NURS 5337 Nursing Administration: Delivery of Care
NURS 5337 Nursing Administration: Delivery of Care
NURS 5337.060
Course Title: Nursing Administration: Delivery of Care
Course Description
Focuses on the delivery of care within the healthcare environment at the organizational, community, state, national, and international levels. Enables the professional nurse to participate in the design of care delivery systems within healthcare organization in community, state and national environments.
CREDIT: 3 (2:1)
SEMESTER CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) credit hours, allocated as follows: Two (2) lecture hours per week.
Thirty-seven and one half (37.5) clinical hours over the entire semester, with a mutually agreed
upon clinical preceptor
PREREQUISITES: NURS 5335.
Course Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have demonstrated the ability to do the following:
Utilize state, national and organizational indicators of healthcare evaluation and outcomes incorporating interdisciplinary healthcare teams.
Synthesize strategic plan and vision integrating workflow design with emerging technologies, performance improvement and risk management strategies to assure positive patient outcomes.
Incorporate theories of management systems, process and analysis in the design and implementation of new models of care delivery and coordination.
Integrate socio-cultural competence, effective communication, and state, national and international quality indicators to facilitate patient centered care within community organizations.
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) to successfully complete the course.
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 Grade:
Discussion Boards (4 @ 5% each)
20%
Environmental Scan Reports (ESRs) with peer review (Two @ 20% each)
40%
International Health Care Delivery Presentation w/ abstract
20%
Clinical Reflective Journal (CRJ)
20%
Clinical (to include satisfactory completion of 37.5 clinical
hours and submission of required clinical logs, journals, and
preceptor evaluation by due dates on Calendar
*Pass/Fail
*Clinical failure will constitute a course failure.
Total: 100%
The requirements for these can be found under the Assignment Link and on the following Canvas tabs:
Discussion Boards: on the Discussions tab
ESRs, CRJ on Clinical Section under “Assignments
International Health Care Delivery Presentation on the Assignment tab
All other clinical-related documents are located on the Clinical Section
(Please note: Written Assignments will be submitted through Unicheck. Unicheck is a feature provided by Canvas that is designed to detect plagiarism or non-original student work. Your instructor may set up this feature so that when you submit papers, they are automatically sent through Unicheck. The program checks your work against a comprehensive database of source material including previous students’ work and other papers and materials found on the web. The purpose of using Unicheck in your course is to ensure you are writing original papers and to encourage you and all students to properly attribute all sources used.)
Important Course Dates:
Note: The complete course schedule is available in the Course Canvas site.
Census Date: Friday January 22, 2021
Mid-Term Exam: NONE
Last Date to Withdraw: Tuesday March 23, 2021 https://www.uttyler.edu/registrar/registration/withdrawals.php Final Exam Date: None, there is no final exam in this course.
Attendance and Make-up Policy
Attendance / participation is expected. Make-up for exams, quizzes, assignments, clinical time missed is at the discretion of the professor.
Required Textbooks/Materials
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
Format: Spiral-Bound ISBN: 978-1-4338-3217-8
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4338-3216-1
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4338-3215-4
Supplemental Resources: https://apastyle.apa.org/products/supplemental-resources
2. All students are required to have an active InPlace Clinical Placement subscription.
Shi, L. & Singh, D.A. (2019). Delivering health care in America: A systems approach, (7th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. (ISBN: 978-1-284-12449-1)
The American Nurses’ Association. (2016). Nursing administration. Scope & standards of practice (2nd ed.). Nursebooks.org. (ISBN-13: 9781558106437)