| Course Number: | NR652 |
|---|---|
| Course Title: | Healthcare Policy Concluding Graduate Experience II |
| Course Credits: | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: | NR500, NR501, NR504, NR505, NR506, IS566, NR551, NR552, NR553, NR554; NR651 |
Syllabus
Overview
Chamberlain Pledge
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Course Description
This is the final healthcare policy course. This course provides students the opportunity to complete their concluding graduate experience project. Like NR651 Healthcare Policy Concluding Graduate Experience I, this course emphasizes the application of policy analysis, economics, and leadership theories plus the demonstration of competencies essential to the nurse leader in healthcare policy. In this final course, the emphasis is on the implementation, evaluation of an evidence-based healthcare policy and dissemination of outcomes. The nurse leader role in healthcare policy role will also be implemented, applied, and analyzed in an organizational, community or legislative setting, in collaboration with a nurse leader-mentor responsible for policy development and management.
Textbooks and Resources
Required Textbooks
The following books are required for this course:
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Optional Textbooks
The following books are required for this course:
Textbooks and Resources
Required Textbooks
The following books are required for this course:
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (year of publication). Title of textbook in italics (X ed.). City, ST: Publisher.
Information regarding supplementary material, software, etc.
The following book is required across all FNP courses:
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
The following book is recommended across all FNP courses:
Goroll, A. H., & Mulley, A. G. (2014). Primary care medicine: Office evaluation and management of the adult patient (7th ed.). China: Wolters Kluwer.
Physical Books and Supplies
To obtain all your books and supplies, visit the online Chamberlain bookstore at https://bookstore.chamberlain.edu/.
Program Outcomes
Program Outcomes of Chamberlain nursing programs can be found in the Program Descriptions section of your College Catalog. You can access your College Catalog at http://www.chamberlain.edu/msncatalog.
The MSN program outcomes are aligned with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing publication, The Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing (2011). Upon completion of the MSN degree program, the graduate will be able to:
1
Practice safe, high-quality advanced nursing care based on concepts and knowledge from nursing and related disciplines.
2
Construct processes for leading and promoting quality improvement and safety in advanced nursing practice and healthcare delivery.
3
Use contemporary communication modalities effectively in advanced nursing roles.
4
Evaluate the design, implementation and outcomes of strategies developed to meet healthcare needs.
5
Develop a plan for lifelong personal and professional growth that integrates professional values regarding scholarship, service and global engagement.
6
Apply legal, ethical and human-caring principles to situations in advanced nursing practice.
7
Design patient-centered care models and delivery systems using the best available scientific evidence.
8
Manage human, fiscal and physical resources to achieve and support individual and organizational goals.
9
Compose a plan for systematic inquiry and dissemination of findings to support advanced nursing practice, patient-care innovation, and the nursing profession.
10
Collaborate interprofessionally in research, education, practice, health policy and leadership to improve population health outcomes.
11
Apply principles of informatics to manage data and information in order to support effective decision making.
Course Outcomes
Chamberlain College of Nursing courses are built to align course content with specific Course Outcomes (COs). The COs define the learning objectives that the student will be required to comprehend and demonstrate by course completion. The COs that will be covered in detail each week can be found in the Overview page in that particular week. Whenever possible, a reference will be made from a particular assignment or discussion back to the CO that it emphasizes.
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to do the following.
