This course provides clinical experiences in the nursing skills lab and other supervised healthcare settings. These can include hospital and community sites to accompany NURS 4320 and NURS 4330. Three credit hours (9 lab hours per week (Fall/Spring).

Required additional supplies: black ink pen, watch with sweep second hand, stethoscope, bandage scissors and hemostat.

• Provide safe and quality patient-centered care for families in a variety of settings.
• Establish therapeutic nurse-patient relationships appropriate for the age and development of each family member.
• Learning to apply course material (to improve thinking, problem-solving, and decisions).
• Developing specific skills, competencies, and points of view needed by professionals in the field most closely related to this course.
• Acquiring an interest in learning more by asking questions and seeking answers.
• Use frameworks for care planning and problem-solving that are appropriate for family nursing in acute and community settings.
• Implement care planning using the best available evidence and professional nursing standards.
• Incorporate professional nursing values and roles while moving along the continuum of nursing practice from novice to expert.
• Utilize informatics and current technologies in the planning and care of patients.

Grades will be determined in the undergraduate programs using the following grading scale. To progress in the undergraduate program, students must pass each course with a C (74%) minimum.

Grade Range

Assignment Outline

Clinical Assignments - 20%
The process paperwork requirements for all other N4335 clinical experiences are as follows: one pediatric reflection paper, one OB reflection paper, one pediatric care plan and 2 concept maps. These forms are located on Canvas. Clinical paperwork is due to the faculty by 2359 on Monday; via canvas submission, following your clinical experience. These can be handwritten or typed.

Clinical Experience - 40%
The clinical experiences will be at St. George Regional Hospital (SGH), Cedar City Hospital (CCH), Primary Children’s Hospital (PCH), and various clinics/physician offices. (Refer to the document on Canvas for addresses). The student is expected to attend clinical on time, be professional, have a good attitude, and attend all clinicals (refer to the rubric in Canvas for specifics). All intermountain policies and SUUDON policies concerning jewelry, piercings, and tattoos are strictly followed. Clinical name badges must be worn at all times while attending clinical. All clinical badges must be turned in the following Wednesday after your last clinical experience. You will not receive a grade until your badge is turned in.

Clinical Evaluation: The student will have clinical evaluations performed mid-semester and at the end of the semester. The student will have the opportunity to review the instructor’s comments and suggestions. The student’s progress will be discussed, and the student will have the opportunity to discuss any concerns with the instructor. Clinical faculty will schedule the necessary evaluation times.

Competence Assessment -20%
Students will gain mastery in the performance of skills related to the care of the mother, infant, and child by demonstrating competence in assessment learning modules. Students will demonstrate the two main cornerstones of nursing practice, patient safety and quality of care. As self-motivated, active learners, students take the initiative for their learning by organizing time and resources to complete all auto-tutorial learning according to specified criteria. A passing score of 85% is required. You are not able to start clinicals until you have passed the competency assessment (CA).

Care of the family assessment includes; Electronic Fetal Monitor (EFM) placement, Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) strip interpretation, and postpartum and newborn assessment with care of the mother and infant following delivery.

Make sure you arrive 15 minutes early.

You will have 60 minutes to perform your competency assessment. There will be 3 per group you will receive your skill assignment at the start of the validation, you will be the primary for the assessment and/or skill you select. The other 2 team members are available as needed. There will be a short debrief immediately after the assessment.

Wear your SUU Nursing clinical uniform and badge and bring clinical resources as applicable for your success (ie: watch, stethoscope, quick reference(s))*

Lab Experiences - 20%
Lab Experiences 20%: These count for clinical hours; you will fail the course if you miss them. You will have 6 simulations with an associated assignment, 1 skills review day and 2 escape rooms. A pediatric dosage quiz and fetal monitoring quiz.

