Or. Admin. R. 851-021-0025 - Reports and Approvals
(1) Program Changes
Requiring Reports to the Board: The program must notify the Board
representative in writing within 15 days of development of the following
circumstances:
(a) Change in the nurse
administrator must be accompanied by a request for approval of an interim or
replacement as established in OAR 851-021.
(b) Change of administrative control within
the educational institution with the rationale for the change and anticipated
impact on the nursing program.
(c)
Plans to move the entire program to a new location within the current
geographic region:
(A) The program must notify
the Board representative in writing of the following:
(i) Address of the new location;
(ii) Rationale for moving the nursing
program;
(iii) Anticipated date of
completed move; and,
(iv)
Anticipated impact on curriculum delivery, other nursing programs, nursing
practice experience partners, students and faculty.
(B) The Board representative may complete a
survey visit to confirm compliance with OAR 851-021.
(d) Changes in availability of adequate
nursing practice experiences for the program that results in alteration of
student progression;
(e) Plans to
increase or decrease the number of applicants admitted to the program by 8 or
more students;
(f) Plans to
increase the number of clinical groups in a geographic region;
(g) Change in accreditation status of the
nursing program or the educational institution; and,
(h) Reductions in the financial support for
the program that impact curriculum delivery, student progression or program
operations.
(2) Program
Changes Requiring Board Approval:
(a) Change
of Administrative Control:
(A) When control of
a nursing education program is transferred from one educational institution to
another, a report must be submitted to the Board by the receiving institution
containing the following information:
(i)
Rationale for change;
(ii)
Anticipated effects on students, faculty and resources;
(iii) Administrative and organizational
plans, including a sound operational budget;
(iv) Plans for the orderly transition of the
program; and,
(v) Application for
new program as delineated in OAR 851-021-0010 unless this requirement is waived
by the Board.
(B) The
educational institution relinquishing the program must notify the Board in
writing of the intent to transfer the program and must submit to the Board the
information requested of programs undergoing voluntary termination (OAR
851-021-0035(1).
(b)
Major Curriculum Change:
(A) When a nursing
program anticipates a major curriculum change in courses required for the
nursing program, such change must be submitted to the Board for approval at a
minimum of six months prior to offering the first nursing course under the new
curriculum.
(B) A major curriculum
change includes, but is not limited to:
(i) A
revision of the length of the program;
(ii) An addition, deletion or revision of the
program outcomes;
(iii) Initial
implementation of simulation modality for nursing practice experience learning
hours;
(iv) Any revision of the
curriculum of a program that affects the ability of the program to comply with
the requirements of the curriculum as established in OAR
851-021-0050;
(v) Substantive
change in educational modality for program delivery; and
(vi) New educational track at the same level
in an established program.
(C) The following materials must be submitted
with the request for curriculum changes:
(i)
Rationale for proposed changes including the anticipated effect on faculty,
students, resources and facilities;
(ii) Presentation of the differences between
the current curriculum and the proposed curriculum;
(iii) A timetable for implementation of
change; and,
(iv) Methods of
evaluation that will be used to determine the effects of the change.
(c) Addition of an
extended campus site, or moving the program to a new location outside of the
current geographic region or addition of distance education technology:
(A) The program must submit to the Board a
letter of intent to make changes a minimum of six months prior to the planned
implementation.
(B) The letter of
intent must include, at minimum, the following information:
(i) Plan for qualified faculty for the
program at the extended or new site or with addition of distance education
technology;
(ii) Description of
available and proposed education facilities and delivery modalities, services
and resources with dates of availability;
(iii) Availability of adequate nursing
practice experience practice sites and provisions for faculty supervision of
experiences;
(iv) Plans for
informing potential students of expected transportation and distance
requirements for nursing practice experiences; and,
(v) Tentative time schedule for planning,
initiating, and evaluating the program.
(C) The Board may deem the addition of an
extended campus site, a new location or distance nursing education option as
the equivalent of a new program and require application under OAR
851-021-0010.
(d) Plans
for an increase or decrease in the capacity of the educational institutions
physical facilities, human, technologic, and fiscal resources, or nursing
practice experience sites. The plan must be submitted to the Board
representative for approval six months prior to the beginning of the student
enrollment change in a report containing the following:
(A) Rationale for increase or
decrease.
(B) An analysis of
potential impact on other nursing programs and communities within the
geographic region including:
(i) Projected
number of faculty positions and availability of qualified faculty in the area
proposed for nursing practice experience placements;
(ii) An analysis of the available nursing
practice experience sites for the program, including the types of placement
organizations expected to provide for the increase in student enrollment
showing facility size, average patient numbers, number of other programs
hosted, and potential available placements;
(iii) Plans for informing potential students
of expected transportation and distance requirements for nursing practice
experiences; or,
(iv) Evidence of
meeting with the Nurse Administrator of currently approved nursing programs
within the geographic region of planned nursing practice experience placements
to discuss the impact of an enrollment increase.
(C) Anticipated effects on students, faculty,
and nursing practice experience resources.
(D) Administrative and organizational plans,
including an operational budget to support increased enrollment; and,
(E) Within one year following the start of
the planned change in student enrollment, the program must submit a report to
the Board, addressing the following:
(i)
Impact on nursing practice experience sites;
(ii) Impact on nursing practice experience
faculty;
(iii) Student attrition
rate; and
(iv) Summary of findings
from evaluation of the increase or decrease.
(e) The following program appointments
require approval by the Board representative before the applicant assumes the
program assignment:
(A) Nurse Administrator or
Interim Nurse Administrator;
(B)
Any appointment by exception; and,
(C) Non-nurse faculty teaching within the
nursing curriculum or other required courses embedded with nursing
outcomes.
(3)
Annual Reports:
(a) Program information must
be submitted to the Board representative or designee annually on a form
approved by the Board.
(b) The
annual report must include information to confirm continued compliance with OAR
851-021.
(c) A list of all current
Nurse Educators and Nurse Educator Associates, including all nursing practice
experience faculty, must be submitted with the annual report and upon request
of the Board representative. The list must include academic degrees, areas of
nursing expertise, years of experience and full-time or part-time
status.
(4) General
Guidelines for Reports:
(a) The Board reviews
required submitted reports during posted public meeting dates; and,
(b) Materials to be reviewed at public Board
meetings as described above, must be in the Board office and accessible to the
Board representative or designee by the posted filing date for interested
parties.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 678.150
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 678.150
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