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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR7670
Tracking Number - 1812

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Current Status: Approved, Permanent Archive - 2006-05-05
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1. Date & Time Submitted: 2005-11-04
   
2. Department: Nursing
   
3. College: NR
   
4. Budget Account Number: 62100-000-0
   
5. Contact Person: Judith Karshmer
   
6. Phone: 9479229
   
7. Email: jkarshme@hsc,usf,edu
   
8. Prefix: NGR
   
9. Number: 7670
   
10. Full Title: Basics for Surgical Assist
    
11. Credit Hours: 1
    
12. Section Type: C - Class Lecture (Primarily)
    
13. Is the course title variable?: N
    
14. Is a permit required for registration?: N
    
15. Are the credit hours variable?: N
    
16. Is this course repeatable?:
    
17. If repeatable, how many times?: 0
    
18. Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Basics for Surg Asst
    
19. Course Online?: -
    
20. Percentage Online:
    
21. Grading Option: R - Regular
    
22. Prerequisites:
    
23. Corequisites:
    
24. Course Description: Overview and basics for the Advanced Practice Nurse as the surgical assistant.
    

25. Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: To support nurse practitioner’s skills
    
26. 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
    
27. Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? N/A
    
28. What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Graduate degree in Nursing
    
29. Objectives: 1. Discuss principles of aseptic technique.

    2. Discuss preparation of a sterile field.

    3. Perform and demonstrate scrubbing, gowning, and gloving techniques.

    4. List the basic instruments and equipment used in surgery.

    5. Analyze safety features essential to the surgery

    6. Participate in a precepted surgical experience

    7. Evaluate the components of a successful surgical experience
    

30. Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss principles of aseptic technique.

    2. Discuss preparation of a sterile field.

    3. Perform and demonstrate scrubbing, gowning, and gloving techniques.

    4. List the basic instruments and equipment used in surgery.

    5. Analyze safety features essential to the surgery

    6. Participate in a precepted surgical experience

    7. Evaluate the components of a successful surgical experience
    

31. Major Topics: 1. Aseptic technique

    2. Sterile/non-sterile fields

    3. Scrubbing, gowning, gloving

    4. Basic instruments

    5. Basic equipment

    6. Safety in the OR
    

32. Textbooks: Vaiden, R, (2001) Core Curriculum for the RN First Assistant, # Association of Operating Room Nurses.
    
33. Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases:
    
34. Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy:
    
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36. Attendance Policy:
    
37. Policy on Make-up Work:
    
38. Program This Course Supports:
    
39. Course Concurrence Information:
    

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