Nursing Education Fall 2025-1-2 blocks Assignments
- Instructor
- Sarah Dills
- Term
- Fall 2025
- Department
- CTE
- Description
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Nursing Education is a capstone course designed to prepare students to pursue careers in the field of nursing. Upon completion of this course, a proficient student will be able to implement communication and interpersonal skills, maintain residents’ rights and independence, provide care safely, prevent emergency situations, prevent infection through infection control, and perform the skills required of a nursing assistant. At the conclusion of this course students may sit for the Certified Patient Care Technician (CPCT) exam, or if students have logged 40 hours of classroom instruction and 20 hours of classroom clinical instruction, and if they have completed 40 hours of site-based clinical with at least 24 of those hours spent in a long-term care facility through a Department of Health approved program, they are eligible to take the certification examination as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).
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Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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Personalized Learning Plan (PLP)
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Admission History
You will complete the attached admission record by interviewing your patient and by taking their vital signs. Information will come from your patient. Each person is responsible for their patient. Below is your patient's name:
Maddy- YL
Brooklyn J.- YL
Brandon- YL
Campbell- YL
Anna K.- YL
Brooklyn H.- James Martin
Faith- James M.
Graham- James M.
Sydney- James M.
Megan- James M.
Maddy- YL
Brooklyn J.- YL
Brandon- YL
Campbell- YL
Anna K.- YL
Brooklyn H.- James Martin
Faith- James M.
Graham- James M.
Sydney- James M.
Megan- James M.
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Tuesdays with Morrie Response
Read and complete in class.
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CPR Card **You need to submit a copy**
Everyone should have received their CPR card to their personal email address. It will be from something that includes "ecard" in the name/address. Please attach a PDF copy of the full page certificate to this assignment. (You can get a PDF copy by choosing print and then selecting save as a PDF.) You can also save/print a wallet size copy for yourself. Make sure to keep a copy for your records in case a future employer needs it.
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Chapter 9 Field Guide Activity
Follow Directions Attached. Final work will be checked at clinical.
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Exploring Therapeutic Diets: Creating a Diet Tray
On board in class:
You are working and still in orientation at a local LTC facility. You and your mentor are admitting a new resident. While covering the nutrition portion of the orientation your mentor asks you to observe how dietary processes patient data and preferences to create meals for the residents. You and the dietary employee you are working with are tasked with creating a "food tray" for the resident that follows the USDA Myplate recommendations and the resident’s specific diet needs. Use whatever craft supplies you wish to use. ***Make sure you choose the correct diet before creating the tray!***
Reflection:
Create and submit a google document that contains that following:
Your patients name and therapeutic diet
A clear picture of your diet tray with written description of food/liquids included.
Explanation of how your diet tray also meets nutritional needs of the elderly and myPlate guidelines
Explanation of why your patient needs the therapeutic diet plus other potential reasons a patient may benefit from this diet
A list of foods YOU would choose to put on YOUR diet tray if you had to follow this diet. Predict why you were asked to do this.
EXTENSION: While monitoring the resident, the CNA notices he/she coughs and gags when drinking water, suggesting dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). Considering this new observation, how might the diet order need to be modified? What specific diet would now be safer?
Grading:
50 - diet tray showing myPlate portion recommendations and foods chosen that fit the therapeutic diet
10 - Explanation of why the diet was chosen
10 - Detailed information about specific therapeutic diets
10 - Your food preferences and your thoughts on why you had to complete this activity
10 - Addressed extension question and answered thoroughly
10 - Neatness, organization, grammar of Google Doc
You are working and still in orientation at a local LTC facility. You and your mentor are admitting a new resident. While covering the nutrition portion of the orientation your mentor asks you to observe how dietary processes patient data and preferences to create meals for the residents. You and the dietary employee you are working with are tasked with creating a "food tray" for the resident that follows the USDA Myplate recommendations and the resident’s specific diet needs. Use whatever craft supplies you wish to use. ***Make sure you choose the correct diet before creating the tray!***
Reflection:
Create and submit a google document that contains that following:
Your patients name and therapeutic diet
A clear picture of your diet tray with written description of food/liquids included.
Explanation of how your diet tray also meets nutritional needs of the elderly and myPlate guidelines
Explanation of why your patient needs the therapeutic diet plus other potential reasons a patient may benefit from this diet
A list of foods YOU would choose to put on YOUR diet tray if you had to follow this diet. Predict why you were asked to do this.
EXTENSION: While monitoring the resident, the CNA notices he/she coughs and gags when drinking water, suggesting dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). Considering this new observation, how might the diet order need to be modified? What specific diet would now be safer?
Grading:
50 - diet tray showing myPlate portion recommendations and foods chosen that fit the therapeutic diet
10 - Explanation of why the diet was chosen
10 - Detailed information about specific therapeutic diets
10 - Your food preferences and your thoughts on why you had to complete this activity
10 - Addressed extension question and answered thoroughly
10 - Neatness, organization, grammar of Google Doc
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Hospital Modules
For each module, there is a google slide presentation and a quiz.
- Review and take notes (as needed) on each module
- Complete quiz (write answers on notebook paper)
- See instructor when ready to grade quizzes
- Review and take notes (as needed) on each module
- Complete quiz (write answers on notebook paper)
- See instructor when ready to grade quizzes
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Cognitive Impairment Case Study
Complete the attached case study. Be sure to answer all questions, follow all directions, and please write in complete sentences.
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Overcoming communication Barriers
Attach presentation here. :)
Create a short google slide presentation on the specific communication topics assigned to you. Include demonstrations of “what not to do” and then include strategies for “what to do” in your presentation. You will present this in class.
Create a short google slide presentation on the specific communication topics assigned to you. Include demonstrations of “what not to do” and then include strategies for “what to do” in your presentation. You will present this in class.
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Restraints
With a partner create a teaching tool (1 page handout, infographic, booklet) that explains restraints, reasons for use, alternatives for restraints, physical/psychological problems associated with restraints and resident rights. Cite sources.
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Skill quiz
Once you have been given your assigned skill, you and a partner will each perform your skill while the other person videos you. Please use your chrome book. You may not use your handbook during the skill. Once you start, you may not stop, but you can correct yourself at any time during the skill.
The videos will be reviewed as a class. Grades will be based on the effort you put into the skill and your participation in the debrief of your video as well as the videos of your peers.
The videos will be reviewed as a class. Grades will be based on the effort you put into the skill and your participation in the debrief of your video as well as the videos of your peers.
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Residents Rights
Follow the directions on the attached document
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Work Ethics in a Bag
Review the directions and complete.