P E 253 - Advanced Total Physical Fitness

1. Make wise choices regarding physical activity, nutrition, weight management/control, body composition, and risk factors for disease.
2. Develop programs and participate in safe and effective aerobic and anaerobic activity suitable to their individual needs and the course purpose. 
3. Maintain or improve cardiorespiratory endurance and body composition.

1. Participate in academic and physical activities that address various goals of Healthy People 2020.  Goals include physical activity, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer. 
2. Apply training principles or rules of the sport in fitness- and skill-related classes. 
3. Identify and/or practice lifetime health and fitness skills that reduce risk of chronic disease and improve or maintain fitness and skill. 

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

P E 258 - Advanced Cardio Fusion

1. Make wise choices regarding physical activity and training techniques.
2. Participate in safe and effective physical activity suitable to their individual needs and the course purpose.
3. Improve wellness by developing programs and actively participating in physical activity suitable to their individual goals and the course purpose.

1. Participate in academic and physical activities that address various goals of Healthy People 2020.  Goals include physical activity, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer. 
2. Apply training principles or rules of the sport in fitness- and skill-related classes. 
3. Identify and/or practice lifetime health and fitness skills that reduce risk of chronic disease and improve or maintain fitness and skill. 

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

P E 298 - Independent Study-Physical Education 2

1. Demonstrate an enhanced understanding of their current knowledge of a physical education subject under the guidance of an instructor.
2. Demonstrate an enhanced awareness and understanding of physical activity including safe participation technical proficiency, and skill development.

1. Participate in academic and physical activities that address various goals of Healthy People 2020.  Goals include physical activity, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer. 
2. Apply training principles or rules of the sport in fitness- and skill-related classes. 
3. Identify and/or practice lifetime health and fitness skills that reduce risk of chronic disease and improve or maintain fitness and skill. 

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 101 - Introduction to Physical Therapy

1. Describe and provide examples of the mission, policies and strategies to be a successful student in the GRC PTA program.
2. Discuss the history of the physical therapy profession.
3. Describe and provide examples of the structure and functions of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), American Physical Therapy Association of Washington (APTAWA), Commission of Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), and Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy (FSBPT).
4. Define the roles of the physical therapist and physical therapist assistant in clinical practice.
5. Describe and provide examples of the variety of patients and clinical settings in the physical therapy practice.
6. Identify the members of the healthcare team and their roles in the patient/client relationship.
7. Describe and provide examples of the laws and regulations for the PT and PTA for the provisions of physical therapy in Washington State.
8. Describe and provide examples of ethics and professionalism as defined by the APTA.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 102 - Health Professional and Patient Interaction

1. Engage in critical self-reflection.
2. Clarify the PTA’s role in shaping the health professional and patient relationship.
3. Explore effective models of interprofessional communication and collaboration for the delivery of quality and compassionate care.
4. Develop awareness of the larger health care and societal contexts in which each relationship takes place.
5. Clarification of personal, professional, and societal values which define the complexity of interactions and the unique perspective that a health professional and patient each brings to their relationship.
6. Develop effective communication and collaborative skills within the healthcare team.

1. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
2. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
3. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
4. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
5. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 104 - Applied Anatomy

1. Identify movements in the cardinal planes.
2. Define medical terminology related to positions and locations in the body.
3. Explain and apply arthrokinematic principles of motion to synovial joints.
4. Define and identify types of muscular contractions.
5. Identify prime movers for musculoskeletal movements.
6. Define torque and explain 3 types of lever systems and apply these concepts to basic motions.
7. Explain the relationship of center of gravity and base of support and how they interact.
8. Name and identify the attachments, action and innervation of major muscles.
9. Describe ideal posture and alignment of the spine and appendages.
10. Identify and describe the role of joint components including: ligament, bursa, tendon, cartilage.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 105 - Patient Care Skills Part I

1. Describe and provide examples of the roles of the PT and PTA in relation to patient care including the plan of care, informed consent, HIPAA, professionalism, communication, basic documentation, evidence-based practice and International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (IFC).
2. Demonstrate proper body mechanics and posture during patient care to avoid injuries.
3. Demonstrate proper patient positioning and draping to maintain proper body function and avoid secondary complications due to immobility and patient comfort and modesty.
4. Accurately measure and document temperature, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, heart rate and pain.
5. Perform manual blood pressure assessment with using proper technique and patient positioning.
6. Demonstrate standard precautions for infection control which include donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE), hand hygiene and set up of sterile field.
7. Demonstrate how to maneuver and propel a wheelchair.
8. Accurately measure and fit a wheelchair and be able to describe the components of a wheelchair.
9. Define and describe the different types of activities of daily living.
10. Describe and provide examples of when to modify or cease patient care interventions based on signs and symptoms.
11. Describe and provide examples of home and environment assessments.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

PTA 106 - Neuroscience

1. Describe and identify the basic structure and function of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system.
2. Describe the components and paths of the primary somatosensory pathways.
3. Describe the components and path of the motor pathways.
4. Identify the three sensory mechanisms used in maintaining balance.
5. Describe the signs and symptoms of diseases and disorders affecting the nervous system.
6. Explain how nervous system dysfunctions affect functional ability.
7. Complete sensory testing for primary and cortical sensations.
8. Describe testing for selected cranial nerve functions and relate to the associated cranial nerve.  
9. Describe the signs, symptoms, and likely causes of movement disorders seen with upper and lower motor neuron dysfunction. 
10. Identify and map the dermatomal and peripheral nerve distributions for the extremities.
11.  Identify and describe myotomal/key muscle testing for the extremities.
12. Describe reflex testing and normal responses.
13. Describe testing and the responses/results for cranial nerve functions.
14. Describe the signs, symptoms, and likely causes of movement disorders seen with upper and lower motor neuron dysfunction including but not limited to:  Parkinson’s, cerebellar lesions, CVAs, spinal cord injury, radiculopathy.
15. Administer and score standardized functional outcome measures for balance.
16. Describe the movement disorders seen with pathology of the basal ganglia and of the cerebellum.
17. Define and describe communication disorders and strategies to promote effective patient care.
18. Describe the components of the autonomic nervous system and disorders that affect the ANS.
19. Recognize signs and symptoms of vestibular disorders.
20. Accurately assess with special testing for vestibular disorders.
21. Accurately and effectively complete and score tests for coordination and balance disorders.
22. Identify the four components used to assess orientation.
23. Describe how mental function is assessed.
24. Administer and score the Mini Mental Status Examination.

1. Implement plans of care developed by the PT.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, PTs, and other care providers both verbally and non verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients,families and other care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as an integral team member and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 107 - Procedures of Patient Care 2

Credits: 1
Introduction to current best practices and functional skills related to bed mobility, transfer training, assistive devices and gait throughout the continuum of patient care.

