Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

professional nursing practice. New 19900 general funds and professional school fees will beneeded for these programs.A secondary goal is to either expand enrollment in the PhD program and/or to develop apractice doctorate (DNP) to address the shortage of nursing faculty in California. In fall of 2004,the American Association of Colleges of Nursing voted that by 2015 the existing masters degreesto prepare advanced practice nurses (i.e. nurse practitioners and/or clinical nurse specialists) willbe replaced by a practice doctorate, the DNP. A task force was appointed in the School ofNursing to study the feasibility of the DNP at UCLA. It is expected that the task force report willbe forthcoming in 2006/07. California also has a severe shortage in nursing faculty to teach inthe California State system and in the community colleges. Many of the graduates from our PhDprogram have been trained as researchers and are applying to research-intensive schools ofnursing. Thus there may be additional justification of developing a DNP degree to address theshortage of nursing faculty in California. The issue is complex from political, pedagogical, andphilosophical points of view. Depending on faculty vote, the DNP might be implemented in threeyears, and new general funds might be forthcoming because of the potential initiative forincreased graduate and professional enrollment growth from UCOP.Currently, in order to facilitate clinical faculty mentorship, a Director of Clinical Practice,Dr. JoAnn Eastwood was appointed. She will coordinate all the clinical site placements forstudents. She provides mentorship for the clinical faculty, most of whom have masters degreesand are lecturers. A few are adjunct faculty with doctoral degrees. The School currently hasabout 200 affiliation site agreements/contracts. Her salary is provided from Professional Feerevenue.Interdisciplinary and Biosciences Initiatives. The School of Nursing has steadily built acadre of nurses who do basic science research. A genetics class is being developed to be offeredcampus-wide for 2007-08. The faculty are studying the feasibility of requiring the first year ofbasic biological sciences be required of pre doctoral students in the biological sciences andmedical school, for those nursing predoctoral students interested in basic science research. ThePhD program in the School of Nursing has already been changed to reflect a pathway to trainbasic scientists. The School is co-sponsoring a conference on stem cell biology with the Centerfor Society and Genetics in February, 2006. Dr. Wendie Robbins is a member of the Center forSociety and Genetics.Interdisciplinary and International Studies Initiative. For the last five years, Dr. AdeyNyamathi from the School of Nursing and Dr. Fahey from the School of Public Health have beenfunded the Fogarty Institute to train international scholars from India. Dr. Nyamathi (principalinvestigator) and Dr. Martin Shapiro from the School of Medicine are planning to offer coursesby satellite to physicians in Africa regarding the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. Thelatter is expected to be funded in 2006 by a special, unique allocation from Congress sponsoredby Congressman Lewis.Cultural Competence Across All Programs and UCLA in LA Initiatives. The facultycontinues to infuse cultural competence across all academic programs. The National Institute ofNursing Research within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded the Center for215