Section II: Progress Since the Most Recent Review Below are the goals from Section IV part E of your last Program Review Self-Study. Describe progress or changes made toward meeting each goal over the last year. GOALS Status Progress or Rationale for No Longer Applicable Curriculum Revisions: The short term revisions were approved through CMT and Short-term: minor In progress implemented fall 2013. revisions by fall 2013 decreasing program Completed Long term revisions are currently in development by the Nursing credits to align with Curriculum Committee. Though it is noted that the goal is a national standards. No longer applicable "concept-based curriculum", not competency. Faculty have had Long-term: major the opporutnity to review webinars purchased by the department revision to a reviewing the components of a concept based curriculum and competency based how best to create it. The goal for implementation is fall 2015. curriculum. Exploration of strategies to improve The national average for completion of an accredited associate program completion to at/above In progress degree program is 72%. The faculty have identified that the national average for accredited ADN program goal of 58% is too low and have replaced it with a goal program including: Completed of at/above national average. We are aware this may take some Consideration of time, but have implemented multiple strategies over the previous elimination of the No longer applicable 18 months to improve retention and graduation: Nursing Waiting List for Increasing the number of Accelerated Admission for entry and move toward Academic Achievement (AAAA) students entering each a selective admission term. It is noted that even though we can now accept up process. to 50 AAAA students we do not have enough qualified Redistributed of faculty applicants. resources to increase Increasing the admission GPA from 2.0 to 2.5 LPN Track enrollment. Changing from the PAX-RN to the TEAS as an admission exam Development of an Introduction to Nursing course. These interventions will not have an immediate impact but success will be monitored via 14-day report in early nursing
Section II: Progress Since the Most Recent Review Below are the goals from Section IV part E of your last Program Review Self-Study. Describe progress or changes made toward meeting each goal over the last year. GOALS Status Progress or Rationale for No Longer Applicable Curriculum Revisions: Short-term: minor revisions by fall 2013 decreasing program credits to align with national standards. Long-term: major revision to a competency based curriculum. In progress Completed No longer applicable The short term revisions were approved through CMT and implemented fall 2013. Long term revisions are currently in development by the Nursing Curriculum Committee. Though it is noted that the goal is a "concept-based curriculum", not competency. Faculty have had the opporutnity to review webinars purchased by the department reviewing the components of a concept based curriculum and how best to create it. The goal for implementation is fall 2015. Exploration of strategies to improve program completion to at/above national average for accredited ADN program including: Consideration of elimination of the Nursing Waiting List for entry and move toward a selective admission process. Redistributed of faculty resources to increase LPN Track enrollment. In progress Completed No longer applicable The national average for completion of an accredited associate degree program is 72%. The faculty have identified that the program goal of 58% is too low and have replaced it with a goal of at/above national average. We are aware this may take some time, but have implemented multiple strategies over the previous 18 months to improve retention and graduation: Increasing the number of Accelerated Admission for Academic Achievement (AAAA) students entering each term. It is noted that even though we can now accept up to 50 AAAA students we do not have enough qualified applicants. Increasing the admission GPA from 2.0 to 2.5 Changing from the PAX-RN to the TEAS as an admission exam Development of an Introduction to Nursing course. These interventions will not have an immediate impact but success will be monitored via 14-day report in early nursing