Enrollment Requirement: PTA 105  with a grade of 2.0 or higher.

Course Fee: $15.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 110 - Principles of Physical Agents 1

Credits: 1
Introduces practice of external compression and bandaging; length, girth, and volumetric measurement; thermotherapy including superficial heat, cryotherapy and paraffin; hydrotherapy; wound care and assessment; massage; pulmonary hygiene; cervical and lumbar traction.

Enrollment Requirement: PTA 105  with a grade of 2.0 or higher; and concurrent enrollment in PTA 160 .

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Analyze a peer-reviewed journal article.
2. Describe the effects of non-thermal and thermal agents in addressing pain and tone.
3. Describe the underlying mechanisms behind pain and tone.

4. Explain the contraindications, indications, physiology, rationale theory. and therapeutic effects of:

   a. Cryotherapy;

   b. Bandaging and external compression to reduce edema  and shape soft tissue;

   c. Hydrotherapy;

   d. Massage;

   e. Pulmonary hygiene techniques;

   f. Superficial thermotherapy;

   g. Traction.

5. Present a research paper.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 111 - Principles of Physical Agents 2

1. Explain the contraindications, indications, physiology, rationale, theory, and therapeutic effects of electromagnetic radiation.
2. Explain the contraindications, indications, physiology, rationale, theory, and therapeutic effects of Electrotherapy including biofeedback.
3. Explain the contraindications, indications, physiology, rationale, theory, and therapeutic effects of lontophoresis.
4. Explain the contraindications, indications, physiology, rationale, theory, and therapeutic effects of Laser.
5. Explain the contraindications, indications, physiology, rationale, theory, and therapeutic effects of Phonophoresis.
6. Explain the contraindications, indications, physiology, rationale, theory, and therapeutic effects of Ultrasound.
7. Present an analysis of a peer-reviewed journal article.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 114 - Fundamentals of Tests and Measures

1. Describe and provide examples of the interview process, verbal and nonverbal communication and the uniqueness of each patient and their functional status.
2. Describe and provide examples of how to perform a chart review and gather appropriate subjective information and prepare for interventions and data collection.
3. Perform goniometry measurements accurately and efficiently of the extremities and document findings.
4. Perform safe, efficient and effective manual muscle testing skills in the appropriate position with gravity diminished and against gravity.
5. Describe and provide examples of the grading scale for gross muscle testing, manual muscle testing, and muscle length testing.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
4. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

PTA 115 - Posture, Gait and Movement

1. Identify ideal postural alignment, typical deviations from it.
2. Describe observed posture.
3. Identify the components of typical human gait.
4. Describe the typical human gait cycle.
5. Describe atypical gait patterns.
6. Identify possible muscular, skeletal and/or neurologic causes of atypical gait patterns.
7. For selected lower extremity prosthesis, orthoses and spinal orthoses:
   1. Describe their structure.
   2. Identify the function of selected components.
   3. Explain the use and care of these devices to maintain hygiene and skin integrity.
   4. Identify indications for their use.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 130 - Introduction to Pathology 1

1. Describe and provide examples of the normal body structures and function and selected pathologies.
2. Describe and provide examples of the risk factors and preventative measure of selected diseases and disorders.
3. Recognize signs and symptoms associated with a variety of diseases and disorders which include genetic and congenital disorders, oncology and autoimmune disorders.
4. Review basic medical terminology with word building and orientation to the body as a whole followed by medical terminology related to specific body systems.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
3. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 131 - Introduction to Pathology 2

1. Describe and provide examples of the structure and function and selected pathologies of the major body systems.
2. Describe and provide examples of the risk factors and preventative measure of selected diseases and disorders of the major body systems.
3. Recognize signs and symptoms associated with a variety of diseases and disorders of the major body systems.
4. Describe and provide examples of basic medical terminology with word building and orientation to the body as a whole followed by medical terminology related to specific body systems.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
3. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 151 - Preparation for Clinical Experience

1. Compile required program and clinical requirements for clinical placements.
2. Complete HIPAA and AIDS training.
3. Review of all required documents for clinical placements.
4. Complete student information into the EXXAT database.
5. Understand the principles and application of basic documentation.
6. Develop a personal and profession plan for clinical experiences.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 160 - Principles of Physical Agents 1 Lab

1. Accurately record girth, length and volumetric displacement measurements.
2. Safely and effectively apply superficial thermotherapy.
3. Safely and effectively perform mechanical traction.
4. Safely and effectively administer mechanical compression and bandaging.
5. Perform pulmonary hygiene including assisted coughing and postural drainage, percussion and vibration.
6. Effectively perform soft tissue mobilization/therapeutic massage.
7. Communicate effectively with patients and/or family members via intervention scenarios.
8. Accurately complete SOAP note documentation for given scenarios.
9. Modify interventions as needed for safe and effective outcomes.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 161 - Principles of Physical Agents 2 Lab

1. Demonstrate and effectively apply electrotherapy (TENS, NMES, FES, iontophoresis.)
2. Select parameters for safe and effective TENS intervention.
3. Select parameters for safe and effective US/phonophoresis intervention.
4. Demonstrate and effectively apply ultrasound/phonophoresis.
5. Document intervention thoroughly with SOAP note format.
6. Modify physical agents interventions safely and effectively.
7. Demonstrate and effectively apply EM spectrum agents, including diathermy, biofeedback and laser.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 163 - Posture, Gait and Movement Lab

1. Demonstrate ideal postural alignment.
2. Document observed posture.
3. Identify the components of typical human gait.
4. Describe the typical human gait cycle.
5. Describe and demonstrate atypical gait patterns.
6. Implement the use of lower extremity prostheses and orthoses and spinal orthoses.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 164 - Applied Anatomy Lab for PTA

1. Identify movements in the cardinal planes.
2. Use correct medical terminology to identify positions and locations in the body.
3. Explain and apply arthrokinematic principles of motion to synovial joints.
4. Identify types of muscular contractions during movements.
5. Identify prime movers for musculoskeletal movements.
6. Define torque and explain 3 types of lever systems and apply these concepts to basic motions.
7. Explain the relationship of center of gravity and base of support and how they interact.
8. Identify and palpate major bony landmarks and muscles for the main joints.
9. Describe and identify ideal posture and alignment of the spine and appendages.
10. Describe the role of an isolated peripheral nerve on overall motor function.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 166 - Neuroscience Lab

