By Jo Zulkowsky
Evaluators from the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission are recommending that IVCCs Associate Degree Nursing Program be re-accredited for five years.
When the evaluating team from the NLNAC finished their three-day visit on campus Feb. 25, they presented their preliminary results to the nursing staff. The final results of the evaluation will not be ready until June.
"We are very pleased with their recommendation," said Bonnie Grusk, chair of the health professions division. "It is a tribute to the hard work on the part of everyone who contributes to our nursing programs. The accrediting team was very impressed with our college and the atmosphere of caring and collaboration."
The visit, by a two-person team from the NLNAC, was the last step of a voluntary accreditation that the nurses have been preparing for since 1996.
Instructor Gloria Bouxsein said the program could have been recommended for an eight-year accreditation, but the nursing staff has made some curriculum changes recently, and the NLNAC wants to see how those changes are working out.
March 15, 1999 the Apache