Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

B. Resources and Physical PlantThe SON has 54 academic offices, 25 administrative offices, 16 classrooms, 1 auditorium (172 seats),5,480 square feet of wet lab space, accounting for 5 faculty research labs. In addition, we have 3,282square feet of behavioral research space, accounting for 8 faculty research offices. All of these spaces arecontained within the ‘A’ level and floors 2 through 6 of the Factor Building. The classrooms andauditorium were previously sufficient for our needs; however, due to a doubling of enrollment over thelast 3 years from 300 to almost 600 students, we have now had to schedule classes via the campus generalassignment pool (i.e. away from the Factor building). Similarly, due to increased faculty numbers, officeand research space has become extremely critical. Our challenge is to obtain adequate office, research,and dedicated nursing classroom space for the School. The SON pays for shared computer lab spacewhich includes 4 SON dedicated PC terminals in the Bio-Med library. The SON also houses one skillslaboratory for demonstrations and teaching of its students. This skills laboratory occupies 1783 squarefeet and has 12 examination tables and 2 hospital beds as well as other state of the sciences skillsequipment. On the 6 th floor, the SON has a simulation laboratory which houses three SIM computercontrolled mannequins (SIM man, SIM baby, Noelle). Over the past 5 years, the SON has renovatedalmost every academic and administrative office and 5 research labs (which represents about one half ofthe wet lab space).Secretarial (administrative) support for faculty is provided from a centralized office which wasincreased from 2 to 4 full time staff in the last year. In the past, we had a dedicated assistant for each ofthe two sections of the SON. This was demonstrated to be not as efficient with the additional facultymembers hired due to the enrollment growth. Thus, the assistants were increased and reorganized into apool which allows all faculty one convenient stop for all their needs. We continue to evaluate adequacy ofsecretarial (administrative) support for the SON as FTE positions are filled.The SON faculty and staff’s Information Technology (IT) needs are provided by 5 full-time IT staffthat are located in a centralized office that occupies 550 square feet in the SON. IT supporting serverrooms are found on the second, third, fourth, and fifth floors of the SON. In addition, the SON is anintegral part of the UCLA Office of Information Technology’s Technology Infrastructure for Educationand Research (TIER) Program and is partnering with the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry to sharedesign and costs in providing state of the art network and wireless equipment and technology. Almostsince its inception by UCLA in November, 2006, the SON has used a teaching-learning platform calledMoodle which is in a class of software systems called Course Management Systems. This platformenables instructors to easily leverage a number of tools to build a course web presence. Despite theseexcellence resources in information technology, we are still in need of a dedicated Web Master who couldthrough this particular expertise enhance the image of the SON on the WEB.III. Undergraduate ProgramsA. Baccalaureate Generic (BS-G)1. Goals, Rationale, and Structure. The goals and rationale for educating professional nurses atthe baccalaureate level are described in the “Revision of The Essentials of Baccalaureate NursingEducation for Professional Nursing Practice,” August 18, 2008, AACN. Achieving competencies in thefollowing Essentials enables graduates to be members of the profession, practice within complex healthcare systems, provide direct patient care, and design, manage, and coordinate care. The Essentialsinclude: Essential I: Liberal education for Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice; Essential II:Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety; Essential III:Scholarship for Evidence Based Practice; Essential IV: Information Management and Application of10