Nursing program on the brink of shutting down

WEST JORDAN The future of Broadview University's two-year-old nursing module now hinges on examination results from just a few students.Three have yet to take a National Council Licensure Examination, and with nineteen completed, a propagandize sits at about an 85 percent flitting rate. The school's flitting rate contingency be within 5 percent of a fluctuating inhabitant average, that won't be posted until January though can be as high as 90 percent, to equivocate termination under state law."It is wholly possible that if you did achieve a results, you can go on with a program, though if you did not, then it is wholly possible that they would ask us to stop a module altogether," pronounced Mark Staats, Broadview's West Jordan campus director. He pronounced propagandize officials have been in a process of working out a transfer agreement with "several" local programs in a eventuality that their own module is ordered to cease operation.The remaining students have until a end of a year to complete a NCLEX and all students have been notified of a warning status of Broadview's Atlanta-based accrediting agency, a National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission.Broadview University, that hosts classes at locations in Layton, Orem, Salt Lake City, West Jordan and online, also offers academic grade programs in business, entertainment arts, illness sciences, information technology, legal sciences and transport abroad.Broadview's two-year, $60,000 nursing module was first approved in late 2009. The first entertain of 2010, however, elicited a 75 percent pass rate, when a inhabitant pass rate was 89.9 percent. In a third entertain of that year, a student pass rate fell to 66.7 percent when a inhabitant pass rate normal was 84.9 percent, according to documents from a Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing.A warning letter was released to a school, mandating improvement, though again in a first entertain of this year, Broadview's pass rate (63.16 percent) fell below a inhabitant normal of 89.33 percent. In a second and third quarters of 2011, Broadview produced 72.73 percent and 66.67 percent pass rates, whereas a inhabitant rates were 91.44 percent and 85.07 percent, respectively.National averages fluctuate each quarter, though Utah's Nurse Practice Act Rules state that after five quarters of low performance, an academic nursing module contingency be terminated.Broadview, before Utah Career College, stopped admitting brand new students to a module last quarter, a standard also written in a rules for programs that have had four periods of lower than inhabitant normal performance. After 3 quarters, a propagandize was placed on probationary status by a education committee of a state nursing board, that operates under DOPL.The board meets regularly with officials from a various nursing programs offered throughout a state.Broadview is one of nine registered nurse associate grade programs in Utah, and just 3 in a Salt Lake County. However, a grade offered at a school's West Jordan campus is technically termed an applied associate degree, that is not necessarily negotiable to larger programs in a state should a student desire to go on with a bachelor's grade in nursing.Staats pronounced that given recently being notified of probationary status, a nursing module at Broadview has made poignant improvement efforts, including professional development of faculty, enhanced study resources, facility and curriculum upgrades, as well as implementation of stricter admission criteria."All it takes is just one cluster of individuals to not adhere," he said. "If you do have a couple who step out of end and choose to consciously test before they have been ready, that can have a poignant impact on your ratio."While a propagandize has seen an increase in a series of students flitting a nursing chartering exam, "it still does not matter," Staats said. "We contingency be within 5 percent of that inhabitant average."Given a small size of each quarter's cohort, that is between eighteen and twenty students, each can impact a flitting rate by about 7 percentage points."We cannot have them utilize a resources that have been in place," Staats said. "You cannot have people do a right thing."Email:wleonard@ksl.com

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