Grading
- 1. Attendance/Participation/Professionalism 20%
- 2. Clinical Evaluations 15%
- 3. Validations 15%
- 4. Assignments - Care Plans/Reflections, etc. 2 0 %
- 5. 10 Lab Hours 10%
- 6. VSims 20%
Passing Grade
A cumulative score of 74% or higher is needed to successfully complete all nursing courses. For policies regarding incomplete or withdrawal, please refer to the current university catalog
Grading Scale
| 94-100% = A 90-93% = A - 87-89% = B+ 84 -86% = B | 80-83% = B - 77-79% = C+ 74 -76% = C <74% = F |
Grades are determined in accordance with the policy of the Department of Nursing. The grading scale is as follows:
1. ATTENDANCE/PARTICIPATION/PROFESSIONALISM – Grade Weight 20%
Expected Outcome: Complete 180 hours of clinical experience. Attend clinical rotations on time, with facility badge, stethoscope, and dressed in clean uniform. Students who do not arrive on time or ready for shift-to-shift report will not be allowed to complete clinical hours for that day, will be given a clinical point, will be given zero attendance points for that day, and be required to make up the hours.
Students who are ill will not care for patients (diarrhea, cough, fever, vomiting, covid symptoms, and any other symptoms that indicate the student should not care for patients unless associated with a confirmed non-infectious illness). Clinical hours missed must be made up to pass the course. Make-ups are not guaranteed and are based on clinical space availability.
General Description: Students will check in via Qualtrics survey to clinical sites and will not leave the facility during the rotation without the permission of instructor. Students are expected to attend mid-day conferences when in the hospital setting if applicable.
A loss of points will occur for computer or cell phone use in patient care settings. If you have down time at clinical sites, you are allowed to study with flash cards, hands-on textbooks, etc. All electronic devices must be used in the break room or other non-clinical settings. (You can find what defines professional behavior in the student handbook and nursing policies).
During clinical time, students will refrain from:
- Taking verbal or telephone orders.
- Perform any invasive or potentially harmful task that they have not performed under the direction of the professor or professor’s designee.
- Interviewing for jobs.
- Napping or sleeping.
- Using hospital computers, or personal laptops or I-pads for personal business.
- Using cell phones except for emergencies or at meal or break times.
2. CLINICAL EVALUATIONS--Grade Weight 15%
Expected Outcome: Students will practice and develop nursing skills at the beginning nurse proficiency level.
General Description: Students will be assigned to a registered nurse in various clinical rotations where they will learn and practice nursing skills, critical thinking, and prioritization. Students will always have a registered nurse observe all invasive procedures they perform and all medications they administer.
Clinical Evaluations can be found in Canvas. It is the student’s responsibility to print out a clinical evaluation form. The student is then required to perform a self-Mid-Term Evaluation, and a self-Final Evaluation. The student is responsible for meeting with a level 2 clinical instructor to go over and review the evaluation before the due date, and once again BEFORE FINAL VALIDATION. The COMPLETED AND SIGNED clinical evaluation forms are to be turned into a clinical instructor by the due date listed in Canvas. If the clinical evaluation is not signed and complete, the student may not be permitted into the final validation.
3. VALIDATIONS-Grade Weight 15%
Expected Outcome:
Students will use critical thinking, prioritization, and apply knowledge gained from didactic learning in the classroom and experience gained in the clinical setting to provide evidence based, nurturing nursing care in a simulated environment. Students will observe demonstrations and perform Level I nursing skills and Level II nursing skills at the novice nurse proficiency level. Students will arrive on time for validation. Students who do not arrive on time will receive zero points for the simulation and will be required to reschedule the simulation for no points.
General Description:
- The purpose of validation for this course is self-learning. However, students who demonstrate that they are not prepared to perform the skills required in the scenario, or who do not “rescue” the patient from potentially harmful or fatal situations that present themselves in the scenario, or fail to incorporate the principles of infection control (i.e. handwashing, donning gloves, maintaining aseptic technique) during the scenario will receive a reduction of points. In the final validation, failure to demonstrate nursing actions to keep the patient safe or to rescue the patient from potentially harmful or fatal situations will result in required remediation.
- During validation, students will contribute to making the simulation as real as possible by interacting and performing nursing tasks as close as possible to that which they would perform in a real-life scenario.
- A significant amount of learning occurs in the debriefing period. Students are expected to participate in the discussion that occurs during the debriefing. Failure to do so will result in a deduction of points.
4. Assignments (Care plans, Reflections, etc.)--Grade Weight 20%
Expected Outcome: Students will demonstrate nursing knowledge, nursing process, critical thinking and communication skills while drawing from clinical experiences.
General Description: The student will create care plans for patients they have cared for using NANDA nursing diagnosis, lab work, physical assessment findings, data provided in the electronic patient health record and by the patient. Students will plan, prioritize, and evaluate nursing interventions that are evidence based. Resources supporting these interventions will be cited using APA format. Other assignment descriptions are provided in CANVAS.
5. LAB HOURS-Grade Weight 10%
Expected Outcome
Students will spend 10 hours in the nursing lab practicing and becoming competent in all nursing skills required in Levels I & II in the SUU nursing department. Lab hours MUST BE HANDS ON SKILL PRACTICE! Studying, care plans, and other assignments worked on in the lab do not count as lab hours.
General Description
Students will practice the skills identified by the professor and those that the student needs additional practice performing. Students will schedule themselves for 10 hours and document these hours AND the skills they practiced in the designated binder. Students should not document lab hours for anything other than the practicing of nursing skills.
Students should wear comfortable, appropriate clothing, confine hair, and wear closed toe shoes. SUU nursing uniforms should be worn on validation/demonstration days.
Hand hygiene should be performed before, during (when required), and after practice session.
Students will attend all scheduled lab activities in the nursing lab during the semester.
As self-motivated, active learners, students take initiative for their own learning by identifying skills that they do not feel competent in performing. Students can gain mastery of these skills by practicing them in the nursing lab environment.
6. COURSEPOINT+ VSIM ASSIGNMENTS-- Grade Weight 20%
Expected Outcome: Demonstrate knowledge of diseases, body systems, patient populations, and nursing skills.
Directions: You will have CoursePoint+ activities, simulations, and case studies required each week. Performance in each of these areas will constitute your grade in this area.