| Saturday, July 16, 2005: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM | |||
| The Logic Model: A Framework for the Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Accelerated Master’s Entry Into Nursing Program | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Describe the components of the Logic Model as a tool in the development, implementation, and evaluation of an accelerated master’s entry into nursing program | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Illustrate the use of the Logic Model in the recruitment and admission of students, the mentoring of students, and the development of collaborative partnerships | |||
| The purpose of this symposium is to describe the use of the Logic Model in the development, implementation, and evaluation of an accelerated master’s entry nursing educational program for non-nursing college graduates. The program focuses on a non-traditional group that remains untapped in the U.S. generally, and in California, specifically–individuals with baccalaureate or higher degrees in the Arts and Sciences seeking a second career in nursing as advanced practice nurses. Hence, this program is called Second Careers and Nursing (SCAN). Launched in Fall 2004, this federally-funded program integrates the prelicensure and graduate nursing programs into three-calendar years of study. The SCAN program has been launched to address the critical nursing shortage in California---a state that ranks second to the lowest in the nation with its proportion of 544 working RNs per 100,000 population. Also, it speaks to the changing demographic profile in America, particularly in California, and the underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in the nursing workforce. The symposium will illustrate the use of the Logic Model as a dynamic tool that undergirds the different components of the SCAN program and the use of Schlossberg’s career counseling and mentoring design: Moving In, Moving Through, and Moving Out. This overview will show the Logic Model as a visual diagram that systematically presents the relationships among the resources needed to operate the program, the activities planned, and the expected changes or results to be achieved. The three papers that follow will describe its use in: (a) Moving In: Recruitment and Admission of Non-nursing College Graduates, (b) Moving Through: A Multi-level Interdisciplinary Mentoring Program, and (c) Moving Out: “Town and Gown” Collaborative Partnerships. Each of these papers will provide a test of the utility of the Logic Model for framing program development, implementation, and evaluation. | |||
| Organizer: | Felicitas Dela Cruz, DNSc, RN, FAANP | ||
| Presenters: | Susan E. Elliott, PhD, RNC, FNP, WHNP Phyllis Esslinger, RN, MS Patricia Frohock Hanes, RN, MSN, MAEd Marilyn D. Klakovich, DNSc, RN, CNAA | ||
| Moving In: Recruitment and Admission of Non-nursing College Graduates Susan E. Elliott, PhD, RNC, FNP, WHNP, Phyllis Esslinger, RN, MS | |||
| Moving Out: “Town and Gown” Collaborative Partnerships Marilyn D. Klakovich, DNSc, RN, CNAA, BC | |||
| Moving Through: A Multi-level Interdisciplinary Student Mentoring Program Patricia Frohock Hanes, RN, MSN, MAEd | |||