UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS
Academic Program Approval
This form is a routing document for the approval of new
and revised academic programs.Proposing department should complete this
form. For more information, call the
Faculty Senate Office at 831-2921.
Submitted by: Erlinda Wheeler DNS, RN Phone number 831-8375
Department: NURSING email
address: ewheeler@udel.edu
Date: November 8, 2010
Action: Add the Nurse Practitioner (NP) Concentration to the
RN/MSN program
Effective: 11F
Current: MSN
Proposed change leads to the
degree of: MSN
Proposed name: Nurse Practitioner
Concentration to the RN/MSN program
Revising or Deleting:
Undergraduate major / Concentration: N/A
Undergraduate minor: N/A
Graduate Program Policy statement change: Attach
Graduate Program of Study: N/A
Graduate minor / concentration: Addition Nurse Practitioner
Concentration to RN/MSN program
Note: all graduate studies
proposals must include an electronic copy of the Graduate Program Policy
Document, highlighting the changes made to the original policy document.
Attached
List new courses required for
the new or revised curriculum. How do they support the overall program
objectives of the major/minor/concentrations)?
None
Explain, when appropriate,
how this new/revised curriculum supports the 10 goals of undergraduate
education: http://www.ugs.udel.edu/gened/
Identify other units affected
by the proposed changes: None
Describe the rationale for
the proposed program change(s):
Rationale for
Creation of RN to MSN (NP)Concentration
The School of Nursing offers multiple concentrations for licensed RN’s who wish to continue their education to the Bachelors or Masters level. For RN’s with an associate’s degree or diploma in nursing, we offer the RN to BSN, RN to MSN Clinical Nurse Specialist (Adult Health or Pediatrics) and RN to MSN Health Services Administration. The addition of the RN to MSN Nurse Practitioner (Family or Adult Health) would allow for RN’s to choose from all the nursing Masters concentrations the School of Nursing currently offers.
On a national level, nurse practitioner is a highly sought level of practice in the nursing profession. A recent report from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) stated, “Nurse practitioners comprised 63.2 percent of nurses in advanced specialties in 2008, accounting for 158,348 nurses. In 2004, 141,209 nurses were prepared as nurse practitioners; the number of nurse practitioners thus grew 12.1 percent over 4 years.”1 The demand for more nurse practitioners is projected to continue to increase as fewer primary practice physicians are available to serve the underserved populations in the U.S. No other university in the State of Delaware is currently offering a RN to MSN with a NP concentration.
Currently, the School of Nursing has numerous RN to BSN students who are interested in pursuing a MSN with a NP concentration. The proposed RN to MSN nurse practitioner concentration would allow them to complete the transition from Associates degree to a Masters degree in one progression. Currently these students plan to graduate the RN to BSN and then apply to the nursing graduate program in a NP concentration. This requires the student to take an additional 20 credits at the baccalaureate level. The proposed RN to MSN, NP concentration will increase the ease of completing graduate work for students and eliminate areas of content overlap between the BSN and MSN programs
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The School of Nursing proposes to offer this RN to MSN nurse practitioner concentration of study in a combined distance-learning/campus (hybrid) format. This will provide nurses from the region with access to a focused graduate education format that meets their individual needs. The concentration requires no new courses. All the required courses are already present within the RN to BSN or traditional MSN nurse practitioner concentration currently offered by the School of Nursing. Therefore we are able to add an appealing option to our curricula in a highly efficient manner.
1.HRSA, (2010) Initial
Findings from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, online:
http://www.acnpweb.org/files/public/HRSA_2008_Initial_RN_National_Survey.pdf
Program Requirements:
(Show the new or revised curriculum as it should appear in the
Course Catalog. If this is a revision,
be sure to indicate the changes being made to the current curriculum and include a side-by-side comparison of
the credit distribution before and after the proposed change.)
MASTER OF
SCIENCE IN NURSING FOR THE REGISTERED NURSE (BSN/MSN)
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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING FOR THE REGISTERED NURSE (BSN/MSN) -Official admission to the
RN to MSN major -Successful completion of RN
licensure exam (30 credits nursing knowledge awarded) and current RN license -Completion of 60
pre-requisite non-nursing credits (See BRN program information.) -GPA of 3.0 or higher in all
previous college work -Submission of Nursing
Employment Verification Form -Students are required to
meet all immunization, safety, criminal background checks, drug screenings,
and CPR requirements prior to clinical coursework and direct patient care.
