Northwest Florida State College RN to BSN Nursing Program

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2003. In February 2005, a team from the COC conducted an on-site review of the OWC baccalaureate offerings, which resulted in a report affirming the baccalaureate level accreditation and including a commendation with respect to the innovative nature of the college’s baccalaureate programs. In 2007, NWFSC and UWF agreed that program growth, the logistical challenges of a joint program and the university’s new focus on developing an MSN program indicated that NWFSC should seek approval to provide its own BSN program. At its February 2007 meeting, the Florida State Board of Education approved the college’s request to offer the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) as its third bachelor’s degree program. The program proposal, which is a natural progression from the cooperative arrangement, coincided with the expiration of the five-year cooperative program agreement with UWF. With the August 2008 approval of the NWFSC Substantive Change Prospectus by the SACS Commission on Colleges, NWFSC is accredited to offer the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree, thus opening the door for students to begin the college’s stand-alone BSN program. Northwest Florida State College Self-Study Report for the BSN Program, August 20, 2008 Page 2 of 59
Note to the Reader: Although this self-study is submitted to the CCNE reflecting a new BSN program, NWFSC has been approved by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to teach upper division nursing courses since December of 2003. During the past four years, the college has registered students in and awarded credit for coursework completed in twenty-six (26) upper division nursing courses. This places the college in the unusual position of beginning a new program, without “starting from scratch”. Indeed, performance data and instructional experiences gleaned from those four years of teaching upper division nursing curriculum have been used to help establish evaluation benchmarks, incorporate selected program enhancements, anticipate student needs and demonstrate a history of program improvement in ways not typically available to a new program. In conducting and presenting this self-study, the faculty members do not intend to imply a long program history or to borrow the UWF legacy. However, the faculty members have wisely incorporated lessons from the past four years into the self-study process, referencing them as appropriate in this document. Northwest Florida State College Self-Study Report for the BSN Program, August 20, 2008 Page 3 of 59
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