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From: Aguilar, Dolores S
Sent: Mon 5/26/2008 1:38 PM
To: Mancini, Mary E; jlouder@angelo.edu
Cc: Aguilar, Dolores S
Subject: FW: NIG Research Consortium - Checking in....

Justin here is the update from UTA:

 

1. Name of Grant: The Learn project: Experiential Learning through a Synergistic Hospital-Based Accelerated BSN program

2. Contact Person Name: Dr Beth Mancini (mancini@uta.edu) or Dolores Aguilar (aguilar@uta.edu)

3. BRIEF overview of your activities on the grant during since January. A few bullet points would be fine...

  • Identified a team to coordinate the grant (University: Grant PI, UTA project coordinator, grant internal evaluator, assistant dean of student services, Director BSN program, clinical coordinator; Partner hospital: Administrator of Education and project coordinator)
    • Held weekly meetings from Feb - May 2008. This has been very helpful. Since our partner hospital is part of these meetings so we are able to problem solve quickly.
  • Partnership with THR; system provides
    • Tuition and books for each student
    • Flexible work schedule to facilitate student success
    • Full time pay for 24 hours of work (NOT all THR hospitals)
  • Set up application and admissions processes:
    • 21 applications were reviewed and each applicant was interviewed
    • Accepted 15 students (2 withdrew their application and one did not successfully complete the pre-requisites)
    • Admitted 12 students into upper division nursing course beginning Maymester 2008
    • Held reception for first cohort of students and significant other to meet faculty and partners
    • Each student completed HESI A2 which included a critical thinking component. One student is required to take a student success course due to scores on HESI A2
    • 2 day Orientation held
    • Junior level courses begin May 13: Classes are being taught in the Smart hospital and clinical will be at AMH.
    • WebCT site established for the LEARN Project which includes student success coordinator discussion board to facilitate commutation with students
  • Recruited 12 THR (partner Hospital) coaches for each LEARN student.
    • Developed coach manual
    • UTA and THR project coordinators met with each coach
      • Coaches are paid by UTA from the grant
      • Coaches will be monitored by THR project coordinator
    • Coaches are contacting students for the first meeting
  • Purchased technology and set up class rooms for video streaming to podcast classes as needed.  A few classes will be podcasted in maymester and summer; all classes will be podcasted in the fall and spring. Hired a video production technician.
  • Meet every two weeks with JR I and JR II levels to prep maymester, summer and fall courses
    • Provided faculty stipend to develop course for podcasting.
    • Hired faculty for maymester and summer 2008
    • Investigating an electronic testing system
  • External consultant
    • Identified and have agreement with outside evaluator
    • Collaborating with San Angelo to develop a CB model (in final stages of development)
  • Submitted Robert Wood Johnson foundation grant for “New Careers”. The grant is specifically for Accelerated Programs who are increasing enrollment.  We requested $400,000 over a 3 year period for Accelerated BSN student scholarships.

4. A list of your planned evaluation elements and time frame for when they will be coming due for your grant:

 

Evaluation item

 

Orientation

 

End of JR I

 

End of JR II

 

End of SR I

End of SR II Program

 

Post Program

Student demographics (Student Svcs)

X

 

 

 

 

 

HESI A2 (Student Svcs)

X

 

 

 

 

 

Critical thinking (Student Svcs)*

X

 

 

 

X

 

Clinical evaluations (Barr)

 

X

X

X

X

 

Course evaluations (Barr)

 

X

X

X

X

 

Student stress inventory (Barr)

 

X

 

X

 

 

Course grades (Student Svcs)

 

X

X

X

X

 

HESI end of course/program (Program Director)

 

X

X

X

X

 

EBI items (Program Director: Need to identify items)

 

 

 

 

X

 

Student satisfaction with coach (Barr -  Need to develop tool) *

 

 

 

 

X

 

Student satisfaction delivery method (Barr - Dolores will administer,  Need to develop tool)*

 

 

 

 

X

 

Coach satisfaction (Barr - Debra will administer; Need to develop tool)*

 

 

 

 

X

 

Faculty satisfaction (Barr - Dolores will administer; Need to develop tool )*

 

 

 

 

X

 

NCLEX  (Program Director)

 

 

 

 

 

X

PBDS (THR – Debra)

 

 

 

 

 

X

Turnover (THR – Debra Logan)

 

 

 

 

 

X

?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Justin and Beth, let me know if you need anything else.