Tue Oct 15, 2024 | NURS-4335-01/02/03-Sp21 (https://suu.instructure.com/calendar? event_id=4615302&include_contexts=course_1054 035) | 10am to 12pm

Course Summary

• Wed Aug 27, 2025 — Commenced Attendance Quiz — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364058)
• Thu Aug 28, 2025 — PAPR preparation training — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364083)
• Mon Sep 1, 2025 — Competence Assessment: Fetal Monitoring Video — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364067)
• Mon Sep 1, 2025 — Competence Assessment: Newborn Assessment Video — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364068)
• Mon Sep 1, 2025 — Competence Assessment: Postpartum Assessment Video — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364069)
• Mon Sep 1, 2025 — FERPA Consent Waiver — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364061)
• Mon Sep 1, 2025 — Competence Assessment Prep and Lab time — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364066)
• Wed Sep 3, 2025 — Fetal Strips Practice — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364059)
• Wed Sep 3, 2025 — Competence Assessment — due by 5pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364065)
• Fri Sep 5, 2025 — Documentation — due by 5pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364070)
• Sun Sep 7, 2025 — L1 Labor Case Study- Lab Experience — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364077)
• Mon Sep 8, 2025 — Pediatric Dosage Calculation Quiz — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364060)
• Mon Sep 15, 2025 — V Simulation #1 Next Generation — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364088)
• Tue Sep 16, 2025 — L-2 Peds Well Check Simulation — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364073)
• Mon Sep 22, 2025 — V simulations #2 Next Generation — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364090)
• Tue Sep 30, 2025 — Skills Review — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364087)
• Mon Oct 6, 2025 — V simulations #3 Next Generation — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364091)
• L3 Peds Simulation and case Study (Fall) — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364078)
• Sun Oct 19, 2025 — Mid term Eval — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364080)
• Mon Oct 27, 2025 (Spring) — L-3 Maternal Simulation and Case study — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364074)
• Sun Nov 2, 2025 — Escape Room Prep — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16393953)
• Mon Nov 10, 2025 — V simulations #4 Next Generation — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364092)
• Sun Nov 16, 2025 — L-5 Newborn Simulation and case study — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364075)
• Sun Nov 16, 2025 — L-6 PPH Simulation and Case Study — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364076)
• Mon Nov 24, 2025 — Pediatric Care Plan — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364084)
• Mon Dec 1, 2025 — V simulation #5 Next Generation — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364089)
• Mon Dec 8, 2025 — CCH Orientation Sheet upload — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364062)
• Mon Dec 8, 2025 — Level 2/NICU/Newborn Concept Map — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364079)
• Mon Dec 8, 2025 — OB Reflective Paper — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364081)
• Mon Dec 8, 2025 — OB/PP Concept Maps — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364082)
• Mon Dec 8, 2025 — Pediatric Reflective Paper — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364085)
• Mon Dec 8, 2025 — Roll Call Attendance — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364086)
• Mon Dec 8, 2025 — PCH Orient Sheet — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16397099)
• Mon Dec 8, 2025 — Clinical Experience — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364064)
• Tue Dec 9, 2025 — Final Eval — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364071)
• Tue Dec 9, 2025 — Call the Midwife (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364063)
• Tue Dec 9, 2025 — HV-Home Visits (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1054035/assignments/16364072)

Instructor's Response Time & Feedback

From the DON Faculty Handbook: Semester long course guidelines: Emails from students in semester-long classes must be responded to within three business days (Definition of business day: Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and does not include holidays). All assignments must be graded within seven calendar days of due date for semester-long courses. If faculty need an extension to grade assignments because of assignment length, holiday, or other circumstances, faculty will notify students in advance. Assignments need to be graded in sufficient time to allow students to improve and build upon their learning for subsequent assignments.

COMMUNICATION WITH INSTRUCTORS

The preferred method of communication outside of the classroom is the course Canvas inbox. Your professor will respond to email communication within 3 BUSINESS DAYS. If you send a message Friday after 5 pm, do not expect a reply until Monday morning. Feedback for assignments will be provided within 1 week from the due date.

Text messaging is acceptable, but please limit messages to 1 sentence. You will need to check in/out for every clinical. You will receive a clinical point for each missed text. Any longer communication should be by email or in person. Mobile phones are not allowed out during clinical rotations.

DO NOT text questions that are not directly related to your current clinical rotation. For example, you should text us if you have a flat tire on your way to a clinical assignment. If you are unsure how many nursing diagnoses you need on your concept map, READ the SYLLABUS or the Canvas assignment instructions. Email your professor if you still have a question about the care plan. ALL course, assignment, and clinical questions should be asked through Canvas email.

