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College of Nursing
Spring 2014
Course Title:
Credits:
Prerequisites:
Co-Requisites:
Faculty:
Lab Faculty:
Course Description:
This course will introduce the student to the theoretical basis necessary in order to perform a comprehensive
health assessment. This course will focus on the theory and practice of health assessment skills,
identification of deviations from the norm, and accurate documentation of findings. Emphasis is placed on
the integration and application of these skills through the use of critical thinking.
Course Competencies:
At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Required Textbooks:
Elsevier Digital Bundle
Jarvis, C. (2012). Text book & Users Guide Package for Health assessment Online for Physical
examination and health assessment (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders.
Jarvis, C. (2012). Student laboratory manual for physical examination and health assessment (6th ed.). St.
Louis, MO: Saunders.
Jarvis, C. (2012). Pocket companion for physical examination and health assessment (6th ed.). St.
Louis, MO: Saunders (Optional).
Chabner, D-E. (2015). Medical terminology A short course (7th ed.). Maryland Heights, MO: Saunders.
Recommended Resources:
Healthy People 2020 - http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/default.aspx
Teaching Strategies:
Lecture, discussion, audio-visual materials, critical thinking activities, demonstrations, return
demonstrations, practical application/practice of psychomotor and communication skills, homework
assignments, Top Hat audience response, and internet activities including Sims charting, Shadow Health and
Evolve case studies.
Evaluation Methods:
Examinations and Graded Assignments:
1. Quiz One
2. Midterm Examination
3. Quiz Two
3. Comprehensive Health Assessment Shadow Health Project
4. Final Comprehensive Examination
5. HESI
6. Reading Quizzes / Shadow Health
Weight
10%
20%
10%
20%
30%
10%
P/F
Weight
Pass/Fail
Pass/Fail
Pass/Fail
Students are expected to be on time for all quizzes, tests, and exams. If a student comes late to a quiz, test,
or exam, additional time is not provided. The student must complete the quiz, test, or exam in the time
remaining.
**If weekly written assignments are handed in late, it is at the discretion of the faculty to deduct points from
the overall didactic class grade.**
Written assignments must be neatly TYPED and formatted in the style of the American Psychological
Association Publication Manual (6th Ed.). Examinations in the CON will include an integrity statement, to
be signed (or electronically signed when examinations are online) by each student sitting for the test.
The Course letter grade will be determined from grades received from weighted course requirements. The
final letter grade is based on the following accepted University scale:
Undergraduate Grading System: The University uses the following letter grades on the graduate level to
indicate the record of achievement in courses taken:
Letter Grade
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD+
D
F
Numerical
Equivalent
93.0 100
90.0 92.9
87.0 89.9
83.0 86.9
80.0 82.9
77.0 79.9
73.0 76.9
70.0 72.9
67.0 69.9
63.0 66.9
62.9 or lower
Quality Points
4.0
3.67
3.33
3.00
2.67
2.33
2.00
1.67
1.33
1.00
0.00
**THE MINIMUM PASSING GRADE FOR ALL NURSING COURSES IS A C+ (PLEASE NOTE:
NUMERIC SCORE OF AT LEAST 77.0%).
Only when a student's weighted score is on the border between two grades, the weighted score will be rounded
according to standard mathematical rules. Scores with .95 and higher only, will be rounded up to the next tenth.
Scores of .94 and lower will round down to the tenth. Example: 79.96 rounds to 80.0; 79.94 rounds to 79.9.
**THIS SYLLABUS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED ON ACADEMIC NEEDS**
unable to come to a skills lab or to a scheduled clinical experience for a legitimate absence documented by a
note from a Health Care Provider. It is the students responsibility to schedule an appointment with their
individual clinical instructor to make up all missed skills labs as soon as possible. Students must attend lab
in order to practice skills with lab teaching assistants. Students who miss scheduled clinical experiences risk
failing the course.
Weekly Written Assessments in Lab: The documentation of assessment findings should be started in the
skills lab and must be completed and neatly typed for submission through Sim Chart to your clinical
instructor every week within 48 hours of your lab. Feedback will be provided weekly through your clinical
instructor.
Weekly lab practices: In addition to lecture and lab, students are required to attend a weekly practice hour in
the simulation lab. This is to provide additional practice time for the newly learned assessment skills. At the
beginning of each practice hour, students will take a brief (5 10 question) quiz about the assessment skill
learned in lecture that week. These scores do not count toward the course grade. They are simply a measure
of readiness to practice.
Students must achieve a grade minimum of 80% or higher in order to be able to practice. However, on the
first practice, any student who achieves a score of 60% or higher will remediate on that skill immediately
and will then be permitted to practice in that same hour. Students who earn less than 60% will need to
remediate themselves by reading the relevant textbook pages and reschedule a make-up for the next
available practice time.
Clinical Lab Midterm & Final Practicum Evaluations: Faculty will evaluate students on their attainment of
skills competency at mid semester and at the end of the semester. Students are required to have practiced
each skill demonstrated in class at least twice in the lab in order to take the clinical midterm and/or
final practicum evaluations.