 

Dolores

Angelo State University
LVN-RN Hospital Partnership Program
Grant Updates
July 2008

Contact Name: Dr Leslie Mayrand: lmayrand@angelo.edu & Ms Linda Ross: linda.ross@angelo.edu

 

Project Name: LVN-RN Hospital Partnership Program

 

NUR4343 – Role of the Clinical Preceptor

  • Course was developed and offered during the first Summer Term of 2008 – Original Grant goal was to have the course developed by August 2008.
  • 30 students enrolled in the course – original goal was 24
    • 27 students successfully completed the course
    • 2 students, due to family and work commitments, were unable to finish the course so they received an Incomplete and will complete the course in the Fall
    • 1 student did not complete the course – however, she was not part of the preceptor grant program
  • There has been interest from at least 10 other RNs at hospital partners that have expressed interest in taking the course the next time it is offered.
    • NUR4343 will be offered again Fall 2008

RNSG 1227 – Transition from Vocational to Professional Nursing I – Hospital Partnership

  • Course was developed by June of 2008.
  • Course is divided into 3 weekly units with a one week 24 hour clinical requirement for a total of 4 weeks.
  • Student orientation has been completed at each of the four partner hospitals
  • Initial cohort will begin classes July 9th, 2008.
  • Preceptor/staff educator/key administrator orientation is scheduled for each of the four hospital partners the week of July 21st

Additional interest from hospitals in participating in program.

  • Five additional hospitals/facilities have expressed interest in participating in the LVN-RN Accelerated progam.
Evaluation items
Orientation
End of RNSG 1227 Cohort I
End of RNSG 2527 Cohort I
End of RNSG 1227 Cohort II
End of RNSG 2527 Cohort II
End of RNSG 1227 Cohort III
End of RNSG 2527 Cohort III
End of RNSG 1227 Cohort IV
End of RNSG 2527 Cohort IV
End of RNSG 1227 Cohort V
End of RNSG 2527 Cohort V
End of RNSG 1227 Cohort VI
End of RNSG 2527 Cohort VI
Student Demographics
X
Clinical Evaluation
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Course Evaluations
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Course Grades
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Student satisfaction with preceptor
X
X
X
X
X
X
Student satisfaction with delivery method
X
X
X
X
X
X
Preceptor satisfaction
X
X
X
X
X
X
Faculty satisfaction
X
X
X
X
X
X
NCLEX first time pass
X
X
X
X
X
X
Graduation rate
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Clinical portfolio
X
X
X
X
X
X
Hospial Evaluation of Project
X
X
X
X
X
X

 

 

Justin,

 

Please update the NIG Research website on the West Texas Nursing Education Consortium’s (WTNEC) progress.  The following is a brief summation of the events and progressions of the grant.

 

Drs. Sharon Cannon (Project PI),  and Pat Allen (Project Co-PI), and Jennifer Majors (Project Coordinator) from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, in partnership with Angelo State University, Midwestern State University, The University of Texas El Paso, West Texas A&M University, Cisco Junior College, El Paso Community College, Midland College, Odessa College, South Plains College, Vernon College, and American State Bank make up the West Texas Nursing Education Consortium for the West Texas Nursing Education Portal Project (WTNEPP).    The PI’s and project coordinator have recently returned from Boston where they met with Liaison International to discuss the development of the centralized application portal Liaison is creating for the WTNEC. 

 

In the past month after research and meetings it was decided to explore the options Liaison International had to offer to create the centralized application portal.  Liaison International currently contracts with many allied health schools in Texas and throughout the United States and is very versed in creating centralized application portals.  Liaison was able to demonstrate to us how they will be able to tailor the portal to accommodate to each particular schools administrative parameters.  The creation of the portal is underway and we are working very closely with Liaison to ensure that the application is tailor made to each consortium schools parameters and needs.

 

In order to have an accurate representation of each schools parameters we are requesting information from each consortium member school of their schools particular administrative parameters so they are correctly displayed in the application. 

