THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
April 1, 2008
PRESENT: Ann Marie McCarthy, Chair; Ellen Cram; Lisa Skemp; Der Fa Lu; Sandy Ramey; Deb Schoenfelder, Janet Specht, Jill Valde,
Charmaine Kleiber
Ex-officio: Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman, Linda Walton, Brooke Billman, Gloria Bulechek
Student Rep: Elaine Cook (PhD Student); Kirsti Kelyer (Undergrad Student)
Guests: Ed Thompson, Mary Peters ( Sudent project with Jill Valde)
AGENDA ITEM
Meeting Minutes
Nurse Anesthetist
1. Separate
Program
a) – courses
b) – accreditation
– DNP
Simulation Faculty
Work Group
(Cram)
Task Force on
Integrating NNN into
the Curriculum
DISCUSSION
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Minutes for 3/4/08
Approved as presented
1. Separate assessment course for anesthesia students (see proposal &
course outline). How does proposed course differ, how does it fit with
other courses currently provided. K. Hanson asked to delay action until
how it fits with other courses can be analyzed. May be able to
modularlize. Objectives need some additional
2. Need to move anesthesia program to DNP, should be able to do this
because it is still post masters, don’t need to develop a program.
Goes to Faculty Org but will not need to go to Graduate College.
3. Need for Imaging, Safety & Technique Course. AMA trying to limit
imaging, will have impact on all advanced practice
4. The need to look at faculty requirements for the proposed courses as
well as planning for succession with Ed’s planned retirement in 2010.
5. Gloria recommended that for the fall retreat we work on strategic
planning for the DNP
Brought written report, but delayed until next time
1. on Apr 15 agenda
Ed to meet with Pat Clinton and APN
faculty prior to the Apr 15 meeting.
2. Put on Faculty org agenda for
April 22 to ask permission to move
ahead.
3 . Levels of discussion at Faculty
Org. Post masters? APN program?
Non NP masters?
3. Ed will pursue with radiography
collaboration on such a course. K.
Hanson will pursue with CIC. Need
representative from adv. practice to
work on this course as well. Be on
fall agenda after developed over the
summer.
4. Ann Marie will take
recommendation to Dean’s Council
and Faculty Org. Do market
analysis for fall retreat.
Responsibility: unassigned
Place on April 15 agenda
Delayed
Place on April 15 agenda
Minutes submitted by J. Specht
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
March 4, 2008
PRESENT: Ann Marie McCarthy, Chair; Ellen Cram; Lisa Kelley; Der Fa Lu; Sandy Ramey; Deb Schoenfelder, Janet Specht, Jill Valde
Ex-officio: Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman, Linda Walton, Brooke Billman
Student Rep: Nate Gross
Excused: Charmaine Kleiber, Lisa Kelley
Guest: Jennifer Francwa
AGENDA ITEM
DISCUSSION
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Meeting Minutes
Mission Statement
and Philosophy
Minutes for 2/5/08
Comments were received from M. Driesnaack, J. Williams, J. Taylor, A.
Rhodes and P. Cowen. Suggested edits were carefully reviewed and
evaluated, and both statements were modified.
A. Stineman presented a course entitled Providing Culturally Congruent
Care for Diverse Populations, an elective for both undergraduate and
graduate students. It was developed in collaboration with people from
Chicago State and will be co-taught in an online format by one faculty
from each institution. The plan is to teach it in the spring and toward the
end of the course, have an exchange program focusing on community
heath in place.
K. Hanson reported that the CCNE visit is scheduled for April 2009, and
she is scheduled to attend the CCNE Workshop on Writing Self-Studies
the end of March 2008. She will have more to report then.
L. Kelley is stepping down as chair and S. Lehmann will step into that
role. AM McCarthy will be meeting with Sue next week to review the
vision and direction of the committee. The question was raised about
material on the community course site and how it is maintained. Hanson
responded that it is the thought among the people who have community
expertise that if you agree to develop an content area, you also agree to
keep it updated. Additionally, it is expected that other faculty may use the
modules.
Remaining agenda items for this academic year include task force
updates, follow up on discussion regarding Masters specialization areas,
updating committee membership for next year, RN-BSN and BSN
evaluation reports, and CON evaluation plan.
Approved with corrections.
The revised statements will be
posted for faculty consideration
before being finalized.
J. Valde made a motion to approve
and send to Faculty Org. Upon
approval in Faculty Org, the highest
100 number available will be
assigned to this course.
