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RNSG2160 - Clinical-Nursing-Registered Nurse Training

Catalog Description: A health-related work-based learning experience that enables the student to apply specialized occupational theory, skills, and concepts. Direct supervision is provided by the clinical professional. Progression: student must pass RNSG 2213 and RNSG 2160

Semester Credit Hours: 1
Clinical Hours per Week:
Contact Hours per Semester: 96
State Approval Code: 5116010000

Course Subject/Catalog Number: RNSG 2160
Course Title: Clinical – Nursing –Registered Nurse Training (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)

Course Rationale:

To provide a more extensive framework that would enable the student to understand advanced concepts of mind/body interrelatedness and be able to apply learning to practice.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Use the nursing process as the framework to provide safe, individualized therapeutic and caring interventions in a manner inclusive of the participants’ diversity.
  2. Recognize the value of lifelong learning and continued nursing education and participation in community and professional organizations.
  3. Make collaborative nursing decisions with clients and families across the life span utilizing the principles and knowledge of biology, psychology, and the humanities within the construct of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
  4. Act within the legal and ethical framework of nursing practice.
  5. Use acquired critical thinking skills as the basis for managing nursing care for groups of clients in structured acute, chronic, and wellness settings.
  6. Apply teaching-learning principles to assist clients and families in making informed health care decisions and achieving levels of wellness.
  7. Use interpersonal communication skills to collaborate with health care team participants to attain desired client-centered goals.

Course objectives have been keyed to reflect the scans competencies, basic skills and workplace skills, that are incorporated into this course.  These competencies are either introduced, developed, or assessed in an effort to provide the student the student success in the workplace.

SCAN 1, 2, 3 – Basic Skills

  • 1. READING
  • 2. WRITING
  • 3. MATHEMATICS

SCANS 1, 2, 3 – Workplace Skills

  • 4. RESOURCES
  • 4.1 ALLOCATES TIME
  • 4.2 ALLOCATES FINANCIAL RESOURCES
  • 4.3 ALLOCATES MATERIAL AND FACILITY RESOURCES
  • 5. INTERPERSONAL
  • 5.1 PARTICIPATES AS MEMBER OF A TEAM
  • 5.2 TEACHES OTHERS NEW SKILLS
  • 5.3 SERVES CLIENTS/CUSTOMERS
  • 5.4 EXERCISE LEADERSHIP
  • 5.5 NEGOTIATES
  • 5.6 WORKS WITH DIVERSITY
  • 6. INFORMATION
  • 6.1 ACQUIRES AND EVALUATES INFORMATION
  • 6.2 ORGANIZES AND MAINTAINS INFORMATION
  • 6.3 INTERPRETS AND COMMUNICATIONS INFORMATION
  • 6.4 USES COMPUTERS TO PROCESS INFORMATION
  • 7. SYSTEMS: UNDERSTANDS COMPLEX INTER-RELATIONSHIPS
  • 7.1 UNDERSTAND SYSTEM: SOCIAL, ORGANIZATIONAL, TECHNOLOGY
  • 7.2 MONITORS: DISTINGUISHES TRENDS, AND CORRECTS PERFORMANCE
  • 7.3 IMPROVES OR DESIGNS SYSTEMS
  • 8. TECHNOLOGY
  • 8.1 SELECTS TECHNOLOGY
  • 8.2 APPLIES TECHNOLOGY TO TASKS
  • 8.3 MAINTAINS AND TROUBLESHOOTS TECHNOLOGY
  • 9. THINKING SKILLS
  • 9.1 CREATIVE THINKING
  • 9.2 DECISION MAKING
  • 9.3 REASONS
  • 10. PERSONAL QUALITIES
  • 10.1 RESPONSIBILITY
  • 10.2 SELF-ESTEEM
  • 10.3 SOCIABILITY
  • 10.4 SELF – MANAGEMENT
  • 10.5 INTEGRITY/HONESTY
  • 11. LISTENING AND SPEAKING

Specific Tasks Accomplished:

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Expand nursing roles and responsibilities to function within standards of practice to foster teaching/learning opportunities for individual clients at various levels of wellness in psychiatric-mental health.
  2. Use the nursing process as the framework to provide individualized therapeutic and caring interventions for the psychiatric-mental health client in a manner that incorporates the participants’ diversity and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
  3. Utilize interpersonal communication and critical thinking skills to collaborate in a legal and ethical manner with client and health team participants to attain desired client centered goals.

Grading Policy:

Clinical performance will be evaluated ‘Pass’ or ‘Fail’ based on the following criteria:

  1. Clinical Evaluation Tool (CET) Satisfactory performance on CET. An evaluation of clinical performance will be done at designated times and at the end of the course. These scores will be averaged together. Each student must have a copy. The student must pass all three components of the CET – Member with minimum of 27 points; Provider, 76 points; and Coordinator, 9 points – in order to achieve a passing status.
  2. Project Presentation The student must achieve a minimum of 75 points.
  3. Tentative Care Plan (TCP) An average score of 74.5 on TCP with no more than two TCPs with a score below 74.5
  4. Process Recordings Satisfactory process – The process recordings will not receive a numeric grade, rather progress is measured by improved communication techniques and better identification of communication principles (as well as better awareness of behavior motivation on the part of the student and patient). The instructor will conference with the student individually to present feedback in the process recordings.

No late papers will be accepted. An extension of the due date of the paper assignments must be initiated by the student in writing and permission granted by the instructor with the new due date in writing.

Methods of Instruction:

  1. Competency Lab (Learning Resource Lab):
    1. The skills lab schedule is posted. In RNSG 2160 some video taping of interviewing and interactions may take place as reinforcement for learning communication principles and techniques.
  2. Clinical Area:
    1. Twelve hours each week will be spent in the clinical facility or agency. Experiences in the clinical areas provide the students with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and technique presented in RNSG 2213. The first fifteen to thirty minutes of each day will be spent in report with staff and/or instructor. The last thirty minutes to one hours of the clinical week will be spent in a post conference discussing experience and objectives met. Clinical rotation schedules will be provided by the clinical instructor. Each student will be assigned clinical rotations in adult and adolescent psychiatric units, as well as at times, other psychiatric settings.

Textbook and Supplies Requirement:

  1. Frish, Noreen & Frisch, Lawrence. (2003). Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - Understanding the Client as Well as the Condition. (2nd ed. ) Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers.
  2. Fortinash, Katherine & Holoday-Worrett. (2003). Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans. St Louis, MO: Mosby.
  3. RNSG 2160 Course Syllabus
  4. Clinical Evaluation Tool

Optional Text for Reference:

  1. American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV TR. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association.

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