A.
Responsibilities
1. The course
director is responsible for ensuring the ENPC or TNCC is conducted
in accordance with all administrative procedures and submitting
appropriate pre course and postcourse documents to ENA.
2. The course
director must be a member of ENA (or equivalent in countries outside
the US) with a current unrestricted RN license. The course director
must have successfully completed the ENPC Provider and Instructor or
TNCC Provider and Instructor courses and be a verified ENPC or TNCC
instructor. It is recommended the course director teach a minimum of
two provider courses prior to acting as course director.
3. The course
director is responsible for ensuring the security of the test.
B.
Precourse Responsibilities
The course
director is to:
1. Identify
instructor candidates and instructors requiring monitoring. Notifies
the Pediatric or Trauma Nursing Committee of the need to have a
committee member or designee present at the course in order to
evaluate instructor candidates or monitor instructors.
2. Assign
lectures and psychomotor skill stations to instructors.
3. Select the
course site and dates.
4. Select
qualified instructors.
5. Ensure the
rotation schedule for psychomotor skill stations is maintained at
the ratio of four participants per one faculty (4:1). The ratio can
be extended to six participants per one faculty (6:1), if necessary.
6. Identify
course participants.
7. Print and
disseminate course schedule.
8. Compile all
precourse and postcourse documentation.
9. Prepare
verification cards.
C.
Precourse Activities: At Least 10 Weeks Prior to Course
1. Complete
and send an application form to the national ENA office.
Manuals will
be sent to the course director or designee who assumes respon
sibility for providing manuals to participants.
Please note:
Once manuals are shipped to the course director or designee, they
are the responsibility of the course director and cannot be returned
to the national ENA office for a refund or credit.
2. Indicate
whether slides, CD-Rom, or lecture videotape series are required.
3. Provide for
the security of registration fees. It is recommended a nonrefundable
fee policy be developed to cover the costs the course director may
incur with late cancellations (including manual fee and indirect
fee).
4. As needed,
submit a letter verifying the availability of a member of the
Pediatric and Trauma Nursing Committee or designee, if instructor
candidate(s) will be verified in the course or if instructors are to
be monitored.
D. Precourse
Activities: Six Weeks Prior to Course
1. Assign
instructors specific lectures and psychomotor skill stations.
2. Arrange
transportation and lodging for instructors and participants.
3. Arrange for
availability of equipment and patient models.
4. Arrange
breaks and meal support, as needed.
5. Mail
provider manuals to course participants.
E.
Precourse Activities: 30 Days Prior to Course
1. Ensure the
participants have received their manuals at least 30 days prior to
the course.
2. Reconfirm
receipt of registration fees received before distributing manuals.
F. Precourse
Activities: 15 Business Days (Approximately Three Weeks) Prior to
Course
1. As needed,
adjust the number of course participants and notify national ENA
office in writing of actual number of course participants for the
scheduled course. Provide course number to facilitate processing.
2. If national
ENA office is notified in writing of changes in the number of
registered course par ticipants at least 72 hours prior to
the course, the indirect fee will apply only to the adjusted number
of projected course participants.
G. Precourse
Activities: Two Weeks Prior to Course
1. Course
materials from the national ENA office should be received by the
course director. A preliminary invoice will be included with the
materials.
2. Distribute
or mail course schedule and location to instructors and
participants.
3. Ensure
availability of equipment and patient models.
4. Distribute
audiovisual materials to instructors.
5. Obtain name
tags for participants and instructors.
6. Finalize
arrangements for breaks and meal support as needed.
7. Assign
participants to psychomotor skill group assignment.
8. Complete
and copy CECH certificates.
H.
Precourse Activities: One Day Prior to Course
1. Arrange
psychomotor skill stations with appropriate equipment.
2. Provide
time for instructors to practice psychomotor skill stations and
verify correct sequence of slides.
3. Meet with
instructors and models as needed.
4. Prepare
instructions for models to use at skill stations.
5. Reconfirm
room, break, and meal arrangements.
6. Check
lecture classroom to ensure correct set-up and availability of
equipment.
I.
Course Activities: Days of the Course
1. Examine the
facilities and meet with instructors to ensure course readiness.
2. Verify
availability of refreshments, as needed.
3. Ensure
adherence to time schedule.
4. Collect
expense forms from instructors.
5. Ask
participants to complete the course roster.