 

We are in the process of trying to plan a time to have Liaison come to Texas and answer any questions the consortium members, registrars, or IT departments might have about the integration of the portal into existing programs.  Our goal is to have the first round of data to look at by August 2009 to measure the project objectives which are to match student applications with schools, know if there are duplication of applications and vacant admission slots, and to increase graduation rates for schools in the West Texas Nursing Education Consortium.  Project evaluation will be based on cost, vacant slots, increased enrollments and graduation rates.

 

The WTNEC is currently working with a retention consultant to develop the goals for the regional retention initiative to track and retain “at risk” students. 

 

Please let me know if you should have any questions.

 

Regards,

 

Jennifer Majors

Project Coordinator-WTNEC

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

School of Nursing

800 W. 4th Street

Odessa, TX 79763

T 432.335.5150

jennifer.askew@ttuhsc.edu

 

 

From: Aalund, Peggy [mailto:Peggy.Aalund@lonestar.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:51 PM
To: Mancini, Mary E
Subject: RE: NIG Research Consortium - Checking in....

 

Thanks, Beth, and yes, the website looks great! Here are my answers:

 

  1. 1.      Name of Grant: Course Redesign for Self-Paced Nursing Students
  2. 2.      Contact Person Name: Peggy Aalund
  3. 3.       BRIEF overview of activities on the grant during since January.
    1. a.       IRB application approved.
    2. b.      Hired new faculty member and new lab coordinator for grant activities.
    3. c.       Developed ¾ of the modules for the online program.
    4. d.      Set up application process for students to apply, deadline of May 15. Have approximately 30 qualified applicants at this time.
    5. e.      Partnerships established with area hospitals, one to pay LVN’s while attending clinical in addition to tuition reimbursement and providing preceptors.
    6. f.        Recruitment of preceptors in progress.
    7. g.       One pilot student in progress, will pilot 3-4 others this summer.
    8. h.      SimLab training completed for all faculty. Additional simulated manikins purchased from operating budget to expand the Simulation Lab.
    9. i.        Purchase of technology for streaming video of lectures.
    10. j.        Two meetings with Grant Advisory Committee.
    11. k.       Have release time for all faculty this summer to develop ancillary parts of online program.
    12. l.        Three faculty members attending online teaching workshop this summer.
    13. m.    Identified and have agreement with outside evaluator.

 

  1. 4.       A list of your planned evaluation elements and time frame for when they will be coming due for your grant:
    1. a.       Graduation rate, GPA, entrance exam, mid-curricular and exit exam scores, NCLEX pass rate.
    2. b.      Student satisfaction, employer satisfaction, faculty satisfaction.
    3. c.       Time to completion
    4. d.      Cost-benefit analysis
    5. e.      *Student Stress Inventory –we would love to participate in this project and compare this group of students with our traditional students.

I am happy to share my surveys, and I would love to see others to find better tools.  I will have to find the employer survey to send to you electronically.

 

Thanks so much! See you May 12

 

Peggy Aalund

 

From: Ellen Wuertz [mailto:ewuertz@austincc.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 11:34 AM
To: Mancini, Mary E
Cc: 'Eileen Klein'
Subject: RE: NIG Research Consortium - Brief Update

 

HI Beth,

I’m sending the update as requested. Please let me know if you have any other questions or need additional information.

 

 

 

Name of Grant: Student Tracking and Retention Project (STAR), a program for intervention and retention of at-risk nursing students

 

Contact Person Name: Ellen Wuertz, RN, MPH

 

Overview of Activities:

 

  • Development and refinement of algorithms to be used by ACC’s nursing tutors to address commonly identified nursing content area tutoring needs
  • Development and refinement of algorithms to be used by ACC’s Health Sciences Counselor to intervene in common areas of support service needs
  • Updated Anatomy and Physiology web-based review modules that reflect areas in which students most commonly need reinforcement of learning, as identified by ADN nursing faculty
  • Purchase of server and software to be used by tutors to track student interventions and to facilitate appointment scheduling with tutors
  • Identification of risk assessment tools to be used beginning in May, that will allow students to be identified who are at high risk for non-completion and/or in need of tutoring and other support services in the ADN Program

 

List of Planned Evaluation Activities and Timeframes:

 

Track outcomes for Summer 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009 cohorts and calculate retention rates         December 2008

