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URSULINE COLLEGETHE BREEN SCHOOL OF NURSINGBSN HANDBOOKEdition: 5-13-19Disclaimer: All information in this handbook is subject to change. The faculty of the School ofNursing reserves the right to make and implement changes in student policies as needed due torequirements of outside agencies, the College, and the practice of nursing. Significant changeswill be communicated to students via the student portal in the Learning Management System.The most current Student Handbook can always be found on the School of Nursing’s website,and the Desire 2 Learn Nursing Portal to which students are encouraged to refer frequently. Ifyou have any questions, please contact your School of Nursing advisor.General Academic Policies for students in the Baccalaureate Nursing Program are consistent with thepolicies of the Undergraduate Catalog. Students should refer to the catalog in effect on the student’sadmission date into the nursing major. PLEASE NOTE: Each student, staff, and faculty memberhas an Ursuline College email address. This is the ONLY email communication methodavailable to students, staff, and faculty. Students are EXPECTED to daily check their UrsulineCollege email for any communications from the faculty and staff of the Breen School of Nursing.It is the student’s responsibility to stay updated on changes. Failure to check the nursing portal orUrsuline email daily may result in negative outcomes that are the responsibility of the student8-15-18 Revised: 1/14, 10/14, 1/15, 10/15, 4/16, 8/16, 12/16, 4/17, 7/17, 12/17, 3/18, 8/18; 5-191
TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductory Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mission, Vision, and Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Conceptual Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Program Goals: Expected BSN Student Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Procedure for Notifying Students about Program Policies and Changes in . . . . . .Program Policies The Second Degree Accelerated BSN Program (SDAP) Military Service Skills and Capabilities for Successful Completion of the Nursing Program . . . . . .Professional Conduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Physical Participation Release Policy , Academic Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Progression Requirements .Readmission Policy .Academic Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Audio and Video Recording of Class/Instructor .Classroom Attendance and Absence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Classroom Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Academic (Classroom) and Clinical Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)Progression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Children in the Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Competency Testing: Math Competency Exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Course Failures / Attempted Course Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Course Withdrawals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Withdrawing from a Nursing Course While a Performance ImprovementPlan Related to Clinical Performance is Active and Unresolved . . . . . .Failing a Nursing Course and Repeating a Failed Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nursing Course Attendance Following Withdrawal or Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Appeals Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Appealing Grades for Clinical Experiences in Which the Student Fails . . . . . .Documentation Format for Written Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evaluation and Grading of Course Assignments and Requirements . . . . . . . . .Grading for Courses with Multiple Evaluation MethodsBonus PointsLate AssignmentsExamination Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Electronic DevicesExamination Time AllotmentExam ReviewsMissed Exams and Policy about Re-scheduling of ExamsRounding Final Course Grades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grading Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Students with Disabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .URSA Student Testing Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Social Media Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BSN Honors/Nurse Scholars Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202121222223232425RN to BSN Program 27Clinical Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288-15-18 Revised: 1/14, 10/14, 1/15, 10/15, 4/16, 8/16, 12/16, 4/17, 7/17, 12/17, 3/18, 8/18; 5-192
Requirements for Clinical Participation Background Checks (Felony and Misdemeanor Records Checks) . . . . . . . . . .Nursing Student Drug Screening and Substance Abuse Policy and GuidanceClinical Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Student Conduct in the Clinical AreaSafe/Unsafe Clinical Practice and Debarment PolicyClinical Evaluations of Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Student Clinical Evaluations .Clinical Dress Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Equipment/Technology Usage in the Clinical Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Punctuality and Attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Clinical Placements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Emergency Cancellation of Clinical Experiences and Courses for Students Clinical Absences and Clinical Make-Up Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Clinical Absence due to illness Accidental injury at the clinical site Athletes’ Clinical Attendance/Absence Policy Sexual Harassment in the Clinical Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dress Code and Attendance Deficiency Point System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Protected Health Information Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Communication Process for Classroom and/or Clinical Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . .Competency Testing Policies .Assessment Technologies Institute, LLC (ATI) Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Virtual Assessment Technology Institute (VATI) Capstone and NCLEX-RN ReviewCourse. . .Nursing Resource Center PoliciesStudent Awards Student Nursing Organizations Payment of Fees and Expenses .Appendix A: BSN & College Handbooks – Student Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . .28293133Appendix B: Academic Integrity: Terms and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56Appendix C: Student Performance Improvement Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58Appendix D: Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) . . . . . . . . .60Appendix E: NRC Student Code of Conduct & Responsibility Agreement .61Appendix F: ATI Student Acknowledgement Form .62Appendix G: Ursuline College Incident Report Form .63Appendix H: Physical Participation Release Form 64Appendix I: Consent to Audio or videotape faculty .658-15-18 Revised: 1/14, 10/14, 1/15, 10/15, 4/16, 8/16, 12/16, 4/17, 7/17, 12/17, 3/18, 8/18; 3
