Kingwood College Respiratory Care Therapist Program

RSPT 2243 Research Applications
Summer 2007

Revised April 16, 2007 E.K. Buzbee


Contact persons/ Facilitators:
Elizabeth Kelley Buzbee A.A.S., R.R.T.- N.P.S., R.C.P.

Kingwood College Respiratory Care Program
20,000 Kingwood Dr.

HPB 118V
Kingwood, Texas  77339
281.312. 1605


email
: kelley.buzbee@nhmccd.edu

 

 

Fiona Campbell  A.A.S., R.R.T.-N.P.S, R.C.P.

Kingwood College Respiratory Care Program

20,000 Kingwood Drive
HSB 202D
Kingwood, Texas  77339
281. 312.1599

 
email: fiona.campbell@nhmccd.edu

 

Go here for research web pages:

 

Up dates on research class: Kingwood college respiratory care research class up date

 

2007 research class seminar results: G:\respcare\seminar.ppt

 

 


Credit: 2 Credit hour


Prerequisites: Departmental Approval


Course Description based on WECM* description:

“The course focus is on analysis of current research material and determination of scientific validity.  May include active clinical research.”

 

*WECM: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/AAR/UndergraduateEd/WorkforceEd/wecm2000/search_pub/default.cfm

 


Learning Outcomes:

“Compare and contrast types of research; differentiate between scientific and nonscientific validity; conduct and present research findings.” *

Upon satisfactory completion of this course the student will:

  1. Describe the types of research
  2.  Identify the ethics of research as determined by both federal and UN mandates in order to evaluate published research; know the history behind these mandates.
  3. Differentiate between scientific and nonscientific research in order to evaluate the validity of published research
  4. Evaluate cardiopulmonary publications such as Journal of Respiratory Care
  5.  Evaluate the collection and analysis of data for published research.
  6. Develop an understanding of the legal and ethical ramification in human experimentation.
  7. Write weekly analysis of recently-published research in the respiratory care arena.
  8. Plan a day-long seminar on Emergency Preparedness for Health Care Workers that will be open to the professional community, the nursing students and to other respiratory care programs during the fall semester of 2007.

 


Scans: The Secretary’s commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) has identified (1) reading, (2) writing, (3) mathematics, (4) speaking and listening, (5) thinking skills, (6) personal qualities, (7) workplace competencies, and (8) basic use of computers as competencies required entering employment.



SCANS Performance Objectives:
1.            The student will demonstrate a working knowledge of Scans competency 1 [reading] Performance will be satisfactory if the student successfully:

  • Understands assigned pages in the text book for this course.
  • Understands the scientific papers assigned in this class in enough depth that these documents can be analyzed.
  • Understands the current literature on Emergency Preparedness

2.            The student will demonstrate a working knowledge of Scans competency 2 [writing]. Performance will be satisfactory if the student successfully:

·         Completes homework assignment.

·         Writes abstracts and prepares weekly analysis of these papers.

·         Corresponds with appropriate authorities to collect resources for seminar

3.            The student will demonstrate a working knowledge of Scans competency 3 [mathematics.] Performance will be satisfactory if the student successfully:

·         Calculates the required formulae used in statistical analysis of scientific papers

·         Assesses the statistical analysis used in researchers’ data

4.            The student will demonstrate a working knowledge of Scans competency 4 [speaking and listening]. Performance will be satisfactory if the student successfully:

·         Works with peers to prepare a statement paper on assigned topic

·         Participates in round table conversations to keep the faculty & peers abreast of current research

·         actively participates in the seminar planning committee

5.            The student will demonstrate a working knowledge of Scans competency 5 [thinking skills]. Performance will be satisfactory if the student successfully:

·         Analyzes the scientific papers presented as examples of independent research in the field of respiratory care

·         Analyzes the biological questions and limitations posed by these research projects

·         Analyzes the data obtained and the methodology of these research projects

6.            The student will demonstrate a working knowledge of Scans competency 6 [personal qualities]. Performance will be satisfactory if the student successfully:

·         Interacts with faculty, peers and staff in the research social system

·         Monitors and suggests improvements to the seminar planning committee

·         Exhibits personal self-esteem by demonstrating leadership responsibilities in the seminar planning committee

7.            The student will demonstrate a working knowledge of Scans competency 7 [work place competencies]. Performance will be satisfactory if the student successfully:

