| Title | Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing-Course additions |
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| Submitting Dean | N. Margaret Wineman |
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| Submitting College | Nursing -- Susan Bradford |
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| Departments Generating the Proposal | Nursing |
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| Objection Deadline | |
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| Proposal Status | College status: approved |
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| Proposal Last Updated | March 31, 2008 by NU dean's ofc Kathleen Ross-Alaolmolki |
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| Effective Date | Spring 2008 |
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| Brief Summary of Proposal | This course is one in a series of three courses developed in response to concerns about the state of the behavioral health workforce, including registered nurses with bacaalaureate degrees or students at the graduate level of education. Behavioral health services are even more human resource intensive than other areas of health care, therefore workforce development is critical. Asynchronous online education is necessary to faciltiate access because the behavioral healthcare organization often cannot afford to take nurses out of service for face to face educational activities. Because innovations in behavioral healthcare based on research take much too long to be transferred to practice the current nursing workforce is unprepared to deal with the practices of the current behavioral health system, which demands skills to work outside the hospital setting, in the community, schools, prisons, homeless shelters, and home care settings. Behavioral health systems today require nurses who are prepared to work with persons with serious mental illness and who are culturally competent, promote resiliency and recovery, and are capable of working in collaborative relationships. This course seeks to supply the education necessary to work effectively with the vulnerable seriously and persistently mentally ill population. Dr. Galon was funded for the development of this series of courses by the Department of Mental Health (ODMH) because of her knowledge and expertise in the care of and public policy issues related to the severly persistently mentally ill. |
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| Type of Proposal | Program changes |
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| Graduate School Endorsement Status | Approved |
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| Graduate School Endorsement Updated | April 16, 2008 by GS Heather Blake |
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| Institutional Research Status | Approved |
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| IR Status Updated | April 02, 2008 by IR Sabrina Andrews |
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| Library Status | Approved |
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| Library Status Updated | March 31, 2008 by UL Jo Ann Calzonetti |
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| Distance Learning Review Committee Status | Under review |
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| DLRC Comment | NU-08-01 and -05: these proposals still have problems: In the 513/514 course sections there is confusion about CR/NC and continuing education students (how do the latter obtain a UA login?); having no pre-requisites for practicing nursing professionals is OK, but what about students who are not practicing yet?; having different course requirements for different students is questioned; using complete/incomplete grading is not part of our system; a bibliography is needed; Springboard, not WebCT, needs to be used: In the 515 course it is not clear why it cannot be repeated (what is the difference between a student taking four credits once, or two credits twice?). DLRC knows about the accreditation issue and requests that Nursing carefully edit these two proposals. If this occurs as needed, the committee will act on them in Sept. 2008 and they should be approved before the Spring 2009 semester. |
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| DLRC Status Updated | April 22, 2008 by PR Rex Ramsier |
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| General Education Advisory Committee Status | Not required |
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| GEAC Status Updated | April 17, 2008 by PR Rex Ramsier |
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| Resource Requirements | No additional resources |
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| Resource Requirements Updated | March 20, 2008 by NU dean's ofc Kathleen Ross-Alaolmolki |
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| Resource comment | Additional resources are not required. Dr. Galon whose expertise is the sevrely-persistently mentally ill will be the course faculty.
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