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Friday, February 10, 2012
West Virginia University School of Nursing envisions optimal health, enhanced quality of life, and excellent health care for the people of West Virginia and the global community.
The mission of the West Virginia University School of Nursing is to serve the people of West Virginia and larger society through education, research and service, including faculty practice. This mission is responsive to changing health care needs and emerging national and state changes in technology and health care delivery and is enhanced by a supportive and open environment. The faculty's educational effort is directed to providing high quality student-centered programs of instruction at all levels which prepare superb professional nurses to meet basic health care needs; advanced practice nurses to address complex health needs; and doctorally educated nurses to advance nursing knowledge through research, to assist in the formulation of policies to improve health care, and to serve as faculty in higher degree programs. Unique characteristics of the state mandate that the health care needs of rural populations and; vulnerable groups be a major focus of education, research and service, including faculty practice.
April 2004
The WVU SON has goals in Education, Scholarly Inquiry, and Service.
West Virginia University School of Nursing (SON) seeks to provide excellent, student-centered educational programs which address core competencies/threads in all programs and meet the changing needs of the communities of interest we served.
This goal is met through the following activities:
Revising curricula in conjunction with changing health care systems and professional nursing standards and guidelines.
Utilizing technology to deliver high quality programs.
Fostering a climate that encourages academic success.
Creating a culture that values the adoption of professional attributes and supports the development of socially responsible citizens.
Using innovative teaching and learning strategies to offer a variety of educational programs.
Offering rural educational programs through collaboration with the state's health care providers.
Considering the needs and expectations of the School of Nursing communities of interest in the development, implementation and evaluation of educational programs.
Promoting educational opportunities utilizing faculty and student participation.
Promoting practice opportunities for faculty and student collaboration.
Fostering faculty and student involvement in school organizations, ceremonies and social activities.
Supporting student organization activities.
Utilizing a systematic, outcome-based evaluation plan for all programs.
Utilizing the outcomes of the systematic evaluation process for decision making related to all aspects of the program.
West Virginia University School of Nursing seeks to increase scholarship, including funded research and peer-reviewed publications in order to benefit those we serve.
This goal is met through the following activities:
Requiring all tenured and tenure-track faculty to document scholarship through publication.
Requiring all tenured and tenure-track faculty to conduct scholarly inquiry. Examples of this include primary data collection, secondary data analysis, and literature synthesis.
Encouraging clinical faculty to publish in professional journals, based on their faculty practice.
Encouraging faculty participation in professional meetings at the national level.
Supporting faculty presentations at national meetings.
Sponsoring local, regional, national and international professional conferences.
Increasing collaborative research within the Health Sciences Center.
Collaborating with the Health Sciences Center's News Service Office to showcase scholarship from the School of Nursing.
Promoting faculty and student scholarly inquiry within the identified School of Nursing focus areas: empowerment, life transitions and health system outcomes.
Promoting an integrated model of research and program evaluation that encourages collaboration among tenure-track and clinical-track faculty, students, and clinical personnel.
Collaborating with nursing service colleagues in the design of research and program evaluation projects.
Participating in broad-based, interdisciplinary health research.
Structuring all faculty workloads to provide time for scholarship.
Tracking and supporting all faculty scholarship, including publications and research.
Providing SON peer review before submission of faculty publications and grant proposals. Peer review of publications may rest with individuals and not be a group process, but it must be documentable, if requested.
Providing statistical consultative services, grant writing technical assistance, and grant budget monitoring support for faculty research projects.
Increasing faculty awareness and use of the Health Sciences Center and University resources that support faculty scholarship.
Providing faculty development activities.
Representing School of Nursing needs within the Health Sciences Center.
West Virginia University School of Nursing seeks to increase the School's service activity in professional organizations, academe, practice, and continuing education in order to benefit those we serve.
This goal is met through the following activities:
Maintaining active memberships in professional organizations.
Fulfilling leadership roles in local, state, national and international nursing and other professional organizations.
Maintaining quality and quantity of WVU School of Nursing approved continuing education activites that meet the needs of nurses in the state.
Holding positions on key University Councils, Committees, or Task Forces.
Participating in HSC-based Committees, or Task Forces.
Serving on SON and Department committees and task forces.
Being recognized for their participation in University, HSC-based, SON and Department councils, committees, or task forces.
Promoting faculty participation int he Faculty Practice Plan that supports the integration of School of Nursing education, scholarship, and service goals.
Increasing participation on interdisciplinary practice teams that emphasize evidence-based practice, quality improvement and use of informatics.
Allocating generated revenue to strengthen SON education, scholarship, and service goals.
Promoting further development of the infastructure to support the Faculty Practice Plan.
The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) is the sole accrediting agency that accredits only baccalaureate and higher degree programs. Their new accrediting process was initiated in 1998 and West Virginia University School of Nursing was in the initial accreditation cycle. The School received a full, 10 year, accreditation for the baccalaureate and masters' programs in April, 1999. In April 2009, The School received another full 10 year re-accreditation for the baccalaureate and masters' programs, with all standards met and no areas of concern. This accreditation also applies to the WVU School of Nursing programs offered at the Charleston Division, at West Virginia Institute of Technology, and at Parkersburg (WVU-P). It also includes the freshman course and sophomore year nursing courses at Glenville State College and Potomac State College. West Virginia University School of Nursing was also in the initial accreditation cycle for the new Doctor of Nursing Practice Program, receiving a full, 5 year accreditation with all standards met and no areas of concern.
Prior to seeking CCNE accreditation, the nursing programs at WVU had been continuously accredited by the National League for Nursing, with the baccalaureate program receiving initial accreditation in 1964, the year of the first graduating class, and the master's program in 1981. The last year for National League for Nursing accreditation was 1998, and the CCNE accreditation was retroactive to Fall of 1997.