NURS 5349 Internship II – nursing assignment tutor

NURS 5349 Internship II
Welcome to NURS 5349 Internship II. Your instructors for this course is Dr. Amy Roberts and Dr. Bethany Starks.  In this capstone clinical course, you will synthesize information to prepare you for taking your certification boards and starting you career.
The best way to contact faculty is by attending office hours. This way you will get course questions answered and have the undivided attention of the faculty.  The second best way to contact faculty is by email. Here are our emails.  Dr. Roberts email is [email protected]. Dr. Starks’s is [email protected].  For urgent issues Dr. Roberts cell is 325-320-2032.
OFFICE hours: Dr. Roberts will have virtual zoom office hours Wednesdays from 7-8 for study group, 8-9 for class, and individual questions will be asked after office hours or as scheduled. Dr. Roberts is in clinic on Tuesdays so that day I do not respond to emails until Wednesday. Dr. Starks is in clinics M-F. Ask Dr. Roberts course questions for NURS 5349 Internship 2.
Wednesday night zooms will be recorded and cover special topics. Zoom number 975-590-507.
Tutoring and study group: Many want tutoring when they do not do well on the predictor examinations and this is what the 7-8 study group is about. You need to come and there will be faculty and students presenting on topics that will help you pass your boards. There is not additional tutoring available so to get help avail yourself to the study groups. Each student will have two topics they will have to present on in this study group. Students learn more when they know they will have to explain the concept to their class. Study groups will be recorded unless there is a practice OSCEs.
The class will meet at 8-9 on Wed nights and we will cover a topic per week. These will be recorded and posted in each weekly module. We will cover topics that you will need to get your career going- like how much to ask for in your first salary, malpractice insurance, interviewing tips, practice pearls, etc. The mandatory zooms are highlighted in your course calendar in yellow. I will answer questions in the class and prefer that you are there to ask the questions live verses sending me emails after the fact. The mandatory zooms are 1/13, 2/24,3/24,3/31. In graduate education you will learn as much from each other as from instructors. The best thing about office hours is that you all will be able to help each other with common problems. If a preceptor quits suddenly you can ask your peers whom they used in the past that has openings and this is valuable information. So, come to office hours and get more out of this class.
Zoom etiquette: During the class zooms please be professional and in a quiet private location so you can give your undivided attention to the class. Consideration for your classmates is expected so please limit distractions in your camera view. Please have your laptop on a table or desk to limit the camera shaking others will see. Please sign in with your first and last names in the name line and turn your camera on and mute your microphone.
Wednesday zooms  8-9:30 https://uttyler.zoom.us/j/975590507 phone 16468769923 Meeting ID: 975 590 507 no password
If you have course questions and put NURS 5349 in the subject line Dr. Roberts will answer these course questions by 1pm daily Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. If this is something that can help the class I will post an announcement. Please put all announcements to roll to your phone. If the question is after 1pm I will answer it by the next day at 1pm. If I answer questions and then you have more questions I will probably ask for a conversation or quick zoom if there are many questions. I find it easier to have a conversation than have a long email thread especially when the questions are not clear to me.
OVERVIEW
This course design is to provide a capstone clinical experience. Preparing for your certification boards will be the emphasis in this course. You will get to synthesize information you learned all through you curriculum and review books and clinical guidelines. Three credit hours of N5349 will meet eligibility requirements to seek certification as a nurse practitioner. Students spend concentrated time in the clinical setting appropriate to their specialty. Refinement of clinical expertise and establishment of role identity as an advanced practice registered nurse are expected outcomes. This course may be done concurrently with NURS 5349. Prerequisites: 5351,
5353, 5455. Current CPR needed.
OBJECTIVES
Upon completing this course, the learner will have demonstrated the ability to:

Synthesize prior clinical and foundational courses to prepare for certification boards.
Discuss the laws of Texas that affect nurse practitioners.
Prepare the student to successfully take certification boards.
Analyze the influence of economics and fiscal policy on resource management and allocation.

