AMARILLO COLLEGE 1 NURSING DIVISION FACULTY COMMITTEE MINUTES DATE: December 3, 2014 TIME & PLACE: 1:30 p.m.- West Campus, Jones Hall, Room 207 ATTENDANCE: ABSENT: AGENDA: Present: Kati Alley, LaVon Barrett, Jan Cannon,Cindy Crabtree, Angela Downs, Theresa Edwards, Jeanette Embrey, Carol Hergert, Denise Hirsch, Katy Hunter, Marianne Jones, Marcia Julian, Jody Kile, Tabatha Mathias, Sarah Milford, Susan McClure, Kim Pinter, Phyllis Pastwa, Richard Pullen, Claudia Reed, Tamara Rhodes, Lyndi Shadbolt, Kim Smith, Teresa Smoot, Keri Terrell, Kelly Voelm, Kerrie Young, Connie Bonds-Executive Secretary, April Maxwell LVN Staff Assistant D Dee Grove, Deborah Hall, Paul Hogue, Khristi McKelvy, Ramona Yarbrough See Attached MINUTES: TOPIC DISCUSSION/RATIONALE ACTION/RECOMMENDATION 1.0 OPENING REMARKS APPROVAL OF MINUTES 2.0 Report from Dean of Nursing Call to Order Dr. Pullen called the meeting to order at 1:30 p.m. The minutes from the faculty meeting on October 8, 2014 were approved. Please make sure that all instructors of record attend the Grade Book training by CTL on December 5, 2014 or another designated date. There have been concerns college-wide about the Grade Book not being set up properly. Sometimes things just happen with the Grade Book such as hidden columns that create errors in the student s visible grade. Please make sure that all instructors of record link to the college-wide syllabus from the course in Blackboard. This is a requirement of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Thank you to all who have signed up for the Greeter Training December 5, 2014. At the moment, this is voluntary. Training will be mandatory in the near future for all college faculty and staff. The nursing staff will meet and greet people at the main entrance to Jones Hall on the first floor and on the second floor near the elevator and student lounge. A sign-up list will follow as soon as I have more information. The Greeter Program follows the same format as BSA. Theresa Edwards made a motion to accept the October 8, 2014 minutes. Jeanette Embry seconded the motion. The motion carried by majority vote. Information provided for communication purposes. However, Dr. Pullen reiterated the importance of linking syllabus in BB. Dr. Pullen reiterated that the Greeter Program will support the Caring Culture of Amarillo College.
The search for a Vice-President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) continues. A new VPAA is slated to be appointed as early as January 2015. Faculty Performance Reviews (FPR) are due in spring 2015. FPRs are on a scheduled basis and maintained by the VPAAs office. It appears that 20 FPRs will be due between both nursing programs. You will soon receive an email if you are scheduled to prepare a self-evaluation for the FPR process. Debby Hall is the new Nursing Division Instructional Data Specialist (IDS). The IDS measures data from the college-wide data base to improve program-specific outcomes. There is a lot of data in this data-base. Each program director determines what is going to be measured. For example, our programs can measure Course Success (grades A-C) and semester-to-semester retention (whether students returned from one semester to the next). The data-base can also report additional information such as course success by age, gender, ethnicity to name a few. We are going to keep it simple. Data results will be reported to instructors that will be included in the self-evaluation process. A new Planning and Evaluation Tracking (PET) Form is being developed. The PET is a form that departments use to measure established goals and outcomes. It is a small scale version of the systematic plan of evaluation for the nursing programs. LaVon Barrett and I will soon receive more information about the new PET process. The West Campus Council met. Connie Bonds is on this council. A fundraiser is slated for spring 2015 to address the college s Poverty Initiative. There will be food, fun and entertainment. More information to follow. The college-wide Curriculum Committee has an updated policy. This policy mandates that any curriculum changes have clear documentation of the underpinning rationales for any changes in a program. There must be evidence that decision-making is tied to program committee decision-making, minutes from Advisory Committees and statements from accrediting bodies. Connie Bonds new title is Executive Secretary (previous Administrative Assistant). Congratulations to Connie! The VN Program received recognition in the AC Plugged-In newsletter and on Channel-10 for having a 100 pass rate for the May 2014 class. Congratulations. The ADN Program has two open positions. 4 applicants have applied. The Team Coordinators and I will interview these applicants the first week of January 2015. The Nursing Division Christmas Party is Friday, December 12, 2014 at 1130 at the Plaza Restaurant on Soncy, Rd. Await appointment of new VPAA. Turn in Self-Evaluation by assigned date. The data from the data specialist will be useful in the FPR to identify areas for improvement. Further discussion in subsequent meetings. The ADN and VN PETs will be submitted annually in August. Further discussion in subsequent meetings. No action or recommendations Interviews will soon be conducted. 2
3 3.0 Report from LVN Director The LVN program started the Fall semester with 50 students. There are 26 students graduating. Ms. Barrett developed a plan for student s losing their ID s, not having their ID s in the testing center, etc. She suggested that the students take a picture of their ID with their cell phone because students always have their cell phone. They are then able to use the picture on their cell phone as their ID. A couple students tested this in the testing and it worked. Lee Colaw is on board with the idea. Continue tracking student attrition. Congratulations to Ms. Barrett for a creative strategy. 4.0 Report from ADN Director 5.0 COLLEGE COMMITTEE REPORTS No further report. General report was addressed in the Dean s report. 5.1 Academic Technology Hall 5.2 Benefits Plan Investment Jones Annual meeting is January 15, 2015 5.3 Commencement Barrett, Rhodes, Smith Commencement is 12/02/2014 at the Civic Center. There has been seating changes for this semester. The nursing graduates will be on the west side so faculty would like to be seated on the west side. 5.4 Curriculum-Pullen There have been several meetings focused on approval of the 60-hour curriculum. 5.5 Faculty Evaluation - Barrett 5.6 Faculty Handbook Embrey, Barrett 5.7 Faculty Professional Development Embrey, Rhodes No report 5.8 Faculty Senate - Young and Barrett Susan Burks is the new chair for Faculty Senate. A replacement is needed for the vacant spot left by Angie Ross resignation. Carol Hergert, Kati Alley and Theresa Edwards expressed interest in the position. Further discussion in subsequent meetings. Rhodes will advise Diane Brice that Nursing faculty wishes to be seated on the west side. Await ballot from Faculty Senate. Dr, Pullen will submit names for the replacement.
