Code of Maine Rules › 02 - DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL REGULATION › 380 - STATE BOARD OF NURSING › Chapter 7 - REGULATIONS FOR APPROVAL OF PRELICENSURE NURSING EDUCATION PROGRAMS › Section 380-7-2 - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A. "Accreditation" means a level of quality
				achieved by education programs which have participated in voluntary evaluation
				by recognized agencies using predetermined criteria.
B. "Board" means the Maine State Board of
				Nursing.
C. "Communities of
				interest" encompasses groups and individuals who have an interest in the
				mission, goals, and expected outcomes of the nursing school and its
				effectiveness in achieving them. The communities of interest range from the
				local to the global and comprise all stakeholders of the nursing programs.
				Stakeholders include students, faculty, administration, student organizations,
				and alumni in addition to external constituencies such as prospective students,
				employers, practicing nurses, other nursing programs, regulatory bodies, the
				community/public of Maine and beyond.
D. "Continuing approval" means ongoing
				granting of permission to operate as a school of nursing by the
				Board.
E. "Direct patient care"
				means student learning that involves the provision of primary nursing services
				to patients.
F. "Enrollment" means
				a student for whom the nursing education program has determined to be
				qualified, to whom they have sent an affirmative letter indicating acceptance
				and from whom the nursing education program has received an affirmative
				indication from the student that the admission offer is accepted, and the
				applicant is enrolled in classes.
G. "Governing Organization" means the single
				agency or institution that administers the nursing education program in its
				entirety.
H. "National Nursing
				Accreditation" means accreditation by Accreditation Commission for Education in
				Nursing (ACEN) or Commission for Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or other
				agency approved by the U.S. Secretary of Education as a national accreditation
				agency.
I. "Nurse Administrator"
				means the registered nurse responsible for policies, contracts, curriculum and
				overall administration of the nursing education program.
J. "Preceptor" means the licensed nurse who
				assumes joint teaching responsibility with a salaried faculty member for a
				precepted clinical experience.
K.
				"Precepted clinical experience" means student learning that involves the
				provision of primary nursing care to patients under the guidance and direction
				of a preceptor in collaboration with the salaried faculty of the nursing
				education program.
L. "Salaried
				faculty" means those nursing faculty designated by the Governing Organization
				as having ongoing responsibility for curriculum development, and planning,
				teaching, guiding, monitoring, and evaluating student learning.
M. "Non-salaried contractual faculty" means
				those faculty who have ongoing responsibility for evaluating student learning
				in the classroom, clinical and/or lab setting.Non-salaried contractual faculty
				collaborate with salaried faculty to maintain program policies and course
				requirements. Also called "part-time" or "adjunct" faculty.
N. "Simulation" or "simulation experience"
				means student learning that involves interaction with computer generated, or
				other life-like models of clinical nursing situations including standardized
				patients, mannequins, and high-fidelity simulation. All simulation experiences
				shall be under the direction of licensed nursing faculty qualified to oversee
				and evaluate the outcomes of the simulation experience for the student.
O. "Survey" means the written
				report; self-study report.