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An existing baccalaureate and higher degree nursing program, the home campus of which is located in a suburban town of 20,000 adjacent to the state capital with a population of more than 1,000,000, is about to undertake a needs assessment to determine if the program should expand. The home campus is a private, sectarian, multipurpose higher education institution. It has a long history of liberal arts education and over the past five decades added several professional schools including business, education, engineering, nursing, and the performing arts. All of the professional schools offer baccalaureate and masters degrees in their majors. There are two doctorate programs: one in education (EdD) and the other in business administration (DBA). The undergraduate population numbers 5,000 with 2,000 graduate students. There are a total of 760 faculty members, 300 of those are part time.
Nursing faculty and administrators are aware of the continuing and projected nursing workforce shortage in the nation and in its region, the legislative changes in the health care system and their effect on the nursing workforce, and the trend for preparing advanced practice nurses at the clinical doctorate (DNP) level. They have anecdotal information that employers of nurses prefer baccalaureate or higher degree nurses owing to the complexity of the acute care setting, the shortages of nurses prepared to practice in primary care and community settings, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) (2010) recommendation on The Future of Nursing that recommends the baccalaureate as the threshold for professional nursing.
The nursing program has a basic bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) undergraduate program, (N=200), a registered nurse (RN) to BSN program (N=30), and a master of science in nursing (MSN) program with specialties for family nurse practitioners (FNP), adult/geriatric acute care nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse leaders (N=90). The faculty numbers 30 full-time and 15 part-time members with a dean and two associate deans for the undergraduate and graduate programs. There are five faculty members who have released time to coordinate the five tracks in the program. Three administrative assistants and one information systems and instructional support administrator provide management.
1) Minimum 5 full pages and Complete the template (Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per part)
Part 1: Minimum 1 page (Must Upload the article in PDF format)
Part 2: minimum 1 page
Part 3: Minimum 1 page
Part 4: Minimum 1 page
Part 5: Minimum 1 page
Part 6: Minimum Complete the template
Submit 1 document per part
2)¨******APA norms
All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraphs
Bulleted responses are not accepted
Dont write in the first person
Dont copy and pase the questions.
Answer the question objectively, do not make introductions to your answers, answer it when you start the paragraph
Submit 1 document per part
3)****************************** It will be verified by Turnitin (Identify the percentage of exact match of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks)
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4) Minimum 3 references per part not older than 5 years
5) Identify your answer with the numbers, according to the question. Start your answer on the same line, not the next
Example:
Q 1. Nursing is XXXXX
Q 2. Health is XXXX
6) You must name the files according to the part you are answering:
Example:
Part 1.doc
Part 2.do
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Part 1: Nursing Research FN
Locate a scholarly article Quantitative Research about nursing (Must Upload the article in PDF format)
1. Briefly inform what the article is about.
Part 2: Nursing Research 1
1. Compare independent variables, dependent variables, and extraneous variables.
2. Describe two ways that researchers attempt to control extraneous variables.
Part 3: Nursing Research 2
1. Describe the “levels of evidence”
2. provide an example of the type of practice change that could result from each.
Part 4: Curriculum Design 1
The need for clinical continuous quality improvement (CQI) is well documented.
1. What strategies and faculty members employ to ensure the competencies of nurse graduates?
2. What approaches are useful to faculty to improve and embed a culture of CQI in educational processes?
3. How can the QSEN model be integrated into curriculum and used to measure nursing competencies?
Part 5: Curriculum Design 2
1. Explain the importance of a master plan of evaluation.
2. What are the differences between conceptual models of evaluation and the use of benchmarks?
3. How are benchmarks applied to the evaluation of an educational program?
4. How do programs utilize benchmarks to measure success and standards of excellence?
5. Describe how benchmarks influence student recruitment and competition with other programs.
Part 6: Curriculum Design 3
The purpose of this assignment is to develop a master plan of evaluation for a case study based on a fictional school of nursing’s outreach program.
1. Select one case study from the fictional school of nursing outreach programs (See file “fictional Case Study”)
2. Complete the template included below for your reference (See file 1 to develop a master plan of evaluation.
Please review the following links for examples of master plans. Master plans will vary, dependent on school, program, and focus. Please use the template provided and the Keating book (Pending) to assist you with your fictional master plan.
https://uncw.edu/chhs/son/about/documents/facultyhandbook18-19.pdf
http://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty_research/faculty/handbook/documents/committees/master-plan-committee.pdf
http://uprm.info/avaluo/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/MASTER-PLAN-OUTCOMES-EVALUATION-JUNIO-2014.pdf
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