So, in short, the course objectives are to get a job and be able to keep a job- we will help you do just that. INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS
This course is taught in a web-enhanced format with online readings as well as synchronous zoom meetings. You will need a web camera for these zoom meetings as you will need to attend and be on camera. You need to be on zoom and ready by 8 pm and class will start promptly.  Class interaction is necessary for this course.
There are office hours that are weekly from 8-9:00 pm on Wednesday nights. They are not all required but it is a time to discuss anything on your mind with the professors or classmates. There are some special topics in some office hours.  The following learning experiences are included: Online learning activities and website media will be used. Students will access online course material via Canvas.

Clinical practicums with preceptors in a primary care site will enhance the application and integration of didactic content and clinical skills.

SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS: You must see the posted assignment in the preview panel to consider your assignment posted. You may not email your assignment to your faculty but rather upload it into canvas. This is a 120 clinical hour 14-week course. This means you will have 10 hours of clinical per week and another 10 hours per week to complete the assignments of this course. You are to use the clinical time to see patients as quickly and efficiently as you can. Clinical time should not be used to enter data into In Place. This data should be entered in InPlace nightly after you return home from clinical. Do not count lunch into the hours you enter in InPlace if you took a break for lunch. If you ate while charting then this time will count as clinical hours. Your InPlace hours and your preceptor signature sheet hours must match. Have your preceptor sign your signature sheet daily.
Confidentiality: maintain patient confidentiality by not removing any identifiers from clinics other than initials for your InPlace log.
Each participant is responsible for completing assignments in a timely manner. Written assignments are made with the assumption that required reading assignments will be completed prior to completion of the assignment. Follow instructions for the specific assignment on the assignment link. There is a five percent deduction for late work for 7 days. After an assignment is late on the 7th day the assignment will earn the grade of a zero. This is to teach you to submit in a timely manner. As a nurse practitioner you must submit your chart within 7 days or you will not be paid. Timely submission of course work is expected.
All assignments in this course are due on Tuesday night at midnight.
If you have an issue with an assignment, you are to post a comment in the assignment link under the communication with instructor. If there is something you need to explain to the instructor about your submission of this assignment explain in the comments to instruction link in canvas on the assignment link. This will allow the faculty to comment back to you while grading that assignment.
COURSE ELEMENTS
A student’s achievement of the course objectives is evaluated based on the following activities. These items must all be met to pass the course. If an item on this list is not met you will not pass the course regardless of other grades. All exams must be proctored by Proctor U.

A successful passage APEA University Exam with a score of 70 or better. This is live proctored.
A test average of 80 on the three tests. The APEA University exam is not calculated in this exam average as passing is 70 or up. These tests are from Fitzgerald and are auto proctored.
A successful passing of OSCES. Must have 640 of 800 possible points to pass OSCEs which is an 80% for pass rate.

A passing score on CPE from Preceptors and/or faculty. The OSCES will serve as one evaluation of your clinical skills by faculty and there might be other evaluation by faculty as needed. You must have two passing CPE from preceptors and 80% is considered passing.
Completion of all 120 clinical hours
Submission of final InPlace log, and all 675 hours of your course work in preceptor signature sheets.

