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KSPN Leadership, Roles, and Issues
PN114

YEAR:

2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS:

2.00

PREREQUISITES:

Practical Nursing Acceptance.

COREQUISITES:

None

COURSE NOTES:

This course is offered online in the Spring semeser for the full-time program and Summer semester for the part-time program.

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course provides orientation to leadership roles of the LPN and related responsibilities. It will introduce issues to the student they will encounter in the workplace. An individualized plan of study will be developed for NCLEX-PN success.

HutchCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
  2. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  4. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
  5. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

AREA OR PROGRAM OUTCOMES

  1. Provide nursing care that is relationship-centered, caring, culturally sensitive and based on the physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of clients with commonly occurring health alterations that have predictable outcomes.
  2. Collaborate with the client and members of the interprofessional health care team to promote continuity of client care and shared decision making.
  3. Use current evidence as a basis for nursing practice.
  4. Use information and client care technology to support the delivery of safe, quality client care.
  5. Participate in quality improvement activities assessing their effect on client outcomes.
  6. Provide an environment that is safe and reduces risk of harm for clients, self, and others.
  7. Demonstrate accountability for client care that incorporates legal and ethical principles regulatory guidelines, and standards of nursing practice.
  8. Use leadership skills that support the provision and coordination of client care.

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCIES:

  1. Identify effective leadership and management skills for the licensed practical nurse.
    1. Compare and contrast the concepts of leadership and management.
    2. Examine the difference between formal and informal leaders.
    3. Review descriptions of various leadership styles and subsequent roles assumed by leaders.
    4. Discuss the connection between leadership style and the employer and employee relationship.
    5. Examine the organizational chart in relation to its implications for organizational authority decision making, and professional control.
    6. Discuss appropriate and inappropriate uses of power and influence.
    7. Explore the feelings of powerlessness and empowerment by nurses and characteristics of work environments that contribute to each.
    8. Discuss leadership strategies the LPNs can employ.
    9. Compare and contrast nursing care delivery and its relationship to the roles of healthcare team members.
    10. Examine the scope of practice in relation to roles of RNs, LPNs, and unlicensed personnel with respect to chain of command and their relationship to management of a nursing unit.
    11. Discuss the responsibility of the nurse in reporting unprofessional behavior such as suspected substance abuse by employees, workplace violence, and sexual harassment.
  2. Discuss how health care is provided, regulated, and financed and the impact on the delivery of healthcare in various settings.
    1. Explain methods of payment options for clients of health care.
    2. Discuss issues and trends that affect financing of health care and challenges the health care industry faces in providing accessible, equitable care.
    3. Examine the role of the practical nurse in cost containment.
    4. Discuss current national initiatives that affect the healthcare system (IOM report, National Patient Safety Goals).
    5. Define quality improvement and determine its relationship to safe, quality client care and institutional accreditation.
    6. Review the role of regulatory agencies and other accreditation entities in establishing institutional standards and accrediting the institutions who meet those standards.
    7. Discuss the role of the risk management department in identifying work place threats and working to ensure the safety of clients, their families, and staff.
