Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

College of Health and Human Services

Department of Nursing

NUR 41800 Community/Public Health Nursing

Fall 2013 Syllabus

Course Description:

Blends the profession of nursing with the science of public health. Nursing and other theories are applied in the community setting. Survey social and health trends which affect community health nursing practice. Emphasize preventive care across the life span using the nursing process in the community setting. Examine nursing of aggregates and epidemiology as a public health science. Home healthcare and case management as a component of community health nursing are examined. Assess environmental and other current community health issues; examine the community health nurse's role in working with these issues. Assess the importance of cultural differences, norms, and values when planning care for diverse populations in the community.

Clinical Description:

Clinical provides opportunities to deliver and/or supervise care in healthcare settings and community agencies. Aspects of community/public health and leadership are integrated in senior clinical courses. Only RN completion students may select variable credit for one of the three 400 level clinical nursing courses (NUR 418, NUR 419, NUR 442). The three credit variable option includes lecture hours and no clinical hours.

Pre- or Co-requisite: NUR 33400, NUR 33700 or undergraduate statistics, NUR 33900, NUR 34400, NUR 37700, and NUR 34600.

Course Credits and Hours: 5 credits: 3 lecture, 6 clinical; 3 credits: 3 lecture

Dates and Times: August 26 – December 22, 2013.

Set Meetings: Blackboard Learn for our course is available August 26, 2013 for all students.

·  For RN to BS students, the course is fully online. Each online week of study begins on Monday 8:00 AM and ends on Sunday 11:59 PM of each week, with the exception of exam week which ends on a Friday at 11:59 PM.

·  For Generic students, the course is hybrid (campus classroom and online). Online weeks start on Monday 8:00 AM and end on Sunday 11:59 PM of each week. The face-to-face class meetings take place in Neff Hall NF 101on Thursdays from 4:30 – 7:15 PM on the following dates.
August 29,
September 5,
October 3,
October 24,
December 12.

·  The clinical component takes place on Wednesday 9-3:30 or Thursday 9-3:30 as assigned.

Room: The online course is accessed through Blackboard Learn which is our IPFW electronic campus. Important: (1) After you log into Blackboard Learn, look for NUR 41800 Community/Public Health Nursing on your list of course. Click the course name to enter the course site to find all your course directions, activities, and assignments. (2) Go to Online Learning for tutorials on online learning, how to set up your computer, and links to technical help. The face-to-face class meetings take place in Neff Hall NF 101. Clinical experiences are as assigned.

Faculty Instructor Information:

Denise M. Jordan, MA, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor.

Online Office: The virtual office for the instructor and teaching assistant for this course is available throughout the term at our Blackboard Learn course site. Students should post questions of general interest any time in this Online Office; replies will be posted there so that all students can see the answers. This Online Office is checked frequently during the week and students will usually receive a reply to messages within 48 hours. If the nature of a question or concern is more personal or a student is not comfortable having classmates see a message, the student should use another means of communication.

Campus Office: Liberal Arts Building 331B. Office hours: Tuesday 9 AM – 12 PM. Students who wish to have a meeting with the instructor at the campus office should request an appointment. When leaving a message at the office phone, students should make sure to also leave a call back number or email contact for the instructor.

E-mail: Use Blackboard Learn. If Blackboard Learn goes down, then use . Office Phone 260-481-0250; Cell Phone (Before 8 p.m.) 260-804-1594; FAX 260-481-6482.

Clinical Faculty Instructor Information:

LeAnn Mayer MSN, RN,

Visiting Assistant Professor;

Cell Phone (Before 8 p.m.) 260-227-0906;

E-Mail: ;

FAX 260-481-6482

Susan Halley, MSN, RN,

Visiting Assistant Professor;

Cell Phone (Before 8 p.m.) 260-704-1855;

E-Mail: ;

FAX 260-481-6482

Treva Strasen, Clinical Instructor and Teaching Assistant;

Cell Phone (Before 8 p.m.) 260-450-5222;

E-Mail: ;

FAX 260-481-6482.