Cultural
Competency
course proposal
Planning for CCNE
Community Across
the Curriculum
Other
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
February 5, 2008
PRESENT: Ann Marie McCarthy, Chair; Ellen Cram; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber; Der Fa Lu; Sandy Ramey; Deb Schoenfelder, Janet Specht,
Jill Valde
Ex-officio: Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman, Linda Walton
Student Rep: Nate Gross
Excused: Brooke Billman
AGENDA ITEM
Meeting Minutes
Discussion of old
and new task
forces
Review of new
Policy Course
Update of
Informatics in the
undergraduate
curriculum
Mission Statement
and Philosophy
Statement
Update on the
IBON Spring site
visit
DISCUSSION
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Minutes for 12/04/07
The Research Courses across the Curriculum Work Group isn’t planning
to meet again until next fall when they will evaluate the changes. J.
Specht is convening the Leadership Courses Work Group and will update
Academic Council at the next meeting. Community Courses Work group,
which will be chaired by S. Lehmann henceforth, is ready to report and
will do so at either the February 26th or the April 3rd meeting. Cultural
Sensitivity group, chaired by C. Trowbridge, hasn’t had any mtgs yet b/c
of calendar conflicts. Simulation Faculty work group is moving forward.
Reconfiguration Task force is completed and dissolved.
Discussion took place about the paths to curriculum changes in the
college of Nursing; ideally, program evaluations can drive curriculum
changes. There are four primary considerations:  cost effectiveness; 
the needs of the state;  in sync with the direction of the profession;
and;  in sync with the mission of the College. There are currently two
program evaluations in the final stages. An evaluation report is
anticipated this Spring.
There was concern about the lack of support for the cmtes and task
forces; it was recommended that every group be assigned a support
person.
Ann Rhodes presented the course proposal “Nursing and Health, Policy,
Law and Advocacy to begin in Fall 2008. The course targets doctoral
students although would be open to anyone with permission of instructor
and builds on the basic health policy and economics course currently
being taught in the masters program.. She discussed the 3 case studies.
She is currently working on the weekly modules and projects, and is
developing advocacy tools. May be able to replace 096:320 with this new
course.
A group (D. Lu, J. Brokel, A. Stineman, T. Clow, and P. Kerr) has formed
to look at Informatics in the undergraduate curriculum based on the new
BSN essentials. One thought is to modify 263 for undergraduate level to
meet new essentials.
Mission statement was discussed and suggestions for change were
made.
Approved
E. Cram, T. Boese, and K. Smith are
added to the BSN Admissions; L.
Kelley resigned from the Cultural
Sensitivity group. A. Stineman and
D. Schoenfelder will take over as the
co-chairs of the Writing Across the
Curriculum task force. PhD Program
Review Cmte will be formed with K.
Clark as the convener and be made
up of K. Culp, a person from
Systems & Practices, and E. Cook
as a student representative.
DNP/PhD Curriculum work group will
consist of P. Clinton, K. Clark, AM
McCarthy, J. Specht and Brenda
Hoskins using the Graduate College
template.
K. Hanson reported that the Iowa Board of Nursing report was submitted
the end of January and that the site visit will take place on April 8-9,
2008.
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
L. Kelley moved to accept the
proposal and move it to Faculty Org.
Motion passed unanimously.
The group will aim for presenting a
recommendation toward the end of
Fall 2008.
E. Cram moved to approve with
suggested changes and take to
Faculty Org. Motion passed.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
December 4, 2007
PRESENT: Ann Marie McCarthy, Chair; Ellen Cram; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber; Der Fa Lu; Sandy Ramey; Deb Schoenfelder
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman, Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman, Linda Walton
Student Rep: Elaine Cooke
AGENDA ITEM
DISCUSSION
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Meeting Minutes
Mission Statement and
Philosophy Statement
Minutes for 11/06/07
Kathy Hanson distributed Draft #2 of the CON philosophy statement. The
group worked with Noriko Abe who did some background research on
nursing philosophies which the group found very useful. Hanson said the
biggest change is that more substance is provided to the issue of diversity.
Toni Clow raised the issue of the conceptual framework. Hanson will track
down notes from the retreat with Dreher addressing changes to the mission
statement. She hopes to be able to present revisions to Faculty Org the end
of February.
Sandy Ramey said that after receiving good responses from the faculty and
students, it was determined there is not any clear point in the curriculum
where writing is introduced; nor are there enough opportunities for writing.
Most people agreed that ADA is the format most generally used.
Anita Stineman visited with Jean Florman at the Center for Teaching to
discuss how to integrate short writing into the curriculum, and received from
her a packet of reference materials.
Deb Schoenfelder and Anita Stineman looked at the results of the faculty
survey that they did on writing assignments in the curriculum.
Deb also communicated with the Rhetoric Department and the Center for
Teaching. Sandy said there needs to be some discussion and decisions
made before the task force can go much further. Linda and Brooke said they
can make their resources more prominent for our students.
