Southern Utah University

Course Syllabus

Southern Utah University
Southern Utah University
Spring Semester 2026

Level Two Clinical (Face-to-Face)

NURS 4367-02

Course: NURS 4367-02
Credits: 3
Term: Spring Semester 2026
Department: NURS
CRN: 12753

Course Description

This course provides a variety of supervised clinical experiences in the nursing skills lab, healthcare settings in the community, and hospital sites. Addressing person-centered care including families and communities. Must be completed with a grade of “C” (2.0) or better. (Fall, Spring) [Graded (Standard Letter)] Co-requisite(s): NURS 3212 and NURS 4322 and NURS 4332 and NURS 4342 and NURS 4352 Prerequisite(s): NURS 3112 and NURS 3152 and NURS 3172 and NURS 3182 and NURS 3187 - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C Registration Restriction(s): Admittance into the HP to BSN Nursing program

Required Texts

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

Learning Outcomes

  • 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.

Course Requirements

Grade Scheme

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
A100 % to 94.0%
A-< 93.0 % to 90.0%
B+< 89.0 % to 87.0%
B< 86.0 % to 84.0%
B-< 83.0 % to 80.0%
C+< 79.0 % to 77.0%
C< 76.0 % to 74.0%
F< 73.9 %
Assignment Outline
Clinical Assignments - 20%

The process paperwork requirements for all other N4367 clinical experiences are as follows: 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; 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), Primary Children’s Hospital (PCH), community sites, home visits, 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). You will need to complete 5 volunteer medical hours, 3 of which need to come from the DBT meeting. You will also need to complete community projects. There is a form that needs to be completed by your professor after you complete each area, and then you will submit it to Canvas. These will be hours you find based on the needs of the community. You will complete the 4367 volunteer form for each volunteer experience and submit it to the assignment listed in Canvas. Medical Volunteer: assisting at-risk populations, assisting with therapeutic communication, participating in sporting events where you are the medical support staff, and utilizing medical/nursing/medic training, whether that be education or hands-on skills.

No jewelry should be worn, and no cell phones or texting should occur in patient care areas. 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 on 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, and 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 4 simulations with an associated assignment, 3 escape rooms, 4 VR experiences, and 2 home visits-one with a postpartum patient and one with a pediatric patient check Canvas for specifics. And a fetal monitoring quiz.

Course Outline

Course Summary
Wed Jan 7, 2026
  • Commenced Attendance Quiz — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238237)
  • Competence Assessment: Newborn Assessment Video — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238245)
  • Competence Assessment: Postpartum Assessment Video — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238246)
Mon Jan 12, 2026
  • Competence Assessment: Fetal Monitoring Video — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238244)
  • Fetal Monitoring Lecture — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17376254)
  • Competence Assessment Prep and Lab time — due by 7am (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238243)
  • Fetal Strips Practice — due by 7am (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238236)
Wed Jan 14, 2026
  • Competence Assessment — due by 5pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238242)
  • Documentation — due by 5pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238247)
Mon Jan 19, 2026
  • L1 Labor Case Study- Lab Experience — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238253)
Mon Feb 9, 2026
  • L-2 Peds Well Check Simulation — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238250)
Wed Mar 4, 2026
  • Mid term Eval — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238255)
Sun Mar 29, 2026
  • L-5 Newborn Simulation and case study — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238251)
  • L-6 PPH Simulation and Case Study — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238252)
Mon Mar 30, 2026
  • Pediatric Care Plan — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238258)
Mon Apr 6, 2026
  • Escape Room Prep — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238248)
  • Pediatric HV — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238259)
Mon Apr 13, 2026
  • Postpartum HV — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238260)
  • Clinical Experience — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238240)
  • Community Projects — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238241)
  • Final Eval — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238249)
  • Level 2/NICU/Newborn Concept Map — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238254)
  • OB/PP Concept Maps — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238256)
  • PCH Orient Sheet — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238257)
Mon Apr 20, 2026
  • Roll Call Attendance — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238261)
  • Volunteer Hours — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238266)
  • VR #2 — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238263)
  • VR #3 — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238264)
  • VR #4 — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17238265)
  • VR #1 — due by 11:59pm (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17377017)
Undated
  • FERPA Consent Waiver (https://suu.instructure.com/courses/1157516/assignments/17141761)

Instructor's policies on late assignments and/or makeup work

Late Assignments

Paper/assignments are due at the time designated by the faculty or posted in Canvas. Clinical paperwork for all clinical experiences 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.

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. 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 on Friday after 5 pm, do not expect a reply until Monday morning. Feedback for assignments will be provided within 1 week of 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 further 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.

Attendance Policy

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 result in failing NURS 4367. At no time are students to complete a clinical experience without the knowledge and supervision of clinical faculty.

Supplemental Resources

Professional Conduct

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.

Although satisfactory academic performance is a prerequisite to advancement, it is not the sole criterion for considering a student's suitability for promotion or graduation. Remember that you are in the program to learn nursing and ‘become a nurse.’ Appropriate professional behavior in all settings is an expectation of students in the nursing program. The Department of Nursing reserves the right to require a student to withdraw from the SUU Nursing Program if considered unsuited to proceed with the study or practice of nursing based upon unprofessional student behavior. Examples of Professional Conduct in the clinical setting: Keeping voice down, speaking respectfully to the nurses and other healthcare staff, and not talking about patients or their conditions outside of patient care (this means not in the halls, at lunch, on the elevator, etc.), not telling a nurse they are wrong in front of the patient, being actively engaged, no cell phone out, etc. (See Nursing Handbook for other examples)

ADA Statement

Students with medical, psychological, learning, or other disabilities desiring academic adjustments, accommodations, or auxiliary aids will need to contact the Disability Resource Center, located in Room 206F of the Sharwan Smith Center or by phone at (435) 865-8042. The Disability Resource Center determines eligibility for and authorizes the provision of services.