You will need to submit all your preceptor signature sheets in this class.You will have 625 hours on them. Due to Covid 19 pandemic we will take the hours you did in the Spring 2020 in virtual hours in this 625 hours. There are 50 hours you had in AHA and Diagnostics will not need a signature page. InPlace.
These critical six elements must all be met to pass the course. If all these 6 items are not met then a grade of C or lower will be earned.
COURSE EVALUATION Course Grading Scale:  No rounding.
A = 90 to 100% B = 80 to 89.99% C = 70 to 79.99% D = 60 to 69.99% F = Below 60%
If you want to take some public predictor exams (where you see answers and rationale) then you may purchase these at  http://www.apea.com/online-testing-center.html and select predictor examinations. Then click on the Family Practice Examinations.  It is 150 questions and the results will give you rationale for missed questions, detailed score report, identify strengths and weaknesses, and assist you to create a plan of study.  You will need to buy the management Q bank will give you access to unlimited online tests, answers with rationales, and then guide you to study in your weak areas. You do not need to buy all the Q banks as they cover topics you have already done (like assessment and patho and pharm). You will have unlimited tests so you can test on long 150 items tests, test only on your weak areas, or by body system. This test taking will decease test anxiety and help you learn how to think like a test writer. You may take as many predictor exams as you want to practice for the University exams that will count for your grade. The goal here is to make you successful on the certification examinations. It is advised to look up your weak areas and study before just buying more exams. There is a difference in the University Predictor Exam and the public exams. In the public exams you might see questions that you found in the data banks and you can see rational to the answers. In the University Predictor Examinations you will not see the answers and these tests are questions that are not in the my Q bank so they will be all new questions for you.
Review courses: highly recommended as they help you organize your study and review for boards. FHEA, APEA, and Leik are great companies and have proven track records to help you pass boards.
No clinical hours can be awarded for attendance of a live review course. Information about three review courses recommended are below:
1)  FHEA review courses is at FHEA.com.
2)  Information about APEA reviews is at APEA.org.
3)  Leik review is at http://www.npreview.com.
To register for Boards it costs $240-320 AANP. I recommend you take the AANP boards as this is more clinically focused and the same type of questions you are used to from your clinical courses. If you fail it on the first try you have to wait 3 months and you lose your job prospects. You will also lose an average of $35,000 on your contract. If you wait months to take your exam most employers will assume you failed your boards. Dr. Roberts advises to take boards in the within 10 days of graduation.
You must apply for graduation if you are getting your MSN.   If you are a post-masters certificate you do not apply for graduation but rather notify Dr. Roberts so we can process your paperwork. Post-Masters are earning a certificate not a diploma. You are eligible and encouraged to come to pinning but may not participate in graduation ceremonies.
Look at assignment links for specific instructions and rubrics on each assignment.
Look at course calendar for due dates and assignments.
Test blueprints are listed in a module that says test blueprints for the whole semester. Test blueprint for the 3 canvas tests will be questions form the Fitzgerald book and 20% will be questions from the residence guide and Sanfold. The topics to be tested on will be the topics in the Fitzgerald book. So, if the chapter in Fitzgerald is over cardiac then all the questions from the Residence guide and Stanfold will be over cardiac. This is the clinical capstone course so you will need to synthesize the data from these sources. Only these sources can be used to challenge a question (not something found on the internet).
Points per assignments toward the final grade

Assignment
Number unit(s)
Special instructions
Percentage of total grade

Tests
3
To pass course must have 80 %
average on three canvas exams
30

APEA University exam
1
You have 3 chances to make >69 in this exam to pass course.
20

Quizzes
2
Syllabi (4%) and APRN (1%)
5

Clinical schedule
1
 
4

Diagnosis Study Grid
2
2.5 % each
5

OSCES
1
 
15

Interview video
1
 
2

Certification registration
1
 
2

Summary of clinical hours and InPlace hours and all preceptor signature sheets.
1
 
7

Preceptor midterm and final eval
2
5 each
10

Total
 
 
100

Three assignments will be P/F: update myuttyler, and site/preceptor evaluations.
For all the assignments there are rubrics and specific assignment instructions in the assignment link. Please review these prior to submission.
SUBMISSION INTO Canvas
You will need to upload your documents in canvas in word, excel, or PDF format. Taking a picture with your phone in jpeg or HTML are not acceptable. You must see the upload in the preview panel to consider your work submitted. There are unlimited attempts for submission allowed on each assignment except tests and quizzes. This will allow you to successfully submit documents. Failure to comply with this submission criteria will result in the work not being eligible for a grade. Late assignments are accepted for only 7 days late at a five percent penalty per day late fee. After 7 days the assignment will earn a grade of zero. This course is teaching you endurance stamina required of NPs. This will include submission of documents after a long clinical day. Timely submissions are expected as professional behavior. One exception to this 7 day rule is the last day to submit paperwork in any semester and that is noted on the course calendar.  To stay on track please update your In Place submissions after each clinical day. If you get a grade of 12 then that is a signal that your submission was either incomplete or not in the format that opens in canvas. A grade of 12 means you have 1-2 days to correct the submission error and hence the grade of “12”. A 12 also means a grade place holder I will put  there if we are working on submission issues.