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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR7181
Tracking Number - 1811
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Approved, Permanent Archive - 2006-05-05
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2005-11-04
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: 62100-000-0
- Contact Person: Judith Karshmer
- Phone: 9749229
- Email: jkaeshme@hsc.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 7181
- Full Title: Casting and Splinting for the Advanced Practice Nurse
- Credit Hours: 1
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Cast and Splt for Adv Pract Nu
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
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- Course Description: Basics of casting and splinting for the Advanced Practice Nurse.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: To support nurse practitioner’s skills
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This content is not in current curriculum
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? once
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Graduate degree in Nursing
- Objectives: 1. Demonstrate basic casting techniques and casting removal.
2. Demonstrate basic splinting techniques.
3. Discuss the neurovascular evaluation of an orthopedic patient with a cast or splint.
- Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate basic casting techniques and casting removal.
2. Demonstrate basic splinting techniques.
3. Discuss the neurovascular evaluation of an orthopedic patient with a cast or splint.
- Major Topics: 1. Application of casts and splints.
2. Removal of casts and splints.
3. Neurovascular evaluation of the patient with a cast or splint.
- Textbooks: Coppard, B., Lohman, H., Shultz-Johnson, K. (2001)
Introduction to Splinting: A Clinical-Reasoning & Problem-Solving Approach (Second Edition). St. Louis: Mosby.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.