  3. Discuss how to assign/delegate client care tasks to assistive personnel commensurate with abilities, level of preparation, and regulatory guidelines and supervise care provided.
    1. Apply guidelines for appropriate and effective delegation.
    2. Explore concepts of teamwork and its relationship to productivity and job satisfaction.
    3. Discuss the purpose of interdisciplinary teams and the role of the LPN.
  4. Communicate effectively as a leader in verbal and written format.
    1. Determine communication skills/strategies needed when interacting with clients and families. subordinates and peers.
    2. Determine communication skills/strategies needed when interacting with subordinates and peers.
    3. Explore the use of proper channels of communication for managing practice and client related issues in an organization.
    4. Examine the role of group decision making and brainstorming when attempting to resolve practice or client care related issues.
    5. Compare and contrast between assertive, passive, aggressive, and passive-aggressive communication.
    6. Examine various types of conflict and conflict management strategies within the various communication styles.
  5. Construct examples of ethical decision making, exhibiting tolerance of and respect for diversity in human abilities, cultures, age and beliefs.
    1. Develop awareness of personal values and integrate a code of ethics into practice when directly or indirectly providing client care.
    2. Identify strategies to involve the client in care decision making.
    3. Explore the ethical challenges in assisting clients and their personal support systems as they deal with end of life issues including the role of the nurse in establishing and maintaining a “do not resuscitate” (DNR) or “allow natural death”.
  6. Describe common legal issues for nurses including negligence and malpractice.
    1. Describe the regulatory authority of state boards of nursing.
    2. Determine how a state’s nurse practice act drives nursing practice and determines its legal parameters.
    3. Explore the legal challenges in assisting clients and their personal support systems as they deal with end of life issues including the role of the nurse in establishing and maintaining a “do not resuscitate” (DNR) or “allow natural death”.
    4. Examine the five elements of liability that constitute negligence, torts of false imprisonment, assault, batter, and defamation.
    5. Examine the leader’s role in establishing and guiding the institution’s standards for client care using institutional policies and procedures.
  7. Describe the process of attaining and maintaining licensure as a practical nurse.
    1. Examine the process for obtaining licensure and requirements for renewal such as continuing education.
    2. Explore the process of transitioning to the role of new graduate and licensed nurse.
    3. List the national organizations that are available to LPNs as well as the organizations that support specialized practice.
  8. Identify appropriate resolutions to work related challenges a practical nurse will be faced with upon entering the workforce.
    1. Describe the process for obtaining employment.
    2. Compare and contrast accountability and responsibility of a licensed practical nurse.
    3. Apply critical thinking in making clinical judgments in various client care situations.
    4. Examine the path nurses take when transitioning from a novice nurse to an expert nurse.
    5. Discuss the role that preceptors and mentors have in assisting new graduates in becoming competent in their practice and socialized into their new role.
    6. Discuss anticipated challenges and resolutions related to the role of the new graduate.
    7. List causes and characteristics of burnout, and strategies that can be used to reduce the likelihood of its development.
    8. Examine various career paths that cam promote career advancement through degree completion.
  9. Develop an individualized plan of study for NCLEX-PN success
    1. Explain the purpose of the NCLEX-PN
    2. Discuss computerized adaptive testing (CAT) as it relates to the NCLEX-PN.
    3. Complete and remediate mock NCLEX-PN questions related to individualized areas of concern.

