MINUTES: Graduate Council – February 16, 2004, 1:15 p.m., East Tennessee Room – DP Culp

ATTENDEES: Barrett, Brown, Powers-Beck, Champney, Pointer, Ellis, Hoover, Tedesco, Pike, Scheuerman, Marrs, Taylor

ABSENT: Bitter, Dixon, Music, Davis, Norris-Thompson, Whitson

GUEST: Pat Smith

I. Curriculum

A. College of Nursing – Establishment of a new Regents Online Degree Program (RODP) Master of Science in Nursing.

B. RODP MSN Proposal consists of four (4) concentrations:

1. Nursing Education

2. Nursing Administration

3. Advanced Practice

4. Nursing Informatics

C. New Courses (63):

1. NURS 5000 - Theoretical Foundations of Advance Nursing

Practice (3)

2. NURS 5001 – Healthcare Policy (3)

3. NURS 5002 – Advanced Nursing Research (3)

4. NURS 5003 – Advanced Role Development (3)

5. NURS 5101 – Advanced Health Assessment (3)

6. NURS 5102 – Advanced Health Assessment Clinical (3)

7. NURS 5103 – Advanced Pathophysiology (3)

8. NURS 5104 – Advanced Clinical Pharmacology (3)

9. NURS 5201 – Theories of Nursing Education (3)

10. NURS 5202 – Teaching Strategies & Evaluation Methods (3)

11. NURS 5203 – Curriculum Design (3)

12. NURS 5209 – Nursing Education Practicum (4)

13. NURS 5301 – Nursing Administration I (3)

14. NURS 5302 – Nursing Administration II (3)

15. NURS 5303 – Health Care Finance (3)

16. NURS 5304 – Human Resources Management (3)

17. NURS 5305 - Quality Management in Nursing & Health Care (3)

18. NURS 5309 – Nursing Administration Practicum (4)

19. NURS 5401 – Informatics and Information Management (2)

20. NURS 5402 – Health Care Information Systems (3)

21. NURS 5403 – Analysis & Design of Health Care Information Systems (3)

22. NURS 5404 – Evaluation of Health Care Information Systems (3)

23. NURS 5405 – Health Care Data Analysis Techniques (2)

24. NURS 5407 – Informatics Applications I (2)

25. NURS 5409 – Informatics Applications II (2)

26. NURS 5501 – Advanced Adult Health Nursing I (2)

27. NURS 5502 – Advanced Adult Health Nursing I – Clinical (2)

28. NURS 5503 – Advanced Adult Health Nursing II (2)

29. NURS 5504 – Advanced Adult Health Nursing II – Clinical (2)

30. NURS 5505 – Advanced Adult Health Nursing III (2)

31. NURS 5506 – Advanced Adult Health Nursing III – Clinical (2)

32. NURS 5509 – Advanced Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist – Practicum (4)

33. NURS 5511 – Psychiatric Nursing Care I (2)

34. NURS 5513 – Psychiatric Nursing Care II (2)

35. NURS 5515 – Psychiatric Nursing Care III (2)

36. NURS 5521 – Advanced Concepts in Critical Care (3)

37. NURS 5522 – Core Concepts in Critical Care I (2)

38. NURS 5523 – Core Concepts in Critical Care II (2)

39. NURS 5524 – Core Concepts in Critical Care III (2)

40. NURS 5525 – Electrocardiography for Critical Care Nurses (3)

41. NURS 5529 – Advanced Critical Care CNS Practicum (4)

42. NURS 5531 – Holistic Nursing Perspectives (3)

43. NURS 5532 – Holistic Nursing Interventions (3)

44. NURS 5533 – Advanced Holistic Nursing I (3)

45. NURS 5534 – Advanced Holistic Nursing II (3)

46. NURS 5537 – Advanced Holistic Nursing I (2)

47. NURS 5539 – Advanced Holistic Nursing II – Practicum (2)

48. NURS 5541 – Maternal Child Nursing I (2)

49. NURS 5543 – Maternal Child Nursing II (2)

50. NURS 5545 – Maternal Child Nursing III (2)

51. NURS 5601 – Family Nurse Practitioner I (2)

52. NURS 5602 – Family Nurse Practitioner I – Clinical (2)

53. NURS 5603 – Family Nurse Practitioner II (2)

54. NURS 5604 – Family Nurse Practitioner II – Clinical (2)

55. NURS 5605 – Family Nurse Practitioner III (2)

56. NURS 5606 – Family Nurse Practitioner III – Clinical (2)

57. NURS 5607 – Family Nurse Practitioner IV (2)

58. NURS 5608 – Family Nurse Practitioner IV – Clinical (2)

59. NURS 5609 – Advanced Family Nurse Practitioner – Practicum (4)

60. NURS 5631 – Pediatric Nursing I (2)

61. NURS 5633 – Pediatric Nursing II (2)

62. NURS 5635 – Pediatric Nursing III (2)

63. NURS 5990 – Scholarly Synthesis (3)

Dr. Patricia Smith, Interim Dean, College of Nursing, took the Graduate Council member through the proposal providing specific details about each of the four concentrations and how the RODP MSN proposal would be administered from the ETSU campus. Issues were raised by Council members as to evaluation of graduate faculty and preceptors. Institutions must insure that quality assurance issues are addressed. Dr. Smith stated that hiring of faculty must be approved by the College Dean of each respective institution and coordinators for each program would be responsible for monitoring those classes. She further explained that the institution developing the course would be the institution that would be responsible for maintaining and follow-up on these classes and preceptors must be Board certified. She further stated that the institutions had been assured that class size would be maintained at twenty students to allow manageability.

The advantages of offer the RODP MSN proposal include:

1. The focus on individuals the institution would not recruit,

i.e., flexibility of course options for working individuals who may not be able to attend classes on campus.

2. The proposal would offer educator programs that ETSU

currently doesn’t offer.

3. ETSU should gain students from this RODP offering as they

will have a part-time and full-time program available to

prospective students who chose to purse the MSN degree on-line.

Questions were raised by Council members related to whether or

not students enrolled in this program would have committees. Dr.

Smith stated that there would be no general committees as they would rely on the strength of the program itself. As there were no further questions, a motion was made and votes taken on approval/disapproval of the proposal.

Action Taken by Council: Approved with minor revisions and forwarded to Academic Council for Action.

II. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 2:30 p.m.

Scott Champney, Chair