Degree Program Assessment Reports : View Reports

Unit: Nursing
Program: Nursing (PhD)
Degree: Doctorate
Date: Tue Sep 29, 2009 - 4:43:23 pm

1) List your program's student learning outcomes (SLOs).

Department of Nursing Program OutcomesNOTE: All program outcomes are cumulative expectations

BS	MS	PhD
A. Provider of CareDefinition: Advocate and provide high quality care to improve and maintain the health of a diverse society.
1. Engage in professional nursing practice as a generalist for individuals, families, groups and community in a variety of settings.	1. Engage in professional advanced nursing specialty practice for individuals, groups, and communities in a variety of settings	1. Assume a leadership role in the development of clinical practice models to improve outcomes to meet health care needs of culturally diverse populations.
2. Use critical thinking skills as a basis for making judgments for generalist nursing practice.	2. Integrate concepts, theories, and research from nursing and related disciplines as a basis for expert judgments within a specialized area of practice.	2. Systematically investigate a clinically focused area of nursing to advanced health care in culturally diverse populations.
3. Provide culturally competent nursing care.	3. Deliver an advanced practice level of nursing care or service appropriate for diverse cultures.
B. Coordinator of CareDefinition: Direct, supervise and collaborate with others to organize care.
1. Identify leadership and management concepts involved in professional nursing practice.	1. Collaborate with individuals, groups, communities, colleagues, and interdisciplinary member to direct the delivery of quality, culturally competent advanced nursing specialty practice.	1. Assume a leadership role in conducting and using research findings and other health information to design and evaluate systems of care for culturally diverse populations.
2. Use beginning leadership and management skills to coordinate the delivery of quality nursing care.
3. Collaborate with individuals, groups, communities, colleagues and interdisciplinary health members to coordinate the delivery of care.
C. Member of a ProfessionDefinition: Advancing the profession through lifelong learning, participating in professional organizations and practicing in a confident, competent, compassionate and accountable manner.
1. Demonstrate accountability for generalist legal scope of practice, professional standards of practice and professional code of ethics.	1. Demonstrate accountability for advanced nursing specialty’s legal scope of professional standards of practice and code of ethics.	1. Develop educational programs that are accountable to the community of interest in preparation of professional nurses.
2. Identify professional organizations that improve nursing practice.	2. Participate in professional organizations to establish policy and standards to refine advanced nursing specialty practice.	2. Lead efforts in professional organizations to develop policy and standards for nursing practice.
3. Accept responsibility for lifelong learning.	3. Participate in the political process to improve quality of care	3. Assume a leadership role in the political process to improve the quality of health care and nursing education.
D. Knowledge DeveloperDefinition: Develop culturally appropriate clinical knowledge by examining, processing and disseminating knowledge to improve and maintain the health of a diverse society.
1. Use information technologies to manage and process data, information and knowledge.	1. Use information technologies for the management and processing of data, information, and knowledge to guide advanced nursing specialty practice.	1. Use information technologies to further nursing knowledge.
2. Critically examine evidence-based sources and individual experience to make professional practice decisions.	2. Critically examine data-based sources and individual experience to make professional advanced nursing specialty decisions.	2. Critically examine data-based sources and individual experience to analyze and develop leadership strategies for dealing with social, ethical, cultural, economic and political issues related to nursing, health care and research.
3. Identify generalist nursing practice problems amenable to research.	3. Identify advanced nursing specialty practice problems relevant to Research.	3. Develop and use existing and evolving knowledge to improve nursing education and practice.
	4. Critically analyze research findings to determine advanced nursing specialty practice implications.	4. Conduct research to improve and maintain the health of a diverse society.

Baccalaureate outcomes approved Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (1/13/00)Masters and PhD outcomes approved Graduate Curriculum Committee (1/21/00)Approved Evaluation Committee (1/31/00)Reviewed Department of Nursinsg (3/30/00)

2) Where are your program's SLOs published?

Department Website URL:

Student Handbook. URL, if available online:

Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online:

UHM Catalog. Page Number:

Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: NA

Other: Accreditation Materials

Other:

3) Upload your program's current curriculum map(s) as a PDF.

No map submitted.

4) What percentage of courses have the course SLOs explicitly stated on the course syllabus, department website, or other publicly available document? (Check one)

1-50%

51-80%

81-99%

100%

5) State the SLO(s) that was Assessed, Targeted, or Studied

A. Provider of Care

Definition: Advocate and provide high quality care to improve and maintain the health of a diverse society.

1. Assume a leadership role in the development of clinical practice models to improve outcomes to meet health care needs of culturally diverse populations.

2. Systematically investigate a clinically focused area of nursing to advanced health care in culturally diverse populations

B. Coordinator of CareDefinition: Direct, supervise and collaborate with others to organize care.

1. Assume a leadership role in conducting and using research findings and other health information to design and evaluate systems of care for culturally diverse populations.

C. Member of a Profession

Definition: Advancing the profession through lifelong learning, participating in professional organizations and practicing in a confident, competent, compassionate and accountable manner.

