UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS
Revised 3-10-11
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: NURSINGemail 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.
Attach
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 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 causes 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 combine distance/campus (hybrid) format. Thus providing nurses from the region with access to a streamlined graduate education format that meets their individual needs. The concentration requires no additional course development. All the required courses are already present within the RN to BSN or traditinal MSN nurse practitioner concentration currently offered by the Department of Nursing.
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.)
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DUAL DEGREE: BACHELOR OF
SCIENCE IN NURSING and MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING
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DUAL DEGREE: BACHELOR OF
SCIENCE IN NURSING and MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING
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 require all of the adult
nurse practitioner courses and add NURS 624 Children’s Health Care 3
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ROUTING AND AUTHORIZATION: (Please do not remove supporting
documentation.)
Department Chairperson Date
Dean of College Date
Chairperson, College Curriculum
Committee___________________________________Date_____________________
Chairperson, Senate Com. on UG or GR
Studies Date
Chairperson, Senate Coordinating
Com. Date
Secretary, Faculty Senate Date
Date of Senate Resolution Date
to be Effective
Registrar Program
Code Date
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
& International Programs Date
Provost Date
Board of Trustee Notification Date
Revised
02/09/2009 /khs