INTERCOLLEGIATE CONSORTIUM FOR A MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING

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1 INTERCOLLEGIATE CONSORTIUM FOR A MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education Self Study for Southeastern Louisiana University McNeese State University University of Louisiana at Lafayette Nicholls State University Year of Record: Fall Spring 2012 Year of Visit: Spring 2013

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION... 1 STANDARD I: MISSION AND GOVERANCE... 3 Criterion 1.a Criterion 1.b Criterion 1.c Criterion 1.d Criterion 1.e Criterion 1.f Criterion 1.g STANDARD II: INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENT AND RESOURCES Criterion 2.a Criterion 2.b Criterion 2.c Criterion 2.d Criterion 2.e Criterion 2.f STANDARD III: CURRICULUM AND TEACHING-LEARNING PRACTICES Criterion 3.a Criterion 3.b Criterion 3.c Criterion 3.d Criterion 3.e Criterion 3.f Criterion 3.g STANDARD IV: STUDENT PERFORMANCE AND FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Criterion 4.a Criterion 4.b Criterion 4.c Criterion 4.d Criterion 4.e Criterion 4.f APPENDICES... 90

3 LIST OF TABLES Table 1.a.1 Congruency Between ICMSN Mission and Goals and Mission of McNeese State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Nicholls State University... 5 Table 1.c Summary of Faulty Achievements Related to Expected Student Outcomes... 8 Table 1.d.1 ICMSN GFO Standing Committee Assignments Table 1.d.2 ICMSN Faculty Participation on Southeastern, MSU, UL Lafayette and Nicholls Committees Table 2.a.1 ICMSN Member Institution Nursing Unit Budgets Table 2.a.2 ICMSN Faculty Professorships Table 2.a.3 Comparison of ICMSN Salaries to AACN and SREB Means Table 2.a.4 Comparison of ICMSN and National NP Faculty Salaries Table 2.b.1 Library Resources Available to Support Research and Scholarship Table 2.b.2 Support Personnel Table 2.d ICMSN FTE Data Table 2.f.1 Faculty Development Funds Expended by ICMSN Schools Table 2.f.2 Faculty Development in Web-Based/DL Teaching Table 2.f.3 Examples of NP Faculty Clinical Practice Table 3.a Relationship Between Selected Baccalaureate Graduate Competencies and MSN Graduate Competencies Table 4.b.1 ICMSN Program Evaluation Data Collection and Reporting and Timetable Table 4.b.2 ICMSN Student Clinical and Portfolio Evaluation Methods Table 4.c.1 ICMSN First Time Certification Pass Rates (Nicholls not included).. 80 Table 4.c.2 ICMSN Graduation Rates Fall 2009 Spring 2012 (Nicholls not included) Table 4.c.3 ICMSN Employment Rates (Nicholls not included) Table 4.c.4 ICMSN Graduate Exit Survey for Student Satisfaction (Nicholls not included) Table 4.e.1 ICMSN Faculty Evaluation Data Collection Methods Table 4.e.2 ICMSN Faculty Satisfaction Survey Criteria Trending Below Benchmark (Nicholls not included) Table 4.e.3 ICMSN Graduate Exit Survey Faculty Questions (Nicholls not included)... 87

4 APPENDICES APPENDIX A Memorandum of Agreement, Intercollegiate Consortium for a Master of Science in Nursing APPENDIX B Comparison of ICMSN Mission, Student Outcomes, Related Competencies, and ANA Standards of Professional Performance for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse APPENDIX C ICMSN Systematic Plan for Program Evaluation APPENDIX D ICMSN Affiliates Faculty Profile Full and Part-time Fall 2011 Fall APPENDIX E-1 Organizational Chart ICMSN Member Institutions APPENDIX E -2 Organizational Chart, Southeastern College of Nursing APPENDIX E -3 Organizational Chart, Southeastern University APPENDIX E -4 Organizational Chart, MSU College of Nursing APPENDIX E -5 Organizational Chart, MSU University APPENDIX E -6 Organizational Chart, UL Lafayette College of Nursing APPENDIX E -7 Organizational Chart, UL Lafayette APPENDIX E-8 Organizational Chart, Nicholls College of Nursing APPENDIX E-9 Organizational Chart, Nicholls State University APPENDIX F By-laws, Council of the Intercollegiate Consortium for a Master of Science in Nursing (C.I.N.C.) APPENDIX G By-laws, Intercollegiate Consortium Master of Science in Nursing Graduate Faculty Organization (G.F.O.) APPENDIX H-1 ICMSN Curriculum Plan - Family Nurse Practitioner APPENDIX H-2 ICMSN Curriculum Plan Family Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse APPENDIX H-3 ICMSN Curriculum Plan Nurse Executive APPENDIX H-4 ICMSN Curriculum Plan Nursing Education APPENDIX I Student Outcomes and Competencies Correlated with Selected Course Objectives, Learning Activities, Evaluation Methods APPENDIX J ICMSN Clinical Sites and Experiences Offered APPENDIX K ICMSN Focus Group Format and Items APPENDIX L Timeline for Systematic Plan of Program Evaluation