Additional requirements for the clinical education may be required by the
healthcare agency to which a student is assigned. Students are expected to
provide their own transportation to all required clinical experiences. -Three satisfactory academic
and/or professional recommendations. -Interview with faculty from
graduate program DUAL DEGREE: BACHELOR OF
SCIENCE IN NURSING and MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING
Art,
Art History, History, Philosophy, Music, Theatre, Comparative Literature,
Black American Studies, Economics, Political Science, Women's Studies,
Foreign Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, and English.
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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING FOR THE REGISTERED NURSE (BSN/MSN) -Official admission to the
RN to MSN major -Successful completion of RN
licensure exam (30 credits nursing knowledge awarded) and current RN license -Completion of 60 pre-requisite
non-nursing credits -GPA of 3.0 or higher in all
previous college work -Submission of Nursing
Employment Verification Form -Students are required to
meet all immunization, safety, criminal background checks, drug screenings,
and CPR requirements prior to clinical coursework and direct patient care.
Additional requirements for the clinical education may be required by the
healthcare agency to which a student is assigned. Students are expected to
provide their own transportation to all required clinical experiences. -Three satisfactory academic
and/or professional recommendations. -Interview with faculty from
graduate program
CURRICULUM
CREDITS ENGL
110Critical Reading and Writing 3 Discovery
Learning Experience (DLE) 3 Multi-cultural
Courses 3 Major Requirements (39) 24
credits, to include a minimum of one course in each of the following five
categories: (1) biology, (2) microbiology, (3) chemistry, (4) anatomy and
physiology, and (5) nutrition 24 Core Courses for both CNS
and NP Specialties (35 NURS 335 BRN Orientation 1 NURS 435Leadership and
Management in Health Organizations 3 NURS 442Community Health
Nursing 3 NURS 604Advanced Nursing
Roles 3 NURS 609Nursing Science:
Theory and Research 4 NURS 620Advanced Health
Assessment 3 NURS 621 Advanced Pathophysiology 3 (not required of Psychiatric Nursing
Specialization) NURS 622Advanced
Pharmacology 3 EDUC 665Elementary
Statistics 3 Six credits from the
following two Nursing Electives: 6 NURS 411 Topics in Health
Care Delivery (3) NURS 412 Multicultural
Topics in Health Care Delivery (3) Three credits from among the following: 3 NURS 668 Scholarly Project (3) NURS 869 Master's Thesis (6) NURS 687 Nursing Science: Research Application (3) CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST ( All specialties complete NURS 686Clinical Nurse
Specialist Role Integration 4 Eight to eleven credits from within one of the
following Clinical Nurse Specializations. Adult Health Specialization NURS 636Adult Health I 4 NURS 646Adult Health II 4 Nursing of Children Specialization NURS 654Nursing of Children I 4 NURS 655Nursing of Children II 4 Psychiatric Nursing Specialization NURS 671Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing I 4 NURS 672Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing II 4 PSYC 829
Advanced Psychopathology (3) OR EDUC 813 Childhood Psychopathology (3) OR Another approved graduate psychopathology course 3 NURSE
PRACTITIONER (21-24) Twenty
one to twenty four credits from among the following NP specialty courses are
required for each specialty Adult Nurse Practitioner NURS 616 Primary Care in Community Health 3 NURS 623
Management of Women’s Health Care 3 NURS 641 Primary Care of the Adult I 3 NURS 642 Primary Care of the Adult II 3 NURS 643 Primary Care of the Adult III 3 NURS 644 NP Preceptorship I 3 NURS 645 NP Preceptorship II 3 Family Nurse Practitioner Requires all of the Adult Nurse Practitioner
courses and NURS 624 Children’s
Health Care 3 Electives After required courses are
completed, sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum
credits required for the degree Minimum credits required for the degree Clinical Nurse
Specialist 134 Adult Nurse Practitioner 143 Family Nurse
Practitioner 146 |
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