Linda Walton reported that Hardin Library has committed to be a hub in a
“hub and spoke” approach to simulation on campus. The Commons will
house some low tech male and female models, eye models and other
equipment that may be used by students to practice and may be scheduled
by faculty. There is also a campus-wide committee forming to discuss
simulation; E. Cram will be added as the CON rep. In addition, it was
requested that Ann Willemsen-Dunlap and/or Dr Paul Leonard from
anesthesia be asked to participate.
Toni Clow identified a need for ongoing computer access in the Commons for
computerized testing. She stated other colleges (COM, Pharmacy, etc) have
purchased secure site laptops for this purpose but the CON has not had the
resources to do so.
Lisa Kelly reported that Sue Lehman has been added as the co-chair for the
CAC. CAC has acquired an ICON site, is developing core and open modules
at present. Once the modules are in close to final form, they will be shared
with Academic Council. Toni asked Lisa to think about how this approach will
be used for the 3 week winter session of public health for the MSN-CNL
students beginning Jan 2009.
Regarding implications of the new essentials document, Toni and Anita
reported that the core of the essentials is done; there is a need to strengthen
informatics at the undergraduate level.
Approved with correction.
Minor changes were
suggested (rearranging some
existing text)
Writing Across the
Curriculum Task Force
Simulators at Hardin
Library
CAC Update
Other
Diversity/Cultural Sensitivity- Ann Marie indicated that there is a need to
recruit additional members to the group to forward this work. Interested
parties should communicate with Ann Marie
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
Comments should be
addressed to Kathy Hanson.
The need for equipment
and/or contractual
arrangements for computer
testing support will be
referred to the Deans and
Area Chairs.
D. Lu, J. Brokel and B.
Billman will serve on a
committee to develop
recommendations around
this curricula. There will be
two other BSN faculty who
will be asked to assist.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
November 6, 2007
PRESENT: Ann Marie McCarthy, Chair; Ellen Cram; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber; Der Fa Lu; Sandy Ramey; Deb Schoenfelder; Janet Specht
Ex-officio: Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman
Student Rep: Kristi Kleyer
Guests: Connie Trowbridge; Noriko Abe; Nancy Lynch; Lori Minor
AGENDA ITEM
Meeting Minutes
Mission Statement and
Philosophy Statement
Planning for Spring Faculty
Retreat
Baccalaureate Essentials
Regional Meeting Update
Task Force for
Reconfiguration of Core
Practicum
DISCUSSION
Minutes for 10/16/07
The work group is collecting feedback.
Suggestions for the spring retreat included teaching issues and
the practicalities of teaching such as the writing issue, and
technology (software as well as patient care), revisiting our core
goals to ensure resources are appropriately directed, and
preparation for our CCNE accreditation. Another suggestion was
to have a retreat that celebrates the faculty and their
achievements, perhaps a ropes course for personal development
and team-building. There was concern voiced about the lack of
follow-up to previous retreat work, specifically the recent retreat on
workload.
Toni and Anita attended the AACN regional meeting of the 2nd
draft on Baccalaureate Essentials. Toni reported that participants
on the first day focused on reviewing the 10/22/07 draft of the
Essentials document; and that the feedback included confirming
the relevancy of the identified essentials, recommending
additional definitions that would clarify terms such as the
differentiation between end of program competencies and
behavioral objectives, and further refinement of the competencies
by deleting redundancies. Three more regional meetings are
scheduled in the Spring for the purpose of providing input into the
draft of the Essentials before the AACN vote on final approval in
Fall 2008. Anita reported that during the second day, participants
focused on Quality Indicators and Clinical Education. The general
response from the groups encouraged AACN to not become too
prescriptive and to allow each program to utilize the learning
opportunities in their area in ways that would assist students to
meet AACN Essentials/Program Outcomes in the most effective
manner.
Stineman encouraged all faculty to stay abreast of the essentials
in development and if input is desired, go to the AACN website
and enter comments.
Connie Trowbridge and Nancy Lynch presented a proposal for
reconfiguring Core Clinical Practicum discontinuing the 60 hour
precepted component and replacing it with a comparable intense
practicum maintaining the same course structure..
Writing Across the
Curriculum Task Force
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Approved
K. Hanson will have a document for
review at the next meeting.
Input will be passed on to the
deans and area chairs.
K. Hanson will send a reminder to
faculty about reviewing the
Essentials drafts and submit
remarks to AACN if desired.
Tabled until 12/4/07
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
October 16, 2007
PRESENT: Ann Marie McCarthy, Chair; Ellen Cram; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber; Der Fa Lu; Deb
Schoenfelder; Janet Specht; Jill Valde
Ex-officio: Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman
Student Rep: Kristi Kleyer; Elaine Cook
Excused: Der Fa Lu; Brook Billman
Guests: Marion Johnson, Connie Trowbridge; Linda Myers; Noriko Abe
AGENDA ITEM
DISCUSSION
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Meeting Minutes
Mission Statement and
Philosophy Statement
Admission data
Minutes for 9/18/07 and 10/2/07
K. Hanson asked everyone to read and respond to
Draft 1 revision of mission statement.