1. Develop educational programs that are accountable to the community of interest in preparation of professional nurses.

2. Lead efforts in professional organizations to develop policy and standards for nursing practice.

3. Assume a leadership role in the political process to improve the quality of health care and nursing education.

D. Knowledge DeveloperDefinition: Develop culturally appropriate clinical knowledge by examining, processing and disseminating knowledge to improve and maintain the health of a diverse society.

1. Use information technologies to further nursing knowledge.

2. Critically examine data-based sources and individual experience to analyze and develop leadership strategies for dealing with social, ethical, cultural, economic and political issues related to nursing, health care and research.

3. Develop and use existing and evolving knowledge to improve nursing education and practice.

4. Conduct research to improve and maintain the health of a diverse society.

End of Semester Course Report	Each semester	GCEC, DC
Student Course Evaluation	Each semester	GCEC, DC
CAFÉ Instructor’s Evaluation	Each semester	Individual faculty, DC, Department Personnel Committee (DPC)
Annual Committee Reports	Annual	DC, Dean Follow up by DC/Dean
End of Program Evaluation	Annual	Dean, Assoc Dean, , GCEC,
Alumni Survey	Annual	Associate Dean
Employer Survey	Annual	Associate Dean

Assessments are done for all PhD students. In addition, alumni and employer surveys are sent to graduate students post-graduation.

PhD students are expected to successfully pass oral comprehensive examinations, develop a research proposal, conduct the research and defend their dissertation. Guidelines for these milestones are published in the Graduate Division at UHM and in the SONDH PhD handbook.

6) State the Assessment Question(s) and/or Goal(s) of Assessment Activity

Evidence of achievement of learning outcomes is evaluated in several ways. First, course reports and evaluations are evaluated by the Graduate Curriculum & Evaluation Committee and recommendations are provided to the Department Chair. The Department Chair follows up on the recommendations. Second, faculty teaching the clinical or practicum courses are all experienced in the specialty (for example, a nurse practitioner student will have a nurse practitioner faculty evaluating their clinical course) and will provide feedback to students and program directors.The end of program evaluations and certification rates are reviewed by the Graduate Curriculum & Evaluation Committee, Department Chair and the Associate Dean. The school is in the process of developing a “score card” where all evaluation data will be centrally collected, reported, and evaluated. Action plans will follow the evaluation.

7) State the Type(s) of Evidence Gathered

Evidence of achievement of learning outcomes is evaluated by course reports and evaluations. The end of program evaluations is also given to students who have graduated from the program.

8) State How the Evidence was Interpreted, Evaluated, or Analyzed

Links to surveys were sent out by the school’s evaluation specialist. The kind of data, measures used, and individuals or offices responsible for collecting the data is reviewed each year by the Office of the Associate Dean, the Department Chair, and Department staff. The Graduate Curriculum and Evaluation Committee researches and recommends any changes in national testing agencies for the purpose of benchmarking student learning. Data is collected for each of the measures specified.

9) State How Many Pieces of Evidence Were Collected

Summer 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009 reports received each semester include the course reports, student course evaluation, Café (Instructor’s Evaluations) & Program evaluation.

10) Summarize the Actual Results

The results included ratings of students’ performance, instructor performance, program performance, and overall course performance.

11) Briefly Describe the Distribution and Discussion of Results

The results were distributed to the Office of the Associate Dean, the Department Chair, and Department staff. The Graduate Curriculum and Evaluation Committee researches and recommends any changes in national testing agencies for the purpose of benchmarking student learning.

12) Describe Conclusions and Discoveries

After reading the results of the evaluations, the Graduate Curriculum and Evaluation Committee researches and recommends any changes in national testing agencies for the purpose of benchmarking student learning.

13) Use of Results/Program Modifications: State How the Program Used the Results --or-- Explain Planned Use of Results

Results are collected for each of the measures specified. Data is trended if appropriate. Results are reviewed and acted upon by the Graduate Curriculum and Evaluation Committee.

14) Reflect on the Assessment Process

The results included ratings of students’ performance, instructor performance, program performance, and overall course performance. The response rate for evaluations are important in order to provide the instructor, program and school feedback on areas needed for improvement. Putting the surveys in one online document provides the student ease and accessibility to complete it on their own time within a certain time frame.

15) Other Important Information

16) FOR DISTANCE PROGRAMS ONLY: Explain how your program/department has adapted its assessment of student learning in the on-campus program to assess student learning in the distance education program.

Electronic evaluations have been created to assess student learning in the distance program.

17) FOR DISTANCE PROGRAMS ONLY: Summarize the actual student learning assessment results that compare the achievement of students in the on-campus program to students in the distance education program.

Student learning in the distance program is comparable to the on-campus program but provides students with the opportunity to take courses offered via distance and communicate with instructors and classmates via email/list serve or other web-based technology. Students are able to take course on their own time which is accommodating to their own schedules.