Within the institution a strategic plan provides guidance and vision for the nurse anesthesia program. The program utilizes policies and procedures for continuous self-assessment that promote program effectiveness, purposeful change, and needed improvement. Student evaluations of the program, courses, classroom teaching, clinical instruction, and clinical sites are used as a measure of faculty and program quality. Evaluations, formative and summative, of students are conducted each academic term by the faculty to document student achievement in both the classroom and clinical areas. There is an assessment plan to verify competence for entry into anesthesia practice.
Student achievement is documented through periodic self-evaluations.
Evaluation data are used to counsel students and promote learning. Certification Examination pass rates, employment rates and employers satisfaction, are used to assess the program and student achievement. Evaluation data from all sources including students, faculty, alumni and employers are used to monitor and improve program quality and effectiveness. The program s evaluation plan is used to continually assess compliance with accreditation requirements and to initiate corrective action should areas of noncompliance occur or recur.