1
Synthesize knowledge and concepts from nursing and related disciplines as a foundation for advanced nursing roles. (PO 1, 7)
2
Demonstrate effective leadership skills that promote quality nursing practice. (PO 1, 2)
3
Integrate verbal, written, and technological communication in implementing advanced nursing roles in the health care environment. (PO 3, 11)
4
Utilize critical inquiry and judgment to evaluate the design, implementation, and outcomes of strategies developed for learning and health care systems. (PO 4, 10)
5
Exemplify professional values, scholarship, service, and global awareness that support professional and personal development. (PO 2, 5, 10)
6
Incorporate human caring and legal and ethical principles within the concepts of person, health, environment, and nursing for the benefit of society and the profession of nursing. (PO 6)
7
Advocate for healthcare policy to meet the needs of a diverse society in a changing healthcare environment. (PO 8)
8
Manage human and physical resources in a fiscally responsible manner to support effective decision making. (PO 8)
9
Contribute to the body of nursing knowledge through participation in systematic inquiry, utilization of evidence-based practice, and dissemination of findings to support innovative change. (PO 9)
Course Schedule
| Week, COs, and Topics | Readings | Assignments |
|---|---|---|
Week 1 CO 5 Portfolio | American Nurses Association Advocacy Tool Kit http://www.rnaction.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nstat_activist_toolkit
Activists Resources , ANA Priorities and Key Votes and Bills |
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Week 2 CO 4 Policy Implementation and Evaluation of Healthcare Policies | None |
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Week 3 COs 6, 8 Legal, Ethical, and Fiscal Responsible Policy | American Nurses Association Advocacy Tool Kit http://www.rnaction.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nstat_activist_toolkitLesson
Key Votes and Bills |
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Week 4 COs 1, 2 Demonstrating Leadership in Healthcare Policy | National League for Nursing Advocacy Toolkit |
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Week 5 COs 3, 7 Influencing Policy in the Legislative Process | None |
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Week 6 CO 6, 9 Nurses Involvement in the Political Process | National League for Nursing Advocacy Toolkit |
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Week 7 CO 3 Creating Opportunities for Nursing in Healthcare Policy | National League for Nursing Advocacy Toolkit |
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Week 8 CO 5 Self-Reflection | None |
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Late Assignment Policy
Students are expected to submit assignments by the time they are due. Assignments submitted after the due date and time will receive a deduction of 10% of the total points possible for that assignment for each day the assignment is late. Assignments will be accepted, with penalty as described, up to a maximum of three days late, after which point a zero will be recorded for the assignment.
In the event of an emergency that prevents timely submission of an assignment, students may petition their instructor for a waiver of the late submission grade reduction. The instructor will review the student’s rationale for the request and make a determination based on the merits of the student’s appeal. Consideration of the student’s total course performance to date will be a contributing factor in the determination. Students should continue to attend class, actively participate, and complete other assignments while the appeal is pending.
This Policy applies to assignments that contribute to the numerical calculation of the course letter grade.
Evaluation Methods
The maximum score in this class is 1,000 points. The categories, which contribute to your final grade, are weighted as follows.
| Graded Item | Points | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Discussion (Weeks 1–8) 25 points each week | 200 | 20% |
Self-Assessment of Professional Competencies (0 points Week 1; 150 points Week 8) | 150 | 15% |
Learning Agreement (0 points Week 1 and 4; 50 points Week 7) | 50 | 5% |
Student Hourly Activities Log (0 points Weeks 1–7; 50 points Week 8) | 50 | 5% |
| Resume (due Week 3) | 100 | 10% |
CGE Project Resolution of Problem/Concern Implementation and Evaluation (due Week 6) | 200 | 20% |
CGE PowerPoint Presentation (due Week 7) | 250 | 25% |
| Total | 1,000 | 100% |
No extra credit assignments are permitted for any reason.
All of your course requirements are graded using points. At the end of the course, the points are converted to a letter grade using the scale in the table below. Percentages of 0.5% or higher are not raised to the next whole number. A final grade of 76% (letter grade C) is required to pass the course.
| Letter Grade | Points | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| A | 940–1,000 | 94% to 100% |
| A- | 920–939 | 92% to 93% |
| B+ | 890–919 | 89% to 91% |
| B | 860–889 | 86% to 88% |
| B- | 840–859 | 84% to 85% |
| C+ | 810–839 | 81% to 83% |
| C | 760–809 | 76% to 80% |
| F | 759 and below | 75% and below |
NOTE:To receive credit for a week's discussion, students may begin posting no earlier than the Sunday immediately before each week opens. Unless otherwise specified, access to most weeks begins on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. MT, and that week's assignments are due by the next Sunday by 11:59 p.m. MT. Week 8 opens at 12:01 a.m. MT Sunday and closes at 11:59 p.m. MT Wednesday. Any assignments and all discussion requirements must be completed by 11:59 p.m. MT Wednesday of the eighth week.
