WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A “DISTRIBUTED LEARNING” COURSE?Module 51UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF NURSING Spring 2005: A Distributed Learning Course TITLE: NUR 734 Advanced Practice in Public Health Nursing Practicum II: Assurance LOCATION: Lexington; Tuesday, once per month, 2-5:50 PM, CON/HSLC 559 CREDITS: 3-4 credits (seminar 2 credits, clinical 1 credit for certificate students or 2 credits for degree students ) This course is designed for the MSN student (4 credits) or the PHN Certificate student (3 credits). PREREQUISITES: NUR 733 FACULTY: Peggy Hickman, Ed.D., RN; Associate Professor College of Nursing, Room 561 (Office Hours by appointment) (O) 859-323-5579; (H) 859-323-5579; (FAX) 859-323-1057 Email: [email protected] COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on the third core public health function of monitoring health services to communities, collaborating with other health disciplines in the development and delivery of needed services, and using quality assurance activities to improve health, illness and health resources to communities. Students will learn the use of surveillance, evaluation, and performance improvement techniques in assuring cost-effective health services for communities and targeted health care environments such as home health or managed care. They will evaluate the use of nursing taxonomies for classification of aggregate level outcomes. Culturally competent care in vulnerable and multi-cultural communities and the use of informatics in assurance are emphasized. COURSE OBJECTIVES: 1. Evaluate the organization, accessibility, appropriateness, acceptability, cost-effectiveness and quality of personal and population-based health services. 2. Analyze health service performance improvement strategies in partnership with communities or targeted health care environments.23. Demonstrate leadership in the evaluation of strategies to meet the priority population health needs of communities or targeted health care environments. 4. Evaluate health education/promotion programs to improve health, prevent disease and promote health and monitor health resource trends in communities. 5. Use data management and interactive communication systems in assuring the health needs of communities. 6. Apply population based strategies to prevent disease and promote the health of vulnerable populations. 7. Utilize research findings as a basis for assuring that appropriate standards of practice are applied in meeting the health needs of a community. 8. Analyze the role of the community health advanced practice nurse as change agent. 9. TEACHING/LEARNING METHODS: The course will be taught using a combination of methods, including seminar, face-to-face and web-based discussion, case analysis, web-based assignments, and weekly clinical performance. Requirements for the completion of clinical expectations will be different for the certificate and the degree seeking student. For example, the certificate student, whose time is limited to 4 hours per week in clinical, might serve as a team member for an evaluation of a program, while the degree seeking student, who has 8 hours of clinical time per week, might develop an evaluation plan for a program within an agency. EVALUATION METHODS: 20 points Case Study (divided as follows) 10 points Case Summary & Analysis 10 points Evaluation Design 20 points Informed Participation 10 points Final Presentation 50 points Advanced Public Health Nursing Clinical Practice (divided as follows) 25 points Clinical Practice (This portion is not required for the certificate student) 25/50 points Project/Program Evaluation (25 points for degree seeking student/50 points for certificate student). 100 Points Total Formatted: Bullets and NumberingDeleted: TEACHING/LEARNING METHODS:¶ Deleted: The course will be taught using a combination of methods, including seminar, face-to-face and web-based discussion, case analysis, web-based assignments, and weekly clinical performance.¶3GRADING SCALE: A = 90 -100 points B = 80 – 89 points C = 70 – 79 points E = 69 points or less REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS: Ervin, N.E. (2002). Advanced community health nursing practice: Population- focused care. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Issel, L.I (2004). Health planning and program evaluation Boston: Jones & Bartlett. Quad Council on Public Health/Community Health Nursing. (2003). Public Health Nursing Competencies (handout from NUR 733) Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations (1999). ANA Scope and standards of public health nursing practice. Washington, DC: American Nurses Publishing. Turnock, B.J. (2004). Public health: What it is and how it works (3rd ed). Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers. Wholey, JS; Hatry, HP; & Newcomer, KE. (2004). Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. OTHER RESOURCES: Fetterman, D.M. (2000) Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment. Palo Alto: Sage. Fetterman, D.M. (2001) Foundations of Empowerment Evaluation. Palo Alto: Sage. Green, L.W. & Kreuter, M. (1999). Health promotion planning: An educational and ecological approach (3rd ed.). Mountain View: Mayfield. Rossi, P.H.; Lipsey, M.W.; & Freeman, H.E. (2004). Evaluation: A Systematic Approach. Palo Alto: Sage. ASSIGNMENTS: 1. Case Study (20 points, divided as described below) Deleted: ¶4 A four-part web-based case study will be used to guide students through the process of planning, implementing and analyzing a public health/community health nursing intervention. Students will discuss the case on-line in small groups and carry out indicated activities. Outcomes of the case study will be evaluated as follows: Case Summary and Case Analysis: (10 points) The case study is divided into exercises. Each student will be responsible for leading on-line group discussion for one exercise and providing a written summary of the discussion on the date(s) indicated. Sample discussion questions will be included with each segment of the case. Following Exercise 3, students will prepare a concise written analysis of the outcomes of the planning process, based on the evidence gathered during the first three segments of the case study. Instructions for the case analysis are included in Exercise 3. Students will present their analyses in class on the day the written analysis is due. Evaluation Design (10 points) Following Exercise 4, each student