Apr 16, 2026  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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NUR 4030 - Practice Synthesis: Preceptorship and Simulations

1 lecture hours 9 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
The focus of this course is to prepare the student for the role of the professional nurse. Through a combination of preceptorship and simulation experiences, students increase their self-confidence, ability to prioritize situations, optimize time management skills, receive individualized feedback on competency achievement. Students develop their professional identity and belonging to the nursing profession. Students integrate previous learning that is transferable across health care settings and contexts that approximates professional practice expectations. Through participation in problem-based learning case scenarios, students solve problems common in healthcare environments. The summative simulation experiences provide opportunities to analyze and implement strategies to support effective teams, strengthen clinical judgment in the management of complex clinical situations, and gain skill and comfort in analyzing self and team performance, conflict management, and delegation skills.
Prereq: NUR 4010  and (NUR 4020  or NUR 4015 ) (quarter system prereq: NU 4600 and NU 4700 or NU 4702)
Note: None
This course meets the following Raider Core CLO Requirement: None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Provide safe, effective, compassionate care through analytical use of the nursing process, prioritization, and clinical reasoning skills during clinical and simulation experiences (Person-Centered Care, Clinical Judgment)
  • Analyze professional nursing concepts, reflect on growth as a nurse, and develop goals for professional nurse development and presentation, and strategies to support personal well-being (Clinical Judgment, Professional Role)
  • Use effective and intentional communication, conflict management, and delegation skills and modes appropriate for the context with clients and the health care team in clinical and simulation experiences (Communication)
  • Develop one’s professional identity, increase self-confidence, time management skills, and awareness of one’s strengths and weakness through active engagement in activities that prepare for transition to the role of a professional nurse (Professional Role)
  • Demonstrate proficient use of health information technology and biomedical technologies when providing nursing care to clients in a clinical and simulation experiences (Informatics and Healthcare Technologies)
  • Demonstrate behaviors that value the ideas and contributions of healthcare team members while cultivating the skill and comfort in delivery of team feedback to improve outcomes and minimize risk and errors during clinical and simulation experiences (Collaboration)
  • Retrieve and synthesize evidence from diverse sources of professional literature to support decisions that ensure the quality and safety of care provided in clinical and simulation experiences (Evidence-Based Practice)

Prerequisites by Topic
  • None

Course Topics
  • Reflective narrative writing and reflection proces
  • Incorporate the four aspects of care into practice as a senior and future graduate nurse 
  • Emotional intelligence 
  • Moral courage and resilience 
  • Patient advocacy and practice as a graduate nurse 
  • Mock interviews
  • Case discussions on precepted clinical experiences (i.e., burnout, bullying, horizontal violence, crisis management, discrimination, inclusivity, diversity, working in a healthcare environment in crisis or undergoing dynamic changes, caring, etc.)  
  • Colleague and professional issues (i.e., building relationships, recognizing good leadership of a healthcare unit, conflict management, dealing with concerns with quality and safety in practice, impaired healthcare providers, failure to rescue, secondary victim, etc.)  
  • Personal self-care and well-being (work-life balance, compassion fatigue)
  • Patient advocacy and practice as a new graduate nurse 
  • Resources and support for the continuum of lifelong learning and goal development

Laboratory Topics
  • Clinical experiences 
  • Summative simulation experiences 

Coordinator
April Pellmann, Dr. Melinda Rodriguez-Salus



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