5 1 INTRODUCTION The Intercollegiate Consortium for a Master of Science in Nursing (ICMSN) is an academic partnership among four Louisiana universities designed to prepare advanced practice nurses through a model of shared governance, resources, and curricula. The institutional members of the ICMSN are: Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond (Southeastern) McNeese State University in Lake Charles (MSU) University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) Nicholls State University (Nicholls) As evidence of the high level of commitment to the shared mission and goals of the IMCSN, the ICMSN member institutions seek continuing accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) through affiliation with the ICMSN as a unified entity. COMMUNITIES The ICMSN offers a highly accessible graduate program to an extensive pool of eligible nurses in southern Louisiana. Southeastern Louisiana University extends the Consortium to the eastern border of the state with dual campuses in Baton Rouge and Hammond (45 east of Baton Rouge); McNeese State University is located in Lake Charles on the western border of the state; the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is located 90 miles east of Lake Charles in Lafayette; and Nicholls State University is 99 miles east of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. A description of each institution can be located at each university s home page website. ( FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY The registrars and comptrollers of each institution have worked with the Council of Intercollegiate Nursing Consortium (CINC) (Appendix A) to establish procedures relating to the circulation of students, records and acknowledgement of fee payments. Monies generated by tuition, student fees and formula-finding for student credit-hours generated within the MSN program offerings go to the ledger of the institution offering a graduate course. HISTORY OF THE ICMSN NURSING PROGRAM In 1985, the Louisiana State Board of Regents, the umbrella governing board for higher education in the state, issued a call for proposals from universities wishing to initiate graduate programs in nursing. The call was issued against a backdrop of shortages of nurses in all practice sectors, urgent demands for advanced practice nurses, declining state health statistics, and intense competition for educational dollars. In May, 1989, the regents authorized the ICMSN to implement the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program with the help of funding from a three-year Advanced Nurse Education Grant (#5 D23 NU ), Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Nursing). A two-year Continuation Grant extended the grant to five years. The first consortium graduates graduated in the spring of In 1993, the distribution of authority within the ICMSN was altered as a result of a revised Memorandum of Agreement signed by the university presidents and ratified by the

6 2 Louisiana Board of Regents. The revision distributed authority equally across member institutions charging each of them with responsibility for the curriculum, record-keeping, and certification of students for graduation. Each institution was authorized to offer the MSN through affiliation with the consortium to prepare advanced practice nurses as clinical nurse specialists, nurse educators, and/or nurse administrators. In 1996, the Louisiana Board of Regents granted approval to the ICMSN to incorporate the nurse practitioner role into the MSN curriculum. In 2001 the ICMSN focused its energies on enhancing shared governance, advancing in distance learning, curriculum development and restructuring, along with re-organization of the consortium. Southeastern, MSU, and UL Lafayette submitted a proposal for reconfiguration of the ICMSN to the Louisiana State Board of Regents in May, Southern University of Baton Rouge (SUBR), member institution of the ICMSN since 1992, chose not to participate in the reconfiguration. The Louisiana Board of Regents initiated its external review process in response to the request by the ICMSN within the proposal to offer new specialty/role areas. In June 2004, the Louisiana Board of Regents granted approval to Southeastern, MSU, and UL Lafayette to proceed with all necessary actions needed to implement curricula changes in order to offer psychiatric/mental health and adult health specialty areas with the CNS/NP roles. SUBR was granted approval to continue to offer the Family Health (FNP) curriculum and to develop and offer a new gerontology specialty. In fall 2005, Southeastern, MSU, and UL Lafayette began to offer the current Nursing Education track and the Adult Health (CNS/NP) track. In fall 2006, the Psychiatric Mental Health (CNS/NP) track began. The Nursing Leadership and Administration in Healthcare track was implemented in fall 2007 with the title changing to that of Nurse Executive in In January 2007 SUBR officially notified the Louisiana Board of Regents through the Commission of Higher Education regarding discontinuance to the ICMSN. The ICMSN was approved by the Louisiana State Board of Regents and the Louisiana State Board of Nursing to change designations from graduate program tracks to concentrations in May This change allowed the ICMSN to add Family Health Nurse Practitioner as a master s concentration. In spring, 2011, the ICMSN phased out its Adult Health concentration and added the Family Health Nurse Practitioner concentration. The percent increase in new student enrollment for the ICMSN between fall 2010 and fall 2011 was 34.29%. Since January 2007 the ICMSN consisted of three universities (Southeastern, MSU, and UL Lafayette) that produced a three-year average of 57 graduates per year. Nicholls State University was officially added to the ICMSN as a fourth member institution.