Transcript East Bay

Collaborative Models of
Education ADN-BSN
Top Ten Countdown of Breakthroughs and Barriers
Presented by: Carolyn Fong, RN, PhD.
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The Ah Ha Moments …
Breakthroughs!
Strong program interest and enthusiasm from community college
students – more applicants than spots available.
Loved strong support from all 4 community colleges. Best example is
Chabot College who had entire faculty vote and recommend fully
prepared, strong candidates prior to application deadline which helped
our workflow and streamlined our evaluation process.
Timing is everything! It was a challenge to get students to orientation
at CSUEB while in their 4th semester at the community college.
Welcome orientation occurred during spring break.
It was a breakthrough to offer our CSUEB leadership course for FREE.
Through the Consortium we enrolled all current community college
students; but were unable to enroll 2 students who graduated in
December, 2009 (they will enroll in course in following year when CSUEB
student).
Helpful to have flexible, patient, newly hired faculty member and
Program Coordinator. Elaine Shingleton, the coordinator, was easily
accessible, She visited participating programs in person for recruitment
and maintained contact with candidates and Nursing Department for
continuous feedback and support to the students.
CSUEB Registrar’s office was extremely efficient and helpful in guiding
us through the Cross-Registration process as well as the admission
process. They were flexible in bypassing the published admission
deadlines
I Have a Lump on My Forehead
… Barriers
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Starting program ASAP with graduating May, 2010 ADN students was a
barrier. Ideally, recruitment and advising efforts should start from day
one as students enter ADN program. In our case, more students might
have applied if they could have completed pre-reqs during their 2 yr
ADN program. Fortunately, we were able to meet and was over our
enrollment target.
Students who graduated in Dec, 2009 were not CC students so could not
take leadership course for free through the Consortium.
Short timelines – Most students had to make quick decisions about their
participation and had little time to consider if the program was right for
them.
Online class format was intimidating/confusing for some students.
Some applicants could not be considered because they could not
schedule/complete prerequisites by Spring 2010 deadline.
Some confusion about the difference between our RN-BSN program and
the ADN-BSN program; same application used for both.
Some students dropped program after first month due to unanticipated
heavy curriculum/pressure during Spring 2010 term
Drum Roll Please … Most
Surprising Outcome
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Cooperation and strong support across
colleges, campuses and departments to
allow students accessibility to this
program. Everyone promoted its success
with staff at all levels demonstrating
collaboration, creativity, flexibility and
patience throughout the entire process.
Potentially, we will have 35 more RNs
with baccalaureate degrees.