1. Perform selected procedures to gather data, score responses, and provide interventions related to the sensory system.
2. Perform selected procedures to gather data, score responses, and provide interventions related to the motor system including myotomal testing and reflex testing.
3. Perform selected procedures to gather data, score responses, and provide interventions related to cognition and mentation.
4. Perform selected procedures to gather data, score responses, and provide interventions related to coordination.
5. Perform selected procedures to gather data, score responses, and provide interventions related to balance.
6. Perform selected procedures to gather data, determine responses, and provide interventions related to the vestibular system.
7. Identify and map the distribution of sensory peripheral nerves and dermatomes for the extremities.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 199 - Independent Study-Physical Therapy

PTA 201 - Current Trends in Physical Therapy Practice

1. Discuss current topics related to healthcare, reimbursement and documentation.
2. Discuss legal and ethical issues and ramifications of actions in physical therapy.
3. Discuss and describe common physical therapy business practices.
4. Describe and provide examples of professionalism in the workplace and clinical setting.
5. Discuss and apply strategies to deal with challenges in healthcare.
6. Prepare for terminal clinical experiences.
7. Explore career development.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

PTA 205 - Functional Training

Credits: 3
Covers the study of and application of functional training techniques used in the treatment of physical dysfunction and evidence-based practice.

Enrollment Requirement: PTA 105  with a grade of 2.0 or higher.

Course Fee: $13.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Identify the effect of hemiplegia and lower extremity amputation on functional abilities and selection of rehabilitation techniques across generations.
2. Identify functional expectations for trans-femoral and trans-tibial amputees within their lifespan.
3. Instruct a patient and caregiver in ADLs including bed mobility, transfers, gait and wheelchair use and basic self-care.
4. Instruct a patient and caregiver in developmental activities as part of functional training program and progress those activities to achieve a stated goal.
5. Demonstrate safe and effective guarding techniques when instructing individuals in functional activities.
6. Instruct patient/caregivers in safe and effective performance of functional activities.
7. Identify barriers to patient safety and safety awareness.
8. Administer a standard instrument to determine ADL and functional levels.
9. Identify appropriate adaptive devices and instruct an individual in their use and care.
10. Implement a progressive mobility program for a lower extremity amputee.
11. Identify the effect of phantom limb pain on functional performance and outcomes through a patient’s lifespan.
12. Identify and determine stages of pressure ulcers.
13. Describe positioning to prevent pressure ulcers, bony prominences that are at risk of pressure ulcers.
14. Evaluate and apply a peer reviewed literature article based on current trends within physical therapy treatment of hemiplegia and/or the lower extremity amputee across patient generations and apply to physical practice. 

 
Program Outcomes

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 210 - Therapeutic Exercise

1. Discuss the rationale, indications and contraindications for therapeutic exercise and its parameters  including:  PROM, AROM, stretching, mobilization, strengthening, aerobic exercise, aquatic exercise, balance and proprioception, PNF.
2. Describe the exercise progression sequence (of mobility, stability, controlled mobility, skill) and apply it to patient care.
3. Identify and describe the, indications and precautions/contraindications for therapeutic exercise  including:  PROM, AROM, stretching, mobilization, strengthening, aerobic exercise, aquatic exercise, balance and proprioception, PNF.
4. Appropriately modify an exercise session based on patient response.
5. Educate a patient or family member on a home exercise program.
6. Document the implementation of exercises interventions including exercise instruction consistent with defensible professional documentation guidelines from the APTA.
7. Compare and contrast types of ROM exercises (active, active assistive, passive, self, mobilization), including indications, goals, parameters, contraindications & precautions, limitations & benefits.
8. Compare and contrast exercise programs designed to address strength, endurance and power.
9. Calculate and determine the target heart rate for a given patient scenario.
10.  Recognize and identify the normal and abnormal responses to aerobic exercise.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

PTA 211 - Neurological Rehabilitation

1. Describe the role of physical therapy in the treatment of:
   • spinal cord injuries (SCI);
   • traumatic brain injuries (TBI);
   • cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs);
   • cerebral palsy and selected pediatric conditions;
   • selected neurologic disorders.
2. Describe the therapeutic interventions directed at adults and children with neuromuscular dysfunctions.
3. Describe and apply the principles of motor learning and motor control theories and gather data relating to an individual’s motor control level.
4. Describe and provide examples of the PTA role as a mandatory reporter in the suspected cases of abuse of vulnerable populations.
5. Implement the ICF to describe patient status as it relates to neurorehabilitation.
6. Implement the neurological assessment scale of mental function in therapeutic intervention with the neuro population.
7. Describe spasticity, describe muscle tone, and select interventions to address abnormal tone.
8. Describe normal motor milestones and use the development sequence in therapeutic interventions.
9. Describe and identify righting and equilibrium reactions.
10. Thoroughly interview patients/caregivers regarding prior level of function and present health conditions.
11. Educate patients and caregivers regarding interventions.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
4. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 212 - Acute Care

1. Describe the role of physical therapy care in acute care, wound care, cardiac care, and geriatrics.
2. Describe evidence based physical therapy interventions to address specific patient situations including:
   • mobilizing patients in critical care
   • airway clearance techniques
   • wound management interventions
   • conducting cardiac rehabilitation exercises
   • post-op surgery and pulmonary precautions
3. Describe the physiology and pathophysiology of selected disease processes, typical physiologic responses to treatment, and contraindications to treatment.
4. Demonstrate safe equipment handling and usage.                 
5. Participate in medical record review, documentation and interdisciplinary communication.
6. Identify and select appropriate patient education strategies.
7. Describe population demographics including variety of patient values and preferences and the impact on the healthcare system.
8. Describe pharmacological interventions as they relate to physical therapy.
9. Identify thoracoabdominal movements and breathing patterns during activities.
10. Interview patient and/or caregivers regarding prior level of function and present health conditions.
11. Instruct patient and family/caregivers in an effective home program
12. Understand and implement a documented plan of care in relation to acute care.
13. Assess the physiological response to activity via observation and vital signs.
14. Describe the presentation of patients with COPD, asthma, and restrictive lung disease.
15. Incorporate pain management strategies into the physical therapy intervention plan.
16. Accurately document an intervention session in acute care.
17. Demonstrate correct universal precautions, infection control procedures, isolation techniques, and wound management interventions.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 213 - Orthopedic Physical Therapy

1. State the general guidelines, precautions/contraindications for treatment of selected orthopedic conditions and surgical interventions.
2. Select and perform a comprehensive orthopedic intervention program, including progression, when given a protocol, plan of care or treatment goals.
3. Educate a patient or family member in a home portion of an intervention plan.
4. Select and perform selective orthopedic screening tests/tools and document findings.
5. Describe typical tissue healing times and phases of healing.
6. Discuss the rationale for post-operative precautions.
7. Describe rationale for selected orthopedic interventions and the expected response.
8. Describe the presentation, pathology, and impairments of common orthopedic conditions such as osteo arthritis, tendinitis/osis, sprains, dislocations, fractures.
9. Describe how tissue irritability and staging influences intervention selection and intensity.
10. Document an intervention session of orthopedic PT using SOAP note format.
11. Develop a home program and instruct the patient in the program.
12. State principles of ergonomics, make modifications for optimal ergonomics.
13. Apply principles of pain science to treat individuals with chronic pain or pain sensitization.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 220 - Pediatric Rehabilitation

