Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 054 - Nursing, Board of › Sub-Agency 0002 - General › Chapter 6 - STANDARDS FOR NURSING EDUCATION PROGRAMS › Section 6-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) "Administrator"
				means the nurse educator who has administrative responsibility or authority for
				the direction of a program.
(b)
				"Articulation Agreement" means an educational partnership between nursing
				education programs allowing students to receive credit for their prior
				degree.
(c) "Clinical Learning
				Experience" means planned activities in nursing practice that prepare students
				to understand, perform, and refine professional competencies at the appropriate
				program level. These experiences include direct and indirect patient care,
				simulation, standardized patient experiences, or any nursing intervention that
				influences health care outcomes.
(d) "Committee" means the Education Committee
				of the Wyoming State Board of Nursing.
(e) "Cost" means those expenses the Board or
				investigating committee incurs in a hearing to deny, refuse to renew,
				reactivate, reinstate, revoke, restrict, place conditions upon, or suspend a
				license or program approval pursuant to Wyoming Statute §§
									33-21-138 through 144 and
				includes, but is not limited to hearing officer fees, service fees, subpoena
				fees, reporter fees, lay and expert witness and consultant fees, travel and per
				diem expenses, deposition costs and other costs and expenses incurred in the
				investigation, discovery, preparation, and hearing of any disciplinary
				matter.
(f) "Debriefing" means an
				activity following an experiential learning experience. Activity is led by a
				facilitator, encourages participant's reflective thinking, and provides
				feedback regarding the participant's performance.
(g) "Encumbered License" means a license with
				current discipline, condition, or restriction.
(h) "Faculty" means an educator employed,
				paid, or contracted by the program whether full-time, part-time, adjunct, or
				labeled as a substitute.
(j) "Home
				State/Jurisdiction" means the state/jurisdiction where the program has legal
				domicile.
(k) "Host
				State/Jurisdiction" means the state/jurisdiction outside of the home
				state/jurisdiction where students participate in didactic coursework and/or
				clinical experiences.
(l)
				"Innovative" means a dynamic, systematic process that envisions new approaches
				to nursing education.
(m) "Methods
				of Delivery" means the methods used by faculty to facilitate and evaluate
				learning in compliance with approved statutes and regulations. Methods of
				delivery include:
(i) "Traditional Education"
				means student and instructor are physically in the same location at the same
				time (e.g., face-to-face). This method of delivery may be web
				enhanced/supported.
(ii) "Distance
				Education" means student and instructor are not physically in the same
				location. Instruction uses synchronous or asynchronous technology to support
				regular and substantive interactions between the instructor and students.
				Instructional methods may include but are not limited to one-way or two-way
				transmissions, audio, video, the internet, or computer technologies.
(iii) "Hybrid Education" means instruction
				that uses both distance and traditional education methods of
				delivery.