Students agree that, by taking this course, all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com site.
Participation for MSN
The ideas and beliefs underpinning the threaded discussions (TDs) guide students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. The use of TDs provides students with opportunities to contribute level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The TD’s ebb and flow is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. Participation in the TDs generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. TDs foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.
Each weekly threaded discussion is worth up to 25 points. Students must post a minimum of two times in each graded thread. The two posts in each individual thread must be on separate days. The student must provide an answer to each graded thread topic posted by the course instructor, by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT, of each week. If the student does not provide an answer to each graded thread topic (not a response to a student peer) before the Wednesday deadline, 5 points are deducted for each discussion thread in which late entry occurs (up to a 10 point deduction for that week). Subsequent posts, including essential responses to peers, must occur by the Sunday deadline, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.
| Discussion Criteria | 4–5 points | 2–3 points | 0–1 point |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOTE: There is only one discussion thread in Week 8. | |||
| Support from Literature (5 points possible per graded thread) | Support from the literature is present and includes a minimum of one scholarly in-text citation and matching reference, per each thread topic per week. | Support from literature is present (in-text citation and reference) but is not scholarly. | No support from the literature. |
| Application of Course Knowledge (5 points possible per graded thread) | Post contributes unique perspectives or insights gleaned from personal experience or examples from the healthcare field. | Post has limited application of course knowledge and demonstration of perspectives. | Post does not reflect application of course knowledge and personal insights or examples from healthcare. |
| Organization(5 points possible per graded thread) | Post presents information in logical, meaningful, and understandable sequence, clearly relevant to the discussion topic. | Information is sometimes unclear and difficult to follow. | Post is not relevant to discussion questions. |
| Interactive Dialogue (5 points possible per graded thread) | Responds substantively to at least one topic-related post of a student peer. A substantive post adds content or insights or asks a question that will add to the learning experience and/or generate discussion. | Responds to student peers, but the nature of the response to topic-related posts is not substantive. | Does not respond to any topic-related posts of student peers. |
| Grammar, Syntax, APA Format (5 points possible per graded thread) | APA format, grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation are accurate, or with zero to three errors. | Four to six errors in APA format, grammar, spelling, and syntax noted. | Post contains greater than six errors in APA format, grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation or repeatedly makes the same errors after faculty feedback. |
| Total Participation Requirements per discussion thread | 0 points lost Student answers the threaded discussion question or topic on one day and posts a second response on another day. | -5 points Student did not meet this requirement. | |
| Early Participation Requirement per discussion thread | 0 points lost The student must provide a substantive answer to the graded discussion question(s)/topic(s), posted by the course instructor (not a response to a peer), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week. | -5 points The student did not provide an answer to the graded discussion question(s)/topic(s), posted by the course instructor (not a response to a peer), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week. | |
NOTE: To receive credit for a week's discussion, students may begin posting no earlier than the Sunday immediately before each week opens. Unless otherwise specified, access to most weeks begins on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. MT, and that week's assignments are due by the next Sunday by 11:59 p.m. MT. Week 8 opens at 12:01 a.m. MT Sunday and closes at 11:59 p.m. MT Wednesday. Any assignments and all discussion requirements must be completed by 11:59 p.m. MT Wednesday of the eighth week.
Webliography Disclaimer
The purpose of the Webliography is to provide students with annotated bibliographies of world wide websites relevant to their courses. These websites are not meant to be all inclusive of what is available for each course's subjects and have not been sanctioned as academically rigorous or scholarly by Chamberlain College of Nursing. Please exercise caution when using these websites for course assignments and references.