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Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
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Title 18. Professional and Occupational Licensing |
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Agency 90. Board of Nursing |
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Chapter 20. Regulations Governing the Practice of Nursing |
Section 110. Resources, facilities, publications, and services
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A. Classrooms, conference rooms, laboratories, clinical facilities, and offices shall be sufficient to meet the objectives of the nursing education program and the needs of the students, faculty, administration, and staff and shall include private areas for faculty-student conferences. The nursing education program shall provide facilities that meet federal and state requirements including:
1. Comfortable temperatures;
2. Clean and safe conditions;
3. Adequate lighting;
4. Adequate space to accommodate all students; and
5. Instructional technology and equipment needed for simulating client care.
B. The program shall have learning resources and technology that are current, pertinent, and accessible to students and faculty, and sufficient to meet the needs of the students and faculty.
C. Current information about the nursing education program shall be published and distributed to applicants for admission and shall be made available to the board. Such information shall include:
1. Description of the program to include whether the program is accredited by a nursing education accrediting body;
2. Philosophy and objectives of the controlling institution and of the nursing program;
3. Admission and graduation requirements, including the policy on the use of a final comprehensive exam;
4. Fees and expenses;
5. Availability of financial aid;
6. Tuition refund policy;
7. Education facilities;
8. Availability of student activities and services;
9. Curriculum plan to include course progression from admission to graduation, the name of each course, theory hours, skills lab hours, simulation hours (if used in lieu of direct client care hours), and clinical hours;
10. Course descriptions to include a complete overview of what is taught in each course;
11. Faculty-staff roster;
12. School calendar;
13. Student grievance policy; and
14. Information about implication of criminal convictions.
D. Administrative support services shall be provided.
E. There shall be written agreements with cooperating agencies that:
1. Ensure full control of student education by the faculty of the nursing education program, including the selection and supervision of learning experiences to include the dismissal of students from the clinical site if client safety is or may be compromised by the acts of the student;
2. Provide that faculty members or preceptors are present in the clinical setting when students are providing direct client care;
3. Provide for cooperative planning with designated agency personnel to ensure safe client care;
4. Provide that faculty be readily available to students and preceptors while students are involved in preceptorship experiences; and
5. State the number of students allowed on each nursing unit from the nursing education program.
F. Cooperating agencies shall be approved by the appropriate accreditation, evaluation, or licensing bodies, if such exist.
Historical Notes
Derived from VR 495-01-1 § 2.8, eff. April 15, 1985; amended, Volume 03, Issue 19, eff. July 22, 1987; Volume 05, Issue 05, eff. January 4, 1989; Volume 06, Issue 09, eff. March 1, 1990; Volume 06, Issue 17, eff. June 20, 1990; Volume 07, Issue 06, eff. January 16, 1991; Volume 07, Issue 24, eff. September 25, 1991; Volume 08, Issue 12, eff. April 10, 1992; Volume 10, Issue 07, eff. January 27, 1994; Volume 11, Issue 19, eff. July 12, 1995; Volume 15, Issue 03, eff. December 3, 1998; Volume 24, Issue 13, eff. April 2, 2008; Volume 32, Issue 04, eff. November 18, 2015.