1. Describe the role of physical therapy in the treatment of cerebral palsy and selected pediatric conditions.
2. Describe the evidence based therapeutic interventions directed at children with neuromuscular dysfunctions.
3. Describe and apply the principles of motor learning and motor control theories and gather data relating to an individual’s motor control level.
4. Understand the PTA role as a mandatory reporter in the suspected cases of abuse of vulnerable populations.
5. Implement the ICF to describe patient status as it relates to neurorehabilitation.
6. Identify spasticity, muscle tone, and interventions for abnormal tone.
7. Describe normal motor milestones and be able use the development sequence in therapeutic interventions.
8. Describe and identify righting and equilibrium reactions.
9. Interview patients/caregivers regarding prior level of function and present health conditions.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PTA 221 - Pediatric Rehabilitation Lab

Credits: 1
Practice of procedures and techniques applied to the treatment of specific impairments in a pediatric population.

Enrollment Requirement: PTA 210  and PTA 260  with grades of 2.0 or higher; and concurrent enrollment in PTA 220 .

Course Fee: $12.00

Course Outcomes:

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 251 - Clinical Education 1

1. Describe and provide examples of the clinical placement process.
2. Complete all program and clinical requirements to attend the integrated clinical experience.
3. Discuss various topics related to being part of the healthcare team in a variety of settings.
4. Completion of required assessments and documentation of clinical site and clinical instructor within the EXXAT database.
5. Demonstrate communication skills and professionalism with clinical sites and clinical instructors.
6. Self-evaluation of clinical performance by the use of the CIET.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

PTA 252 - Clinical Education 2

1. Describe and provide examples of the PT/PTA relationship and being a member of the healthcare team.
2. Develop professional communication skills for patient and clinical instructor interaction.
3. Describe and provide examples of the legal, ethical and fiscal implications in physical therapy practice.
4. Identify their own strengths and weaknesses for professional development based on experiences in PTA 278, PTA 279 and PTA 280.
5. Self-evaluate clinical performance by the use of the CIET.
6. Prepare for the licensure exam.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

PTA 253 - Clinical Education 3

1. Contribute to an online discussion about identified topics within the clinical setting, which include but are not limited to:

a. impact of cultural and socioeconomic difference,

b. documentation procedures and standards, and

c. physical therapy delivery system and practice management in the clinical site.

d. involvement in inter-professional practice.

2. Complete the assigned practice exam in preparation for licensure.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTA.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

PTA 260 - Therapeutic Exercise Lab

1. Implement passive, active, assistive, active and resisted exercises.
2. Implement selected prescribed exercise programs.
3. Instruct the patient and/or family members in carrying out exercise programs.
4. Identify and implement exercise, using a variety of techniques and apparatus, to accomplish a stated therapeutic goal and describe the reasons for selecting a specific exercise.
5. Demonstrate the ability to progress an exercise program within a treatment plan.
6. Instruct a patient in an aerobic training program and monitor the patient during aerobic exercise.
7. Determine a target heart rate for an aerobic training program for a healthy individual.
8. Describe the exercise progression sequence (of mobility, stability, controlled mobility, skill) and apply it to patient care.
9. Identify and describe the indications and precautions/contraindications for therapeutic exercise including:  PROM, AROM, stretching, mobilization, strengthening, aerobic exercise, aquatic exercise, balance and proprioception, PNF.
10. Educate a patient or family member on a home exercise program.
11. Document the implementation of exercises interventions including exercise instruction consistent with defensible professional documentation guidelines from the APTA.
12. Compare and contrast types of ROM exercises (active, active assistive, passive, self, mobilization), including indications, goals, parameters, contraindications & precautions, limitations & benefits.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

PTA 261 - Neurological Rehabilitation Lab

1. Describe, develop, implement and progress comprehensive interventions per the plan of care as identified by the Physical Therapist in the following:
   • 1. spinal cord injuries (SCI)
     2. traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
     3. cerebrovascular accidents (CVA)
     4. selected neurological disorders
2. Teach a prescribed intervention effectively and safely to a patient/family member/caregiver.
3. Apply the principles of motor learning and motor control theories and gather data relating to an individual’s motor control level.
4. Demonstrate ventilation strategies and secretion management for neuro impairments.
5. Implement the ICF to describe patient status as it relates to neurorehabilitation.
6. Demonstrate the ability to monitor and adjust therapeutic interventions in response to changes in patients’ status, and to communicate appropriately with the supervising PT.
7. Use of neurological assessment scale of mental function in therapeutic intervention with the neuro population.
8. Safely implement therapeutic interventions for those with neuromuscular dysfunction per the Physical Therapist Plan of Care including:
   1. Principles of facilitation and inhibition techniques using Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF)
   2. Facilitation of the developmental sequence, and apply development sequence to the progression of treatment plans
   3. Principles of facilitation and inhibition techniques using Neurodevelopmental Treatment Approach (NDT)
   4. application of assistive adaptive equipment
   5. application of the principles of Functional Training and Task Oriented Strategies.  This is to include the most recent treatment approach for neuro.
   6. improvement of balance and gait addressing atypical development
9. Interview patients/caregivers regarding prior level of function and present health conditions.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 262 - Acute Care Lab

1. Demonstrate and modify/progress evidence based physical therapy interventions to address specific patient situations including:
   • mobilizing patients in critical care
   • airway wound techniques
   • conducting cardiac rehabilitation exercises
   • post-op surgeries and pulmonary precautions
2. Demonstrate safe equipment handling.
3. Demonstrate  correct universal precautions, infection control procedures, isolation techniques, and wound management techniques.
4. Apply and remove dressings and/or agents.
5. Identify precautions for dressing removal.
6. Describe and demonstrate how to establish and maintain a sterile field
7. Participate in medical record review, documentation and interdisciplinary communication.
8. Implement patient education strategies, including instruct patients and families in appropriate activities for safe discharge.
9. Assess the physiological response to activity via observation and vital signs.
10. Incorporate pain management strategies into the physical therapy intervention plan.
11. Accurately document an intervention session in an acute care setting.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

