The request to revise the course objectives for NURS 4450
Date: October 12, 2011
To: College of Health and Human Services
From: Clarence Greene, Faculty Governance Assistant
Approved On: October 12, 2011
Implementation Date: 2011
Note: Deletions are strikethroughs. Insertions are underlined.
Summary
To align course objectives with actual course content. Course objectives were originally written to reflect an oral intensive course. The course was changed to a writing intensive course but one of the objectives was not modified to accurately reflect the change. Modify an additional objective to incorporate a reflective writing piece among the student assignments. In order to accomplish this goal, the following changes are proposed:
- Current objective: (Objective #7 Evidence Based Objectives) Utilizes appropriate oral communication strategies when working with staff, clients and families.
Recommended change: Utilizes appropriate written communication strategies when working with staff, clients and families.
Rationale: Content is in alignment with university General Education requirement for Writing in the Discipline.
- Current objective: (Objective #4 Values Based Objectives) Evaluates the influence of culture, environment, socio-economics and health policy on nursing practice.
Recommended change: Evaluates the influence of culture, environment, socio-economics, health policy and personal philosophy on nursing practice.
Rationale: Changing the wording of the objective justifies the inclusion of a reflective writing piece among required student assignments.