Toni Clow and Linda Myers explained the graph
illustrating the admission numbers and discussion
ensued.
Approved with corrections
Discussion tabled until 11/06/07
meeting
L. Kelley made a motion to
maintain the current admission
GPA but post realistic profile
and admission criteria on the
internet. Motion passed.
E. Cram made the motion to
discontinue the auto admits
procedure effective
immediately. Motion passed.
D. Schoenfelder made the
motion to review the process
again in one year and increase
the number of members on the
admission committee. Motion
passed.
Tabled until 11/06/07 meeting
Marion Johnson discussed her findings of diversity
content in the undergraduate program. She shared
what the COM does with reference to cultural
competence. Pat Clinton shared information about
a cultural competency survey available on the
website for National Center for Cultural
Competence at
http://www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc/.
Several people made the point that cultural
competence encompassing the wider range of
competence beyond ethnicity, such as age,
disability, and religion.
Academic Council with the help
of the Diversity Committee will
form a Cultural Sensitivity
Across the Curriculum Task
Force to delve further into the
issue of diversity content across
the curriculum.
Planning for Spring
Faculty Retreat
Diversity content
across the curriculum
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
September 18, 2007
PRESENT: Ann Marie McCarthy, Chair; Ellen Cram; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber; Der Fa Lu; Sandra Ramey; Deb
Schoenfelder; Janet Specht; Jill Valde
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman; Kathy Clark; Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman
Student Rep: Kristi Kleyer; Nate Gross
AGENDA ITEM
Announcements and
Introductions
Meeting Minutes
Councils, Committees,
Standing Committees
and Task Forces
update
DISCUSSION
Since the secretary is absent, P. Clinton will take
brief notes for reference. Introductions were made
of Nathan Gross, MSN student representative, and
Kristi Kleyer is our Undergrad student
representative.
Minutes from 9/4/07.
Membership reviewed, additions and corrections
made.
Philosophy and
Mission Statement
review
Hanson said the current CON Evaluation plan
states that the philosophy and mission statement
are to be reviewed every year. While she believes
this is too frequent, she feels we need to adhere to
the plan until its changed. The Diversity
Committee has voiced concern that the diversity to
commitment isn’t clearly and strongly stated in the
current statements.
Audits
Hanson said that no progress can be reported on
the BSN course audits. J. Brokel is doing the
independent MSN audits and is progressing. A
plan of activities was discussed to complete work
so directors can complete reports and send
recommendations to this group for analysis.
Ramey presented information related to student
writing assignments and how to improve through
use of rubric. Discussion followed and a task force
was formed, comprised of Ramey, Schoenfelder,
and Stineman and two students (Undergrad and
Masters) yet to be named.
Will keep this topic in the forefront, but defer major
work until baccalaureate essentials revisions are
more complete.
Written
Communication Rubric
Informatics
Competencies
Other
The question has arisen whether CON guidelines
regarding online discussions, specifically for ICON
courses is in order.
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Council member introductions
were made.
Approved with corrections.
In the future, membership will
be reviewed and updated in the
spring to ensure work can be
immediately in the fall. The
updated list will be circulated to
the faculty for review, and then
posted on the intranet.
Will post current philosophy and
mission statement in area
secretary offices and make
available to student reps for
review. P. Clinton and L. Kelley
volunteered to help Hanson
work on draft w/ suggested
changes and come back at the
10/16 AC meeting.
Brokel’s goal is to be completed
by mid-October.
A. Stineman will work towards
completing hers by midNovember.
The task force will come back to
AC with recommendations on
how to proceed.
D. Lu, J. Brokel and P. Kerr will
return to AC to request a review
after baccalaureate essentials
are in place.
H. Butcher’s guidelines will be
distributed to faculty with a
suggestion to use the guidelines
for online discussions to
minimize extraneous comments.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
September 4, 2007
PRESENT: Ann Marie McCarthy, Chair; Ellen Cram; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber; Der Fa Lu; Sandra Ramey;
Deb Schoenfelder; Jill Valde
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman; Kathy Clark; Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman
AGENDA ITEM
DISCUSSION
Meeting Minutes
Councils,
Committees,
Subcommittees and
Task Forces
AC Meeting
Schedule
Minutes from 5/1/07
Membership of Councils, Committees, Subcommittees
and Task Forces was reviewed, and names
recommended for vacancies.
Approved with corrections.
McCarthy will contact faculty to
invite them to serve.
Considering scheduled events and semester breaks,
meetings for the Spring 08 semester have been
revised to ensure Academic Council can complete its
work.