PTA 263 - Orthopedic Therapy Lab

1. Select, develop, implement and modify progress comprehensive physical therapy interventions per plan of care per PT evaluations.
2. Select, implement, and instruct the patient in strengthening, stretching, and ROM programs for stated muscle groups/joints of the spine and extremities using manual and/or mechanical forces.
3. Select, develop, implement and progress programs for the spine and extremities when given a protocol, plan of care or treatment goals.
4. Implement selected manual techniques for the extremities and spine.
5. Utilize screening tools to gather data about muscle groups/joints comprehensive intervention.
6. State and incorporate the general guidelines, precautions/contraindications for treatment of selected orthopedic conditions and surgical interventions.
7. Select and Perform a comprehensive orthopedic intervention programs, including progression, when given a protocol, plan of care or treatment goals.
8. Educate/instruct a patient or family member in a home portion of an intervention plan.
9. Select and perform selective orthopedic screening tests/tools and document findings.
10. Recognize the presence of post-operative precautions and incorporate into intervention.
11. Describe rationale for selected orthopedic interventions and the expected response.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PTA 277 - Clinical Affiliation 1

1. Document patient care consistent with clinical standards.
2. Demonstrate the ability to perform selected therapeutic interventions under supervision and consistent with academic content to date.
3. Demonstrate the ability to follow the policies and procedures delineated by the GRC PTA Program and the affiliation site policies and procedures.
4. Participate safely and effectively in clinical affiliation as determined by the clinical instructor.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PTA 278 - Clinical Experience 1

1. Demonstrate effective and professional communication skills.
2. Adhere to legal and ethical standards.
3. Demonstrate the ability to perform selected therapeutic interventions under the supervision of the clinical instructor.
4. Participate and complete documentation and billing practices.
5. Demonstrate the ability to follow policies and procedures delineated by the GRC PTA and clinical sites.
6. Participate safely and effectively within the clinical setting as determined by the clinical instructor.
7. Complete the Clinical Internship Evaluation Tool (CIET) on Professional Behaviors and Patient Management based on the skills of a competent clinician.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

PTA 279 - Clinical Experience 2

1. Demonstrate effective and professional communication skills.
2. Adhere to legal and ethical standards.
3. Demonstrate the ability to perform selected therapeutic interventions safely and effectively under the supervision of the clinical instructor.
4. Participate in and complete documentation and billing practices.
5. Demonstrate the ability to follow policies and procedures delineated by the GRC PTA and clinical sites.
6. Participate safely and effectively within the clinical setting as determined by the clinical instructor.
7. Complete the CIET on Professional Behaviors and Patient Management and become independent based on the skills of a competent clinician.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PTA 280 - Clinical Experience 3

1. Demonstrate effective and professional communication skills.
2. Adhere to legal and ethical standards.
3. Demonstrate the ability to perform selected therapeutic interventions safely and effectively under the supervision of the clinical instructor.
4. Participate in and complete documentation and billing practices.
5. Demonstrate the ability to follow policies and procedures delineated by the GRC PTA and clinical sites.
6. Participate safely and effectively within the clinical setting as determined by the clinical instructor.
7. Complete the CIET on Professional Behaviors and Patient Management and become independent based on the skills of a competent clinician.

1. Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
2. Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
3. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
4. Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
5. Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
6. Transition to successful employment as PTAs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS& 110 - Physics Non-Science Majors with Lab

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, with respect to experimental design and inference in physics.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, with respect to experimental design and inference in physics.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS& 114 - General Physics I with Lab

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using algebraic methods in Newtonian mechanics.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using algebraic methods in Newtonian mechanics.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS& 115 - General Physics II with Lab

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using algebraic methods in the study of thermal properties of matter, electricity, and magnetism.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using algebraic methods in the study of thermal properties of matter, electricity, and magnetism.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS& 116 - General Physics III with Lab

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using algebraic methods in the study of magnetism, waves, oscillations, and modern physics.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using algebraic methods in the study of magnetism, waves, oscillations, and modern physics.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS 154 - Physics for the Life Sciences 1

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using algebraic methods in Newtonian mechanics.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using algebraic methods in Newtonian mechanics.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS 155 - Physics for the Life Sciences 2

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using algebraic methods in the study of thermal properties of matter, electricity, and magnetism.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using algebraic methods in the study of thermal properties of matter, electricity, and magnetism.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS 156 - Physics for the Life Sciences 3

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using algebraic methods in the study of magnetism, waves, oscillations, and modern physics.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using algebraic methods in the study of magnetism, waves, oscillations, and modern physics.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS& 221 - Engineering Physics I with Lab

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using elements of calculus and mathematical models to develop a comprehensive investigation of Newtonian particle dynamics.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using elements of calculus and mathematical models to develop a comprehensive investigation of Newtonian particle dynamics.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS& 222 - Engineering Physics II with Lab

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using differential and integral calculus to develop a comprehensive investigation of rotation, electricity, and circuits.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using differential and integral calculus to develop a comprehensive investigation of rotation, electricity, and circuits.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS& 223 - Engineering Physics III with Lab

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using differential and integral calculus to develop a comprehensive investigation of rotation, electricity, and circuits.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using differential and integral calculus to develop a comprehensive investigation of rotation, electricity, and circuits.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS 225 - Modern Physics

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using elements of calculus and mathematical models to develop a comprehensive investigation of modern physics.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using elements of calculus and mathematical models to develop a comprehensive investigation of modern physics.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS 229 - Electric and Magnetic Fields

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using differential and integral calculus to develop a comprehensive investigation of electromagnetic fields.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using differential and integral calculus to develop a comprehensive investigation of electromagnetic fields.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS 230 - Undergraduate Research

1. Ask a research question, carry out experiments, analyze data, make decisions, formulate solutions, to develop and carry out a comprehensive and independent investigation of an advanced topic in physics.
2. Give reasons for choice of research question, assumptions, hypotheses, data analysis and conclusions while developing a comprehensive and independent investigation of an advanced topics in physics.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHYS 298 - Independent Study-Physics

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions, using calculus to develop a comprehensive and independent investigation of advanced topics in physics.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses, using calculus to develop a comprehensive and independent investigation of advanced topics in physics.