Learning Outcomes

Our course learning outcomes align with the six foundations identified by IPFW faculty for the Baccalaureate Program (acquisition of knowledge, application of knowledge, personal and professional values, a sense of community, critical thinking and problem solving, and communication). Students can see how these foundations are expressed in the Student Information Manual: Undergraduate Nursing Program.

Major Themes in Course Assignments:

Gerontological Assessment

Our course assignments focus on nursing practice to minimize loss of independence for older adults in community settings (Baccalaureate gerontological competencies 3,4,7,10,14, and 17) and meeting related Gerontological Nursing Competencies recommended by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. An objective for these assignments reads as follows: By the end of this unit, each student will have had the opportunity to utilize various tools, models, and strategies to guide nursing practice for older adults in community-based settings.

Emergency Preparedness

Emergency preparedness, response, and recovery are integral to community/public health nursing. Activities include but are not limited to tabletop exercises and guided online activities.

Service Learning

Service Learning is embedded in Community/Public Health Nursing. Course projects provide students the opportunity to operationalize the three primary functions of Public Health: assessment, policy development, and assurance as well develop competency in the areas of patient-centered care, team work and collaboration, evidence based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics. Course and clinical Service Learning Projects include but are not limited to planning and implementation of community health fairs, in-home client assessments, development and implementation of teaching projects for community agencies or their clients based upon agency or community needs utilizing evidence based practices.

IPFW defines Service Learning as “a credit-bearing, educational experience in which students participate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs and reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility. Find out more about service learning opportunities at the What is Service Learning? web site.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course each student will have had the opportunity to achieve these outcomes.

  1. Integrate professional behaviors that promote safe and effective healthcare delivery in a variety of community-based settings.
  1. Utilize informatics in planning and implementing nursing care for diverse communities.
  2. Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care for diverse clients in a community setting utilizing evidence-based nursing research.
  1. Apply critical thinking to analyze data in the implementation and promotion of positive health-related behaviors for culturally diverse clients.
  1. Demonstrate client-centered, culturally sensitive communication techniques to deliver health care information to diverse client populations in the community setting.
  2. Analyze the role of the professional nurse as a participant of a collaborative interdisciplinary community-based health-care team.
  3. Utilize nursing and other theories, various tools, models, and strategies to guide nursing practice for older adults in community-based settings.
  4. Utilize the Public Health Intervention Model in the planning and implementation of nursing care and the promotion of positive health-related behaviors for culturally diverse clients in a variety of community based settings.
  5. Apply teaching and learning principles in the development, implementation, and dissemination of health promotion and disease prevention information.
  6. Evaluate achievement of learning outcomes through scholarly reflection.

Topical Outline:

Community and public health nursing defined.
History and evolution of community and public health nursing.
Structure and function of community and public health nursing.
Public and private settings for community and public health.
Principles of public health nursing.
Healthy People 2020.
Evidence-based practice and community health.
Ethics.
Social justice.
Epidemiology.
Communicable diseases
Nursing process and the community as client.
Community assessment.
Theory for community and public health nursing.
Communication and community health. / Transcultural nursing.
Global health.
Diversity.
Vulnerable populations.
Rural, migrant, urban health.
Emergency preparedness, response, and recovery.
Health promotion.
Disease prevention.
Teaching and learning in community health.
Environmental health and safety.
Assurance.
Assessment.
Policy development.
Role of nurse.
Professionalism.
Advocacy.
Community partnerships.
Coordination of care, manager.

Methods of Instruction:

This is an online and hybrid learning course as described earlier in this syllabus for RN to BS (all online) and Generic (campus classroom and online) students. All students are responsible for study of materials and completion of assignments and activities in each weekly online folder of the course. These folders include readings, lecture, multimedia, and discussion forums. RN to BS students will submit all work online. In online learning, students must make a significant time commitment as well as use excellent organizational skills. Online study takes the same amount of time as a campus classroom course, not less; online students simply have more flexibility in scheduling time to complete assignments during a given week. Generic students will do many of the assigned activities and assignments in the campus classroom, but during non-classroom weeks, when studying and working online, must make the same time commitment as during the classroom week. Face-to-face class meetings for Generic students include, but are not limited to, classroom discussion, small group collaboration, listening to guest speakers, viewing audiovisual presentations, and analyzing case studies. Readings and activities are to be completed as assigned (these are posted online), whether online or in the classroom.