Hanson announced that the Iowa Board of Nursing
will be reviewing all programs including BSN, MSN,
CNL, DNP and PhD this academic year and the site
visit is slated for 4/8-4/9/2008. The survey report is
due 2/1/2008. A fair amount of documentation will be
required so requests for data will be made in the
coming months. This will help prepare us for next
year’s CCNE review.
Clow and Stineman will be attending the
Baccalaureate Essentials Regional meeting in
November 2008.
Stineman stated that 96:190 is not currently listed as a
pre-requisite for 96:143. She also gave a heads up
that she’ll be bringing forward a new course – Clinical
Instruction in Nursing Education at an upcoming
meeting.
Hanson announced that Chapter 2 of the Iowa Code
of regulations for nursing education is coming up for
public hearing. The Directors have reviewed them
and determined they will not be making comments.
The invited faculty members have all agreed to
participate on the Task Force for Reconfiguration of
Core Practicum. Toni Clow will convene the first
meeting in the next 2 weeks.
Brooke Billman reminded the group that she and other
librarians are available for teaching information
sessions about resources available at the HLHS. She
said there is one new database – Images MD, which
has over 48,000 images including graphs, charts and
photographs that can be used in posters, Powerpoint
and other presentations for educational purposes, and
the Library is in the process of purchasing Natural
Standards related to alternative medicines.
Spring 08 meeting dates will be
January 29, Feb 5 and 26,
March 4, April 1 and 15, and
May 6, 2008.
Upcoming agenda items
included audits, CON
philosophy and mission
statement review, writing
guidelines and expectations,
and informatics throughout the
curriculum.
The link to the AACN Draft
Baccalaureate Essentials will be
sent to faculty for review and
comment.
The change will be submitted to
make 96:190 a prerequisite for
96:143.
Academic Affairs
Announcements
Core Practicum
Revisions
Other
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
The committee will report back
to Academic Council later in the
semester.
Billman will email this
information to McCarthy who
will ensure the information is
widely distributed. McCarthy
will speak with the Faculty Org
chair about inviting Brooke to an
upcoming meeting.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
May 1, 2007
PRESENT: Rita Frantz, Chair; Howard Butcher; Kathy Clark; Ellen Cram; Charmaine
Kleiber; Rene Martin; Ann Marie McCarthy; Deb Schoenfelder; Janet Specht
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman; Pat Clinton, Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman
AGENDA ITEM
DISCUSSION
Meeting Minutes
Student Petition
Minutes from 4/17/07
The petition was reviewed prior to the meeting.
The student’s academic record was discussed
with input from her instructors.
Progression
policies for Entry
into Practice
MSN: CNL
Program
The Task Force Report was presented by T.
Clow. The primary recommendations by the task
force include adding text to the UI CON Graduate
Student Handbook to address the lock stop
nature of and progression in the CNL Program
and satisfactory academic performance, and the
other is related to the Informal complaint
mechanism process.
Core Practicum
Redesign Task
Force
Following up with an action taken at the last
Faculty Org meeting, a group will be convened to
redesign the core practicum experience in the
undergraduate program. Trowbridge, Eland,
Boese have expressed an interest. Other names
suggested names include Ballard, Griffith,
Lehmann, and Lynch.
McCarthy explained that all students admitted to
the graduate program will be asked to complete a
self-assessment through ICON to determine their
research knowledge prior to registration.
Recommendations will follow based on the result
of the self-assessment. Kleiber suggested
keeping all the DNP students in the same section
in order to perhaps modify that one section is/as
necessary. Note that this first class will have
only 6 weeks to take the self-assessment from
Planning for
Research
Courses across
academic
programs
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Approved as circulated.
Ann Marie McCarthy moved
to deny reinstatement.
Motion unanimously passed.
Associate Dean will proceed
with notification to the
student.
K. Griffith made a motion that
the recommended changes
for the MSN: CNL Entry into
Practice policies be
incorporated into the
appropriate CON Student
Handbooks. This does not
have to go to Faculty for
approval before
implementation. The motion
passed. Program directors
will be asked to follow
through to have the changes
made to the appropriate
documents and collegiate
websites.
Frantz will query the 4 other
faculty suggested to
determine their interest in
serving on this taskforce, and
the group will be assembled.
Curriculum
Evaluation:
Update on
Progress
Announcements
the time they’re accepted into the program. All
faculty who advise masters students need to be
apprised of this requirement. The committee,
especially Renee Martin, was acknowledged for
this fine piece of work.
Hanson said that Huber should be done with her
independent audits of the undergraduate
curriculum and a sampling of the graduate
program. Huber is aiming for completion by
7/1/07.
Tom Rocklin’s Provost group put the DNP
program on its agenda and it passed.
