TY - JOUR
T1 - West Texas Nursing Education Portal Project
T2 - Developing a Regional Centralized Application System
AU - Allen, Patricia
AU - Billings, Lynda
AU - Cannon, Sharon
AU - Majors, Jennifer
AU - Sportsman, Susan
AU - Ballesteros, Pauline A.
AU - Bezinque, Kim
AU - Bolton, Cathy
AU - Cottenoir, Marla
AU - Edwards, Carmen
AU - Louder, Justin
AU - O'Neal, Cynthia
AU - Morgan, Jackolyn
AU - Reyes, Helen
AU - Ross, Linda
N1 - Funding Information:
The lead for project development was assumed by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and the project was funded through a grant provided by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The grant proposed regionalization of the application process for entry into WTNEC generic programs (associate degree in nursing and bachelor of science in nursing), with the goals of decreasing, and possibly eliminating, student vacancy rates in member schools and perhaps reducing the resources needed by each school for the admission process. The proposed CAS would allow prospective students to apply online to the centralized admission portal. Students would maintain the freedom to choose the nursing program(s) they wanted to attend, but they would also be made aware of possible openings in other participating schools. The proposed admission portal would also save potential students' time and money by the development of a centralized application to consolidate the process of applying to more than one nursing program. One application would suffice for all nursing programs in the consortium. The student simply checks a dropdown box to have the application reviewed by more than one school.
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - Because of the nursing shortage and a demand for maximum enrollment, a group of five baccalaureate and seven associate degree nursing programs in West Texas first met in 2007 to form the West Texas Nursing Education Consortium (WTNEC). To emphasize the importance of scale and distance, the West Texas region is larger than all of the northeastern states combined. The founding group agreed that the first mission of WTNEC should be to pool resources in order to increase admission and graduation rates for WTNEC schools. Two years later, this mission is being accomplished by the implementation of a plan designed to increase participating schools' admissions, retention, and graduation rates. A grant proposal was written and funded to develop a central regionalization of the application process for entry into WTNEC generic programs (associates degree in nursing and bachelor of science in nursing), with the goal of decreasing and possibly eliminating student vacancy rates in member schools and perhaps reducing the resources needed by each school for the admission process. The implemented centralized application system allowed prospective students to apply online to the centralized admission portal. Students maintained the freedom to choose the nursing program(s) they wanted to attend, but they were also made aware of possible openings in other participating schools. The admission portal also saved potential students time and money by submitting one centralized application, resulting in consolidation of the nursing school application process. Eleven of the 12 consortium schools participated in the centralized application system.
AB - Because of the nursing shortage and a demand for maximum enrollment, a group of five baccalaureate and seven associate degree nursing programs in West Texas first met in 2007 to form the West Texas Nursing Education Consortium (WTNEC). To emphasize the importance of scale and distance, the West Texas region is larger than all of the northeastern states combined. The founding group agreed that the first mission of WTNEC should be to pool resources in order to increase admission and graduation rates for WTNEC schools. Two years later, this mission is being accomplished by the implementation of a plan designed to increase participating schools' admissions, retention, and graduation rates. A grant proposal was written and funded to develop a central regionalization of the application process for entry into WTNEC generic programs (associates degree in nursing and bachelor of science in nursing), with the goal of decreasing and possibly eliminating student vacancy rates in member schools and perhaps reducing the resources needed by each school for the admission process. The implemented centralized application system allowed prospective students to apply online to the centralized admission portal. Students maintained the freedom to choose the nursing program(s) they wanted to attend, but they were also made aware of possible openings in other participating schools. The admission portal also saved potential students time and money by submitting one centralized application, resulting in consolidation of the nursing school application process. Eleven of the 12 consortium schools participated in the centralized application system.
KW - Application
KW - CAS
KW - Centralized Application System
KW - Consortium
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U2 - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2010.10.008
DO - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2010.10.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 21596353
AN - SCOPUS:79956022966
SN - 8755-7223
VL - 27
SP - 140
EP - 144
JO - Journal of Professional Nursing
JF - Journal of Professional Nursing
IS - 3
ER -