Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

Time Line for Strategies:1) Finalize design and implementation* of the curriculum for the MECN Program with facultyand Medical Center partners (1 year)2) Finalize design and implementation* of the curriculum for the Generic Program with facultyand Medical Center partners (1 year)3) Expand the bridge program (1 year)4) Reward and support clinical faculty mentorship in clinical tracks (1 – 5 years)5) Investigate faculty and community perceptions of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)program (1 - 3 years)Goal 2:Enhance Excellence Of Our Academic Programs In Meeting Societal And Health Care NeedsObjective 1: enhance interdisciplinary curricula and scholarship development in ourgraduate programs, particularly in biosciences and genetics, global health, and advancedpracticeObjective 2: enhance focused areas of study in acute care pediatrics and women’s health,and promote a greater infusion of geriatric, palliative care, fiscal and management and globalcontent within our curriculumRationale:Interdisciplinary collaboration in teaching, research and practice is also an important campuswideeffort that holds tremendous benefits for participating departments. Such collaborationcould include the integration of a bioscience and genetics core to our doctoral program, whereinour students would take a series of courses in the respective departments on campus.Interdisciplinary training of graduate nursing students can broaden and ground research as wellfunctional role performance, and nurture collaborations with the teaching and research activitiesof related disciplines. Joint appointments are a powerful means to promote interdisciplinarydialogue, increase the visibility of nursing scholarship within the university community, ensurethat nursing faculty are well-grounded in related disciplines, and enhance recruitment of strongdoctoral students with multidisciplinary research questions. Due to their inherent relevance tobiosciences and genetics, interdisciplinary relationships will be targeted with the basic sciencedepartments on campus. In addition, in our efforts to promote interdisciplinary collaboration inteaching of the advanced practice content, relationships are also targeted with the UCLA Schoolsof Medicine, the UCLA Medical Center and the Anderson School. The foundation of deliveredcontent is always respectful of the diversity of Los Angeles and California and the impact culturehas on health and illness experiences. Thus, there is a need to continually expand the knowledgebase of our nurses in the area of cultural issues.In addition, as recent changes in demographics include an increase in seniors; with a host ofinherent sociobehavioral and health care needs, and new guidelines from AACN Essentials for227