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Current Status of Minutes: Final
Date	October 26, 2007
Time	8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Location	Eastview Campus

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Item # 1:	Approval of todays Agenda and the minutes from pr
Presenter	Yvonne VanDyke
Discussion	Discussion: Y. VanDyke motioned to approve the agenda with the addition of ''Introduction of New Faces'', seconded by J. Ward. Action Taken: Agenda Approved. Discussion: Y. VanDyke motioned for approval of the April 07 minutes with one typographical correction to the St. David's grant that should start in May not December. Seconded by Gail Acuna Action Taken: Approved by general consent.

Item # 2:	Continuing Education-Program Updates
Presenter	Elizabeth Huss
Discussion	E. Huss began her report by informing the committee that this semester the Re-Entry Nursing program has 12 LVN's being re-certificated, along with many students from all around the world, there are students from England, New Zealand, and the United Arab Imm. ACC-CE has opened communications with the BNE regarding the Nurse Re-entry program and they are very happy to direct students to ACC for re-certification training. Updates on CE Offerings: * A Nursing Skills class is being offered to nurses who have been out of the clinical area and needs additional training and practice before returning to the clinical floor. * CE has started an advanced IV Therapy class. It does not have credit associated with it but the class has been filled with 15-20 students each time it has been offered. * CE is attempting to open up a Nurse Aide training course in Cedar Park it will be offered at the new Cypress Creek Nursing lab. The Nurse Aide classes have doubled in size from what they were one year ago. * CE is offering a new ESL CNA course, this is a 10 hour per week course with 60 hours of language and 60 hours of nurse aid training. There are no requirements mandated for students to take this course. * On March 28th ACC's CE and the ADN departments have joined together to offer a Critical Thinking Seminar for Nurse Educators. The National League of Nursing will be providing the speaker Rosaline Lafife. J. Ward interjected that if ACC is going to offer quality professional development to nurses, we must have community support. Eileen Klein suggested that Elizabeth and Jeanie get the word out quickly to the community about the Critical Thinking seminar via email and flyer. J. Ward added that if ACC can sponsor this kind of event and it is successful, then the NLN will make sure to provide at least one quality speaker to Central Texas each year. The Critical Thinking Seminar will be listed in the Spring 08 CE schedule as RNSG 2001 start day 3-28-08, the cost to attend will be $125.00 per person. * P. Recek asked Ms. Huss if the CE program were having difficulty with the students meeting their immunization requirement. Ms. Huss responded that the student are struggling to meet the requirements, but that is has not been a deterrent for them taking the classes. The committee was informed that all students are allowed to get free immunizations through the Travis County Health Department, currently this is only in Travis county, but Williamson county is looking to also open up their immunization clinics to under insured adults.

Item # 3:	Associate Degree Nursing-Program Data
Presenter	Jean Ward
Discussion	Level Onsite Online Hybrid Total Lev. 1 64 35 48 147 Lev. 2 55 40 95 Lev. 3 67 30 97 Lev. 4 38 20 58 Mobility Austin/FBG A=39 F=6 Total 45 Total in Program 483 * Projected Admission for Spring 2008 170-Level 1 Students * Graduates Fall 07-58 Spring 2008-97 * NCLEX-RN Pass Rate=94.83

Item # 4:	ADN-Faculty Positions
Presenter	Jean Ward
Discussion	Need for Adjunct Faculty: With the increase in enrollment and progression along with the increased admission numbers, the program needs nine adjunct faculty for the Spring semester to teach the clinical courses. Mainly the need is in the medical surgical areas and pediatrics. These faculty must have a Masters in Nursing. The salary is approximately $50.00/hr. Interested individuals would need to be available 2-3 days per week. Offering various shifts. J. Ward asked the members of the committee to review the brochure and share with it with the staff in their facilities. Adjunct Faculty Nursing Skills Pool: ACC-ADN Nursing desire to start a pool of nurses who can work in the nursing skills lab (teaching skills). This might be desirable for a retired nurse or one who wants part-time employment. The salary would be approximately $35.00/hr. Can be a B.S or M.S. prepared nurse. J. Ward informed the committee that there are skills lab hours all day, every day during the week. K. Lauchner interjected that if the adjunct faculty are not hired by December 7, the ADN program will start reducing enrollment for the Spring by 10 students for every faculty position that the program is short. New Full-time faculty positions: ACC is currently advertising for a new full-time faculty positions to be hired for the Spring 08 semester.

