College of the Redwoods
Program Review Committee
Executive Summary
Adopted November 6, 2009
Mission Statement The College of the Redwoods’ Program Review Committee leads and facilitates authentic
assessment as it relates to student success and planning at the institution for all subject and service areas.
The committee reviews Annual and Comprehensive Program Reviews that provide the strong foundation
upon which College of the Redwoods develops, identifies, states and documents quality improvement plans
and goals including providing the direction of prioritization of funding, and support needs as organized under
the strategic planning objectives.
Objective: To provide an evaluative Executive Summary of this program’s review for authors, the
Integrated Planning Committees, and the District.
Program Review Subject/Service Area: ___RN___ __________________
Program Review Authors: ___
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K Dunleavy;J Gibbs, J Tatum,C Wolfsen,P Girczyc
Summary and Recommendations:
1. Program strengths:
Over 90% of students admitted to the Program meet the
educational goals by achieving multiple learning outcomes by 5.
course and Program;
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Accommodation;
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Additional Comments:
Outstanding faculty support.
Very good remediation plan for helping student be
successful.
Availability of an objective person to talk to
students;
75% students are hired before they graduate (75-80% are hired
locally);
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98% completion for state boards overall; first time percent in
80’s; decreases with higher enrollment; up from 70 in 1980’s;
2. Program challenges/obstacles:
The number of students applying greatly outpaces the
number accepted.
FT to PT ratios is very high. Difficulty in keeping the number
of faculty necessary for the large clinical need. Dealing with a
large faculty turn-over in the next few years.
Placing students in clinics locally is becoming more difficult as
the enrollment increases, saturation is becoming a problem.
One lab = 22.5 TLUs
This program is a high stakes program, students can
be kick out of the program (State wide) if they are
accused of unsafe practice (for example.)
Acquiring data – health care is moving target; hard
to get information
High stakes (due to state requirements, emotional
etc.)
Scheduling, especially clinical labs
Large turnover in full-time faculty in next three or four years;
Process:
PRC will forward completed Executive Summaries to program review authors.
Authors will have two weeks to provide feedback and corrections on errors of fact and/interpretation
PRC will forward Executive Summaries and authors response (if available) to the appropriate integrated
planning committee and the CPC.
8. 3. Commendations:
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9. Increasing student enrollments;
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11. 80% nurses in community come from CR’s RN program;
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The collaborative effort of the Simulation Center
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Because of grant funding, Health Occ has been able to support
other parts of college;
Recommendations:
Continue to work with IR for interpreting data;
Link Board Registered Nursing recommendations
with QIP
Attrition is around 8% (state recognizes 15% as problematic.)
First time pass rate is 88% - overall pass rate is around 98%.
14. Outstanding community connections and partnership with
HSU;
19. 4. Program Budget/Funding Sources:
Current Grant funding only covers 1 FT faculty;
Significant funding comes from grant support.
External funding is supporting this program.
5. Program Goals/Plans:
Minimize attrition and increase student success;
Collecting data for analysis for student placement and
retention data for prerequisites.
Linking QIP’s with Board of Registered Nurses;
Placing students in their clinical labs – one help is the
simulation center can provide 25% of a student’s clinical time
(this takes some of the pressure off clinical placement)
6. Program Outcomes Assessment (PLOs/SLOs):
In line with state requirements; consistent and tightly formed;
(note state board are the national piece; feedback is used in
working with PLO/SLO)
Looking at student success in basic skill by cohort?
Note: 25% of clinical lab can be achieved by the
simulation center;
7. Student Success/Achievement Basic Skills
obstacles/challenges:
Looking at student success in basic skill by cohort?
Attrition 8%, down from 11% (state benchmark for attrition
says over 15% is problematic);
98% completion for state boards overall; first time
percent in 80’s; decreases with higher enrollment;
up from 70 in 1980’s;
This is an area where the data is a little unknown. It
would be helpful to the program to know how many
students entering the program started in Basic Skills
Very extensive because of the State/National
Boards. Outcomes are by necessity are tied to
curriculum
Process:
PRC will forward completed Executive Summaries to program review authors.
Authors will have two weeks to provide feedback and corrections on errors of fact and/interpretation
PRC will forward Executive Summaries and authors response (if available) to the appropriate integrated
planning committee and the CPC.