12/26/2024 10:38:57 PM	NRV 58C Course Outline as of Spring 2004	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  NRV 58C	Title:  ADVANCED SKILLS LAB
Full Title:  Advanced Skills Lab for Vocational Nursing
Last Reviewed:9/28/2015

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	.50	Lecture Scheduled	0		17 max.	Lecture Scheduled	0
Minimum	.50	Lab Scheduled	0		8 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	2.50			Contact DHR	42.50
		Contact Total	2.50			Contact Total	42.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  0.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 42.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  P/NP Only
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:

Demonstration and supervised practice of advanced vocational nursing skills of scientific principles & concepts from corequisite theory. Planning & implementing advanced patient care in a simulated clinical setting relevant to steps in the nursing process: assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting. Students will demonstrate competent skills prior to use in clinical settings. Course includes the reinforcement of previously learned skills. Skills such as trach care, complex wound care, leadership & IV therapy within VN scope are demonstrated.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion of NRV 58B

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Advanced vocational nursing skills based on scientific principles and correlated to theory. A focus on leadership including the transcription of physician's orders and other more advanced skills are practiced and students demonstrate competent skills in a simulated clinical setting.

(P/NP Only)
Prerequisites:Course Completion of NRV 58B
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Spring 1991	Inactive:	Fall 2021
UC Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Certificate Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an ability to perform selected advanced vocational nursing

  skills in a simulated clinical setting (laboratory) which is consistent

  with theoretical knowledge base and common standards of practice.

2. Perform skills utilizing a team approach and demonstrate professional

  behaviors and accountability.

Topics and Scope

A.  Fluid and Electrolytes:

   1.  Intravenous therapy.

   2.  IV site care.

   3.  Regulating and monitoring IV's; calculating drip factors.

B.  Procedures:

   1.  Sterile wound irrigations and packing to include: wound drainage

       systems and bladder irrigations.

   2.  Chest tubes (monitoring and care).

   3.  Tracheostomy care.

   4.  Team leading skills (transcribing orders and shift reports).

Assignments:

1.  Attend scheduled demonstration of identified nursing skills.

2.  Practice identified nursing skills in the laboratory.

3.  Safely perform successful check-offs with instructors of identified

   nursing skills through a return demo examination.

4.  Practice utilizing a team approach with different roles being

   accountable for the team's performance.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 0 - 0%
None
This is a degree applicable course but assessment tools based on writing are not included because skill demonstrations are more appropriate for this course.
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 100 - 100%
Class performances
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 0 - 0%
None
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 0 - 0%
None

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

INSTRUCTOR PREPARED MATERIALS: (NRV 58C Syllabus).

CLINICAL NURSING SKILLS, 5th ed., by S.F. Smith & D.J. Duell, Prentice

Hall, New Jersey, (2003).

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