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department directors to enhance communication across instructional services and to determine key academic and student services policies and procedures. The Associate Dean also serves on the NWFSC Curriculum Committee, a strategic assignment that allows her easy access for communicating with all academic departments and support services to help meet the mission, goals and expected outcomes of the program. Her curriculum vitae is available in the onsite resource room. Key Element II-E Faculty members are academically and experientially qualified and sufficient in number to accomplish the mission, goals, and expected outcomes of the program. NWFSC employs only those faculty members who meet or exceed the minimum qualifications specified by the Commission on Colleges of The Southern Association of Schools and Colleges and by the Florida Board of Nursing. In addition to the program director, who also teaches selected upper division courses, the program employs two full-time faculty members. An additional three nursing faculty from the associate degree program who possess additional qualifications as a certified nurse educator and/or licensure as a nurse practitioner also provide occasional part-time teaching support. All program faculty members have at least eight years of teaching experience and at least twenty-one years of professional practice. One full-time faculty member possesses an earned doctorate in nursing science; all others have earned the Master of Science in Nursing Degree with some post-master’s graduate work, and the program director is currently enrolled in the University of South Alabama Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. (All faculty vitae are available in the onsite resource room; Appendix L presents a summary of current faculty credentials and teaching assignments.) In addition, all faculty members comply with the Florida Board of Nursing mandatory continuing education requirements for licensure. As a means to maintain current and up-to-date records on nursing faculty, the program maintains a file on each faculty member, which is available in the onsite resource room. Each faculty member’s experiential strengths and knowledge are considered when making course assignments. The Program Director taught the Concepts of Nursing Practice course as well as Nursing Research during the NWFSC-UWF Cooperative Program era. Her fifteen years of experience as education director for a local community medical center positions her well to teach the nursing elective, Staff Development for the Departmental Educator, as well Northwest Florida State College Self-Study Report for the BSN Program, August 20, 2008 Page 30 of 59
as Nursing Leadership and Management. The director is currently pursuing her DNP at the University of South Alabama. One of the program faculty members is currently pursuing the Family Nurse Practitioner post-masters certificate, with an expected completion date of December 2008. Her experience as a clinical expert and nurse practitioner student, as well as her duties as the nursing director of a local free medical clinic make her well-suited for teaching both the theory and clinical components of Health Assessment. Another faculty member possesses credentials and expertise as a nurse researcher for the United States Air Force Reserves, which cements her credibility with students enrolled in NUR 4165 Evidence-based Nursing Practice: Incorporating Nursing Research. Additionally, this faculty member is responsible for NUR 3678 Nursing Care of Vulnerable Populations, a nursing elective course, partially based upon her expertise with the vulnerable populations of newborns and research associated with the care of adoptees diagnosed with attachment disorder. The nursing faculty members work together to develop all courses, including formulating course descriptions and objectives, proposing useful teaching strategies, assignments, and assessment activities for each course. All have been actively involved in the self-study process for the program’s accreditation by the CCNE. This cadre of well-qualified faculty is sufficient to meet the teaching needs of the program and accomplish the mission, goals and expected outcomes. By established practice and program philosophy, didactic/theory classes, whether in online or traditional format, are limited to twenty-five (25), while the student-to-faculty ratio for direct supervision clinicals does not exceed eight to one (8:1) . These standards are commensurate with Florida Board of Nursing, faculty recommendations, and common practice in accredited BSN programs across Florida. Further, these standards easily accommodate the anticipated annual program enrollment of twenty-five (25) students. Additional faculty may be added as enrollment increases and courses are revised based upon program evaluation and stakeholder input. (Faculty teaching schedules and workload calculations are available in the onsite resource room.) The NWFSC-UWF cooperative program admitted fifteen, eighteen and twenty-five students each of the last three years. As of this writing, the new stand-alone NWFSC program has admitted nineteen students for the fall 2008 term. This data further supports the faculty staffing plan, didactic class size maximums and clinical ratio standards established for the Northwest Florida State College Self-Study Report for the BSN Program, August 20, 2008 Page 31 of 59
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Page 3 and 4: OVERVIEW: NORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE C
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