1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

POLS& 101 - Introduction to Political Science

1. Identify and apply key political science concepts to contemporary political events and institutions.
2. Identify and apply key political science approaches and theories.
3. Identify, analyze and critique key political ideologies.
4. Understand the differences between normative and positive political analysis.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

POLS 194 - Special Topics-Political Science

1. Achieve an in-depth understanding of a specific topic or area of political activity.
2. Demonstrate honed research skills.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

POLS& 200 - Introduction to Law: United States

1. Display a working knowledge of the functions of law in society, and the factors that effect the evolution of laws over time.
2. Understand the fundamental Concepts of Criminal Law, Torts, Civil Procedure, Property, and how they fit under the umbrella of historical Common Law and Constitutional principles.
3. Demonstrate an ability to concisely articulate the specific holdings and reasoning in given assigned cases.
4. Work cooperatively and effectively in group presentations.
5. Articulate and use several balancing tests commonly used in the resolution of public policy and Constitutional law cases.
6. Understand, appreciate, and reflect on the elements of thought (using the Paul-Elder Model) as they are applied to legal case analysis.
7. Be familiar with certain intellectual criteria used to evaluate the merit of particular legal arguments.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

POLS& 201 - Introduction to Political Theory

1. Summarize key concepts in political theory.
2. Distinguish competing conceptions of liberty, equality and the good life in various theories of justice.
3. Apply theories of justice to specific policy issues.
4. Identify forms of citizen participation in contemporary political decision making.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

POLS& 202 - American Government

1. Explain and analyze the origins and evolution of the United States political system.
2. Demonstrate critical understanding of principal political institutions in the United States.
3. Demonstrate command of key concepts and theories used in the study of American politics.
4. Articulate and explain salient issues in American politics.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

POLS& 203 - International Relations

1. Explain and analyze the origins and evolution of the state system and international politics.
2. Demonstrate command of key concepts and theories used in the study of international relations.
3. Demonstrate critical understanding of principal actors, international institutions, and organizations.
4. Articulate and explain salient issues and key debates in international relations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

POLS& 204 - Comparative Government

1. Describe selected political systems in the world.
2. Demonstrate command of key concepts and theories used in the study of comparative politics.
3. Employ the basic methodologies for carrying out comparative politics research and analysis.
4. Understand the power relationships (e.g., race, ethnicity, religion, sex) within the differing political systems.
5. Demonstrate competence in understanding political cultural differences across the globe.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

POLS 207 - American Political Participation

1. Understand key features of American democracy.
2. Understand the power relationships that frame political participation as determined or influenced by diverse histories, genders, races, ethnicities, and religions.
3. Identify major political ideologies and contemporary political issues. 
4. Specify the main methods for mass political participation (voting/electioneering, social movements, civil disobedience, and political violence).
5. Understand the role mass political participation plays in shaping the political system, and the outcomes of this system.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

POLS 209 - State and Local Government Politics

1. Understand the roles and responsibilities of states and local governments in our federal system.
2. Understand the power relationships between local governments, states, and our national government.
3. Understand the unique role of tribal governments in the United States political system.
4. Explain the basic history of Washington State including its creation and evolution.
5. Demonstrate command of key concepts and theories used in the study of state and local government and politics in the United States.
6. Articulate current political issues in state and local government.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

POLS 225 - The Arab-Israeli Conflict

1. Explain and analyze the origins and evolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
2. Identify key trends, developments, and actors in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
3. Apply key concepts in political science to various aspects of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
4. Articulate and explain salient narratives and key debates concerning the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
5. Identify the role European colonialism played in shaping and sustaining the conflict.
6. Explain ethnically motivated patterns of marginalization, discrimination, and violence that have generated, sustained, resulted from the conflict.
7. Demonstrate a strong intercultural knowledge regarding diverse ethnic, religious, and political groups across the Middle East.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

POLS 250 - Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

1. Identify and apply key concepts, theories, and approaches to studying immigration, asylum, and citizenship.
2. Identify the fundamental features of key debates concerning immigration, asylum, and citizenship in the US and across the world.
3. Explain and analyze the factors that shape immigration, asylum, and citizenship policies and their outcomes.
4. Articulate domestic and international dynamics and debates around immigration, asylum, and citizenship.
5. Identify the causes and outcomes of displacement and global refugee movement.
6. Articulate how states and societies define membership and belonging.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
• Diversity and Equity - In order to advance equity and social justice, students will be able to examine their own and others’ identities, behaviors, and/or cultural perspectives as they connect to power, privilege, and/or resistance.

POLS 298 - Independent Study-Political Science

1. Achieve an in-depth understanding of a specific topic or area of political activity.
2. Demonstrate enhanced analytical and research skills.

1. Demonstrate knowledge of politics and government in the United States and/or across the world.

MNURS 103 - Foundations of Nursing Lab

1. Identify scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective care environment in the skills laboratory.
2. Use the nursing process and clinical judgment with nursing care for one or more clients who are in different stages of the life cycle in the skills laboratory.
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching in the skills laboratory.
4. Provide nursing care in the skills laboratory within legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Perform culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client in the skills laboratory.
6. Communicate with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care in the skills laboratory.
7. Demonstrate competence with nursing skills including administration of non-parenteral medications, and a head-to-toe physical assessment in the skills laboratory.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care in the skills laboratory.
9. Demonstrate accurate calculation of math seen in nursing practice.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

MNURS 113 - Med-Surg Nursing I Lab

1. Identify scientific principles when performing nursing care in a safe and effective skills laboratory care environment.
2. Use the nursing process and clinical judgment with nursing care for one or more clients who are in different stages of the life cycle in a skills laboratory care environment.
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching in a skills laboratory care environment.
4. Provide nursing care in the skills laboratory within legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Perform culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client in a skills laboratory care environment.
6. Communicate with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care in a skills laboratory care environment.
7. Demonstrate competence with nursing skills including indwelling catheter insertion/removal, tracheostomy care and suctioning, and administration of non-parenteral and parenteral medications in a skills laboratory care environment.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care in a skills laboratory care environment.
9. Demonstrate accurate calculation of math seen in nursing practice.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 102 - Foundations of Nursing

1. Discuss the role of the nurse, maintaining safety, using the nursing process clinical judgment, evidence-based practice, and principles of pharmacology to clients across the lifespan.
2. Describe legal, ethical, social determinants of health, cultural and ethnic diversity considerations when providing care for clients across the lifespan.
3. Discuss the health care team and history of nursing including nursing theorists.
4. Describe communication, documentation, and HIPAA regulations as they apply to the care of clients.
5. Using the nursing process and clinical judgment, discuss basic principles of nutrition, immunology, inflammation and infection control related to the care of clients across the lifespan.
6. Using the nursing process and clinical judgment, discuss care for clients experiencing death and dying, rehabilitation, and pain across the lifespan.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in the nursing process and clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 103 - Foundations of Nursing Lab

1. Identify scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective care environment in the skills laboratory.
2. Use the nursing process and clinical judgment with nursing care for one or more clients who are in different stages of the life cycle in the skills laboratory.
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching in the skills laboratory.
4. Provide nursing care in the skills laboratory within legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Perform culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client in the skills laboratory.
6. Communicate with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care in the skills laboratory.
7. Demonstrate competence with nursing skills including administration of non-parenteral medications and a head-to-toe physical assessment in the skills laboratory.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care in the skills laboratory.
9. Demonstrate accurate calculation of math seen in nursing practice.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan in the skills laboratory.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 104 - Mental Health in Nursing

