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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NUR1301
Tracking Number - 5010
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Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
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Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2014-05-23
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number:
- Contact Person: Debbie Billingsley
- Phone:
- Email: dbillin1@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: NUR
- Number: 1301
- Full Title: Hematologic Malignancies
- Credit Hours: 3
- 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?: Y
- If repeatable, how many times?: 1
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Hem Mal
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: NUR 4216
- Corequisites: there are no corequisites
- Course Description: This course provides an introduction to hematologic malignancies for students interested in oncology. The focus will be on discussing the types of hematologic malignancies, sign and symptoms, treatments, and nursing interventions to manage patients.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed to compete with national trends
- 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? The current trends in healthcare are that many hematologic malignancies are being treated as chronic diseases. The endpoints in treatments are moving from a cure to achieving stable disease. In addition to this, hematologic malignancies are a disease of the aging or elderly. The US population is aging which means that more elderly patients will be diagnosed with cancer in the years ahead requiring an increase number of healthcare workers in this area of medicine. In preparation for this change in the US healthcare system, it is necessary to introduce nursing, medical and pharmacy students to the complexity of hematologic malignancies in their undergraduate studies in preparation for more advanced studies.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) The instructor should be oncology nurse certified or have worked on a malignant hematology unit or clinic for a minimum of five years.
- Objectives: At the end of the course, the student will:
1. Describe the pathology for different hematologic malignancies.
2. Describe the standard therapy for the treatment of different hematologic malignancies.
3. Discuss laboratory and diagnostic testing.
4. Discuss the management of patients undergoing treatment for their disease and the management of psychosocial complications resulting from the treatment.
5. Discuss nursing interventions to manage the adverse events from chemotherapy and novel agents.
6. Analyze the overall survival and remission rate for patients with hematologic malignancies.
- Learning Outcomes: 1. Plan care for patients with hematologic malignancies based on the patients’ assessment, diagnosis, treatment, ECOG status, and age.
2. Provide care for hematology patients receiving treatment with chemotherapy and radiation.
3. Manage care for hematology patients experiencing adverse events from their treatments.
4. Enhance the quality of life for patients living with complications of their disease and treatments.
- Major Topics: 1. CML, CLL, AML, ALL
2. MDS, Multiple Myeloma, Hodgkins Lymphoma
3. Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma: B-cell = MCL, DLBCL, Follicular, and T-cell Lymphomas
- Textbooks: Yarbro, C., Wujcik, D., & Gobel, B.H. (2011). Cancer nursing: Principles and practice (7th ed.). Boston: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: NCCN guidelines: http://www.nccn.org/patients/guidelines
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society: http://www.lls.org
American Cancer Society: http://cancer.org
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: 98-100=A+ 84-86=B 70-73=C-
94-97=A 80-83=B- 67-69=D+
90-93=A- 77-79=C+ 64-66=D
87-89=B+ 74-76=C 60-63=D-
Below 60=F
Exam I 25%
Exam II 25%
Exam II 25%
Disease State Paper 25%
Total 100%
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: This course requires the student to complete three exams and one paper. Attendance is not a requirement, but it is highly suggested that students do not miss lectures for this class. To receive a passing grade the student’s average must be above 70%.
- Attendance Policy: Course Attendance at First Class Meeting – Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation – Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It’s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work: There will be no make-up assignments offered in this course. Assignments are due on the posted due date. If there is any reason that an assignment cannot be turned in by the due date the student must contact the faculty member in advance of the due date and a submission plan will be made. If there is an unanticipated emergency that impedes submitting an assignment on the due date, the student must notify the faculty member as soon as possible as to when the assignment will be submitted.
The USF School of Nursing expects students to maintain academic honesty in all courses. By virtue of being registered in a nursing course, students agree to refrain from cheating. If cheating in any form (academic dishonesty) is detected, appropriate action will be taken. (Refer to USF Academic Dishonesty Policy).
- Program This Course Supports: Bachelors in nursing
- Course Concurrence Information: medical and pharmacy students
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.