5.9 Financial Aid Appeals-Rhodes The committee meets today. There is one appeal on the agenda. 5.10 Library Network Advisory Reed No report. 5.11 Rank and Tenure Barrett, Grove 5.12 Testing and Remediation Committee--Young No Report 4 6.0 NURSING PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPORTS 6.1 Instructional Technology-McKelvy Meeting held on October 29, 2014 Angie Ross reviewed using second life for disaster simulation and using Telehealth with Skype. Community will continue to use both simulations for the spring 2015 semester. Debby Hall set up a Blackboard collaborate session and we used this to communicate with each other. It worked well and would like to encourage others to use to communicate with each other and with students. Debby provided an update on the ASUS pilot and will be surveying the student at the end of this semester. Evaluation will be completed over the Christmas break. There was a question of the leally of electronic signatures. Sarah Milford reported the IPad pilot in the VN program was going well. The IPads are redistributed to new students each semester. We are working on some new electronic assessment sheets. Some trouble with retaining information. Student need to download prior to filling out. The template for simulation has been updated using the 2013 NCLEX-RN Test plan. The template can be found on the J drive under simulation. All Faculty need to update their simulations using this form. Some goals for the year are tablets for everyone(if evaluation supports), testing in blackboard, electronic rubrics, faculty education on the virtual world, development of cell phone apps, videotaping skills, increased use of EMR in simulation, participation in Interdisciplinary simulation. Everyone needs to get their simulation scheduled here and at SimCentral. 6.2 Learning Resources-Hirsch No report. 6.3 Nursing Peer Review-Hergert Cindy Crabtree is now the secretary for the committee. Information provided for communication purposes. No action or recommendations. Congratulations to Ms. Crabtree.
6.4 Students Activities-Jones, Reed SNA raised $1000.00 from the frito pie and t-shirt sale. Level IV one the pizza party for the food drive. $100 was collected for the Angel tree. A meeting is being planned in conjunction with the LVN program for a welcome back for Spring 2015. Faculty commended committee for their good work. 5 6.5 Testing-Johnson Met on Nov. 12, 2014 Testing policies will be updated to include information on testing in Blackboard. The Test Blueprint is also in the process of being revised with change in the client need categories and using the new Bloom s taxonomy verbs. Polices and examples will be ready for the Fall 2015 semester Faculty concerns: Changing the range of A and B and not allowing back tracking on exams. The committee recommends that no changes in grades be done and to continue to allow students to backtrack on exams. On-line quizzes/exams can be done with no backtracking for test security. Percentage of alternate items on exam: committee recommends a change of having 15-25% alternate items on each exam. This was brought as a motion before faculty. The committee reviewed the impact of 75 as passing on midterm grades compiled by Dr. Pullen. The committee is recommending a change in the number of remediation hours for those students who score 1000 or more to be no required remediation. Faculty was emailed this information. This was brought as a motion to faculty. Continue discussions about Testing issues. Continue tracking student performance with 75% as minimum passing. 7.0 Miscellaneous 7.1 Advising-McClure 67 students took advantage of the math tutoring in the outreach center. 7.2 NRC-Hirsch There is money to spend for non-print items. The NRC has purchased new sheets. Faculty requested new chest tubes. 7.3 Staff Development-Kile Lunch and Learn has been very successful and will continue beginning in March. Continue encouraging students to seek math tutoring. Dr. Pullen commended Ms. Kile and faculty for creative talents at Lunch and Learns in the areas of Testing and Nursing Process.
8.0 Treasurer s Report 8.1 Treasurer s Report-Hirsch There is currently $452.07 in the account. 9.0 Additional Items/Announcements There has been concern regarding the students texting and calling late at night, on holidays and weekends. Can a policy be developed regarding this situation? 10.0 Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 3 p.m. by faculty consensus. 6 Richard Pullen, Dean of Nursing Date