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NURS 178: Culminating Project

Reflection on Instructional Change

The Practice You Implemented

I chose to create an AI-Enabled assignment for this course. The students in this course design a health promotion project addressing an identified issue in a chose community. One component of this project is designing interventions to address this issue at the individual, group/community, and policy levels. While they can be creative in their chosen interventions, they must support their interventions with peer reviewed research. This tends to be challenging for them, often the intervention is described but no support is offered. I felt like AI could be a useful tool for them to brainstorm and find research. With this in mind I created an assignment that aligned with the course objectives and walked them through the use of AI in completing this portion of the project. I provided a clear description of how the AI could be used, access to the CSUS provided ChatGPT, example prompts, link to the library to check the sources provided by the AI, and places for them to put the output they received from the AI. Then their final step was to put the information and references together as they will in the final project.

Impact on Teaching and Learning

Students responded well to this assignment. They felt the instructions provided were clear and the example prompts were helpful. In the final section all of the references used by students were available in the CSUS library and not hallucinated by the AI. Unlike in the past, all students received full credit with no need for rewrites to add peer reviewed research support.

An example of the student work can be seen below in Example 2.

Influential FLC Activities

The activity that helped me the most was M5 Discussion: Share Your AI-Enabled Assignment. Module 5 discussed how to create assignments using AI to support the student's work. This gave me the idea of using AI to brainstorm and assist with research, and then using the AI output perform the higher levels of learning by critiquing and applying what they found.

AI for Health Professions Courses:

M1 Discussion: Thoughts on AI and the Future of Medicine & Health Care
M2 Discussion: Sharing AI Technology
M3 Discussion: Develop Prompts and Sharing Outputs
M3 Discussion: Helping Students Use AI to Learn
M3 Iterative Prompt Activity
M4 Create Your Own GPT
M4 Discussion: Share Your Custom GPT
M5 Discussion: Share Your AI-Enabled Assignment

Takeaway from Your Observe and Analyze Session

During out observe and analyze discussions another participant had added a statement regarding AI to the end of an assignment, in this statement the student needed to specifically state how AI was used and I think that is a great way for students to acknowledge or cite the use of AI on an assignment.

Evidence of Instructional Change

Evidence of Instructional Change
Example 1	Example 2	Example 3
Assignment Instructions	Student Work Final Application of AI	The AI Assessment Scale

Practice and Reflect on Teaching and Learning with AI

This FLC influenced my teaching practices by providing examples and tools of how to use AI in a course in multiple ways. One opportunity is exposing students to AI use that may be required in the workplace, how to evaluate AI output, and recognize ethical ways to use the AI. Challenges will always be integrating a level at which the student must take the AI output and perform higher level learning objectives to critique, analyze, apply, etc. and trying to make sure that they are creating this content and not using an AI for that as well. One of the tools I used was helping students to access ChatGPT that is provided by Sac State, this impacts teaching by since you need to integrate the how to use AI component, it has impacted learning in helping the students to understand assignments that have been difficult for them in the past. I think that helping students learn how to use AI, and the ways in which it can be used to support learning is important so they can also understand the importance of the human component in checking it's work. If we just tell students no AI period, we aren't helping to guide them in the future use of AI in school or work.

Course Syllabus and Schedule

Course Syllabus and Schedule:

NURS 178-01 Syllabus Spring 2025.pdf

Post-FLC Syllabus and Schedule:

NURS 178 Culminating Project Syllabus Spring 2026.pdf

Faculty Bio

Faculty Bio
Faculty Picture	Faculty Professional Background
	I have been teaching at CSUS since 2010. I currently teach in the RN to BSN program as well as the Undergraduate BSN program. Before I began teaching I worked as a Labor & Delivery nurse at San Joaquin General Hospital, and as a school nurse for Stockton Unified School District. While working as a school nurse in SUSD, I worked with a colleague to apply for and was awarded a Healthy Start grant for one of the high schools in our district. While working with community resources and the district to put a comprehensive health center program together for this school, I found my passion in community health nursing. During this time, I earned my MSN in Nursing Education from CSU Dominguez Hills and began teaching part time. Seeing the ah-ha moment when students understand the importance of holistic care is one of my favorite things! When I decided to teach full-time I went back to school and earned my DNP from a consortium between CSU Fresno and CSU San Jose. When I’m not teaching, I enjoy spending time traveling with my family.

Funding Source
	This work was supported by: US Department of Education P031S230256 and P031C210012 *Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the US Department of Education.