Hanson gave a reminder that the CON are
accredited by CCNE to December 2009 which
means we should have a site visit sometime in
2008-2009.
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
Program directors will
discuss what kind of report to
come back to AC on the RNBSN, BSN and Masters
programs.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
April 17, 2007
PRESENT: Howard Butcher; Ellen Cram; Rita Frantz; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber;
Rene Martin; Ann Marie McCarthy; Deb Schoenfelder; Janet Specht
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman; Pat Clinton, Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman,
Linda Walton; Pat Whetstone
Guests: Jane Brokel, Jo Eland, Diane Huber, Der-Fa Lu
AGENDA ITEM
Meeting Minutes
Scholarship
Committee
Core Practicum
reconfiguration
DISCUSSION
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Minutes from 4/3/07
Frantz raised the issue of having Emeriti faculty
to serve on this committee to the Faculty Council
chair as well as the Deans Council and found
that there was no language in the by-laws that
would prohibit this action. More faculty will not
be appointed to the committee, for now.
Frantz distributed a recommendation to go to
Faculty Org to reconfigure Core Practicum
Approved as distributed.
The Faculty Council chair will
bring this matter up with the
Emeriti faculty at an
upcoming informal meeting
to gauge interest.
Leadership
Summit Report
Huber said that the group found that the
leadership thread was significantly more complex
than initially thought. Competencies were
discussed. Leadership concepts were taken
from competency documents and syllabi.
Informatics
Reconfiguration
Brokel and Lu presented the Informatics revised
plan of study going from 33 to 38 sh. Two
required courses are added. No new course
development recommended.
Clow presented preliminary recommendations for
the MNHP program which is being transitioned to
the Second Degree MSN into Practice program
with cohorts admitted in June to begin in Jan
2008. Discussion and language suggestions
were made.
Second Degree
MSN Student
Policies
The proposed plan will be
presented to AC in Oct 2007
(instead of September) with
implementation targeted for
Jan 2008.
Final recommendations are
expected in Fall 2007.
Specht made a motion to
move the revised plan to
Faculty Org. Motion passed.
The group will come back w/
further recommendations at
next meeting.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
April 3, 2007
PRESENT: Howard Butcher; Ellen Cram; Rita Frantz; Karen Griffith; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber;
Rene Martin; Ann Marie McCarthy; Deb Schoenfelder; Janet Specht
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Anita Stineman, Linda Walton; Pat Whetstone
AGENDA ITEM
Meeting Minutes
Scholarship Cmte
Clinical Learning
Task Force
Community
practicum
experience in the
Joint RN-MSN
program
Informatics
DISCUSSION
Minutes from 3/6/07 and 3/20/07
Deb Schoenfelder, as Chair of the Scholarship
Cmte, requested that AC appoint members to
the cmte by the end of the Spring semester, in
order that the cmte be in place when the Fall
semester begins. This will enable Spring and
Fall recipients to be included in the October
Reception. She explained that because there
are more scholarships available, there are many
more applications to review which has made it
necessary to expand the cmte. Eland had
suggested adding emeriti faculty to join the
committee. There was discussion of also
adding alumni and preceptors to the committee.
Hanson voiced reservations about whether the
associate dean should be involved in the
scholarship selection decision-making.
Concern was voiced that if we vacate spots, we
want agreements in place with practice partners
so that areas will still be available for senior
internships. Cram talked about a coordinated
plan to ensure simulation experiences aren’t
repeated for the students from one semester to
the next. Hanson said that one of her goals with
the teaching assignments is to identify a faculty
person to track the development and
coordination of simulation, such as an electronic
curricula portfolio. The approved proposal will
go before the faculty at their April meeting.
To address concerns about not having any
community practicum experience in the RNMSN program, Stineman presented the factors
that went into that consideration. She talked
about the semester hours driving the decision,
the requirements of the Graduate College and
multiple outcome assessment measures.
Informatics faculty has recommended that the
program be changed from 33 to 38 semester
hours. It was sent to the Graduate College as
an fyi; however, the Graduate College has
approved it effective Summer 2007.
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Approved with corrections.
The working motion is that 2 current
faculty and 2 emeriti faculty be added
as voting members to the Scholarship
Cmte.
Frantz will check on the implications
and parameters of adding emeriti
faculty. Motion will be voted on at
next mtg.
Griffith moved that the
recommendation to reconfigure the
Core Practicum in a way that would
continue to emphasize clinical
decision-making and skill
development, and charge the faculty
to develop experiences outside the
intensive care units that would
achieve the desired outcomes of the
core practicum. The faculty should
consider in their range of strategies
innovative and efficient models for
Core Practicum and Intensive
Practicum I to be developed and
implemented by Spring 2008, in
collaboration with the pre-licensure
program director. Motion passed.