If your instructor requires attendance, you may need to seek an ADA accommodation to request an exception to this attendance policy. Please contact the Disability Resource Center to determine what, if any, ADA accommodations are reasonable and appropriate.

Academic Credit

According to the federal definition of a Carnegie credit hour: A credit hour of work is the equivalent of approximately 60 minutes of class time or independent study work. A minimum of 45 hours of work by each student is required for each unit of credit. Credit is earned only when course requirements are met. One (1) credit hour is equivalent to 15 contact hours of lecture, discussion, testing, evaluation, or seminar, as well as 30 hours of student homework. An equivalent amount of work is expected for laboratory work, internships, practica, studio, and other academic work leading to the awarding of credit hours. Credit granted for individual courses, labs, or studio classes ranges from 0.5 to 15 credit hours per semester.

Academic Freedom

SUU is operated for the common good of the greater community it serves. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition. Academic Freedom is the right of faculty to study, discuss, investigate, teach, and publish. Academic Freedom is essential to these purposes and applies to both teaching and research.

Academic Freedom in the realm of teaching is fundamental for the protection of the rights of the faculty member and of you, the student, with respect to the free pursuit of learning and discovery. Faculty members possess the right to full freedom in the classroom in discussing their subjects. They may present any controversial material relevant to their courses and their intended learning outcomes, but they shall take care not to introduce into their teaching controversial materials which have no relation to the subject being taught or the intended learning outcomes for the course.

As such, students enrolled in any course at SUU may encounter topics, perspectives, and ideas that are unfamiliar or controversial, with the educational intent of providing a meaningful learning environment that fosters your growth and development. These parameters related to Academic Freedom are included in SUU Policy 6.6.

Academic Misconduct

Scholastic honesty is expected of all students. Dishonesty will not be tolerated and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent (see SUU Policy 6.33). You are expected to have read and understood the current SUU student conduct code (SUU Policy 11.2) regarding student responsibilities and rights, the intellectual property policy (SUU Policy 5.52), information about procedures, and what constitutes acceptable behavior.

Please Note: The use of websites or services that sell essays is a violation of these policies; likewise, the use of websites or services that provide answers to assignments, quizzes, or tests is also a violation of these policies. Regarding the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), you should check with your individual course instructor.

Emergency Management Statement

In case of an emergency, the University's Emergency Notification System (ENS) will be activated. Students are encouraged to maintain updated contact information using the link on the homepage of the mySUU portal. In addition, students are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the Emergency Response Protocols posted in each classroom. Detailed information about the University's emergency management plan can be found at https://www.suu.edu/emergency.

HEOA Compliance Statement

For a full set of Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) compliance statements, please visit https://www.suu.edu/heoa. The sharing of copyrighted material through peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, except as provided under U.S. copyright law, is prohibited by law; additional information can be found at https://my.suu.edu/help/article/1096/heoa-compliance-plan.

You are also expected to comply with policies regarding intellectual property (SUU Policy 5.52) and copyright (SUU Policy 5.54).

Mandatory Reporting

University policy (SUU Policy 5.60) requires instructors to report disclosures received from students that indicate they have been subjected to sexual misconduct/harassment. The University defines sexual harassment consistent with Federal Regulations (34 C.F.R. Part 106, Subpart D) to include quid pro quo, hostile environment harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking. When students communicate this information to an instructor in-person, by email, or within writing assignments, the instructor will report that to the Title IX Coordinator to ensure students receive support from the Title IX Office. A reporting form is available at https://cm.maxient.com/reportingform.php?SouthernUtahUniv

Non-Discrimination Statement

SUU is committed to fostering an inclusive community of lifelong learners and believes our university's encompassing of different views, beliefs, and identities makes us stronger, more innovative, and better prepared for the global society.

SUU does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex (including sex discrimination and sexual harassment), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ancestry, disability status, pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, genetic information, military status, veteran status, or other bases protected by applicable law in employment, treatment, admission, access to educational programs and activities, or other University benefits or services.

SUU strives to cultivate a campus environment that encourages freedom of expression from diverse viewpoints. We encourage all to dialogue within a spirit of respect, civility, and decency.

For additional information on non-discrimination, please see SUU Policy 5.27 and/or visit https://www.suu.edu/nondiscrimination.

Pregnancy

Students who are or become pregnant during this course may receive reasonable modifications to facilitate continued access and participation in the course. Pregnancy and related conditions are broadly defined to include pregnancy, childbirth, termination of pregnancy, lactation, related medical conditions, and recovery. To obtain reasonable modifications, please make a request to title9@suu.edu. To learn more visit: https://www.suu.edu/titleix/pregnancy.html.

Disclaimer Statement

Information contained in this syllabus, other than the grading, late assignments, makeup work, and attendance policies, may be subject to change with advance notice, as deemed appropriate by the instructor.