NURSING EDUCATION

NURSING EDUCATION AN INTRODUCTIONNursing education is constantly interacting and changing to adapt to the existing demands and conditions of health care delivery system. Quality patient care is ensured by educating student nurses feat in practice.

Nursing Education Overview All students has the right to nursing education. However the law provides schools/colleges the freedom to set guidelines for the screening of their students. The global demand of nurses challenges nursing curriculum to be globally competitive.

Nursing Education Overview Deletion on the provision of upper forty percent in the admission of nursing students elicited positive and negative reactions.The law was amended which aims in enhancing quality education for nurses.

Nursing Education OverviewRepublic Act No. 9173, Otherwise known as Philippine Nurses Act of 2002 Two-fold State policy for nursing profession:A. State responsibility - Relevant nursing education - Humane working condition - Better career prospects - Dignified existence of Filipino nurses B. The state guarantee - Quality health care services

AUTHORITY TO OPEN /CLOSE NURSING SCHOOLS & COLLEGES What the law?- CHED Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 30- Promulgated on August 24, 2001- It contains the rules & regulations for the authorization to open or permit to actually operate nursing a schools and colleges.

Authority to open Nursing Schools and CollegesCMO 30 states that the authorization to open a nursing school shall be based upon: A. Written recommendation of: - BON - PRC - DOH - National Student Affiliation Committee B. Approval of CHED

WHAT ARE THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE DEAN AND FACULTY ?

DEAN QUALIFICATIONSFilipino citizenA registered nurseMasters degree holder in nursing5 years teaching and supervisory experience in colleges or nursing institutesActive member of ADPCN

FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DEANAssist the administrators to attain institutional goals.Initiate curriculum development programsImplement faculty development programsApproves faculty hiring, termination and promotion. Approves faculty teaching loads.

Deans Function/ResponsibilitiesOversee facultys academic advisement of students.Collaborate with student services, admission policies & referrals based on established criteria.Ensure adherence to established standards of instruction.Ascertain that graduation requirements are complied.

Deans Function/ResponsibilitiesRepresent the school in professional and community civic affairs.Attend to physical and budgetary resourcesCollaborates with the health services and other academic units in the implementation of instructional programs.

FACULTY QUALIFICATIONSFilipino citizenA registered nurse in the PhilippinesA masters degree holderHave at least 1 year of clinical practiceA member of PNA

WHAT ABOUT TEACHING LOADS?Dean should not exceed (6) units of lecture in a semester.Full time faculty member should have 15-24 units per semester. (1) RLE hour is equivalent to 1 unit credit.Government employees with part time teaching load = 9 units maximum load

WHAT ABOUT EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS/CONDITIONS?Assigned academic ranks based on their training and expertise with commensurate compensation.Full time faculty members handling classroom and RLE are required to teach nursing courses.

Employment requirements /conditionsFaculty members must have faculty development programs.When vacancy occurs in the teaching force the substitute must have similar or higher qualifications.Nursing school must have a faculty manual containing.

WHAT ABOUT CLINICAL FACILITIES?

RLE ResourcesA nursing school must have a tertiary based hospital with 100 bed capacity and is accredited by Bureau of Licensing and Regulation of the DOH as teaching hospital w/ gen services.There must be a contract of affiliation to maintain an environment conducive to learning.

RLE ResourcesThere must be an adequate number of patients varying in age, sex, level/acuity & types of illness desired for teaching learning experience of different levels.Faculty & nursing service must work together in the planning, implementation and evaluation of students experiences.

RLE ResourcesThe hospital or community agencies must have the following: - Conference room - Library - Comfort room and dressing room - Student lounge and lockerThere must be an adequate physical facilities, supplies & equipments for effective nursing care and students learning experiences.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Admission RequirementsApplicants must belong to upper 40% of the graduating secondary class.There must be well defined admission, promotion & retention policies published & made known to students. There must be an admission quota based on the capacity of the nursing school ( faculty & facilities)

BASIS OF CLOSURE OF NURSING SCHOOLSGradual phase out if within 5 years of operation below 10% of its graduates for three board examinations passed the nursing licensure exam.Outright closure if board passing rate is below 3% in three board examinations within 5 years.

CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTIONAL STANDARDS

HISTORY OF NURSING CURRICULUM4 year BSN curriculum was initially implemented for the school year 1976-1977. (DECS Order No. 42, s.1976) dated July 7, 1976Graduate Nurse (GN) program was phased out on the same year.

History of BSN curriculumThe 1993 BSN curriculum intends to produce competency based and community oriented nursing graduates.The 2001 BSN curriculum intends to produce a full functioning and critical thinking nurse.

Level CompetencyThe first year of the BSN curriculum demands the students to acquire the following levels of competencies: A. An understanding and awareness of self as an individual, as a member of the family, the community and the world, with emphasis on his/her reponsibilities and rights. B. Awareness of his/her physical, social, spiritual and cultural environment.

Level CompetencyThe second year of the BSN curriculum requires the students to obtain the following level of competencies: A. Holistic understanding of man as a bio-psychosocial-cultural being focuses on the concept of health, common life stresses, political history, family, health care system and nursing profession. B. Beginning skills in the use of nursing process as basis of health care delivery.

Level CompetencyThe third year of BSN curriculum aims that the student achieve the following levels of competencies: A. A broad concept of illness from social, epidemiological, ecological, economic, and cultural perspectives; and B. Knowledge of pathological processes and coping techniques of individual, family and community as essential components of nursing process.

Level CompetencyThe fourth and the last year of the BSN curriculum ensures that the students will acquire the following: A. The skills for professional practice to work independently and/or in collaboration with others in the promotion of health and prevention and control of illness in either hospital or community.

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