Implications:
Rebecca Raszewski, the College of Nursing’s subject specialist in the Library of the Health Sciences at Chicago, has been informed that the IBHE-approved certificate program is being eliminated to insure that library resources can be reallocated to other nursing specialty areas (email correspondence attached).
Space Implications:
As the certificate program is currently under enrolled with content revised to the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, the elimination will have no impact on space within the College.
Unit (e.g. department) approval date: College (educational policy committee, faculty) approval dates:
College Curriculum Committee Approval Dates
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August 15, 2013College of Nursing Faculty Approval
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September 27, 2013Contact Person: Linda Scott
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Nursing & Associate Professor, Health Systems Science
312-996-8066 [email protected] Proposed Effective Date/Term: Fall 2015
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PR-16.03 Title: Proposal to eliminate four campus certificates in the College of Nursing: AdvancedPractice Cardiometabolic Nursing, Advanced Practice Forensic Nursing, Clinical Nurse Specialist Post-Master's, and Nurse Practitioner/Midwifery Post Master's
Sponsor: Office of Academic Programs College of Nursing
Executive Summary:
The College of Nursing proposes to eliminate four campus certificates: (1) Advanced Practice Cardiometabolic Nursing Campus Certificate, (2) Advanced Practice
Forensic Nursing Campus Certificate, (3) Clinical Nurse Specialist Post-Master's Campus Certificate, and (4) Nurse Practitioner/Midwifery Post Master's Campus Certificate.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and its accrediting arm, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), targeted 2015 as the deadline for graduate nursing programs to transition all advanced
specialties/concentrations away from the MS in Nursing to the Doctor of Nursing Practice. In AY2013-2014, the UIC College of Nursing completed the process to revise the MS in Nursing from an advanced specialist degree to an advanced
generalist degree – which included the elimination of all (sixteen) advanced practice concentrations attached to the master’s degree. Campus and external governance have approved this revision (see PR-14.23) effective Fall 2014. The four campus certificates were designed to provide nurses with advanced specialty expertise beyond the baccalaureate or master’s degree. As specialty practice expertise has now been defined as acquirable only within the context of a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, the College of Nursing needs to eliminate these certificate programs. Currently, eight (8) students are enrolled in the Nurse Practitioner/Midwifery Post Master's Campus Certificate program on three regional campuses: Chicago (6); Rockford (1) and Quad Cities (1). Enrolled students will be allowed to complete the degree requirements, but must do so by May 2017.
Although the Advanced Practice Cardiometabolic Nursing and Advanced Practice Forensic Nursing were developed in response to community/professional need at the time, enrollment has been consistently low. There have been no students enrolled in these certificate programs for the past three years. In addition, the Clinical Nurse Specialist Post-Master’s certificate has no students currently enrolled.
Description: The College of Nursing proposes to eliminate four campus certificates: (1) Advanced Practice Cardiometabolic Nursing Campus Certificate, (2) Advanced Practice
Forensic Nursing Campus Certificate, (3) Clinical Nurse Specialist Post-Master's Campus Certificate, and (4) Nurse Practitioner/Midwifery Post Master's Campus Certificate.
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The post-baccalaureate certificate was established in Fall 2009. It was designed as an online program and developed to prepare advanced practice nurses (APNs) with in depth knowledge of chronic, non-communicable cardiometabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. It required 9 semester hours comprised of three 3-hour online courses.
Advanced Practice Forensic Nursing Campus Certificate 20FS5144NDEU
The post-baccalaureate certificate was established in Fall 2008. It was designed as an online program and developed to educate nurses to provide culturally sensitive care for underserved and high-risk populations across the life span in a variety of health care setting. It required 12 semester hours comprised of three 3-hour online courses and 3 hours of practicum at a location to be determined in consultation with the College.
Clinical Nurse Specialist Post-Master's Campus Certificate
20FS5147NDEG, 20FS5147NDE5, 20FS5147NDE6, 20FS5147NDE7, and 20FS5147NDE1
The certificate was established in Fall 2008 and offered onsite in Chicago, Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford and Urbana. It was designed for nurses who had already received a master’s degree in nursing and who wished to qualify for national credentialing in a specialty in which he/she is not currently credentialed. The certificate required 11-12 hours of practicum courses in one of four CNS specialty areas: acute care, geriatric care, mental health, or pediatrics.
Nurse Practitioner/Midwifery Post Master's Campus Certificate 20FS5146NDEG, 20FS5146NDE5, 20FS5146NDE6, 20FS5146NDE7, and 20FS5146NDE1
The certificate was established in Fall 2008 and offered onsite in Chicago, Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford and Urbana. It was designed for nurses who had already received a master’s degree in nursing and who wished to qualify for national credentialing in a specialty in which he/she is not currently credentialed. The certificate required 12-17 hours of practicum courses in one of eleven NP specialty areas: nurse midwifery, pediatrics, women’s health, acute care, adult/geriatric, adult, geriatric, mental health, family, occupational health/family, or school/family.
The College of Nursing will retain three (3) campus certificates – Advanced Practice Palliative Care Campus Certificate (which will be revised during AY2015-2016) School Nurse Campus Certificate, and Teaching/Learning in Nursing and Health Sciences. All of these programs have been developed to provide advanced nursing knowledge beyond the baccalaureate degree in nursing however these are not considered advanced specialty practice roles (nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, nurse midwifery, nurse anesthetist).