·         Displays the social skills needed to interact with the RCP faculty

·         Displays the social skills needed to interact with city, state, county, federal emergency preparedness authorities in order to gather information or to request interviews

·         Initiates and completes a day-long seminar within the scheduled time frame and within the established parameters

8.            The student will demonstrate a working knowledge of Scans competency 8 [basic computer skills]. Performance will be satisfactory if the student successfully:

·         Interacts with the faculty via e-mail

·         Interacts with local, state, country and federal authorities via e-mail to plan this seminar

·         Utilizes the Internet for references

·         Utilizes the TI 82 scientific calculator, or the Microsoft Excel program to analyze data

·         Utilizes computer graphics to create posters for the seminar

·         Contributes a final report to the planning commitee to the respiratory care web site


Course Structure:
Didactic and Laboratory. There will be a 1-2 hour lecture each day.  This will be followed immediately by the students’ direct application of the topic of that lecture to their research discussions in the roundtable sessions.  The focus of this course is to work on skills associated with obtaining information by independent reading of current respiratory care research.

There will be no tests in this class. The student will get a biweekly grade update based on the criteria in the grading portion of this syllabus.


Round Table: 40% of grade

 

20% Planning committee:
The student should start a roundtable folder in which he/she will keep all papers, notes and data pertaining to his/her activities in the seminar planning committee. This is not a shared responsibility with the team.  Each student must be prepared to present a personal as well as a team status report to the instructor and fellow students each Tuesday.

 

This participation will be graded daily and will form 20% of the students’ grades in this class.

On August 14, 2007, the entire planning committee will present their final report to the course facilitators and to other respiratory care faculty members. Each student will be responsible for some portion of this oral report.

20% Research Papers

Starting June 11, 2007, each Monday the student will verbally present his/her analysis of an assigned research paper from Respiratory Care or another peer-reviewed article. The student will answer questions regarding the article posed by facilitators and others, and if necessary, the student will participate in a discussion with other students who will be reading related articles that week.

The participation of the student in this portion of the course will form 20% of the students grade in this class.



Homework: 30%
Each Monday, the student will get a written assignment referenced to Robert Chatburn’s Handbook for Respiratory Care Research (2002). Please refer to the content section of the course for the reference pages for each week. These assignments will be due at the start of class the next week and are worth 35% of the final grade.  These assignments will form the bases of the weekly quizzes.

 

Students will also get assignments associated with the planning committee that will be completed in class as a group and turned in that day. Other assignments will be completed by the student at home and turned in the next week.

 

Late work will be accepted,  but not graded. If the student must be absent, and he/she can turn in required work ahead of time so that the team is not affected, it will be graded.

Due to the unique nature of this course, in which a single project will result from the students’ team’s work, all homework is crucial because it builds the next step.

While late homework will not be accepted for a grade, it may be required to perform the next step in the research project so it must be completed before the presentation.

A student who was absent may turn in homework early for the next week and it will get graded, but he/she will not get a participation grade for the day he/she missed.

Planning committee homework:

On Tuesdays of each week, all students and facilitators will form a planning committee for the day-long respiratory care seminar on Emergency Planning for Health Care Workers. The planning committee with be separated into subgroups to plan each of the lectures in the series. These subgroups will research background for their topic in order to locate appropriate speakers to discuss these topics, and then schedule these speakers for the seminar.

Other committees will be formed as needed to explore means to finance this seminar, schedule the meeting place and advertise the seminar to the professional respiratory community in the North Harris County, Montgomery County area, and to the nearby schools of respiratory care and nursing.

On August 14, 2007, the entire planning committee will present their final report to the course facilitators and to other respiratory care faculty members. Each student will be responsible for some portion of this oral report.


Daily Quiz: 30% of grade

Every Monday morning, this semester (except for the first and the last Mondays) a 8-10 question daily quiz will be given based on information obtained in the reading assignment for the previous week and based on the homework questions. None of these quizzes will be over lecture material.

These daily quizzes’ grades will be averaged and collectively form 30% of the final grade.


Semester Schedule:

Monday and Tuesday- 0800 to 11:40

 


Required Material:
American Association for Respiratory Care [AARC] student members may go to this web site: http://www.aarc.org/resources/  to log in to get a free PDF download of Robert Chatburn’s Handbook for Respiratory Care Research (2002). All homework assignments will come out of this textbook.