Ursuline CollegeThe Breen School of NursingBSN Student HandbookDear Student,Welcome to Ursuline College and the Breen School of Nursing! Congratulations! You have entered intoone of the most highly regarded nursing educational programs in Northeast Ohio. As the health careenvironment becomes increasingly complex and quality focused, application of current and relevanttheoretical content is essential in the clinical setting. From staff nurses to nurse practitioners, fromeducators to scholars, Ursuline graduates are leaders because of the strong educational foundation andexperiences received while they are students here.Beginning a career can be an exciting time in your life but you need to be equipped for success; therefore,we have prepared a student handbook to provide you with the information you need to be successfulthroughout the nursing program. This handbook will become your guide and provide answers to many ofyour questions. The handbook also represents a contract that is binding in terms of school policies. Youwill be held responsible for knowing all content in this handbook and following the guidelines andpolicies as established.The BSN Student Handbook is uniquely designed to inform and update students who attend the BreenSchool of Nursing. The handbook is not intended to include all policies of Ursuline College, but it doesspell out many of the Nursing School policies. Individual nursing courses also have policies that will bedistributed by means of a syllabus, email correspondence, Web Pages, and/or the designated LearningManagement System (D2L). Please refer to these resources in addition to this handbook.To summarize, you will be held responsible for knowing and following all of the policies and guidelinesoutlined in:1. The Breen School of Nursing BSN Student Handbook2. The Ursuline College Student Handbook and Planner3. The Ursuline College Catalog4. Each course syllabusYou are also expected to be familiar with the Ursuline College and Breen School of Nursing websites andall course materials and other communications that are posted on the Learning Management System(D2L). Regular reading of both your Ursuline College e-mail and D2L announcement/news board isessential for your success.Please read all of these documents, booklets, materials, and take very seriously your studentresponsibilities. You will also be held responsible for asking questions of your instructors and advisorsfor any area of the handbook that may seem unclear to you.On behalf of the faculty and staff of The Breen School of Nursing, we wish you the very best as youbegin your journey.Patricia A. Sharpnack DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEFDean and Strawbridge ProfessorFor questions regarding policies, please contact us at:The Breen School of Nursing2550 Lander RoadPepper Pike, OH 44124Phone: 440-646-81668-15-18 Revised: 1/14, 10/14, 1/15, 10/15, 4/16, 8/16, 12/16, 4/17, 7/17, 12/17, 3/18, 8/18; 5-194
MISSION OF THE BREEN SCHOOL OF NURSINGThe Ursuline College Breen School of Nursing, founded in the Catholic tradition, is committedto a model of excellence in education that prepares students for diverse and changing roles asclinicians, teachers, and leaders. The Breen School of Nursing seeks to prepare students ascompetent, caring, and reflective professionals who provide values-based holistic nursing care inan increasingly complex and rapidly changing health care environment.VISION STATEMENTEducating future nurse leaders to positively influence a diverse population of health carerecipients in a complex health care system.SLOGANHonored past, dedicated present, brilliant futureMISSION OF THE BSN PROGRAMAcknowledging the inherent dignity and worth of all persons, the Breen School of NursingBachelor of Science in Nursing Program excels in developing compassionate and competentnurse leaders.PHILOSOPHYThe Breen School of Nursing faculty members adopt and support the philosophy and mission ofUrsuline College, a Catholic liberal arts institution of higher learning. Through the integration ofliberal arts and sciences with the nursing curriculum, students experience a values-based,holistic, collaborative, and progressive education within a caring framework. The Christiancontext and the principles of love, care, and concern are reflected in the nursing program. Nursesare taught to recognize the dignity, worth, and rights of all persons within the continuum ofliving and dying. Each individual is worthy of respect and the best care available.The Breen School of Nursing faculty believes nursing is a professional discipline with academicand practice dimensions. As a profession, nursing serves society through delivery of direct andindirect health care services to individuals, families, and communities in local, regional, national,and international environments. Nursing is a theory-guided, evidence-based, relationshipcentered practice that facilitates health and healing. Caring and a holistic approach are hallmarksof nursing practice. The practice of nursing requires critical thinking and subsequent clinicaljudgments that enable the professional to provide care in an independent, collaborative, andinter-professional manner. The core essentials of caring, compassion, reflection, and competenceare fundamental to professional nursing practice.The person is a unified whole with physical, socio-cultural, emotional, intellectual, and spiritualcomponents. As a unique individual, each human being draws on personal resources, interactionwith others, and cultural values in the pursuit of health. Individuals have the right to freedom ofchoice, personal dignity, and equality of opportunity for achieving their potential. As unique,complex, multi-dimensional beings that possess thoughts, feelings and values, individuals arecapable of self-care and have the right to make informed choices. Each individual has dignity,value, and worth and, as reflected in the Christian view of person, is endowed with reason andthe freedom to develop a personal relationship with God.8-15-18 Revised: 1/14, 10/14, 1/15, 10/15, 4/16, 8/16, 12/16, 4/17, 7/17, 12/17, 3/18, 8/18; 5-195
