La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § XLVII-3531

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XLVII-3531 - Procedure for Terminating Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing Education Degree Programs

A. Voluntary Termination

1. The board shall be notified when a decision has been made to close an undergraduate and/or graduate nursing education degree program(s).

2. The undergraduate and/or graduate nursing education degree program(s) shall provide a written plan of termination to include evidence that all of the board's standards shall be maintained until all students have transferred to another program or have graduated. A plan to phase out the existing nursing program shall include:

a. a dateline for final admission of students to the existing program;

b. a plan for the normal progression of students in the existing program;

c. a contingency plan for students who cannot follow the normal progression sequence in the existing program (i.e., failures, illness, etc.); and

d. the projected date of graduation for the final class of the existing program.

3. All students shall have assistance with transfers to the new nursing program or to another program of choice. A list of the names of these students shall be submitted to the board.

4. The board shall be notified of the arrangements for safe storage of the permanent records of the undergraduate and/or graduate nursing education degree program(s) and its students' records.

a. - d. Repealed.

5. The following records shall be retained:

a. students application to the program;

b. students financial academic transcripts;

c. graduate clinical transcript;

d. each curriculum plan offered; and

e. a list of each graduating class and date of graduation.

B. Involuntary Termination

1. Involuntary termination occurs when the board has determined that the undergraduate and/or graduate nursing education degree program(s) has not met one or more standards and the program shall be required to initiate termination.

a. documentation of final admission date of students in the existing program;

b. a plan for the progression of students during phase out of the existing program;

c. a contingency plan for students who cannot follow the normal progression sequence in the existing program (i.e., failures, illness, etc.); and

d. the projected date of graduation for the final class of the existing program.

3. All students shall have assistance with transfers to the new nursing program or to another program of choice. A list of the names of these students shall be submitted to the board.

4. The board shall be notified of the arrangements for safe storage of the permanent records of the undergraduate and/or graduate nursing education degree program(s) and its students' records.

5. The following records shall be retained:

a. students application to the program;

b. students final academic transcripts;

c. graduate clinical transcript;

d. each curriculum plan offered; and

e. a list of each graduating class and date of graduation.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § XLVII-3531

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Resources, Board of Nursing, LR 3:190 (April 1977), amended LR 10:1027 (December 1984), repromulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Nursing, LR 24:1293 (July 1998), Amended LR 42885 (6/1/2016).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:918.