NURS 5353: Primary Care 2
Summer 2022
Course Description:
Application of major concepts and therapies necessary for development, implementation, and provision of primary health care with emphasis on the female population and genomics knowledge needed for counseling families. Strategies to eliminate health disparities will be explored. This is a 3 hours course.
Prerequisite
NURS 5339 AND Admission to MSN FNP program or NURS 5339 AND Admission to FNP Cert program*. https://www.uttyler.edu/catalog/
Course Learning Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Assess, plan, manage, evaluate, and revise the care of individuals and families in primary health care settings, referring clients to other health care providers and/or community resources as appropriate.
- Practice the NP role using nurse practitioner protocols that contain both an evaluation/diagnostic protocol and a plan/management protocol.
- Conceptualize the role of the nurse practitioner in primary health care.
- Analyze the evolution of primary health care and the role of the nurse practitioner in primary health care.
- Develop a plan for independent or collaborative practice.
- Analyze the factors in a selected health care setting that facilitate and hinder implementation of primary health care.
- Explore the relationship of the role components critical to primary health care, such as negotiation, collaboration, advocacy, change, ethics, quality assurance, economics, certification/credentialing, conflict, competence, and professionalism, prescriptions, and expectations of the nurse practitioner.
- Using research findings, evaluate the effectiveness of the nurse practitioner in primary health care from the perspectives of the patients, the public, physicians, and legislators.
Grading Policy and Criteria:
Specific guidelines and grading criteria for all assignments are in the Modules. Final grades for the course will be determined based upon the following point assignments:
A – 90-100
B – 80-89
C – 70-79
D – 60-69
F – Below 60
Grades will not be rounded when calculating the average (79.5 is not rounded to 80 and 89.5 is not rounded to 90). Students are required to achieve an average of 80% (B) in the course and on exams to successfully complete the course. This is a nursing school policy.
Late policy: 5% will be deducted each day an assignment is past due unless prior arrangements have been made with your course faculty. Extenuating circumstances may apply.
| Criteria for Evaluation: | Percentage of Total Grade: |
| 4 Exams | 40%, must be over 80 average |
| 5 Soap Notes | 15%, must be over 80 average |
| 5 Systems Quizzes | 10% |
| Obstetrics Quiz | 10% |
| Syllabus Quiz/Zoom Orientation Attendance | 5% |
| CPEs (2 mandatory, and 1 for psych if possible) | Pass/fail |
| Clinical Schedules | Pass/fail |
| Communication Logs (2) | Pass/fail |
| Clinical Objectives | Pass/fail |
| InPlace Logs | Pass/fail |
| Preceptor Signature Sheets | Pass/fail |
| OSCEs (must have 80 or above) | Pass/fail |
| Preceptor Evaluation (each preceptor) | Pass/fail |
| APEA WH Exam | 5%, >40% of retake |
| APEA WH Qbank Questions | 5% |
| Clinical Site Evaluations | Pass/fail |
| Derm for Primary Care (DFPC) Quizzes/Modules | 10%, must be over 80 average |
A minimum average grade of 80% on the 4 exams, 5 Systems quizzes, and DFPC quizzes must be achieved in order to pass the course. Even if the final course grade is 80% or more, the average grade on these assignments must be 80% or higher to pass the course. This is a School of Nursing policy across all programs. There is no provision for re-taking exams in the course.
Course Pass/Fail assignments must be turned in to pass the class. Period, no exceptions. These are documents we must have to accredit the program and allow you to sit for board exams.
Required Textbooks/Materials for NURS 5353
| Author | Title | Edition | ISBN-13 | Publisher | Required or
Recommend |
| Dunphy, L. et al. (2019) | Primary Care: the art and science of advanced practice nursing | 5th | 978-0803667181 | F.A Davis
Company |
Required |
| Zieman et al. (2021) | Managing Contraception for Your Pocket: 2021-2022 | 16th | 978-1732988446 | Managing Contracep tion, LLC. | Required |
| Fantasia et al. (2020) | Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners in Gynecologic Settings | 12th | 978-0826173263 | Springer Publishing Co. | Required |
| Boland et al. (2022) | Kaplan & Sadock’s Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry | 5th | 978-1975167486 | LWW | Required |
| Cibulka et al. (2017) | Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners in Ambulatory Obstetric Settings, 2nd ed. | 2nd | 978-10826119513 | Springer Pub. Company | Required |
| Derm for Primary Care |
$110.00 |
Required |
All students are required to have an active InPlace, DFPC, and APEA WH Qbank and WH APEA Exam. It is recommended that you purchase the APEA bundle, as you will use this the rest of your tenure as a UT student. It’s possible you have already purchased InPlace and the bundle depending on where you are in your courses and if this is the case, disregard buying it again.
Repeating a Course:
Students repeating this course may not use previously submitted assignments nor utilize the same patients for an assignment. Submitting the same or slightly modified assignments from previous semesters is considered self-plagiarism and is subject to academic discipline, including failing the assignment or the course.
Clinical Hours and Important Information:
Clinical hour breakdown is as follows: Psych/Mental Health- 45 hours Women’s Health- 75 hours
This will equal 120 hours if completed using this breakdown.
However, our accrediting bodies require that 3 hour courses with didactic and clinical components must have a certain number of clinical hours per course. This number is 120. As far as psych/mental health hours are concerned, they don’t care where we require them within the program as long as you have had the didactic teaching.
We understand that there is an enormous shortage of psych/mental health facilities and preceptors and so have therefore allowed you to finish your psych hours in courses after PC 2 without taking an incomplete in PC 2. Unfortunately, due to the standards set by our accrediting bodies, you will still have to complete 120 hours in PC 2. This would ultimately give you 45 hours of extra clinical hours.
OSCEs:
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are used as a method of testing your clinical skills in an environment modeled after the patient population you have been seeing in clinicals. This will occur on campus and last most of the day. There are lab quizzes that accompany the OSCEs.
OSCEs are mandatory to attend in person. The only exception to attend OSCEs is an emergency situation and you must let your faculty know immediately PRIOR to OSCEs. All lab quizzes and OSCEs must be passed with a grade of 80 or above to pass the course.
Important Course Dates:
Note: The complete course schedule is available in the Course Canvas site.
Census Date: May 23, 2022
Holiday: July 4, 2022
Last Date to Withdraw: July 12, 2022
OSCEs: July 18, 2022
Last Day of Course: August 13, 2022
https://www.uttyler.edu/registrar/registr-ation/withdrawals.php
Last Day of Class: April 15, 2022
Final Exam Date: Date of final examination is scheduled around UT Tyler’s “Final Exam Week”, but also around students finishing clinicals, as this is a clinical course.
APEA WH Exam for FNP Students:
You are required to buy the APEA Qbank for WH and the WH APEA Exam. The WH Exam must be taken on the date assigned. There are no provisions for retake. Should you make less than a 40% you will have to retake the exam and complete a Success Plan as outlined by the School of Nursing.
Qbank Assignment:
You will have an APEA Qbank assignment to complete and submit in Canvas. These prepare you for the WH exam and also for your FNP board exam.
Derm for Primary Care:
Derm for Primary Care (DFPC) is a large body of information that you will use in your courses. There are modules, questions, and exams covering a multitude of derm issues and chronic diseases with derm presentation. How to purchase this will be posted in the Modules section of Canvas as soon as I receive them. If you have already purchased them, please disregard this.
Attendance and Make-up Policy:
Attendance/participation is expected. Make-up for exams, quizzes, assignments, clinical time missed is at the discretion of the instructor. Contact with the instructor is paramount for credit to be given and tests to be re-assigned.
