Chabot College Nursing Program RN REFRESHER COURSE INFORMATION

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1 College Nursing Program RN REFRESHER COURSE INFORMATION Introduction and Overview The RN Refresher Program is a partnership between College Nursing Program and the Jewish Vocational Service (JVS). Nursing faculty from College will be responsible for developing and implementing a tenweek course consisting of nursing theory, skills review, and applied clinical practice in an acute care hospital. The theory portion will include 48 hours of lecture and discussion. The will include 48 hours of demonstration and return demonstration of skills currently used in health care practice today. Theory and Skills reviews are designed to strengthen and support current nursing practice in the United States. The practicum will total 160 hours at Alameda County Medical Center (Highland Hospital) located in Oakland, CA, and will provide excellent exposure to the work characteristic of a busy general medical-surgical hospital. Students will be supervised by experienced registered nurses currently employed in nursing practice. A representative of JVS will also offer individualized coaching, referral to resources, and job placement assistance during the course. This RN Refresher program is part of a larger project called the Immigrant Nurse-Re-entry program and is geared toward preparing foreign-trained nurses for employment in the United States health care workforce. Course Information The approximately 236 hours in the RN Refresher Course begins with two weeks of orientation to nursing concepts and skills, including an orientation to the acute care hospital, and an intensive skills practice. Students will be oriented to clinical skills commonly used in the acute care hospital. It is expected that the student will familiarize him/herself with the details of carrying out these skills in the actual hospital setting. Following the orientation weeks, the student will then progress to applying concepts learned in theory and skills lab to the actual clinical setting. The first four weeks of clinical practice will be conducted in a general medical-surgical setting. The students will be divided into two groups of ten each. Each group will have a clinical instructor to it for supervision. The second four weeks will include experiences with 1:1 mentoring by a registered nurse in the medical-surgical setting. The assignment will also involve students being placed on days and evenings. The objective of this preceptorship assignment is to be gradually introduced to the type of role expected of the registered nurse in the United States. This mentoring experience will be coordinated by the same clinical instructors the students have had in the first four weeks of their experience. All clinical assignments will be for two seven-hour shifts per week. In the first four weeks, the assignments will be on Tuesdays and Wednesdays (day shift). In the second four weeks, the assignments will be on two of the following days: Tuesdays, Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday. The RN Refresher Course curriculum is based upon three predominant threads as the foci for preparing the reentry student to function as a registered nurse in acute health care systems in the United States. These threads include: (1) Nursing Concepts (2) Professionalism in Nursing (3) Applications Mandatory Hospital Orientation Tuesday, May 29, Time 8 am to 4 pm, Place--Fairmont Hospital Building C Ground Floor. Address Foothill Blvd., San Leandro, CA. Parking: $1/hour by meter. Students are advised to bring a lunch or lunch money for the cafeteria. Mandatory Orientation to course Friday, June 1, Time 9 am to 4 pm. College campus Room 3102, Building Address: Hesperian Blvd. Hayward, CA. Parking will cost $1.

