SACSCOC Fifth Year Interim Report
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Assessment : 2012 - 2013 : Educational Programs :
Nursing BSN
Nursing BSN
2 Goals 2 Objectives 2 Indicators 2 Criteria 2 Findings 2 Actions
| GOAL: Mastery Of Curriculum Content |
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Nursing students will achieve mastery of a specialty content area (med-surg, pediatrics, obstetrics, psych-mental health, community, fundamentals, health assessment) by the end of each of their specialty courses. |
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Health Education Systems, Inc. (HESI) is a software-based testing company that produces standardized and customized tests for nursing students. Each student is administered the chosen specialty exam. |
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| 85% will achieve set score of 850 or more. |
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| Attached table indicates the specialty area, cohort number, number of students enrolled in cohort, the number of students achieving a score of 850 of more, and percent of students achieving a score of 850 or more. Percentages ranged from 12.5% to 76.19%. Students did not achieve 850 or more in any specialty. Thus, the goal was not achieved. |
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| We voted to changed from HESI to ATI in summer of 2013. ATI has better interpretation of tests in many ways. They break the test analysis down into the same parts as are tested on NCLEX. They also correlate the obtained scores with the chances of passing NCLEX. Therefore, we will be able to get a better handle on where our students are at. Also, the score of 850 on the HESI was a national mean, which indicates that approximately 50% of the national nursing students scored better than 50%. Our goal was 85%, which was probably unrealistic. The goal should have been more like 60-70%. |
| GOAL: Mastery Of Curriculum Content |
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Nursing students will achieve mastery of all nursing content just prior to graduation. |
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| The HESI Exit Exam is a standardized test that nursing students may be required to pass before graduating. It is a comprehensive nurse exam that tests the student' overall knowledge in key areas of the nursing curriculum. In many ways, the HESI Exit Exam is similar to the National Council of Licensing Examination for the Registered Nurse (NCLEX-RN) and, therefore, performance on the HESI Exit Exam is considered to be a good predictor of a student's readiness for the licensing exam. http://voices.yahoo.com/the-hesi-test-prepare-it-3299226.html |
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| 85% will achieve set score of 850 or more. |
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The attached table shows that cohort 1 had 57.14% of students scoring greater than 850 and cohort 2 had 72.72% scoring greater than 850. Thus, neither cohort met the goal of 85% scoring greater than 850. Goal not met |
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Changing to ATI as ATI has more to offer in a package form and the HESI and ATI specialty and exit tests are similar in the literature. We are also changing the criterion to a lower level than 85% above the mean. If the mean is close to the median, which it most likely is in a normed sample, then 50% of the nation's nurses are scoring above 850, not 85. 85% was a high criterion and probably unrealistic. The criterion should be closer to 70%. Obtaining an 850 does not necessarily correlate with passing the NCLEX. The ATI has better score interpretations in terms of the NCLEX. |
| Previous Cycle's "Plan for Continuous Improvement" |
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The new director is at the helm and already reorganizing the program to promote quality graduates. 2012-2013 will be our first year to function as our own separate department.
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| Update on Previous Cycle's "Plan for Continuous Improvement" |
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On both of these objectives, we had unrealistic goals. We also have decided to change from the HESI to ATI in the 2013-14 academic year. They have a better way of interpreting their scores in terms of probability of passing the NCLEX. We will have to set new goal for 2013-14.
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