Specific tracking of tutoring/retention coordinator contacts, grades and course completion,                                      May 2009

HESI scores, withdrawal reasons, identified student issues/concerns                                                                     August 2009

 

Review and revision of algorithms based on student and retention team feedback                                                     August 2008

                                                                                                                                                                        December 2008

                                                                                                                                                                        May 2009

                                                                                                                                                                        August 2009

 

Focus groups/student evaluation sessions to review experiences and use of tutoring and support services                 December 2008

                                                                                                                                                                        May 2009

                                                                                                                                                                        August 2009

 

Overall program evaluation to determine achievement of program indicators, including HESI scores and student         June – August 2009

retention

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ellen Wuertz, RN, MPH

Health Sciences Curriculum Instructional Specialist

Austin Community College

512.223.5937

Grant Summary for Nursing Innovation Grant Program NIGP 2007 – Statewide Clinical Placement /May 2008

1. Name of grant:  Nursing Innovation Grants – Academic & Clinical Partnerships   Statewide Collaborations in Clinical Placement grant, period ending August 31, 2009
2. Contacts:
Dr. Trish Richard, Project Director – plrichar@utmb.edu, 409-772-8221                  Dr. Virginia Brooke, Project Co-Director – vbrooke@utmb.edu, 409-772-8594 Neesha Hosein, Project Manager – fnhosein@utmb.edu, 409-772-4807
3. Brief overview:  
The purpose of the project is to develop statewide collaboration in clinical placement of student nurses in healthcare agencies using the Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS). Expansion to at least one large metropolitan area in Texas interested in implementing the CCPS is a priority. The CCPS is a database-driven system that allows schools of nursing to view availability and make requests online based on “real-time” information regarding all placement openings throughout the region (see http://www.texasnrc.org).  The CCPS is a paperless system aiming to replace the current manual process, e-mails and phone calls between schools and clinical sites to check on availability of clinical placement. Currently, the El Paso region is scheduled for a Webinar on May 20, 2008 and the Corpus Christi region scheduled for Webinars on May 15 and 23 to be oriented to the system. Both schools are in the process of introducing the product to potential users from the Schools of Nursing and Clinical Agencies in the area.
The project benefits from experience and additional enhancements to the CCPS based on user feedback from a previous grant funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that centralized clinical placement of students in the Houston-Galveston region. Based on user feedback the CCPS added a wizard to improve navigation for historic clinical placements, improved the accuracy of student counts by indicating the exact number of students accepted on a unit, created a “re-propose” status in addition to a denial status, overlap on a unit and added a mouse-over feature to view comments.  Additionally, the CCPS improved the visual look of the software.
Activities on the grant since January –

  • Discussion with interested agencies and schools in 4 regions of Texas including El Paso, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and Dallas. CCPS training Webinar on May 20, 2008 with El Paso to introduce the community of stakeholders to the Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS), Corpus Christi region is in the process of scheduling a Webinar.
  • Discussion with Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) on regional customizations required for implementation of CCPS in the selected region.
  • Negotiation with FCCC has broadened the scope of the license to include the entire state of Texas based on the original license agreement for the Houston-Galveston area. Funds to customize the site will be an expense of the current project.
  • Project Manager: the position was posted in February, interviews were held in March and the position was filled in April 14, 2008. Project manager is Neesha Hosein.
  • Presentation at the SNRS conference in Birmingham AL in February provided exposure to representatives of other schools who expressed interest in the system. Key school and agency stakeholders in target regions have contacted PI, i.e. El Paso and Corpus Christi. The FCCC has reported interest from schools in San Antonio and Dallas as well.
  • Discussion with our partner, Methodist Hospital, to implement other features of the grant within the allotted timeline, such as:
    • Meet with key stakeholders and the Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies/Texas Department of health Services to determine value of coordinated clinical placement reports for statewide RN workforce planning and determine what modifications are needed on the CCPS that would aid in workforce planning, by July 2008
    • Determine the necessary modifications to the TexasNRC.org Web site to accommodate the needs of more than one region, by August 2008
  • Implementation of the upgrades and enhancements of CCPS based on user feedback from the previous grant and continuing feedback from users. TheOperating Committee for the project will meet May 20, 2008 and an all users meeting is being scheduled for June 2008.
  • Project Manager is in the process of updating the database of lists and contacts and obtaining feedback by phone calls to school coordinators regarding background check agencies and other hospitals of interest.
  • Continuing online training and technical support for current users as needed