Will be added to the agenda for
approval to move it forward at the next
meeting.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
March 20, 2007
PRESENT: Ellen Cram; Rita Frantz; Karen Griffith; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber; Janet
Specht
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman, Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson
Guest: Pam Ballard; Teri Boese; Kathy Clark; Trowbridge, Connie
AGENDA ITEM
Meeting Minutes
CAC Task Force
Recommendations
Clinical Learning
Task Force
DISCUSSION
Minutes from 1/16/07
Hanson followed up on the question raised by
Pat Nelson at the last AC meeting, and
responded that the plans that were put forward
and approved for the Joint BSN-MSN programs
included sample curricula. Those sample plans
do indicate there are 12 semester hours crosscredited of masters level courses that can be
substituted for undergraduate coursework. There
should be a future discussion about what those
cross-credited hours could or should be.
In discussing the task force report, the
suggestion was made to change
“Recommendations” to “Guiding Principles.”
Clow said that “or 96:178” needs to be added to
the pre-requisite for the course proposal for
Community and Public Health Nursing Theory:
Generalist, and that the Proposed Approach
should be modified to replace Section C with
96:199 and 96:200.
Frantz thanked the group for their excellent work
in developing these recommendations.
Discussion regarded models to resolve the issue
of diversifying and continue to provide students
with broad clinical experience. There was
consensus that preceptor experiences are fewer
all the time. Hospitals are maxed out. There is
an overload of schools that all need time and
space on clinical units. K. Hanson pointed out
that there is a clear mandate from our practice
partners that they can no longer provide the
intensity of preceptor clinical experiences that
they have in the recent past. The challenge is
finding a comparable preceptor experience.
Simulation offers opportunities to provide some
“clinical learning” but does not replace actual
clinical experiences. Boese suggested that we
address what competencies are essential to
prepare beginning practitioners. We then need
to place students in practicum settings where
they can acquire basic skills initially and
subsequently move on to places where they’ll
acquire more complex, critical skills.
Griffith pointed out that in the Task Force’s
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Approved as circulated.
Specht moved that the
Proposed Approach be
forwarded with edits to
Faculty Org for approval.
Motion passed.
Kleiber moved that the
course proposal for
Community and Public
Health Nursing Theory:
Generalist be forwarded
with the addition to the prerequisite to Faculty Org for
approval. Motion passed.
Griffith moved that the
course proposal for
Community and Public
Health Nursing Practicum:
Generalist be forwarded to
Faculty Org for approval.
Motion passed.
Discussion will be
continued at the next
meeting and a plan
formalized to move some
form of recommendations
forward to the Faculty
Organization.
recommendations, core practicum is used
generically. However, it was intended to include
BSN and MNHP practicum courses.
Simulation Task
Force report
Will be discussed at 4/3/07 meeting
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
Edited by R. Frantz
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
March 6, 2007
PRESENT: Ellen Cram; Rita Frantz; Karen Griffith; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber; Rene
Martin; Deb Schoenfelder
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman, Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Linda Walton
Student Rep: Nate Gross
Excused: Anita Stineman
Guest: Pat Nelson (by phone)
AGENDA ITEM
Meeting Minutes
DISCUSSION
Minutes from 1/16/07
Announcement
R. Frantz explained that since the graduate and
undergraduate assemblies have been disbanded
based on Faculty Org bylaws changes, the chairs of
those 2 assemblies will no longer attend this council.
K. Hanson reported that she attended the Iowa
Board of Nursing meeting on 3/1/07, at which she
presented the Entry into Practice MSN and the DNP
programs She said it was apparent from their
questions that we have work to do educating nurses
about the difference between the CNL, who will stay
on the unit providing focused leadership care and the
CNS, who may be working with clients on several
units in a health care organization. Both proposals
were accepted by the Iowa Board of Nursing.
Kelley began by recognizing the members of the
cmte. She recapped how the cmte developed their
recommendations, which include replacing 195 and
153 with community and public health nursing theory
and generalist courses. P. Nelson raised the issue
of the RN-MSN not having a practicum course.
There was lively discussion regarding mode of
teaching, modules and CEUs, course toolkit, and
identifying public health experience.
Tabled until 3/20/07 meeting
Tabled until 3/20/07 meeting
Academic Affairs
Update
CAC Report
Scholarship Cmte
Clinical Learning
Task Force and
Simulation Task
Force reports
discussion
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Approved w/
corrections.
