UCC/UGC/YCC
Proposal for New Course
1. Effective BEGINNING of what term and year?:
Fall 2012
See effective dates calendar.
2. College: Health and Human
Services
4. Course subject and number:
3. Academic Unit: Nursing
NUR 307L
5. Units: 1
6. Long course title: Clinical laboratory for Health Assessment for Registered Nurses
(max 100 characters including spaces)
RN Health Assess Lab
7. Short course title:
(max. 30 characters including spaces)
8. Catalog course description (max. 60 words, excluding requisites):
Required clinical laboratory for practice and refinement of health assessment skills.
9. Grading option:
Letter grade
Pass/Fail
Both
10a. UGC approval date*:
10. Co-convened with:
(For example: ESE 450 and ESE 550)
*Must be approved by UGC before UCC submission, and both course syllabi must be presented
11. Cross-listed with:
(For example: ES 450 and DIS 450)
Please submit a single cross-listed syllabus that will be used for all cross-listed courses.
12. May course be repeated for additional units?
12a. If yes, maximum units allowed?
12b. If yes, may course be repeated for additional units in the same term?
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Yes
No
Yes
No
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13. Prerequisites:
Admission to Nursing
Program or RN license
14. Co requisites:
NUR 307
15. Is this course in any plan (major, minor or certificate) or sub plan (emphasis or concentration)?
Yes
No
If yes, describe the impact and attach written responses from the affected academic units prior
to college curricular submission.
Nursing BSN; Option for RNs. There is an accompanying plan change proposal.
16. Is there a related plan or sub plan proposal being submitted?
If no, explain.
Yes
No
17. Does this course include combined lecture and lab components?
Yes
If yes, note the units specific to each component in the course description above.
No
18. Does this course duplicate content of existing courses?
Yes
No
If yes, list the courses with duplicate material. If the duplication is greater than 20%,
explain why NAU should establish this course.
19. Names of the current faculty qualified to teach this course:
Dunn & others
20. Justification for new course.
The embedded lab is being separated from the lecture, per the direction of university
administration.
Answer 21-22 for UCC/YCC only:
21. Is this course being proposed for Liberal Studies designation?
Yes
If yes, forward this form along with the appropriate supporting documentation to the
Liberal Studies Committee.
No
22. Is this course being proposed for Diversity designation?
Yes
If yes, forward this form along with the appropriate supporting documentation to the
Diversity Committee
No
Scott Galland
Reviewed by Curriculum Process Associate
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02/21/2012
Date
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Approvals:
Department Chair/ Unit Head (if appropriate)
Date
Chair of college curriculum committee
Date
Dean of college
Date
For Committee use only:
UCG/UGC/YCC Approval
Date
:
Approved as submitted:
Yes
No
Approved as modified: Yes
No
:
:
Please attach proposed Syllabus in approved university format.
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Northern Arizona University
College of Health and Human Services
School of Nursing
NUR 307L
Syllabus
Clinical laboratory for Health Assessment for Registered Nurses
Credits: 1 credit/ 45 lab hours
Semester: Fall, Spring & Summer (offered as 8 week course most terms)
Course Prerequisites: Admission to Nursing Program or RN license Co-requisite: NUR 307
Catalogue Description: Required clinical laboratory for practice and refinement of health
assessment skills.
Course Description: The clinical lab offers the student the opportunity for guided practice of
expanded physical assessment skills, especially those psychomotor skills new to the associate
degree nurse.
Instructor:
Dorothy J. Dunn, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC
Nursing Bldg. #201A
Phone: 928-523-6455
Email: Dorothy.Dunn@nau.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Student Learning Outcomes/clinical competencies:
The successful student:
Clinical Practice and Prevention
1. Demonstrates acquired knowledge and skills necessary to perform a health
assessment and physical examination on a healthy adult.
Communication
2. Demonstrates individualized, clear, effective, respectful and compassionate
communication while performing the health assessment and physical examination.
3. Documents assessment findings using correct terminology.
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Critical reasoning
4- Integrates multiple ways of knowing and the ability to use critical thinking to relate
health assessment and physical examination findings to the health status of individuals
across the life span.
Professionalism and professional Values
5- Demonstrates professional values through the affective characteristics of caring with
compassion, competence, conscience, commitment and comportment while performing
the health assessment and physical examination.
6- Demonstrates professional behavior in performing health assessments.
Course Structure and Approach: This required laboratory that is completed concurrently with
NUR 307 provides the opportunity for guided psychomotor skill development and refinement
with a community preceptor or with NAU faculty in a lab session. A final clinical proficiency
check-off is required with NAU faculty; students from outside Arizona may make arrangements
to have a qualified preceptor conduct the final exam in their local community.
Required textbook:
Jarvis, C. (2012). Physical examination and health assessment. (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders
Elsevier. ISBN: 978-1-4377-0151-7
Optional materials/references:
Any anatomy and physiology textbook.
Course outline: See NUR 307
Assessment of Student Learning: Assessment of mastery of health assessment and health
history skills are assessed across the course in assigned papers (graded in NUR 307) and in the
final clinical proficiency check-off at the end of the course.
Grading system: This is a PASS/FAIL lab. In order to earn a PASS, the student must pass the
final clinical proficiency check-off at the end of the course with NAU faculty or designee. NUR
307L must be successfully completed along with NUR 307 in order to progress.
Course policies:
Retests/makeup tests: Alternate scheduling of final clinical proficiency check-off will be
provided only in extraordinary circumstances and require arrangements with faculty prior to
scheduled date.
If a student is unsuccessful in the first attempt of the final clinical proficiency exam, a re-test
may be scheduled with the instructor after a remediation session is completed. Only one retest is allowed, and should be scheduled within one to two weeks of the original exam.
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Attendance: Active clinical participation in guided practice and clinical proficiency exam is
required of all students.
Plagiarism, cheating, academic dishonesty:
Please refer to Appendix G of the NAU Student Handbook
(http://home.nau.edu/images/userimages/awf/9476/ACADEMIC%20DISHONESTY.pdf) for
definitions, policies, penalties, and procedures related to various forms of academic dishonesty.
University policies: Please review the following policies available on the Northern Arizona
University Policy Statement website http://www4.nau.edu/avpaa/UCCPolicy/plcystmt.html
1. Safe Environment Policy
2. Students with Disabilities Policy
3. Institutional Review Board Policy
4. Academic Contact Hour Policy
5. Sensitive Course Materials Policy
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