Curriculum Design, Regulation and Accreditation in Nursing

Part 1: Regulation of Nursing Programs: In the U.S., State Boards of Nursing regulate nursing education in the respective states. The Colorado Board of Nursing will require that programs also meet the Colorado core curriculum. You will be provided with a BSN nursing curriculum from a state other than Colorado. Using the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies Board of Nursing Regulations for BSN
programs and the Colorado core curriculum, determine if the sample program would be approved in Colorado.
For the Colorado Core requirements for general studies:
Do the general studies courses in the sample curriculum meet the state of Colorado core requirements? If not, what is missing. Be specific.
For the Colorado Board of Nursing, does the sample curriculum meet the requirements for the following:

Total credit hours, lecture, lab, simulation, and clinical hours
General education core courses
Nursing courses/content areas and sequence
 What is your conclusion? Would this program be approved in Colorado?
 If not, what changes would have to be made to meet the Colorado requirements? Be specific.
Part 2: You would also want to seek accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate
Nursing Education (CCNE). Please review the CCNE regulations and address the following:
 Provide a brief overview of the accrediting agency
 Briefly provide the sequence of events required by the accrediting agency for a program to be accredited.
 Based on the organization’s accreditation standards for a BSN program, do you think
this curriculum meets these standards?
 If not, what changes would have to be made to obtain accreditation by this organization.
Be specific.
 Programs must show evidence of a “systematic plan of evaluation.”

What is a “systematic plan of evaluation”?
Briefly describe the type of data that must be collected and assessed.

Part 3: All regulations and accreditation aside, what do you like about this curriculum and what would you
change if you could and why? Identify at least two of each.

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