Item # 5:	ADN-Nursing Skills Lab
Presenter	Jean Ward
Discussion	New Lab Manager: We have hired a new lab manager, Doris Brown. ACC has also approved funding for a new position as a skills lab assistant. We will be hiring this person very soon. Cypress Skills Lab: The new nursing skills lab at Cypress Creek campus has opened. The program received ten new beds and equipment. The nursing programs will be increasing the use of this campus.

Item # 6:	Vocational Nursing Program (VNG)-Enrollment
Presenter	Pat Recek
Discussion	Level Onsite Lev. 1 38/12 Lev. 2 0 Lev. 3 30 Lev. 4 28 Total in Program 104 We will be having a career fair for LVN's on December 5th all facilities were encouraged to attend. Graduates December 2006=28 Graduates=86% pass rate Analysis of data related to the students that failed: One had extreme test anxiety; student was referred to counseling while in the program. One took the test 4 days after having a baby that went to NICU 2 –ESL and were borderline academically One had to repeat in our program All above scored less then the recommended 850 on the HESI Exit Test All have passed on retest. ACTION: Continue assigning all students to a faculty advisor each semester. More aggressive counseling to students who do not score well on HESI Exit test and individualized study plans. *Tutor that has knowledge of VNG curriculum May 2007=21 Graduates =94% pass rate as of July 2007.

Item # 7:	VNG-NLNAC Reaccreditation Fall 2008
Presenter	Pat Recek
Discussion	Both Nursing programs will have a re-accreditation visit during the Fall 08 semester. Many of you will be called upon to attend a meeting with the site visitors. The programs are currently writing their self studies to be submitted by the Spring 08 semester.

Item # 8:	VNG-Future Plans
Presenter	Pat Recek
Discussion	The Vocational Nursing program has a full-time faculty position opening. Applicants must have a MSN and medical surgical experience.

Item # 9:	Clinical Facility Updates
Presenter	All Facilities Representatives
Discussion	St. Davids: Gail Acuna reported that North Austin and Georgetown were awarded the Nurse Friendly. Many programs are being developed to aid in the transition from student nurse to RN within the St. David's facility. Georgetown: The Hospital has undergone many changes since being added to the St. David's family. As a St. David's facility, we have been able to hire many new nurses and begin computerized charting. Round Rock has opened an orthopedic-oncology unit. Donna Tricky reported that they are very happy with the new graduates from ACC that they have hired. St. David's Main-Rosamar Torres reported that St. David's Main-NCU has added more beds to their unit. With the opening of several new hospitals in the area, St. David's is expecting to lose many of their nurses to other facilities, therefore, they are actively recruiting new nurses. Austin Lakes: This is a new psych hospital in the area, it has 48 beds. Seton Family of Hospitals: Yvonne has been promoted to Vice President of Education at the CEC. The Dell Children's Hospital opened in August and has seen more patients then was every imagined within the last few month. Seton Medical Center Williamson will open in December and the Women's Health Center at Seton Main is currently under construction. CEC opened in August. There have been many challenges in opening this new facility. We are in collaboration with ACC, UT, Concordia, UTMB, Texas Tech to make this a learning facility like none other. Toni Rowin was hired as the Director of Education to replace Yvonne VanDyke and Dr. Ken Kinard will be joining us as the Director of Research. Several of the nursing students from UTMB will be working in the Research area. Our versant RN Residence program was started in the Fall with over 50 students and there are over 150 applicants for the program in the Spring semester. Brackenridge: Leah May reported that Brackenridge is expanding to meet the growing need of the committee. Leah suggested that the schools look at the Specialty Clinics for clinical rotations. We have many psych patients coming to the ER, Brackenridge has a psych nurse on staff to develop a psychology care plan for patients who require psychiatric evaluation. The Emergency Room is still seeing anywhere between 15 and 20 children per day, we are working closely with Dell's Children's. Yvonne VanDyke reported that Sally Foster is working with Seton as their Robert E. Johnson grant lead. Seton will have a site visit from the Robert E. Johnson grant people soon. Barbara Clark thanked ACC for there willingness to work with the clinical placement format. The Children's hospital is opening up area's that were previously observational only for student use and training. Central Texas: No Representative Present

Item # 10:	New Business
Presenter	Eileen Klein
Discussion	ACC has submitted a grant to the Coordinating Board regarding student retention and is awaiting their response. The funds would be used to expand our tutoring efforts and to purchase tutor tracking software. ACC has hired a Curriculum Specialist, Ellen Wuertz to aid in curriculum development and grant writing. Ava Wood has been named the director of AISD. Gail Acuna reported that Pflugerville AISD is starting a HST program and would love to have the old beds from ACC's nursing skills lab.

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