IVCC’s Associate Degree Nursing Program has been re-accredited for the maximum eight-year period.
The National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission commended IVCC’s program for excellent leadership, strongly committed and well-qualified faculty, and for earning high respect from current students and alumni, said Bonnie Grusk, division chair of health professions and director of nursing.
In February 1999, a two-person team from the NLNAC spent three days on campus. The visit was the last step of a voluntary accreditation that the nursing department had been preparing for since 1996.
The NLNAC evaluators wrote that the IVCC program had excellent and strong administrative support, excellent resources such as a nursing lab instructor, excellent clinical facilities and 100 percent employment of graduates and good evaluations of graduates by employers.
"This program is effective and esteemed by its constituents and the college," the evaluators wrote. "It has quality and committed faculty…Its graduates are considered competent and are valued by employers and the community."
Grusk said she was very pleased with the results.
"It verifies we have an excellent program and that we are going in the right direction," she said.
Instructors Pam Mammano and Gloria Bouxsein coordinated the reaccreditation effort.