2 College Nursing Program Mandatory Computer Charting (MERLIN Training), June 6 or June 7, Time: 8 am to 4;30 pm. Place Highland Hospital, Rose Room. Address: 1411 E31st St, Oakland, CA. Parking $10 for parking station. Free street parking Introduction to Highland Hospital, Instructors and Preceptors: June 19, Time: 7am-2:40 pm. Meet and Greet Lunch with preceptors. Place Highland Hospital Classroom B. Address: 1411 E31st St, Oakland, CA. Time: 11:30 12:30pm. Parking is limited. Please carpool. Requirements: Submit ALL paperwork by Monday, May 7, 2012 to the nursing program office. Have ALL documents listed below compoleted by this date and either mail it so that it is received by 5/7, OR hand-carry it to the nursing program office (second floor of Health Science Building 2200) in Room 2273 and submit to the Administrative Assistant, Ms. Gentiluomo.. You may NOT register for the class until and unless this paperwork has been completed. Acceptance/Profile form All Alameda County Medical Center new employee/student forms (8 forms) Copy of the front and back of a current, valid American Heart Association Health Care Providers CPR card. This card must be signed by the provider Copy of the front and back of a valid and current California Registered Nurse License Medical form and copy of ALL immunizations records and titer reports o All students are required to have a recent (last 3 months) medical examination with titer immunization results. Schedule your exam now with your personal physician. Forms will be posted on the website o Click the Summer N85 on the left navigation bar. Hard copies will be mailed to students by o 4/10/2012 Tuberculosis clearance by one of the following: Copy of a negative chest x-ray within the past year PLUS a symptom review (request a copy from the nursing program if you do not have it in your packet) OR Copy of recent (within the past year) of a 2-step tuberculin skin test (if you have a history of a negative tuberculin) and a recent (within the past month) of a negative tuberculin test N95 Mask Fit through Alameda County Health Service. The cost for this is $65. Bring cash/check/money order at the time of service (May 29, 2012) Complete the background check and drug check from Verified Student (approximately $87) o Alameda County Medical Center requires all students to complete a drug screen and background check o Information will be posted on the College website Click the Summer N85 on the left navigation bar Name tag request ($10 each) by cash/check/money order payable to College on May 7, Instructors: Lead instructor: G. Meads, gmeads@chabotcollege.edu instructor: M. Bowman, skisong@gmail.com Instructors: TBD Policies: The RN Refresher program begins on May 29 with a mandatory orientation to Alameda County Medical Center. This will be followed on June 1, with a mandatory orientation to the N85 course. The actual class/skills lab begins on June 4, This ten-week class ends on Thursday, August 9, We are requesting that all students enrolled in this course commit to attend each class and clinical assignment. Time off for anything other than a 2-3 day family emergency will NOT BE GRANTED. Absences in excess of a total of 6 hours MAY result in your being dropped from the course. Page 2 of 5

3 College Nursing Program N85 Class/ / Schedule Summer 2012 MANDATORY: ACMC Orientation: Tuesday, May 29 8 am 4 pm (Fairmont Hospital) MANDATORY: Orientation to course: College 9 am 4 pm ( College, Room 3102) June 4, 2012 All students must take and pass basic math calculations prior to hospital/clinical assignment Monday 6/4 Tuesday 6/5 Wednesday 6/6 Thursday 6/7 Friday 6/8 (10 students) Skills practice test ACMC (10 students) Orientation to MERLIN EMR 8 am 4:30 pm ACMC (10 students) Orientation to MERLIN EMR 8 am 4:30 pm (10 students) Skills practice Monday 6/11 Tuesday 6/12 Wednesday 6/13 Thursday 6/14 Friday 6/15 Monday 6/18 Tuesday 6/19 Wednesday 6/20 Thursday 6/21 Friday 6/22 experience as Orientation to ACMC and meet and greet 11:30 12:30pm Classroom B Highland Campus Monday 6/25 Tuesday 6/26 Wednesday 6/27 Thursday 6/28 Friday 6/29 experience experience as as Monday 7/2 Tuesday 7/3 Wednesday 7/4 Thursday 7/5 Friday 7/6 experience HOLIDAY NO as CLINICAL OR CLASS Monday 7/9 Tuesday 7/10 Wednesday 7/11 Thursday 7/12 Friday 7/13 experience experience as as (demonstration and skills Page 3 of 5

4 College Nursing Program N85 Class/ / Schedule Summer 2012 Monday 7/16 Tuesday 7/17 Wednesday 7/18 Thursday 7/19 Friday 7/20 experience as experience as FYI Day Shift =7:00 3:30pm. Evening Shift = 3:00 11:30pm (days Saturday 7/21 Monday 7/23 Tuesday 7/24 Wednesday 7/25 Thursday 7/26 Friday 7/27 experience experience as as (days Saturday 7/28 Monday 7/30 Tuesday 7/31 Wednesday 8/1 Thursday 8/2 Friday 8/3 experience experience as as (days Saturday 8/4 Page 4 of 5

5 College Nursing Program N85 Class/ / Schedule Summer 2012 Monday 8/6 Tuesday 8/7 Wednesday 8/8 Thursday 8/9 Friday 8/10 experience as experience as Final Evaluations 8-11:30 am (days 1:30-4:30 pm GRADUATION CEREMONY Site to be announced Preceptorships will be on days or pms. Students will be mentored 1 on 1 by an ACMC staff nurse. Students will work 2 of the 4 possible days/evenings each week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday). Days of assignments will be determined by nursing staff. instructors will be on call for each of these 4 days. 3/12 np Page 5 of 5