Final decision
regarding
recommendations from
this cmte will be made
after clarification of RNMSN curricular path.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
February 16, 2007
PRESENT: Howard Butcher; Ellen Cram; Karen Griffith; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber; Rene
Martin;
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman, Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Ann Marie McCarthy, Anita Stineman; Linda
Walton; Pat Whetstone
Excused: Kathy Hanson, Rita Frantz
AGENDA ITEM
Meeting Minutes
Admissions
committees for the
BSN-MSN
programs
DISCUSSION
Minutes from 1/16/07
Pat Clinton
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Approved w/ correction.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
February 6, 2007
PRESENT: Howard Butcher; Ellen Cram; Karen Griffith; Lisa Kelley; Charmaine Kleiber; Rene
Martin; D. Schoenfelder
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman, Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Kathy Hanson; Ann Marie McCarthy, Anita
Stineman; Linda Walton; Pat Whetstone
Excused: Kathy Hanson, Rita Frantz
AGENDA ITEM
Meeting Minutes
Admissions
committees for the
BSN-MSN
programs
DISCUSSION
Minutes from 1/16/07
Pat Clinton said there are 100+ applicants for the
MSN program and cutoff date is 2/15/07.
Discussion centered around how best to
determine the numbers that can be admitted
based on available faculty and numbers from
feeder programs.
BSN-MSN Joint Programs admissions committee
is needed. The make-up of the such a cmte was
discussed, with one requirement being the ability
to meet in the summer.
P. Clinton said a DNP admissions cmte will also
be needed.
The MNHP Admissions cmte will change to the
2nd Degree to MSN admissions cmte.
Clinical Learning
Task Force report
J. Valde explained that the group reviewed and
studied every clinical course. Recommendations
were read and discussion followed. E. Cram
noted that part of the charge was to decrease the
burden on institution-based nurses. D.
Schoenfelder made the important point that two
core clinical practicum groups is an extreme load
which will be far in excess of full-time when
preceptor hours come back to the faculty. The
Task force is on hiatus until further discussion,
with reference particularly to Recommendation
#6.
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Approved w/ correction.
K. Griffith moved to add
faculty to the MSN
Admissions Cmte. Motion
passed. J. Williams and H.
Butcher will be asked to
help review MSN
applications.
Griffith moved that 2
additional cmtes be added
BSN-MSN Joint Programs
and DNP.
T. Ingram, E. Cram, and L.
Swanson will be asked to
join the 3 directors to serve
on the BSN-MSN Joint
Program admissions cmte.
C. Kleiber and K. Culp will
be asked to serve on the
2nd Degree to MSN
admissions cmte.
R. Siewert, B. Hoskins and
H. Butcher will be asked to
serve on the DNP
admissions cmte. K. Clark
may be ex-officio, as is P.
Clinton.
R. Martin made a motion to
accept recommendations
of the Task Force and take
this matter to Faculty Org
for further discussion.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA – COLLEGE OF NURSING
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MINUTES
January 16, 2007
PRESENT: Rita Frantz, Chair; Howard Butcher; Ellen Cram; Karen Griffith; Lisa Kelley;
Charmaine Kleiber; Rene Martin; Ann Marie McCarthy
Ex-officio: Brooke Billman, Pat Clinton; Toni Clow; Anita Stineman; Linda Walton
PhD. Student Rep: Nate Gross; Tom Blodgett
Excused: K. Hanson
AGENDA ITEM
Meeting Minutes
MNHP Student
Dismissal Policies
Recommendations
from Simulation
Learning Task
Force
Other
DISCUSSION
Minutes from 12/05/06
Minutes of Academic Council Special Meeting,
Addendum to Probation Section M of the
MNHP Student Handbook, and Pre-requisites
and Conditions for MNHP Coursework were
distributed. Minutes of 1/11/07 Special Meeting
were approved. Confidential student issues
were discussed regarding students that failed
courses in the spring and were permitted to
retake the courses in the fall, in addition to their
regular coursework. In both instances, those
repeated courses were then passed but
subsequently another course was failed.
Discussion centered on the incongruities and
ambiguities of the student polices addressing
probation/dismissal, and how best to prevent
such a scenario from reoccurring.
Boese presented the task force report and
answered questions about the
recommendations. Cram talked about different
models she’s seen around the country, and
shared the advantages and disadvantages of
each.
Copyright classes will be available after spring
break and can be conducted specifically for the
CON faculty. Sessions last about an hour.
Brooke Billman is the contact for this.
Minutes submitted by J. Kross
ACTION/FOLLOWUP
Approved w/ correction.
Kleiber
moved that a
subcommittee be
appointed to review and
revamp probation
policies to make them
as clear and
straightforward as
possible with an eye
toward the Second
degree to MSN. Clow
will convene the group
which will include P.
Clinton, A. Rhodes, and
T. Ingram. The motion
passed.
AC will not proceed with
the recommendations
presented today until
the Clinical Learning
Task Force presents
their recommendations.
AC will appoint a
permanent Simulation
subcmte, possibly
together with the UIHC
group.