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Establishing National Academic Reference Standards (NARS) for Nursing Education in Egypt

Establishing National Academic Reference Standards (NARS) for Nursing Education in Egypt. By Nursing Sector Committee Supreme Council Of Universities. Quality in Nursing Education: The Road to Accreditation.

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Establishing National Academic Reference Standards (NARS) for Nursing Education in Egypt

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  1. Establishing National Academic Reference Standards (NARS) for Nursing Education in Egypt By Nursing Sector Committee Supreme Council Of Universities

  2. Quality in Nursing Education: The Road to Accreditation

  3. Egyptian Government recognized the need for improving quality of university education standards and strengthening nursing education system to equip graduate nurses with knowledge and Skills. In line with international trends, availability of qualified & competent health care professionals is the key to delivery of quality health care services.

  4. Advanced practice in nursing has become a dominant focus of graduate nursing education over the past two decades. SO Nurses who do not keep upgrading their skills will be left behind by work place changes. AND Life long learning is the only answer for a competitive future.

  5. The NQAAC is working with the Supreme Council of Universities in Egypt to develop national reference standards for 19 sectors covering all higher education, the nursing sector is one of them. They will offer institutions an external reference point for their benchmarking.

  6. National Academic Reference StandardsFor Nursing Education Project #4 NSC started this project 2005 Purposes: • To develop academic reference standards for nursing education. • To enhance systematic growth of institution & contribute to its outcome in the community. • To match between education as a system and demands of community as a consumer in the quality system.

  7. Project Partners: This project is a consortium b/w all faculties of nursing affiliated to the different universities. Faculties of Nursing of the following Universities: • Alexandria 1955 • Cairo 1965 • Ain shams 1981 • Assiut 1982 • Zagazig 1984 • Menoufia 1986 • Tanta 1987

  8. Cont. Faculties of Nursing • Port said 1992 • Banha 1993 • Mansoura 1994 • Menia 1995 • Sohag 2006 • Ismailia 2006 • Helwan 2006 • Damanhour 2007

  9. Project Team • Project Management Team: • Head, Nursing Sector Committee • Secretary Generalof NSC • Deans of Faculty of Nursing: Alex, Cairo, Ain shams, Assiut & Suez Canal Universit. • Implementation Team: 2 staff members from each university.

  10. Scope of the project Educational quality Helps to realize institutional mission more effectively & responds to expectations of accrediting organizations, community needs and other external stakeholders for accountability in the teaching /learning processes.

  11. Objectives • Raise awareness of beneficiaries regarding importance of developing ARS. • Design data base of different types of standards, national and international. • Develop the academic reference standards • Disseminate the endorsed standards to all interest parties. • Implement developed reference standards. • Measure the efficacy of developed standard.

  12. The focus of the project • Set standards. • Implement standards to ensure quality. • Measure the efficacy of developed standards.

  13. Beneficiaries • Teaching staff • Students and graduates • Stakeholders - Physicians & nurses in health care organizations - Professional organization and community.

  14. Methodology

  15. Phase I: Assessment phase NARS were drafted after reviewing sources: • Community needs. • International educational standards web. • Review of literature / nursing mission. • Stakeholders consultation

  16. Assessment

  17. Phase II : Planning Roles and Attributes of graduate nurses were identified and ARS developed after reviewing national and international standards. NARS were correlated with the role of the nurse.

  18. Distributed responsibilities of the different faculties in developing ARS.

  19. Cont. phase II Proposed standards reviewed by management team and validated by experts representing service and education, stakeholders (1st draft)

  20. In 2006, a review of developed NARS. for BSc. Nurse by the implementation group designated by SCU/NS representing 11 faculties of nursing affiliated to public Egyptian Universities through workshops. ( 2nd draft ) • A final review of the NARS conducted by the management team and experts. ( 3rd draft )

  21. Phase III: Implementation Faculty of Nursing University of Mansoura

  22. Workshop 24-25/02/2007 OB: Develop program specification Participants:Steering Committee Method:Revision of own prog. Spec. courses against NARS NSC Approval by Faculty Council 06/03/2004

  23. Activities Implemented • Symposium to raise awareness of the faculty and stakeholders. • Workshops for faculties. • Preparation of Baseline dataincluding national and international standards. • Domains of ARS identified & agreed uponby NSC. • ARS draft • Validityascertained • Print out of validated standards

  24. Cont. Activities not yet implemented • Seminar/workshops to train faculty staff members in different faculties on the use and application of the proposed ARS. (on the process, carried out at Mansoura Univ) • Auditing tools to follow up standards implementation. • Reportof the follow up & final report (one report has been submitted in September. 2006).

  25. Dissemination • Seminars and workshops - Audience from within & outside the nursing field. - Stakeholders opinions, customers for faculty graduates. • Leaflets and pamphlets (e-mail). • Deans of faculty of nursing Arab region

  26. Quality control & monitoring On going process in all project stages. Supervision of the program activities by the project management team to control the flow of work through the project implementation by checking whether action plan and schedule for the project implementation has been met. Also,via periodic progress report

  27. Output / Outcome • Role of graduate nurses were identified and agreed upon by NSC. • Attributes of typical nursing graduate were developed and agreed upon by NSC. • Domains of ARS were agreed upon by NSC. • A valid standards ready for implementation. • Glossary for scientific terms has been developed. • Guideline manual for implementation of ARS of nursing education has been developed (under study).

  28. Attributes of the graduate nurse An Integral part of the multiple roles of Graduate nurse to: • Be a critical thinker • Practice within ethical & legal framework of the profession • Be an effective communicator • Be a competent provider of health, a role model and a responsible manager who help consumers to achieve optimum levels of care.

  29. Example: Health Care Provider

  30. Example: Health Care Provider

  31. THANK YOU

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