outcomes and course concepts. The sharing is structure and supported by scholarly literature. Other teaching learning activities in the asynchronous courses include blogs, concepts in action assignments, quizzes, identifying top concepts during reading assignments, and course specific assignments such as the change project, report, and presentation during the final capstone course. Through the various teaching-learning practices and assignments students are exposed to various healthcare professions, patients of differing ethnic groups and cultures, and patients across the lifespan. For example: case studies in NUR334 Patient Safety and Continuous Quality Improvement include scenarios with nurses working with physicians, medical records, human resources, pharmacy, and various therapies. Discussion threads and Concepts in Action assigned in NUR342 Global Health Nursing explore other countries, cultures and religious beliefs, children, pregnant women, elderly, persons with disabilities, migrants or refugees, persons with mental illness, and the LGBT community. Course student learning outcomes also focus on diverse populations. For example: NUR322 Nutrition for Nursing Practice includes course student learning outcome 1. Identify appropriate dietary guidelines for diverse patient populations including age, development stage, health status, gender, cultural diversity, and belief systems. To ensure consistency of assessment the faculty utilize rubrics to grade assignments. Rubrics are presented and discussed at faculty meetings prior to utilization in classrooms. The rubrics are loaded into the Canvas LMS where students upload their assignments. This provides faculty with opportunities to provide timely feedback to help with learning growth. III-H The curriculum includes planned clinical practice experiences that: • enable students to integrate new knowledge and demonstrate attainment of program outcomes; • foster interprofessional collaborative practice; and • are evaluated by faculty. Direct hands-on practice is performed in the laboratory and clinical settings. The college provides three practice labs with multiple beds, low fidelity, and high fidelity mannikins, and practice supplies. Faculty oversee students in the skills and simulation laboratories with a ratio of 1:12. Application of classroom theory and demonstration of competencies practiced in skills performance and simulation laboratories are achieved through the application and practice of nursing skills in the clinical environment, under the direct supervision of the clinical faculty and in the capstone experience a student is paired with a nurse mentor. The nursing program provides faculty-supervised clinical experiences to serve the diverse needs of the program. These external clinical experiences develop competencies at the registered nursing scope of practice and include providing safe, clinically competent, culturally sensitive, patient-centered, and evidence-based care to promote, restore and maintain wellness across
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