Our Lady of Holy Cross College
Institutional Effectiveness Plan for Academic Departments ACADEMIC YEAR: 2013-2014
PROGRAM: Nursing
DEPARTMENT: Nursing and Allied Health
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The Department of Nursing offers a four-year program of study (prelicensure) leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. This program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) and is approved by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing. The graduate is eligible to apply to write NCLEX-RN (the examination for licensure for a registered nurse).
COORDINATOR: N/A
CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Patricia Prechter
Overarching purposes of the Nursing program are to
1. Provide a quality program of study leading to a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing to a diverse group of students who value the worth and dignity of the person;
2. Provide a professional nursing program which transmits the ethical and human values of the gospel and the values of the founders of the Marianites of Holy Cross to its students to enrich their own lives and to enable them to bring compassion and healing in the Catholic tradition of Jesus and Mary, His Mother, to those committed to their care;
3. Integrate emerging technologies and evidence-based practice with a strong liberal arts foundation;
4. Create an environment which encourages nursing research, scholarship, collaboration, and lifelong learning;
5. Foster the development of safe, clinical decision-making and critical thinking skills relevant to evidence-based nursing practice and quality improvement; and 6. Prepare nurses who become leaders in providing patient/family-centered, safe,
quality cost-effective health care to diverse populations.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (SLOs):
Upon successful completion of the Undergraduate (prelicensure) Program in Nursing, graduates should be able to demonstrate:
1. professional nursing skills within the scope of a diverse, global society; 2. critical thinking, decision-making, and independent judgment; and,
3. an advocacy role within the Christian perspective of respect for the uniqueness, dignity, and worth of the patient and others.
ASSESSMENT:
Outcome 1 and 2: RN Comprehensive Predictor standardized test (RCP)
Benchmark: The expectation is that a minimum of 50% of the students will score higher on the RCP than the individual mean nationally and that a minimum of 50% of the students will score higher than the individual mean for BSN programs.
Outcome 1 and 2: Critical Thinking Test (CTT)
Benchmark: The expectation is that the mean score of the group as seniors on the CTT will be higher than the mean score of the same group as sophomores on the CTT. It is also expected that the group score on management of care on the RCP will be at least seventy percent. Outcome 3: RN Comprehensive Predictor standardized test (RCP)
Benchmark: The expectation is that the group score will be higher than the national mean on the psychosocial integrity portion of the RCP and that the group score will be higher than the national mean on the basic care and comfort portion of the RCP.
Outcome 1 and 3: NSG 400 Student Clinical Evaluations by Nursing Faculty
Benchmark: The expectation is that the average score for the group on the Department’s NSG 400 clinical evaluations related to the students ability to provide for the psychosocial needs of patients will be at least a 3.5 (Likert scale of 4.0).
LOCATION:
All assessment and evaluation results are kept electronically and in paper form in the
DISSEMINATION/DISCUSSION:
Results from all assessments are shared with students, with individual nursing courses, and with the entire faculty in the Department of Nursing. The Department has a Nursing Faculty Organization Committee which provides an operational framework for discussion and determination of academic policies, goals, outcomes and standards of the Department. All nursing faculty are members of the Nursing Faculty Organization Committee. There are also two standing committees in the Department: the Curriculum, Instruction, and Evaluation Committee and the Admission, Progression, Retention, and Graduation Committee. Each full time faculty is assigned to one of the standing committees. Each semester course coordinators are members of the Administrative Council of the Department. The results from assessments are thoroughly discussed within the committee structure of the Department.
RESULTS: (For the 50 program completers in 2013-2014)
Outcome 1 and 2: RN Comprehensive Predictor standardized test (RCP) Benchmark Achieved/exceeded
Individual Mean- National on the RN Comprehensive Predictor ________68.1%________
Individual Mean-BSN Programs on the RN Comprehensive Predictor
________66.9%____________ Percentage of OLHCC Group
above Individual Mean-National ___________94%_______
Percentage of OLHCC Group above
Individual Mean-BSN Programs on the RN Comprehensive Predictor
_______94%__________
The expectations that a minimum of 50% of the students will score higher than the individual mean nationally and that a minimum of 50% of the students will score higher than the
individual mean for BSN programs was exceeded.
Outcome 1 and 2: Critical Thinking Test (CTT) Benchmark Achieved/exceeded
Percentage as sophomores with score of at least 50% 95% Percentage as seniors with score of at least 50% 98%
Class mean score as sophomores 72%
The mean score for the seniors was higher than the mean score for the class as sophomores. The expectation that the mean score of the group as seniors on the CTT would be higher than the mean score of the same group as sophomores on the CTT was met.
Percentage of OLHCC Group above 70% on management of care on the RN Comp Predictor standardized test
_____82.4%___
The expectation that the group score on management of care on the RCP was exceeded. Outcome 3. Achieved/exceeded
Benchmark
The group score on the psychosocial portion of the RCP was 77.8% and the group score on the basic care and comfort portion of the test was 70.3%.
The expectation that the group score would be higher than the national mean on the
psychosocial integrity portion of the RCP and that the group score would be higher than the national mean on the basic care and comfort portion of the RCP were both met.
Outcome 1 and 3. Achieved/exceeded
Benchmark Each student is evaluated by a NSG 400 clinical instructor in regard to his/her ability to provide for the psychosocial needs of patients. The clinical evaluation tool uses a 4 point Likert scale. Those evaluations are kept in each student’s file in the Department office. The average score on the 4 point Likert scale was 3.8.
The expectation is that the average score for the group on the Department’s NSG 400 clinical evaluations related to the students’ ability to provide for the psychosocial needs of patients would be at least a 3.5 was met.
MODIFICATIONS:
The nursing faculty reviewed this plan at the December 2013 end of semester meeting
(documented in the December 2013 faculty minutes). All of the data was not available but the faculty reviewed the plan. There were no modifications made at that time. Faculty did discuss each expectation and discussed achievement in that expectation.
Once all of the data was available, faculty reviewed the plan August 20, 2014 at the first faculty meeting fall 2014. Each expectation was discussed. Each achievement was reviewed. No modifications at this time.
Summary of expectation achievements:
TIMELINE, REQUIREMENTS, AND APPROVALS:
The Nursing Department reviews this plan each fall (December) and then again as soon as all data is available (usually April or May). So the Department reviews the plan a minimum of twice a year. Documentation of the reviews is in the Nursing Faculty Organization minutes. The last ACEN visit was spring 2013. The Department received full approval with the next visit for re-accreditation to take place in spring 2021. The Department received an eight year approval which is the maximum time awarded by ACEN.
