Request: NUR 420
Effective Fall 2012
Yes
Yes
No
No
I approve this.
Leslie Schulz, PhD
Executive Dean
College of Health and Human Service
Northern Arizona University
928-523-4331 (work)
928-699-4383 (cell)
From: Debera Jane Thomas
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 10:46 AM
To: Joanna Holmes-Garcia
Subject: Fast Track Approval Request: NUR 420
Here is the signed approval from me
Debera Thomas, DNS, RN, ANP/FNP
Dean and Professor
School of Nursing
928-523-2656
Effective Fall 2012