Late Assignments

Paper/assignments are due at the time designated by faculty or posted in Canvas. Clinical paperwork for all clinical experience is due either Sunday or Monday at 2359 (as posted in Canvas), following your clinical day. They can be handwritten or typed, depending on your preference. Late work will not be accepted.

Students must attend all nursing lab activities and clinical assignments. Student safety is always a concern. That said, you must also complete your clinical hours to pass this course. Due to the nature of this semester’s clinical sites, you cannot attend if you are sick. You are welcome to cancel a clinical due to driving in inclement weather, with the understanding that you need to notify your clinical faculty 90 minutes before the scheduled start time. That clinical will be rescheduled at the professor's discretion based on availability; if the clinical cannot be rescheduled, you will receive an incomplete for the class and have to finish the class at a later time. This semester has limited clinical sites, which will be reserved for sick students' makeup. If you miss a lab experience, another one will not be provided, and you will fail the course.

On days that SUU campus is open but no classes are held the DON may hold clinicals.

A Qualtrics check-in link will be provided and needs to be completed each clinical shift. If you don’t check in, I will assume that you are not there, mark you absent, and give you a clinical point. Yes, you will be submitting a picture. I will not be posting these on social media; they are just to ensure you are at the correct site on time.

If you choose to miss a clinical experience, points will be subtracted from your grade. You will be required to make up any clinical hours missed; if you miss a day, you will lose attendance points even when you make up the clinical day. If missed clinicals are not made up, you will fail the course. All lab experiences/assignments and clinicals experiences count for clinical hours; if they are not done, you will fail the course. Each unexcused clinical will drop clinical grade by one whole grade (A to B to C) and receive at least one clinical point. Two (2) unexcused clinical days may fail NURS 4335.

At no time are students to complete a clinical experience without the knowledge and supervision of clinical faculty.

PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT-you only get 4 points total for nursing school

• You should Arrive early to clinicals, look professional, have the correct badge and uniform, not wrinkled, and be engaged and involved in your learning.
• You should not arrive late, not show up, be disrespectful to anyone at a clinical site, use your cell phone, study while at a clinical site, sleep, etc.

Supplemental Resources

American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2021). The Essentials: core competencies for professional nursing education. Washington DC: AACN available through https://www.aacnnursing.org/AACN-Essentials

Face to Face Student Handbook (Pre-Licensure and HP Programs) (https://www.suu.edu/nursing/pdf/f2f.student-handbook-2025.pdf)

Statement of Safety or Risk Assumption

Students are expected to manage their transportation and assume risks when traveling to and from classes, labs, or clinical experiences and performing duties in class, lab, or clinical experiences. There are inherent risks involved in travel and lab and clinical experiences. The most obvious risks are accidents, contracting infections or other communicable diseases, or workplace violence. Please take common precautions to prevent accidents, infections, and violence. You must manage your transportation/lodging for your Primary Children’s clinical; you must arrive 25 minutes before your clinical starts (1835, 0635)

AI Policy

Insert the statement below, create one of your own, or choose an SUU AI policy (AI allowed, AI allowed with permission, AI not allowed) statement: https://www.suu.edu/cti/academic-integrity-tools-and-statements.html (https://www.suu.edu/cti/academic-integrity-tools-and-statements.html )

When students use generative artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process for this course, students should only use these technologies to improve readability and language, or to generate a basic skeleton of ideas for assignment content. Applying these technologies should be done with careful oversight, and students should carefully review and edit the result, as AI can generate good-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased. SUU Policy#6.33 on academic integrity should be followed when using AI. If you are unsure to what extent to use AI as part of an assignment, please reach out to me before the assignment is due. If a student uses AI-assisted technologies, the student should disclose in their assignment the use of AI and AI-assisted technologies in the assignment by following the instructions below. This declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools for checking grammar, spelling, references etc. If there is nothing to disclose, there is no need to add a statement. Any assignment which has been determined by the professor (using the tools provided by SUU to monitor academic integrity) to have been created using these technologies which were not disclosed by the student is subject to failure.

Disclosure Instructions:
Students must disclose the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process by adding this statement at the end of their assignment:

Statement: During the preparation of this work [THE STUDENT(S)] used [NAME TOOL /SERVICE] in order to [REASON].