Texas Register, Volume 37, Number 34, Pages 6391-6818, August 24, 2012 Page: 6,453
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(A) - (B) (No change.)
(C) A variety of means shall be used to evaluate faculty
performance such as self, student, peer, and administrative evaluation.
(b) A professional nursing education [educational] program
shall employ sufficient faculty members with graduate preparation and
expertise necessary to enable the students to meet the program goals.
The number of faculty members shall be determined by such factors as:
(1) - (5) (No change.)
(c) Faculty Qualifications and Responsibilities.
(1) Documentation of faculty qualifications shall be in-
cluded in the official files of the program [programs].
(2) Each nurse faculty member shall:
(A) (No change.)
(B) Show evidence of teaching abilities and maintain-
ing current knowledge, clinical expertise, and safety in the subject areas
[area] of teaching responsibility;
(C) Hold a master's degree or doctoral [decterate] de-
gree, preferably in nursing;
(D) A nurse faculty member holding a master's degree
or doctoral [doctorate] degree in a discipline other than nursing shall
hold a bachelor's degree in nursing from an approved or accredited
baccalaureate program in nursing; and
(i) if teaching in a diploma or associate degree nurs-
ing program, shall have at least six (6) graduate semester hours in nurs-
ing appropriate to assigned teaching responsibilities, or
(ii) if teaching in a baccalaureate level program,
shall have at least twelve (12) [1-2] graduate semester hours in nursing
appropriate to assigned teaching responsibilities.
(d) Faculty Waivers.
(1) In fully approved programs, if an individual to be ap-
pointed as a faculty member does not meet the requirements for faculty
as specified in subsection (c) of this section, the dean or director is per-
mitted to waive the Board's requirements, without Board approval, if
the program and prospective faculty member meet the following crite-
ria and after notification to the Board of the intent to waive the Board's
faculty requirements for a temporary time period not to exceed one (1)
year:
(2) Minimum program criteria:
(A) program's NCLEX-RN [Examination] pass rate
for the preceding examination [exam] year was 80% or above; and
(B) total number of faculty waivers at program shall not
exceed 10% of the total number of nursing faculty.[; and]
(3) Minimum criteria for prospective faculty member:
(A) hold [holds] a current license or privilege to prac-
tice as a registered nurse in the State of Texas;
(B) has at least two (2) years in the last four (4) years
of nursing practice experience in the anticipated subject areas [area] of
teaching responsibility;
(C) has earned a bachelor's degree in nursing or com-
pleted, as part of a nursing education program culminating in a mas-
ter's or doctorate degree in nursing, the course work equivalent to the
course work required for a bachelor's degree in nursing; and either
(i) (No change.)(ii) holds a master's degree in another field and has
a documented plan to complete, within a designated time frame, the re-
quired number of graduate semester hours in nursing appropriate to the
anticipated subject areas [area] of teaching responsibility, six (6) grad-
uate semester hours in nursing to teach in a diploma or associate degree
nursing education program or twelve (12) [42] graduate semester hours
in nursing to teach in a baccalaureate degree or entry-level master's de-
gree in nursing education program.
(4) When the program does not meet the minimum pro-
gram criteria or the prospective faculty member does not meet the min-
imum criteria for a faculty member, a petition for an emergency waiver
may be submitted to the Board Staff for approval when a vacancy oc-
curs because a faculty member fails to report as planned, i.e., sudden
illness or death of a faculty member, or there is an unexpected resigna-
tion, or qualified applicants/prospective faculty are not available.[-]
f(A) a petition for a waiver shall be submitted to the
Board and be reviewed by the members ofthe Edueation Liaison om-
mittee (ELC-) for commendation regarding approval and referred to
the futl Board for atif ation; or_]
{(B) a petition for an emergency waiver may e sub-
mitted to the Board staff for appro-val when a vacancy ecurs because
a faculty member fails to repol as ianne sie udden illness or death
ofa cufty me- or there is an unexpected resignation or qualified
applicants/prospective faultyy ~are not available-]
(5) A waiver is valid for up to one (1) year.
(6) The dean or director [er eeoordinatr] shall submit a
sworn (notarized) notification of waiver to the Board.
(7) If an extension of the waiver is needed, the dean or di-
rector [or ceordinater] shall petition [the] Board Staff for an extension
of the original waiver.
(e) Non-nursing faculty are exempt from meeting the faculty
qualifications of this chapter as long as the teaching assignments are
not nursing content or clinical nursing courses.
(f) - (h) (No change.)
(i) Faculty shall be responsible for:
(1) supervising [s-uperisien of] students in clinical learn-
ing experiences;
(2) supervising all initial nursing procedures performed by
the student in the clinical area and ascertaining [ascertain] that the stu-
dent is competent before allowing the student to perform an actual nurs-
ing procedure independently;
(3) - (4) (No change.)
(j) Teaching activities shall be coordinated among full-time
faculty, part-time faculty, clinical preceptors, and clinical teaching as-
sistants.
(k) There shall be a minimum of one (1) full-time nursing in-
structor for the program.
(1) A dean/director without major teaching or clinical respon-
sibilities shall not be considered a full-time instructor for purposes of
meeting the Board's requirements related to having a sufficient number
of nursing faculty for a professional nursing education educationall]
program.
(m) (No change.)
(n) Faculty Organization:
(1) (No change.)PROPOSED RULES August 24, 2012 37 TexReg 6453
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