6. Collect
participants’ Course Evaluations/Multiple Choice Examination Sheets
and all psychomotor skill station evaluation sheets. It is
important to ensure that all documents are completed and legible
with no abbreviations.
7. Collect and
count all multiple choice examinations to ensure that all have been
returned.
8. If a
registered nurse participant decides not to participate in the
testing component of the ENPC or TNCC, the individual can receive
partial CECHs for the didactic component. The CECHcertificates are
completed by the course director and distributed to participants at
the end of the course. The number of CECHs awarded to each
participant should be recorded on the Summary Performance Report
Form. All registered nurse participants must complete the
demographic information on the Course Evaluation/Multiple Choice
Examination Answer Sheet for the ENA national office to maintain
ENPC or TNCC data records. It should be stressed to the participants
that they must complete the demographic information legibly and
completely, without abbreviations.
9. Conduct a
postcourse meeting with instructors to review instructor and
participants’ performances and to determine which participants have
successfully completed the course. Determine which participants meet
the guidelines for instructor potential. Complete the appropriate
form and distribute to the participant. The guidelines for
instructor potential are:
a. Achievement
of at least 90% on the multiple choice examination.
b. Achievement
of at least 85% of total points in the skill stations and
recommendation for instructor potential by the skill instructor.
c. Recommendation of the course director and instructors. An area to
consider is attitude: positive, confident, and logical.
10. Notify
participants of individual course performance.
11. Complete
and distribute CECH certificates to all participants and
verification cards to registered nurse participants.
12. Conduct
reteaching and evaluation sessions, as needed.
13. Complete
the Summary Performance Report Form.
J. Responsibilities During the Course
1. The course
director must be available during the entire course to ensure the
instructors are prepared, utilize current materials, maintain time
schedules for lectures and psychomotor skill stations, and assist
with problems.
2. The course
director is responsible for ensuring the course is conducted in a
professional manner and course integrity is maintained and follows
the procedures as listed in these guidelines.
3. The course
director has the option to participate as director and in struc
tor or only as director. Consideration should be given to potential
late schedule changes and instructor cancellations, as well as
financial con siderations.
4. Course
directors should confirm the license status of all RNs participating
in the course.
5. The course
director is responsible for maintaining test security and assuring
the exams are graded accurately. In the event it is identified that
an exam(s) has been graded incorrectly or a test(s) is not returned
with the post course materials, the course director will receive a
letter asking for an explanation. If the event occurs a second time,
the course director may have his or her instructor status suspended
or revoked.
K. Postcourse
Activities: Within One Week of Course
1. Return the
following postcourse materials to national ENA office via a
traceable delivery service (i.e., UPS, certified mail, etc.).
a. Audiovisuals (slides in correct order, CD-Rom, or lecture
videotape series).
b. Excess
verification cards.
c. All Course
Evaluation/Multiple Choice Examination Answer Sheets (all demo
graphic information completed).
d. Psychomotor
skill station evaluation sheets for participants who were
unsuccessful.
e. Summary
Performance Report Form and course roster.
f. Final
Faculty Roster.
g. Instructor
Candidate/Instructor Evaluation Forms, as necessary.
h. Master
copies of multiple choice examinations.
i. Retest
materials once all retests are completed. Do not withhold
returning the course materials and audio visuals while waiting to
complete any retests. Please make sure the course number is on all
returned materials.
2. Submit
check for indirect fees, manuals and any other charges made
payable to ENA, Course Operations. Include course director’s
name, course number, and dates of the course.
3. Outstanding
fees
a. ENA expects
all fees to be paid in full 15 days after course date.
b. ENA will
invoice the course director 30 days after receipt of postcourse
materials if an outstanding balance exists.
c. In the
event a course director has an outstanding balance due over 60 days,
the course director will be suspended from course directing and
teaching ENPC or TNCC until all outstanding fees are received. In
addition, the State Council President and State Pediatric and Trauma
Chairperson will be notified regarding the outstanding balance.
d. In the
event a course director has an outstanding balance due over 90 days,
it will be submitted to a collection process.
e. The state
quarterly assessment will not be processed until all fees are
received.
4. Reimburse
instructors and pay all bills.
5. Forward a
copy of the course evaluation forms and list of potential
instructors to the State Pediatric and Trauma Chairperson (state,
military, country outside of USA).
6. Complete
and distribute verification cards to those participants who
successfully completed the course.
7. Send copy
of evaluations to staff chairperson.
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