Course Requirements:

Required Texts and Materials:

Allendar, J. A., Rector, C., Warner, K. D. (2014). Community and public health nursing Promoting the public’s health, 8th Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN – 13: 978-1-60913-688-8

VandenBos, G.R., Gasque, A.W., & Jackson, P. (Eds.). (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. ISBN 1433805596

or

VandenBos, G.R., Gasque, A.W., & Jackson, P., (Eds.). (2010). Concise rules of APA style.(6th ed.). Washington DC: American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1-4338-0560-8

Other Required Educational Materials:

Articles, videos, web resources, and study materials will be posted at the Blackboard Learn course site for NUR 41800 or will be accessed online via The Point. Students will need to access the code found under the scratch off panel on the inside front cover of the textbook to activate The Point account. Research articles are available through the IPFW Helmke Library Databases and scholarly Internet resources.

Storage Media for Assignments

Instructions for viewing audio and visual materials will be posted at the course web site. In general, use of the most up-to-date Firefox browser will work best and students should plan to download this browser, as well as a second browser such as Google Chrome. Students unfamiliar with how to do these tasks and who want guidance with browser downloads and updates, should contact IT Services for help at helpdesk @ipfw.edu, phone 260-481-6030, or Kettler Hall Room 206.

Required Clinical Math Test

All clinical students are to complete the ATI Dimensional Analysis Math Module online. The associated math competency exam must be passed with a score of 100%. The math test must be completed and passed no later than 11:59 PM on Monday, September 9, 2013. Students who are unsuccessful in the math completion after 2 attempts must remediate until successful completion of the exam. Students can access this module online utilizing the ATI password he or she already has set up.

Required ATI Content Exam Testing

Generic students within NUR 41800: The NUR 41800 ATI Community/Public Health content exam is a non-proctored exam. The exam may be attempted Week 14 after completion of the Environmental and Occupational Health content. The results for the ATI Community/Public Health content exam must be submitted no later than Friday, December 5, 2013. Please turn in to faculty the grading report for the assessment.

The following guidelines apply to this exam: Non-proctored: 90%.

An earned score of 90% is defined by ATI as “considered to exceed most expectations for performance in this content area. Scores at this level were judged by the content expert panel to indicate a student as likely to exceed NCLEX-RN standards in this content area. ATI advises these students to engage in continuous focused review to maintain and improve their knowledge of this content.”

If the student does not earn 90% on the non-proctored exam:

  1. The student must meet with the course instructor and utilize ATI review book.
  2. The student must allow at least three days between retake of tests.
  3. ATI student transcript must accompany test results given to the course instructor.

4.  If the student is unable to earn 90%, an Incomplete (I) will be recorded as the course grade until 90% is achieved.

* RN to BS students do not need to complete the ATI content exam.

Assignments: Potential Points

(NUR 41800-01) 3 credits & (NUR 41800-02) 5 credits:

Mark the due dates on your personal calendar for each item listed below.

Exams

100 Possible Points, Exam 1, September 22.

100 Possible Points, Exam 2, October 13.

100 Possible Points, Exam 3, November 10.

100 Possible Points, Exam 4, December 8.

200 Possible Points, Exam 4, December 19.

Census Tract Assignments

100 Possible Points, Census Tract and Windshield Survey, as assigned.

25 Possible Points, Census Tract Comparison and Contrast Presentations, as assigned.

100 Possible Points, Census Tract and Windshield Survey, as assigned.

Service Learning Project

100 Possible Points, Service Learning Project: YRBSS (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System), November 17

50 Possible Points, Service Learning Project Reflection Paper, November 24

Older Adult and Healthy Cities

25 Possible Points, Older Adult Assessment, November 17

50 Possible Points, Healthy Cities Health Fair and Veterans Stand Down, November 1

Weekly Modules

Dates, materials, and activities are posted at the Blackboard Learn site for this course.

15 Possible Points, Module 1

10 Possible Points, Module 2

20 Possible Points, Module 3

50 Possible Points, Module 4

25 Possible Points, Module 5