1. Describe mental health, mental illness, the principles of mental health care and the continuum between both mental health and mental illness.
2. Discuss factors impacting mental health including culture, socioeconomic, legal, ethical, social determinants of health, and changes in the health care system.  
3. Describe theorists and psychotherapies related to their impact on personality and behavior.
4. Discuss the role of stress, adaptation, coping, illness, and crisis related to mental health.
5. Describe components of a therapeutic relationship and therapeutic environment.
6. Examine the indications, implications, side effects, contraindications, client teaching and safety precautions for clients receiving medications for mental health disorders.
7. Discuss the use of the DSM-V multi-axial system for classification of mental disorders.
8. Discuss the role of the nurse, caring for clients with psychological and psychosocial problems, using clinical judgment with the healthcare team.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in the nursing process and clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 105 - Foundations of Nursing Clinical

1. Identify scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective care environment.
2. Use the nursing process and clinical judgment with nursing care, and when developing a comprehensive concept map for one client in the geriatric setting. 
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching.
4. Provide nursing care in a clinical environment within legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Perform culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client.
6. Communicate confidentially with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care, as well as therapeutically communicate with the client and family.
7. Demonstrate competence with nursing skills including a head-to-toe physical assessment and administration of non-parenteral medications.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care to clients.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 107 - Foundations of Nursing Simulation

1. Identify scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective simulation care environment.
2. Use the nursing process and clinical judgment with nursing care for one client who is in different stages of the life cycle in a simulation care environment.
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching in a simulation care environment.
4. Provide nursing care in a simulation care environment within legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Perform culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client in a simulation care environment.
6. Communicate with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care in a simulation care environment.
7. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care in a simulation care environment.
8. Demonstrate safe administration of non-parenteral medications, and other nursing skills in a simulation care environment.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 112 - Med-Surg Nursing I

1. Identify normal/abnormal pathophysiology of common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
2. Discuss the etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests and medical management of common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
3. Describe the role of the nurse, using the nursing process and clinical judgment, when caring for the client with common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
4. Describe legal, ethical, social determinants of health, cultural and ethnic diversity considerations when providing care for clients across the lifespan.
5. Identify nutrition and health promotion activities related to the common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
6. Examine the indications, implications, side effects, contraindications, client teaching and safety precautions for clients receiving medication related to course theory content.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 113 - Med-Surg Nursing I Lab

1. Identify scientific principles when performing nursing care in a safe and effective skills laboratory care environment.
2. Use the nursing process and clinical judgment with nursing care for one or more clients who are in different stages of the life cycle in a skills laboratory care environment.
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching in a skills laboratory care environment.
4. Provide nursing care in the skills laboratory within legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Performs culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client in a skills laboratory care environment.
6. Communicate with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care in a skills laboratory care environment.
7. Demonstrate competence with nursing skills including indwelling catheter insertion/removal, tracheostomy care and suctioning, and administration of non-parenteral and parenteral medication in a skills laboratory care environment.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care in a skills laboratory care environment.
9. Demonstrate accurate calculation of math seen in nursing practice.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 114 - Pediatric Nursing and Reproductive Health

1. Identify normal/abnormal pathophysiology of common medical surgical, mental, and cognitive conditions experienced by pediatric and reproductive/newborn clients.
2. Discuss the etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests and medical management of common medical surgical, mental, and cognitive conditions experienced by pediatric and reproductive/newborn clients.
3. Describe the role of the nurse, using the nursing process and clinical judgment and family centered care when caring for the pediatric and reproductive/newborn client and client/family/caregiver with common medical surgical, mental, and cognitive conditions experienced by clients both at home and during hospitalization.
4. Identify nutrition, hazard prevention, health promotion activities and communication with client/family/caregiver related to the common medical surgical, mental, and cognitive conditions experienced by pediatric and reproductive/newborn clients.
5. Examine the indications, implications, side effects, contraindications, client/family/caregiver teaching and safety precautions for pediatric and reproductive/newborn clients receiving medication related to course theory content.
6. Identify developmental theories pertaining to the care of the pediatric client as well as growth and development of pediatric clients.
7. Describe legal, ethical, social determinants of health, cultural and ethnic diversity considerations when providing care for clients across the lifespan.
8. Discuss the normal and high-risk pathophysiology and adaptations of antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum mother and baby dyad.
9. Describe the nursing care of the client experiencing normal and abnormal labor and delivery including the adolescent, using the nursing process and clinical judgment.
10. Describe the nursing care of the normal and high-risk mother/newborn client during the postpartum period using the nursing process and clinical judgment.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 115 - Med-Surg Nursing I Clinical

1. Identify scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective care environment.
2. Use the nursing process and clinical judgment with nursing care, and when developing a comprehensive concept map for two clients.
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching.
4. Provide nursing care in a clinical environment within legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Perform culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client.
6. Communicate confidentially with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care, as well as therapeutically communicates with the client and family.
7. Demonstrate competence with nursing skills including a head-to-toe physical assessment and administration of non-parenteral and parenteral medications.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care to clients.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 117 - Med-Surg Nursing I Simulation

1. Identify scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective simulation care environment.
2. Use the nursing process and clinical judgment with nursing care for one or more clients who are in different stages of the life cycle in a simulation environment.
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching in a simulation environment.
4. Provide nursing care in a simulation environment within legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Perform culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client in a simulation environment.
6. Communicate with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care in a simulation environment.
7. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care in a simulation environment.
8. Demonstrate safe administration of non-parenteral and parenteral medications, as well as other nursing skills in a simulation environment.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 122 - Med-Surg Nursing II

1. Identify normal/abnormal pathophysiology of more complex common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the lifespan.
2. Discuss the etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests and medical management of more complex common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
3. Describe the role of the nurse, using the nursing process and clinical judgment, when caring for the client with more complex common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
4. Describe legal, ethical, social determinants of health, cultural and ethnic diversity considerations when providing care for clients across the lifespan.
5. Identify nutrition and health promotion activities related to more complex common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
6. Examine the indications, implications, side effects, contraindications, client teaching and safety precautions for clients receiving medication related to course theory content.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 123 - Med-Surg Nursing II Lab