4. Planned evaluation elements & time frame:
Project evaluation includes interviews, surveys and observations using instruments developed for the previous Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant from 2005 to 2007, extended to February 2008. The results are located in the final report to the THCB April 1, 2008.
The expected outcomes are increased efficiency in the clinical placement process, multi-site management for clinical agencies, more clinical experiences for students, and regional view of clinical placement opportunities and availability. The next survey/evaluation is planned for completion by August 2008. A feasibility report on the expansion of the CCPS is to be completed by September 2008. A user satisfaction survey from the CCPS will be implemented summer 2008.
                           


A Research Model for Identifying and Intervening with At-Risk Nursing Students

  1. Name of grant:  A Research Model for Identifying and Intervening with At-Risk Nursing Students.
  2. Contact Person Name:  Tami Putnam, Network Project Coordinator
  3. Overview:
  4. Web site:
    1. Domain purchased
    2. Web-site:  http://nursingstudentsupport.net
    3. Logo established
    4. Outline of modules, blogs, study skills and modules complete.
  5. Outline for web based modules complete and module design progressing:
    1. Learning Styles
    2. Time Management
    3. Memory as a Tool for Success
    4. How to Read & Understand the Information
    5. How to Take Effective Notes
    6. How to Prepare for Tests
    7. Critical Thinking Skill Need for Success
  6. Alert Criteria Established:
    1. Composite Score
    2. Reading Score
    3. Math Composite
    4. A&P I, II GPA
    5. Hours Worked
    6. Family/Peer Support
  7. Tools Complete for Survey:
    1. Surveys I & II
    2. SES
    3. SPA I & II
  8. Retention Network Coordinator Hired
  9. IRB Submitted
  10. Psychological Support Component-Progressing

 

 

 

 

  1. NEC4 Committee developed and Meeting.
  2. Program Evaluation:  various evaluation components will be utilized including the following:
    1. GPA for first semester nursing students in both the control and intervention groups
    2. Attrition rate for first semester nursing students in both the control and intervention groups.
    3. HESI scores for first semester nursing students in both the control and intervention groups
    4. GPA for graduating students who participated in the grant in both the control and intervention groups (post-grant period)
    5. Graduation rates for both the control and intervention groups (post-grant period)
    6. Ongoing GPA and HESI scores in both control and intervention groups throughout nursing curriculum of participating program
    7. Initial regression modeling to identify at-risk prediction factors completed December 2008 and continued modeling throughout grant period to refine regression model.
    8. Student assessment of effectiveness of intervention methods
    9. Faculty member’s assessment of effectiveness of intervention methods
    10. Identification of thematic patterns related to at-risk students
  3. Successful meetings with Directors of participating nursing schools:
    1. March 6, 2008:  19 in attendance
    2. April 17, 2008:  12 in attendance

 

1.  Name of Grant: 
Reinventing Nursing Education:  An Education and Practice Partnership

 

2.  Contact Person Name: 
Susan Sheriff
Associate Professor
College of Nursing
Texas Woman's University

3.  Brief Overview of Activities from January 2008 to May 2008:

  • Faculty recruited from TWU nursing faculty to prepare online didactic content.
  • Baylor University Medical Center and project directors conferred regarding the clinical experiences.
  • Project staff, i.e. graduate assistant, was hired.
  • Initial weekend/online students selected from the applicant pool.
  •  Twenty-five students admitted to the Weekend/Online Program
  • Classes for the Weekend/Online Weekend Program began May 12th, 2008. 
  • Masters-prepared nurses at BUMC are being recruited for the program.

 

4.  Evaluation Elements and Time Frame

Student Evaluation of Summer Courses               August 2008

Online Courses Evaluated by ITS                       August 2008

Student Evaluation of Fall Courses                      December 2008

Student Satisfaction Survey of Program              December 2008

Baylor Faculty Evaluation of Program                 May 2009

Evaluation of Program by Students                     May 2010

Student Satisfaction Survey of Program              May 2010

HESI Examination                                             May 2010

Graduation of 20 Students                                  May 2010

NCLEX                                                            June 2010