 

The majority of the research papers assigned in this course will be from recent volumes of Respiratory Care also accessible from the AARC web pages and from our school library.

 

 

 

 

 

Attendance:
Students are expected to attend all classes and labs.  An official absence is granted when such absence is caused by official participation in a college activity and the instructor is informed in advance. All other absences are unofficial. Absences caused by unavoidable conditions, such as illness, should be reported to Kelley Buzbee. [281.312.1605] Because this course is a team effort, the student must also have contacted a team member and made arrangements with them to cover their absence.

 

Absences will impact the final average with the first absence counting one [1] point, the second absence two [2] points, the third absence five [5] points, and each absence following a ten [10] point reduction. In other words, if a person is absent 3 days, he will have lost 8 points off the final average.

 

Tardies will continue to be deducted .33% points each.

Please note that the participation portion of the grade is dependent on the student being in class to participate so absences and episodes of tardiness will be significant to the final grade. Leave of Absence is NOT given in this program. Withdrawal is required.

An absence will result in a zero for that day’s participation and a zero for the quiz for that day. Homework may be turned in the first day back and it will be graded.  


Policies and Procedures:
Student may find the following information in the Respiratory Care Student Handbook.

     - Withdrawal policy
     - Attendance policy
     - Grading scale

The Respiratory Care Therapist Program practices a non-discriminatory admissions policy with respect to race, color, creed, sex, age, or national origin.

 

 

 

 

Grading:

Participation Research papers 20%

Participation Planning Committee 20%

Weekly Homework……. 30%

Daily Quiz…….. 30%

 

The final grade will be based on the following:

                              A     90 - 100
                              B     80 - 89
                              C     75 - 79
                              D     65 - 74

                              F     below 65

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following schedule is tentative.

date

lecture/reading assignment

roundtable/homework

June 4

 

 How to read a research paper

Chapburn: pp. 48-57

0800-900 Read syllabi in RSPT 2243 and RSPT 2160

 930-1120 introduce projects & make assignments 

June 5

 

 

0820: planning committee. State problem and establish subcommittees

 

June 11

Why we do research.

Chapburn: pp. 1-6

Assigned papers for week 1

0800: homework due and quiz over June 4th reading assignment

 

June 12

 

0820: planning committee

 

June 18

Ethics in research

Chapburn: pp. 7-15

 

0800: homework due and quiz over June 11 reading assignment

 

 

June 19

 

 

 

0820: planning committee

June 25

Forming the hypothesis

Chapburn: pp. 32-37

Assigned papers for week 2

0800: homework due and quiz over June 18 reading assignment

 


June 26

 

0820: planning committee

 

July 2

Research design

Chapburn: pp 63-76

Assigned papers for week 3

 

 

0800: homework due and quiz over June 25 reading assignment

 

July 3

 

 

0820: planning committee

July 9

Populations and samples

Chapburn: pp 59-63

Assigned papers for week 4

0800: homework due and quiz over July 2  reading assignment

 

July 10

 

0820: planning committee

July 16

Validity and study limitations

TBA

Assigned papers for week 5

 

0800: homework due and quiz over July 9 reading assignment

 

July 17

 

0820: planning committee

July 23

Statistics I

Chapburn: pp 122-181

Assigned papers for week 6

 

0800: homework due and quiz over July 16 reading assignment

 

July 24

 

0820: planning committee

July 30

Statistics II

Crunching the numbers with Excel program

Chapburn: pp 189-204

Assigned papers for week 7

0800: homework due and quiz over July 23 reading assignment

 

July

31

 

 0820: planning committee

August 6

Powerpoint programs

Chapburn: pp 215-229

Assigned papers for week 8

 0800: homework due and quiz over July 30 reading assignment

 

 

August 7

 

 0820: planning committee

August 13

Assigned papers for week 9

 0800: homework due and quiz over August 6 reading assignment

 

 

August 14

 

0820: planning committee. Final report to faculty advisors

 

 

 

 

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

 
I have received a copy and have read the course document for RSPT 2243 Research Applications. By signing, I indicate my understanding and willingness to comply with these regulations and requirements.
 
Student Signature: ________________________________________________
 
 
Date: ___________________________________________________________