Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 19 - BOARD OF NURSING › Article 2 - ARIZONA REGISTERED AND PRACTICAL NURSING PROGRAMS; REFRESHER PROGRAMS › Section R4-19-207 - New Programs; Proposal Approval; Provisional Approval

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A. At a minimum of
				one year before establishing a nursing program, a parent institution shall
				submit to the Board an electronic copy of an application for proposal approval.
				The parent institution shall ensure that the proposal application was written
				by or under the direction of a registered nurse who meets the nursing program
				administrator requirements of
				R4-19-203(A)
				and includes the following information and documentation:
1. Name and address of the parent
				institution;
2. Statement of intent
				to establish a nursing program, including the academic and licensure level of
				the program; and:
a. Organizational structure
				of the educational institution documenting the relationship of the nursing
				program within the institution and the role of the nursing program
				administrator consistent with
				R4-19-201
				and
				R4-19-203;
b. Evidence of institutional accreditation
				consistent with
				R4-19-201
				and post-secondary approval, if applicable. The institution shall provide the
				most recent full reports including findings and recommendations of the
				applicable accrediting organization or approval agency. The Board may request
				additional accreditation or approval evidence.
c. Curriculum development documentation to
				include:
i. Student-centered outcomes for the
				program;
ii. A plan that identifies
				the prescribed course sequencing and time required; and
iii. Identification of established
				professional standards, guidelines or competencies upon which the curriculum
				will be based;
d. Name,
				qualifications, and job description of a nursing program administrator who
				meets the requirements of
				R4-19-203
				and availability and job description of faculty who meet qualifications of
				R4-19-204;
e. Number of budgeted clinical and didactic
				faculty positions from the time of the first admission to graduation of the
				first class;
f. Evidence that the
				program has secured clinical sites for its projected enrollment that meet the
				requirements of
				R4-19-206;
g. Anticipated student enrollment per session
				and annually;
h. Documentation of
				planning for adequate academic facilities and secretarial and support staff to
				support the nursing program consistent with the requirements of
				R4-19-202;
i. Evidence of adequate program financial
				resources;
j. Tentative time
				schedule for planning and initiating the nursing program including faculty
				hiring, entry date and size of student cohorts, and obtaining and utilizing
				clinical placements from the expected date of proposal approval to graduation
				of the first cohort.
k. For a
				parent institution that has an existing nursing program in one or more U.S.
				jurisdictions including Arizona, evidence for each of its nursing programs that
				includes:
i. Program approval in good standing
				with no order entered in this or any other jurisdiction, which if entered by
				this state would constitute the denial of a license or a disciplinary action
				within the meaning of A.R.S. §
												32-1601, subsection 12, paragraphs
				(d), (e), (f), (g), (h); and
ii. An
				NCLEX pass rate of at least 80% for the 12 months preceding the current
				application; or
iii. The parent
				institution successfully demonstrates to the Board that:
(1) The program is in the best interests of
				the public. The Board's consideration of what is in the best interests of the
				public shall include, but is not limited to, the geographic need for a new
				nursing program, the populations that would be served by the program, adequate
				program oversight, institutional financial security, adequacy of the program
				proposal, and a demonstrated history of cooperation with accrediting and
				regulatory bodies; and
(2) The
				program will be capable of meeting all other applicable requirements for the
				establishment of a nursing program.