Current through September 24, 2024
(1)
Curriculum Organization.
An organized curriculum pattern shall provide for appropriate
sequence and correlation of content to aid students in effective integration of
learning throughout the entire program.
(2) Curriculum Content. Minimum instruction
and clinical experience:
(a) Instruction
hours - 550 contact hours (this includes both classroom and planned clinical
conferences).
(b) Clinical
experience - a minimum of:
1.
Medical-Surgical Nursing, 300 contact hours.
2. Mother and Infant care, 60 contact
hours.
3. Nursing of Children, 35
contact hours.
4. Mental Health
Nursing, 35 contact hours.
(c) Areas of learning:
1. Area I: Supporting Content. This area
should include personal, family and community health, vocational relationships,
basic anatomy and physiology, basic nutrition, and basic nursing skills
including pharmacology and the administration of medication.
2. Area II: Core Content. This area includes
assisting patients in all age groups to meet their needs for daily living,
nursing patients with relatively stable nursing requirements and assisting the
professional nurse in more complex nursing situations. Courses of instruction
and clinical experience shall be planned in the nursing care of newborn
infants, children, adolescents and adults across the age span. Concepts of
mental health nursing shall be included in the curriculum including chemical
dependency. This area is not necessarily distinct, and some aspects of it may
be interwoven with Area I. Principles learned in Area I should be applied in
nursing situations in Area II.
(3) Major Curriculum Change. - Schools
wishing to make major curriculum change shall request approval of the Board
before instituting such changes in the curriculum or before admitting new
students to such a curriculum. Similarly, other major changes, such as use of
new clinical facilities, must be approved in advance.
(4) Instruction.
(a) Instructional methods shall be various
and suited to the course content and level of student learning.
(b) Instruction and guidance of learning
experience in the clinical areas shall be the full responsibility of the
instructor. She is expected to select learning experience and assign learning
activities based on course content and needs of the learner. The nursing
personnel of the hospital participates only as advisory or supplemental to the
instructor.
(c) Faculty members
shall share the responsibility for teaching the theoretical (classroom) content
of the program such that no one faculty member shall teach all of the
theoretical (classroom) content.
(5) Evaluation. - There shall be provision
for continuous development, implementation, and evaluation of the program.
The grading system shall be clearly defined, and there shall be
provision for periodical review of student progress.
(6) Reserved for Future Use.
Authority: T.C.A. §§
4-5-202,
4-5-204,
63-7-109, 63-7-115, 63-7-116,
63-7-118, 63-7-119, and 63-7207.