The faculty views education as a life-long, dynamic, intellectual, and social process ofdevelopment toward self-actualization. Faculty members are responsible for designing andimplementing teaching strategies that help facilitate students' learning. The Breen School ofNursing faculty enhances the learning process by maintaining current knowledge in thediscipline of nursing and integrating research and service into nursing education. Facultymembers are committed to providing an environment that promotes students’ efforts to reachtheir potential, supports intellectual interest and critical thinking, encourages the development ofprofessional values, and promotes a commitment to life-long learning. Within a milieu of mutualrespect, students and faculty participate collaboratively in the pursuit of academic excellence andprofessional expertise through inquiry and investigation, creativity, and active learning.CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKThe Ursuline College Breen School of Nursing BSN Curriculum uses the following frameworkto represent a focus on person-centered, relationship-based care delivered to patients, families,and communities. The contributing conceptual components of safety, quality of care, leadership,communication, evidenced-based practice, nursing informatics, and professional nursing practiceare equally important and interdependent in sustaining person-centered, relationship-based care.The framework reinforces and illustrates the belief that all care centers around person, family,and community as partners in nursing and health care. Graduates of the Ursuline College BSNnursing program will fully integrate all conceptual components of the framework into theirnursing practice.PersonCenteredCare8-15-18 Revised: 1/14, 10/14, 1/15, 10/15, 4/16, 8/16, 12/16, 4/17, 7/17, 12/17, 3/18, 8/18; 5-196
PROGRAM GOALS: EXPECTED STUDENT OUTCOMESA graduate of the BSN Program in the Breen School of Nursing:1. Integrates effective communication processes in collaboration with inter-disciplinaryteam members to coordinate and improve the delivery of health care.Sophomore Level: Applies beginning levels of effective communication processes incollaboration with team members to the delivery of health care to individuals.Junior Level: Applies effective communication processes in collaboration with teammembers to assist in the delivery of health care to individuals and families.Senior Level: Integrates effective communication processes in collaboration withinterdisciplinary team members to improve the delivery of health care to individuals, families, &society.2. Synthesize concepts and theories from the arts, sciences and the discipline of nursing topromote the health and well-being of society.Sophomore Level: Applies concepts and theories from the arts, sciences and thediscipline of nursing to promote quality health care and the well-being of individuals.Junior Level: Distinguishes concepts and theories from the arts, sciences and thediscipline of nursing to promote the quality health care and the well-being of individuals andfamilies.Senior Level: Integrates concepts and theories from the arts, sciences and the disciplineof nursing to promote quality health care and the well-being of society.3. Provides compassionate and holistic nursing care across the lifespan based on clinicaljudgments within the functional capacity of individuals, families, groups, and populations.Sophomore Level: Applies concepts of compassionate and holistic nursing care acrossthe life-span of individuals.Junior Level: Applies concepts of compassionate, and holistic nursing care based onclinical judgments across the life-span of individuals and families.Senior Level: Structures compassionate, and holistic nursing care based on clinicaljudgments across the life-span of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.4. Assumes ethical, legal and professional accountability for the evidenced-based practiceof nursing.Sophomore Level: Explains ethical, legal and professional standards for the evidencebased practice of nursing.8-15-18 Revised: 1/14, 10/14, 1/15, 10/15, 4/16, 8/16, 12/16, 4/17, 7/17, 12/17, 3/18, 8/18; 5-197
Junior Level: Executes ethical, legal and professional standards for the evidence-basedpractice of nursing.Senior Level: Plans actions based upon ethical, legal and professional accountability forthe evidence-based nursing.5. Integrates leadership concepts to manage and coordinate delivery of safe and qualityperson-centered nursing care in collaboration with teams.Sophomore Level: Applies basic leadership concepts to manage the delivery of safe,quality person-centered nursing care to individual patients.Junior Level: Applies intermediate leadership concepts to manage the delivery of safe,quality person-centered nursing care in healthcare settings as a member of the health-care team.Senior Level: Integrates leadership concepts to manage and coordinate the delivery ofsafe, quality person-centered nursing care in healthcare settings as a member of the health-careteam.6. Analyzes informatics and current healthcare technology in the provision of healthcareservices.Sophomore Level: Accesses informatics and current technology in the provision of healthcare services to individual patients.Junior Level: Uses informatics and curren
The Breen School of Nursing 2550 Lander Road Pepper Pike, OH 44124 Phone: 440-646-8166 . . care, and concern are reflected in the nursing program. Nurses are taught to recognize the dignity, worth, and rights of all persons within the continuum of living and dying. Each individual is worthy of respect and the best care available.