1. Identify scientific principles when performing nursing care in a safe and effective care environment in a skills laboratory care environment.
2. Use clinical judgment with nursing care for one or more clients who are in different stages of the life cycle in a skills laboratory care environment.
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching in a skills laboratory care environment.
4. Provide nursing care in the skills laboratory within legal and ethical guidelines
5. Perform culturally sensitive nursing care in a skills laboratory setting, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client in a skills laboratory care environment.
6. Communicate with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care in the skills laboratory in a skills laboratory care environment.
7. Demonstrate competence with nursing skills including IV therapy skills and blood typing, neurological assessment, nasogastric tube insertion and care, rectal tubes, emergency airways, code meds, EKG rhythms, central lines, ankle-brachial index in a skills laboratory care environment.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care in a skills laboratory care environment.
9. Demonstrate accurate calculation of math seen in nursing practice.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in the nursing process and clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 125 - Med-Surg Nursing II Clinical

1. Identify scientific principles when performing nursing care in a safe and effective care environment.
2. Use the nursing process and clinical judgment with nursing care to two or more clients, and when developing a comprehensive concept map for two clients.
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching.
4. Provide nursing care in a clinical environment within legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Perform culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client.
6. Communicate confidentially with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care, as well as therapeutically communicate with the client and family.
7. Demonstrate competence with nursing skills.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care to clients.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 126 - Transition to Practice

1. Discuss the role of the nurse caring for clients within legal and ethical guidelines in regard to coordination of care, safety and infection control, health promotion and maintenance, psychosocial integrity, basic care and comfort, parenteral therapies, medications, and reduction of risk potential.
2. Identify the role of the nurse when caring for clients within legal and ethical guidelines with a disorder in the cardiovascular-hematologic, respiratory, neurosensory, gastrointestinal-biliary, genitourinary-renal-reproductive, endocrine, musculoskeletal, medical emergencies, and integumentary systems.
3. Describe the steps involved in registering for the NCLEX with the WA Department of Health and PearsonVue.
4. Discuss the process for maintaining continued competency as a nurse, and ways to be a good nurse employee.
5. Describe different work settings for a nurse, leadership styles, applying for a position as a nurse, writing a cover letter and resume, and interviewing.
6. Identify the benefits of joining professional nursing organizations.
7. Describe components of being professional in an online and clinical  environment.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PNURSE 127 - Med-Surg Nursing II Simulation

1. Identify scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective care environment.
2. Use the nursing process and clinical judgment with nursing care for one client who is in different stages of the life cycle.
3. Document nursing care provided and client/family teaching.
4. Provide nursing care in a simulation environment within legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Perform culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, social determinants of health, and spiritual needs of a client.
6. Communicate with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care.
7. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care.
8. Demonstrate safe performance of nursing skills.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PLA 099 - Independent Study-Prior - Learning Assessment

PSYC& 100 - General Psychology

1. Explain the scientific method as it applies within the discipline of psychology.
2. Identify and describe the major theoretical perspectives utilized by psychology in understanding behavior and mental processes.
3. Explain the major concepts utilized by psychologists in understanding various aspects of behavior and mental processes.

1. Identify and apply concepts related to acquiring, evaluating and using reliable, valid, and powerful information to understand mind and behavior.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PSYC& 180 - Human Sexuality

1. Explain research data applied to sexuality.
2. Describe sexual behavior.
3. Describe love and relationships.
4. Explain the physiology of sexuality and common deviations from the norm.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PSYC& 200 - Lifespan Psychology

1. Explain the research principles that underlie research in developmental psychology.
2. Identify and describe the major theories utilized to understand human development.
3. Identify and describe developmental milestones associated with prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adult developmental periods.
4. Explain the influences of biology and environment on human development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PSYC 201 - Personality

1. Explain the research principles that underlie research on personality.
2. Identify and describe the major theories utilized to understand personality.
3. Specify the implications of various personality theories for healthy and pathological functioning.
4. Identify the assessment techniques utilized by each theory.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PSYC 209 - Fundamentals of Psychological Research

1. Plan or execute modest research projects.
2. Explain the literature describing psychological research.
3. Access research literature.
4. Apply methods of psychological research.
5. Produce scientific writing and use APA format and documentation.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PSYC& 220 - Abnormal Psychology

1. Describe the research methods appropriate to the study of abnormal behavior.
2. Explain the predominant theoretical approaches utilized in explaining abnormal behavior.
3. Describe the current methods of assessing abnormal behavior.
4. Apply the various theoretical approaches to the explanation of specific psychological disorders.
5. Identify and describe specific psychological disorders.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PSYC 225 - Fundamentals of Physiological Psychology

1. Explain the basic process of neuronal functioning both within and between neurons.
2. Explain the fundamentals of the present state of knowledge concerning how brain and nervous system function gives rise to sensory, motor, motivational, memory and emotional processes.
3. Identify the utility of models of nervous system processing for enhanced psychological functioning.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PSYC 240 - Social Psychology

1. Define social psychology and understand the role it plays in the field of psychology. 
2. Describe what attitudes are including attitude formation and persuasion. 
3. Define social perception and identify related concepts such as attribution theory, first impressions and the fundamental attribution error. 
4. Describe the power of social influence as demonstrated by classic research in areas like group conformity and obedience to authority. 
5. Describe the power of group behavior and the influence of groups.  
6. Define prejudice and identify the contributing factors.  
7. Identify approaches shown to resolve conflict between individuals and groups. 
8. Describe how factors related to culture (individualistic and collectivistic) contribute to the understanding of self and others. 

1. Identify and apply concepts related to acquiring, evaluating and using reliable, valid, and powerful information to understand mind and behavior.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PSYC 298 - Independent Study-Psychology 1

1. Describe in detail a particular topic chosen by student.
2. Explain the research associated with the chosen topic.
3. Design a research project to explore the topic.
4. Produce a write-up of the research proposal/project/topic using APA style.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PSYC 299 - Independent Study-Psychology 2

1. Describe in detail a particular topic chosen by student.
2. Explain the research associated with the chosen topic.
3. Design a research project to explore the topic.
4. Produce a write-up of the research proposal/project/topic using APA style.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PSYC 335 - Psychology of Aging

1. Explain psychological theories of development as they relate to aging. 
2. Describe the research methods employed in the psychological study of aging. 
3. Identify and describe age-related biological, cognitive, and typical/atypical psychological changes. 
4. Identify and describe various influences (such as culture, society, and family) on the aging process.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

READ 104 - Reading Mastery

1. Improve comprehension of college reading materials.
2. Demonstrate meta-cognitive reading skills.
3. Demonstrate critical reading skills.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

S SCI 100 - Truth, Lies and Social Statistics

S SCI 160 - Introduction to the Study of Gender

1. Describe various methods and theories in the Social Scientific study of gender and sexuality.
2. Describe how sex, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, and social class inform intersectional identities.
3. Describe historical marginalization and/or discrimination based on intersectional identities.
4. Identify and evaluate scientific theory, scholarly research and empirical evidence.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

S SCI 177 - Social Science Work Experience 1