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

1. Participation 2. Examinations 3. Discussion Forums 4. Online assignments/quizzes

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Education requires integrity and respect for HutchCC's institutional values. HutchCC students are required to maintain honesty through a "responsible acquisition, discovery, and application of knowledge" in all academic pursuits. Preserving and upholding academic honesty is the responsibility of Hut chCC students, faculty, administrators and staff.

I. Student Responsibilities

All HutchCC students are required to:

  • Submit all work in all courses without cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, sabotage, or academic dishonesty as defined below.
  • Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of forgery.
  • Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.
  • Use only authorized notes and student aids.
  • Use technology appropriately, including refraining from submitting AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated work without express written consent from your instructor.
  • Protect the security of passwords/login/privacy/electronic files, and maintain sole individual access for any online course information.

II. Definition of Academic Dishonesty

  • Academic dishonesty is any intentional act, or attempted act, of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, or sabotage in academic work.
  • Cheating includes using unauthorized materials of any kind, whether hard copies, online, or electronic, such as unapproved study aids in any academic work, copying another student's work, using an unauthorized "cheat sheet" or device, or purchasing or acquiring an essay online or from another student.
  • Fabrica tion is the invention or falsification of any information or citation in any academic work, such as making up a source, providing an incorrect citation, or misquoting a source.
  • Plagiarism is the representation of words, ideas and other works that are not the student's own as being original to the student. A no n-inclusive list of examples includes work completed by someone else, work generated by an external entity (such as AI), omitting a citation for work used from another source, or borrowing the sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, and/or pattern of thought of work not produced by the student, even though it may be expressed in the student's own words.
  • Dissimulation is the obscuring of a student's own actions with the intention of deceiving others in any academic work, such as fabricating excuses for absences or missed assignments, or feigning attendance.
  • Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized altering, falsification, misrepresentation, or construction of any academic document, such as changing transcripts, changing grades on papers or on exams which have been returned, forging signatures, manipulating a digital file of academic work, or plagiarizing a translation.
  • Sabotage is any obstruction or attempted obstruction of the academic work of another student, such as impersonating another student, stealing or ruining another student's academic work.
  • Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty is considered as knowingly facilitating any act defined above.
  • Academic honesty violations can also include the omission or falsification of any information on an application for any HutchCC academic program.

III. Sanctions for Academic Dishonesty

Students who violate the Academic Honesty Policy may be subject to academic or administrative consequences.

Instructor Sanctions for Violation:

Students suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy may be charged in writing by their instructor and any of the following may apply:

  • Assign Avoiding Plagiarism Bridge Module
  • Receiving written warning that could lead to more severe sanction if a second offense occurs
  • Revising the assignment/work in question for partial credit
  • Voiding work in question without opportunity for make-up
  • Reducing the grade for work in question
  • Lowering the final course grade
  • Failing the work in question

Institutional Sanctions for Violation:

Students charged with academic dishonesty, particularly in instances of repeated violations, may further be subjected to an investigation and any of the following may apply:

  • Instructor recommendation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) to dismiss the student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA to dismiss student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs with a grade of 'F." Student will not be allowed to take a 'W' for the course
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA that the student be suspended and/or dismissed from the program
  • Student barred from course/program for a set period of time or permanently
  • May be recommended by the instructor (after documented repeated offenses) to the VP AA that the student be placed on probation, suspended and/or dismissed from the institution.

IV. Procedure

  • Instructor will communicate in writing via the student's HutchCC email account and/or LearningZone email account to the student suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy.  That communication may include sanction(s). Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • For each violation, the instructor will submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form to the Department Chair. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation form.
  • Should the instructor choose to pursue institutional sanctions, the instruct or shall notify the student in writing via the student's HutchCC email account.  Instructor shall also submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form and all prior completed forms regarding said student to the Department Chair and the office of the VPAA with recommendation to proceed with specific Institutional Sanctions. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • The decision of the VPAA on Institutional Sanction is final. The VPAA will notify the student's academic advisor of any institutional sanctions.

V. Due Process Rights

Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

Academic Honesty Appeal Process

I. Due Process Rights: Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

  • If an instructor has recommended course or program dismissal, the student may continue in coursework (provi ding there are no threatening or security behavioral issues) until appeal processes are concluded. However, if an issue has been documented at a partnership location (e.g., clinical sites, secondary institutions, correctional or military facilities), then the student is no longer eligible to continue participation in internships, apprenticeships, and/or clinical-based practice. For clinical sites, this sanction is immediate.

II. Process

If the student disagrees with the charge of a violation of academic honesty, the student has the right to due process as described in the Academic Honesty Appeal process below:

  • If the matter is not resolved upon communicating with the instructor about the violation, the student shall, within five business days of the issuance of the written notice of violation, submit a completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form and supporting documentation to the appropriate department chairperson to initiate an Academic Honesty Appeal.
  • Within two business days of receiving the student's completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form, the Department Chair and VPAA will review and the VPAA will render a decision.
  • Within two business days, a response will be sent to the student's HutchCC email address. The VPAA's decision is final.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

  1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
  2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
  3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
  4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
  5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

PROGRAM ACCREDITATION:

Kansas State Board of Nursing
900 SW Jackson St., Room 1051
Topeka, KS 66612
785-296-4924

HLC ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Last Revised: 05/08/2019