NUR 820 Seminar for Nurse Anesthesia Advanced Practice-1

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBOROSCHOOL OF NURSING NUR 620S COURSE SYLLABUS SPRING SEMESTER 2018 COURSE NUMBER: Nursing 620S 820 COURSE TITLE: Leadership and Role Seminar for Nu

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO

SCHOOL OF NURSING

NUR 620S COURSE SYLLABUS SPRING SEMESTER 2018

COURSE NUMBER: Nursing 620S 820

COURSE TITLE: Leadership and Role Seminar for Nurse Anesthesia Seminar for Nurse Anesthesia Advanced Practice

CREDITS: 1:1

PRE or CO-REQUISITE: NUR 620 and enrollment in the nurse anesthesia

concentration

FOR WHOM PLANNED: Nurse Anesthesia DNP Students

FACULTY INFORMATION:

Nancy Shedlick, DNAP, CRNA E-mail: nshedlick@rsna-edu.org Office: 3900 Barrett Drive, Suite 200

Raleigh, NC 27609 Phone: 919-250-9740 Office Hours by Appointment

Linda Stone, DNP, CRNA E-mail: lstone@rsna-edu.org Office: 3900 Barrett Drive, Suite 200

Raleigh, NC 27609 Phone: 919-250-9740 Office Hours by Appointment

Christine Bazik, MSN, CRNA

E-mail: cbazik@rsna-edu.org Office: 3900 Barrett Drive, Suite 200

Raleigh, NC 27609 Phone: 919-250-9740 Office Hours by Appointment Invited Guest Lecturers

BULLETIN DESCRIPTION: This seminar course focuses on the analysis of

professional issues affecting anesthesia nursing practice

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1 Critique evidence based practice research that addresses conceptual, ethical, legal, and methodological issues related to anesthesia nursing practice

2 Analyze practice patterns, legal and ethical issues, and regulatory policies affecting nursing anesthesia

3 Synthesize recommendations for change or modification of practice patterns, legal and ethical issues, and regulatory policies that affect nursing anesthesia that are based in current evidence based practice

TEACHING METHODS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR ACHIEVING LEARNING OUTCOMES:

This course format will combine didactic presentations, student participation and presentations, discussion, and written assignments

Health policy advocacy

presentation

In class and on-line participation (10 + 35= 45%): The instructor will post assigned

readings, presentations, outlines, instructional guides and/or discussion questions in class

as well as for each on-line session to Canvas under the Discussion tab Students will review the assignments and participate in class and on-line discussion boards These discussions and responses should be thorough, based on the assigned readings, and be respectful of the opinions of your classmates

The class will be divided into teams The teams will be posted under the Module section

of Canvas For the assigned week, each team is responsible for developing and posting one question related to the assigned readings for the week, monitoring the question, and facilitating the discussion of their question Each member of the team will also contribute one (1) primary response to the other question(s) posted by the instructors that week, but not required to participate in the discussions of “other” questions

The students should be active participants on the discussion boards on 2 of the 4 days, should post a primary answer, incorporating information from the reading assignments, to each question, and should post 5 to 6 “total” responses to their fellow classmates’

comments for the week in order to be eligible for full credit for participation for that particular week Questions will be posted on Thursdays Please refrain from posting prior

to Monday each week There will be 5 discussion board sessions worth 7 points each All discussion board written responses will follow the most current edition of the

American Psychological Association (APA) or American Medical Association (AMA) format, include references, and conform to the course discussion board guidelines

Paper Advocacy Activity (25%)

Students will write one (1) 6-8 page paper detailing an anesthesia-related health policy issue, practice patterns, legal and ethical issues or regulatory policies and participate in one (1) political advocacy activity such as attending a professional nurse anesthesia association meeting, BON hearing, contact the NCANA Government Relations

Committee identifying an issue for CRNAs, legislative hearing, participate in nurse anesthesia association lobby day, meet with a state legislator in your assigned district, and

or the Mid-Year Assembly in the spring with formal write up of the event

All written submissions will follow the most current edition of the American

Psychological Association (APA) or American Medical Association (AMA) format

These submissions are due by April 10, 2018 One point will be deducted for each day

past the due date the assignment is submitted

Healthcare Policy Paper:

The requirement of this assignment, students will write and submit a paper that:

 Identifies a specific health care policy issue (needs to be anesthesia related)

 Explores the background of the issue

 Discusses the importance of the issue

 Educates the target audience about the issue

 Provides valid arguments for supporting or opposing the issue

The paper must conform to APA or AMA style and referenced appropriately

Health Care Policy Advocacy Presentation (30%):

Students will prepare a 10-15 minute presentation on a health care policy advocacy issue Students will present their work on the last day of class in May Presentations should briefly highlight the policy issue and the implications of nurse anesthesia practice In cases where students have selected similar topics, one presentation on the particular topic may be randomly chosen

GRADING SCALE:

93-100 A 4.0

84 or less F 0.0

There is no final examination for this course

REQUIRED TEXTS/ READING/ REFERENCES: Need to think about the required texts>>>>>>

Foster, S & Faut-Callahan, M (2011) A professional study and resource guide for the

CRNA Chicago: AANA Publishing, Inc [or latest edition]

Melnyk, B.M, & & Fineout-Overholt, E (2014) Evidence-based practice in nursing and

healthcare

A guide to best practice Third edition: Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Polit, D & Beck, C T (2016) Nursing Research: Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (10th ed) Resource manual to accompany nursing research

Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Selected Journal Articles as assigned by course faculty

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY: Academic integrity is important to success at UNCG and in later life Academic integrity is based on five values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility If you are to fully benefit from this class and be

properly evaluated for your contributions, we must work together in an environment that affirms these values Work that violates these values is incompatible with the goals of this class and will not be tolerated Every member of the class is expected to foster the spirit

of academic honesty at all times and to encourage that spirit among others Members of this class are encouraged to review the University Academic Integrity Policy online at http://sa.uncg.edu/handbook/academic-integrity-policy/ We encourage you to talk with

us to obtain further clarification if needed The Academic Integrity Pledge below must be

submitted for all major work in this class * By enrolling in the University, each student

agrees to abide by the Academic Integrity Policy on all work completed in this course regardless of whether the statement is signed on each exam or class assignment- UNCG

Graduate Bulletin.

“I HAVE ABIDED BY THE UNCG ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY ON TIS

ASSIGNMENT.”

Signature Date

ATTENDANCE POLICY: Regular class attendance is required in order to meet

course objectives; therefore, class attendance should be considered to be mandatory If a student is unable to attend class, he/she should arrange contact the professor as soon as possible to arrange for an excused absence Make-up work will be assigned by the

professor, and students are expected to initiate a request for make–up work for an

excused absence

DROP POLICY: The Nursing Anesthesia Concentration adheres to the University Drop

Policy as published in The University Graduate Bulletin

LATE WORK: All work is to be submitted by the due date provided in the course

syllabus Late work will not be accepted without prior faculty approval If approved for late submission, a 5% penalty will be assigned

PREPARATION FOR CLASS: Prior to class, the student is responsible for all

assigned reading Specific assignments will be announced in advance of class and/or due date

NEED to Work on Outline Below>>>>>

Topical Outline and Class Calendar Spring 2018

Anesthesia

Anesthesia

national association activities

state association activities

as Expert Witness

Anesthesia

Regulations related to Nurse

Anesthesia

related to Nurse Anesthesia

Practice