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Kansas State Board of Nursing education committee approves multiple program reapprovals and curricular changes
Summary
The Kansas State Board of Nursing education committee voted to reapprove several nursing programs and approved multiple major curricular and delivery changes across community colleges and universities, while maintaining extra oversight for programs with low NCLEX pass rates.
Amy Garcia, chair of the Kansas State Board of Nursing education committee, opened the meeting and the panel approved a slate of site‑visit recommendations and curricular changes across Kansas nursing programs.
Janelle Martin, education compliance officer, summarized staff and site‑visitor findings on multiple reapproval and curriculum items. For WSU Tech’s practical nursing program, Martin said the site visitors recommended "reapproval for five years if all recommendations are completed by the due dates," and the committee voted to reapprove the program with those recommendations in place. The committee likewise approved follow‑up recommendations for Ottawa University’s BSN program and accepted motions to approve multiple major curricular changes at community colleges and universities.
The committee approved curriculum‑delivery and sequencing changes for Barton Community College, Salina Area Technical College, Ottawa University, Fort Hays State University and Fort Hays Tech (Hays and Beloit campuses). Among the actions approved were moving selected didactic courses online or to hybrid delivery, reallocating credit hours between clinical and didactic components, combining pharmacology with nurse‑math into a single course at Fort Hays Tech, and a degree‑plan revision at Barclay College that reduces the nursing degree from 10 to 8 semesters and lowers total program credits from 133 to 121 while keeping the core nursing curriculum at 60 credits.
Committee members repeatedly emphasized oversight and follow‑up. Several motions included requirements for update reports or follow‑up site visits; for example, Donnelly College was placed on continued conditional approval with a one‑day follow‑up visit and quarterly updates, and Mid America College was required to submit an updated NCLEX improvement plan for inclusion in the September packet. The motions and amendments were carried by voice vote with ayes from the present board members.
The committee also approved a package of changes for WSU Tech’s ADN program to separate didactic and clinical components in all courses that include clinical experiences and to change the modality for two courses to fully online delivery, with no change to credit hours or outcomes. The meeting closed after staff clarified the full language of one rewritten motion so it would be correctly recorded in the minutes.
The committee is scheduled to review some items again in September, with specific reporting deadlines and follow‑up visits set in motions where staff recommended additional oversight.