Students who receive an F grade in either the clinical lab midterm practicum or final practicum (head-totoe exam) will have a second opportunity to be tested. Students are required to make an appointment and
remediate with the Director of the Patient Care Simulation Lab or other qualified faculty member prior to
retesting. Two (2) faculty members will conduct the second evaluation. If a student is unsuccessful on the
second evaluation (in either the midterm or final practicum), the student will immediately receive an F as
the final course grade regardless of the grades received on written assignments or examinations.
REQUIRED HESI TESTING:
Students will take the HESI proctored exam at the end of the semester. The grade each students earns will
be counted as 10% of their final grade
The Hesi Admissions Assessment (A2) exam is a multi-subject test which measures the key skills and
competencies that students will need in order to be successful in Nursing school; sections include Anatomy
and Physiology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, etc. All students
enrolled in Health Assessment must take the A2 exam at the mandatory Success Workshop prior to the start
of the semester. All students are strongly encouraged to complete remediation for the A2, as developing
those competencies will increase the likelihood for success in Nursing school. Moreover, students who
score 75 or below on any section of the A2 are required to schedule a meeting with Asst. Dean Hoehn
to review their scores and remediation plans.
Failure to complete the remediation before the course final exam will result in a grade of 0
for the HESI Exam.
b. Evolve Specialty Exams are secure computerized assessments. Course faculty will provide
mandatory testing dates in the course syllabi.
c. Students should refer to the Total Testing Remediation Policy for remediation.
HESI score ranges from 0 to 1500.
Total Testing Remediation Policy
All students enrolled in the undergraduate nursing program at Seton Hall University will take the nationally
normed HESI specialty exams in each course and two versions of the Exit (E2) RN Exam in a course in the
final semester of the program. Students should aim to achieve a score of 900 or higher on each exam.
Research demonstrates that scores in this range on the HESI Exit (E2) RN Exam are highly predictive of
NCLEX success. To prepare for the comprehensive E2, students are required to remediate according to the
prescribed plan of study that accompanies the HESI feedback.
Students are responsible for correctly completing the prescribed remediation hours to facilitate on line
tracking of remediation time by faculty prior to sitting for the respective course final examination and the
second HESI Exit (E2) RN Exam. Failure to complete the remediation before the course final exam will 5
result in a grade of 0 for the HESI Exam.
Purpose: The purpose of remediation is to improve students critical thinking, reasoning skills and test
taking strategies to achieve NCLEX-RN success.
Procedure: Students, faculty and appropriate staff will use the following guidelines for Total Testing
remediation.
I. Specialty examinations
A. Specialty: Exams are administered in various clinical courses. Following test administration, students
receive a score and an online remediation plan for each question missed. Remediation for each question
has multiple content items and may include practice questions.
B. The following remediation is required in each specialty course. Study plans for remediation must be
printed out. Students are responsible for correctly completing the prescribed remediation hours to
facilitate on line tracking of remediation time by faculty prior to sitting for the respective course final
examination. Failure to complete the remediation before the course final exam will result in a grade
of 0 for the HESI Exam.
HESI score
800-899
700-799
600-699
500-599
400-499
300-399
Hours of remediation
2 hours
3 hours
4 hours
5 hours
6 hours
8 hours
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remediation
Plagiarism: The CON adheres to standards and conventions of the American Psychological
Association (2010), which emphasizes that individuals must not present the work, thoughts,
ideas, or words of another in any way without correctly crediting the source. This principle
extends to journal and news articles, books, textbooks, assignments, papers, brochures, websites,
email, comments of others, and all other avenues for the exchange of ideas, all of which should
be cited and referenced. Verbatim wording must be acknowledged with quotation marks or
paragraph offsets, and appropriate citations including page number; very close paraphrasing
should also be acknowledged with citations and page number. In students work, ideas and
conclusions without citations should represent the students original thinking. Even when
individuals do not intend to use others work without credit, such actions still technically
constitute plagiarism and can result in consequences on the part of the faculty and
administration. In addition, when the major proportion of an assignment is paraphrased or
quoted, the work is not primarily the students and does not reflect the students original
thinking.
Other forms of plagiarism include but are not limited to:
1. Copying classmates or other individuals work in any way
2. Using facts, statistics or other information that are not common knowledge without
acknowledging the source
3. Submitting an assignment that was fully or partially created by another person
4. Completing an assignment as a group member and submitting it as an individual assignment.
A reference list is not a citation.
Acts of academic or clinical dishonesty or misconduct are documented on the Academic Integrity
Documentation form, and communicated to the Department Chair. The form will be forwarded
to the Academic Integrity officer, as designated by the Deans Office, and maintained in a
confidential file. Reports of minor or unintentional acts, such as citation or referencing errors or
omissions, will be eliminated from the file after 2 years, as long as there are no further actions by
the student.
Students are not permitted to withdraw from or drop courses in which they have committed acts
of academic misconduct.
Portable Electronic Devices:
As a courtesy to both faculty and students, please remember that all portable electronic devices
(cell phones, iPods, iPhones, etc.) must be turned OFF or placed on Silent mode before entering
any classroom in the College of Nursing. During class laptop computers must be used for
classroom work ONLY, violators of this request will be asked to close their computers!
Note; It is the students responsibility to be knowledgeable of all College of nursing Graduate
Nursing Academic policies.
Stinson, 2015