Mission Statement

The College of Nursing seeks to support and empower students of all ages and ethnic groups to address the health care needs and issues of the people in Texas, the nation and the world through acquiring nursing knowledge and leadership skills for entry level, advance practice and scientific roles by integrating health promotion and disease prevention with diverse groups in a time of rapid technological and societal change.

2007 – 2010 Goals

The Program Evaluation Plan of the College of Nursing (CON) at Texas Woman’s University specifies that goals be established every three years to direct CON program planning and evaluation. The following goals have been proposed for 2007 – 2010 by the College of Nursing Program Evaluation Committee. Consistent with the Texas Higher Education Plan: Closing the Gaps by 2015, the goals support the implementation of the Vision (Pioneering Nursing Education: An Adventure in Excellence) and Mission of the CON and are consistent with the University’s and College’s 2005-2010 Strategic Plans.

By 2010, the following goals for the CON are expected to be met based on the assumption that adequate fiscal (i.e. on site statistical support) and faculty resources (i.e. greater than 90% of filled faculty FTEs, workload units for educational technology and research capacity building) are available during the next three years:

I.Build and retain a diverse and qualified student body reflective of the population of Texas.

1. Enroll a qualified and diverse student body which mirrors the Texas population.
2. Expand the undergraduate and graduate nursing enrollment according to the projections outlined in the document titled TWU Total Enrollment (2001-2011).
3. Facilitate the retention and progression of undergraduate nursing students to achieve an 85% graduation rate within 36 months of entry into the nursing upper-division program.
4. Recruit and retain a diverse student enrollment for the Nursing Education master’s program to graduate a minimum of 20 students annually by 2010.
5. Increase the retention of students to achieve a 70% graduation rate from the master’s nursing programs within six years of entry into the program.
6. Maintain doctoral graduation rates of 80% by six years and 90% by ten years from entry into program.

II.Provide a learning environment that demonstrates excellence in nursing education through evidenced based teaching, which will enable students to acquire knowledge and skills to contribute as members of the nursing profession and as productive members of society.

1. Identify and develop strategies to address barriers inhibiting the recruitment, hiring, and retention of qualified nursing faculty, as reflected by a faculty vacancy rate (FTE) less than 8%.
2. Apply innovative educational technologies, including evidence-based human simulation for increased competency in clinical nursing practice.
   
   a) Increase to 90% the number of traditional baccalaureate clinical courses using low-fidelity and high-fidelity human patient simulation for clinical learning experiences;
   
   b) Increase to 40% the number of master’s clinical courses using various types of educational strategies that simulate patient care for the preparation of APN roles.
   
   
3. At least 5% of the on-line courses (> 51% of content on-line) taught in the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs will be designated a Quality Matters (or other University designated supported measure) recognized course.

III.Demonstrate excellence in scholarship through focused research activities and application of new knowledge.

1.Total CON research funding, internal and external, will average $65,000 per year.