Students will collaborate with faculty and a preceptor in choosing a care setting, planning and organizing a learning experience, and practicing professional nursing in a safe and effective manner. Faculty will meet with students before the capstone course starts to set each student s schedule and learning experiences, incorporate the student s goals, and clarify course outcome expectations. Faculty will meet with students and preceptors each week to update completion of course outcomes and document weekly student progress. Weekly formative evaluation is on a Likert 5 point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree based on a clinical assessment tool utilizing the course competencies. Students, faculty and preceptors contribute to formative and summative evaluation.
Faculty assign the final grade of satisfactory or fail.
The focus of this course is the demonstration of Baccalaureate Program Outcomes in a clinical setting. During this course you will be expected to become increasingly independent in identifying and fulfilling your own learning needs as well as practicing and applying content and skills learned in prerequisite courses. Grading Policies Course outcomes are described in the S 483 Capstone Practicum Course Competencies Evaluation tool. The tool ranks performance on a scale of Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree. A final grade of Satisfactory requires Agree or strongly agree ratings for each of the 9 course competencies.