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Mount Royal University. School of Nursing and Midwifery fonds Subseries
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Alberta Vocational Centre

Subseries consists of course materials for the Nursing Assistant Program offered at the Alberta Vocational Centre (AVC). The MRC Allied Health Department evaluated AVC's Nursing Assistant Program to determine the feasibility of granting graduates transfer credits or a credit exemption route into the Diploma Nursing Program.

Councils and committees

Subseries documents the activities of committees, councils, and task forces responsible for or related to the Calgary Conjoint Nursing Program. Subseries contains records from the following committees: Nominations and Rules Committee; Coordinators Committee; Management Committee; Steering Committee; Executive Committee; Curriculum Committee; Program Committee; Recruitment and Retention Committee; Admissions Committee; Student Academic Review Committee; Dean's Council; Academic Council; Joint Venture Committee; Inter-Faith Ad Hoc Committee; General Education Ad Hoc Committee; Core Committee; Expansion Committee; Task Force Committee; Budget/Financial Planning Committee; Committee on Nursing Education; Joint Faculty Entry to Practice Committee; CCNP Psychiatric Mental Health Specialty group; Health Care Specialty Group; CCNP Pediatric Nursing Instructors Group; CCNP Perinatal Group; Community Health; Gerontological Nursing Curriculum Group; Teaching-Learning Strategies Committee; Computer Advisory Committee; CCNP Logo Committee; CCNP Sub-Committee on Health Services; Psychomotor Skills Clinician Group; Student Faculty Liason Committee; Focus Year Planning Committee; CCNP Foundations Committee;

Subseries contains minutes, agendas, memoranda, correspondence, committee reports, membership lists, committee mandates, and course and budget planning documents.

History

Subseries documents the early history of the Diploma Nursing Program. Subseries contains books written about the program, as well as correspondence, newspaper clippings, and questionnaires.

Minutes

Subseries documents Department of Nursing and Allied Health full faculty meetings and Consortium of Senior Nurse Educators meetings. Nursing and Allied Health faculty meetings cover an array of topics focused around: committee reports to faculty, Calgary Conjoint Nursing Program planning, curriculum and teaching issues and development, faculty scholarship and professional development, and department and college administrative business.
Subseries consists of agendas, minutes, correspondence, memoranda, policies and procedures, surveys and questionnaires, membership lists, department objectives, and planning documents. Subseries also contains program reports from the diploma nursing; post-basic mental health; and gerontology certificate programs, as well as committee reports/updates from the Curriculum Committee; Personnel and Professional Development Committee; Policy, Positions and Promotions Committee; Computer Committee; Admissions Committee; Grad Committee; Workload Committee; and Social Committee.

Program and curriculum development

Subseries documents the planning and development of the Calgary Conjoint Nursing Program and subsequent curriculum development and changes. Subseries contains memoranda, correspondence, minutes, planning models, agreements, proposals, reports, calendar descriptions, course and program submission forms, budget calculations, financial statements and summaries, procedures, and policies.

Reports

Subseries mainly consists of reports about the Diploma Nursing Program and nursing certificate programs. Subseries contains annual reports, program assessments, study reports, project proposals, departmental objectives, and correspondence.

Universities Coordinating Council

Subseries documents the interactions of Mount Royal's nursing faculty with the Nursing Education Survey Team (NEST), a body of the Universities Coordinating Council Committee on Nursing Education (UCCCNE). The Universities Coordinating Council (UCC) was created in 1966 under the Universities Act to serve as an advisory body to the Minister of Education on matters of new program approvals. NEST was first formed in 1961 by the Minister of Health for the purpose of bringing recommendations related to the training of nurses and the development of new programs to increase the supply of nurses and maintain a high level of nursing standards in the province. The authority to make regulations regarding nursing education became the purview of the UCC through the Registered Nurses Act. Subseries contains correspondence, memoranda, self-evaluations, appraisal reports, annual reports, survey results, program and course information, and NEST recommendations.