W. Va. Code R. § 19-1-11 - Loss of Board Approval or National Nursing Accreditation

11.1. The Board shall immediately withdraw approval of a program if the program's national nursing accreditation is lost. Board approval shall be granted once the nursing program's national accreditation is fully reinstated. Any program seeking approval by the Board which does not have national accreditation must submit an application as a new program and meet all new program requirements contained in this rule.

11.1.a. Factors jeopardizing program Board approval of a non-national nurse accredited program shall include but may not be limited to:

11.1.a.1. Deficiencies in compliance with this rule, student retention, attrition and on-time graduation rates;

11.1.a.2. Utilization of students to meet staffing needs in health care facilities and/or sufficient/adequate type and number of faculty, faculty competence and faculty retention/turnover;

11.1.a.3. Noncompliance with school's stated philosophy/mission, program design, objectives/outcomes, and/or policies;

11.1.a.4. Continual failure to submit records and reports to the Board office within designated time frames;

11.1.a.5. Failure to provide sufficient variety and number of clinical learning opportunities for students to achieve stated objectives/outcomes and/or inadequate laboratory and simulation learning experiences;

11.1.a.6. Failure to comply with Board requirements or to respond to Board recommendations within a specified time;

11.1.a.7. Student enrollments without sufficient faculty, facilities and/or patient census;

11.1.a.8. Failure to maintain at least 80% passing rate on the licensure examination by first-time candidates;

11.1.a.9. Failure of the program dean or director to document annually the currency of faculty licenses;

11.1.a.10. Failure to maintain adequate budget to meet the needs of the program; or

11.1.a.11. Other activities or situations that demonstrate to the Board that a program is not meeting legal requirements and standards.

11.2. Loss of approval through change of organization. When a program changes ownership or control, the Board shall automatically withdraw approval. The new owner or organization shall comply with the provisions of subsection 7.4. of this rule to continue the nursing education program.

11.3. Provisional approval for failure to meet standards. At the Board's discretion, it may grant provisional approval to a nursing education program during the time in which it takes corrective action in order to meet the standards set forth in this rule.

11.4 Any non-national nursing accredited professional nursing education program having a 20% or higher failure rate on the national licensure examination, shall receive a warning from the Board. If changes, correction and/or adjustments relative to faculty, facilities, student admission, curriculum content, and/or methods of teaching are not initiated within a specified time and such action approved by the Board, the Board may impose additional requirements or restrictions on the program.

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W. Va. Code R. § 19-1-11