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Skills or competencies students should attain in each course to meet the program’s goals.
For each class period in each class, identify the content, activities, and evaluation strategies. 8. For example, one of the program goals (learning outcomes) might be to “Provide appropriate patient teaching to meet the needs of clients, families, and staff members.” To demonstrate this competency in a beginning level course, the competency might be to “Provide appropriate patient teaching regarding basic self-care to clients and their families.” The competency in Pharmacology might be to “Prepare a teaching plan for a client receiving medication in a specific classification.” In a Maternity Course, it might be to “Support a new mother as she learns to breastfeed her new infant.” In a management course, it might be to “Provide an in-service program for UAPs regarding delegation rules.” When all of these objectives are reviewed, the question must be asked: When students are successful in demonstrating competence in each of these individual objectives, does the faculty believe that the new graduate is indeed competent to “Provide appropriate patient teaching to meet the needs of clients, families and staff members?”
Use the course objectives as a guide: Will the chosen content, pre-class activities, including readings, class/ clinical learning activities, and evaluation processes allow students to meet the objectives for the course?
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