CEI Nursing Faculty Work Load Policy
Full Load is 11-12 load hours. Each load hour equates to about 3 hours per week of work
- Lead Faculty for Clinical oversight 0.25 load hour
- Work with clinical coordinator and simulation coordinator to complete clinical schedule for group
- Update paperwork with the team
- Work with clinical coordinator to make sure clinical paperwork for course is turned in and sent to facility
- Oversee adjunct assigned to course
- Communicate with clinical coordinator to ensure compliance with hospital clinical site, faculty, and adjunct faculty
- Work with clinical coordinator and lab coordinator to arrange orientation/skills day for course with lab coordinator
- Lead Faculty for a course 0.25 load hours
- Lead faculty will work with other faculty in different sections of the course
- Lead faculty may be assigned to oversee an instructor who does not currently have their MSN.
- Lab & Simulation is 0.75 Load hours per hour in lab/simulation if course lead
- Clinical is 0.5 load hours per hour in clinical
- Lab & Simulation 0.5 load hours per hour in the lab if helping (not course lead)
- 1 load hour per credit taught
- Additional 0.5 load hours for classes with 25 or more students
- Additional 0.75 load hours for classes with 35 or more students
- Additional 1 load hour for classes with 45 or more students
- Faculty Mentor 1 load hour first semester and 0.5 load hour second semester
- 0.5 load hour for each credit if teaching a new course (first semester)
- 0.25 load hour for each credit when updating course with new edition of book or new book (1 semester)
- 0.25-0.5 load hour for each credit of the course if creating an online course
- Faculty may be assigned workload to tutor students
- Faculty may not tutor students for their individual courses
- Faculty may be assigned workload for advising student leadership opportunities/clubs
- Pre-student advising 1.5 load hours
- Simulation Coordinator 4 load hours
- Skills Lab Coordinator 4 load hours
- Assistant Clinical Coordinator 4 load hours
- ATI/Bookstore coordinator 0.5 load hour
- 1 load hour for Accreditation committee chair.
Changes to the workload policy must be approved by the Dean of Health and Human Services.
Grade Requirements:
There are Three Different Requirements which the student must achieve in order to pass nursing courses:
1. First – an overall percentage of 77% or above is required in each of the nursing courses.
2. Second – students must earn a 77% average on the test component of each nursing course.
3. **Third – students must pass the clinical/skills component of each course, regardless of grade in the theory component. Some courses are Pass or Fail, others require a 77% or higher average. A failure of the clinical component will result in a failure in the course.
Grade expectations for letter grades assigned:
An “A” student demonstrates the following:
- Attends all clinical assignments
- Attendance at all classes
- Always prepared for class including reading assignments/adaptive quizzing
- Demonstrates interest by asking questions
- Finds out what they do not understand
- Possesses determination and self-discipline
- Demonstrates intelligence, insight, and creativity
- Utilizes critical thinking in processing nursing problems
- Consistently functions with little or no guidance, except in very complex situations
- Demonstrates outstanding performance of nursing care
- Is consistently self-directed in their approach to learning
- Achieves high test scores
- Always displays professionalism
A “B” student demonstrates the following:
- Rarely absent from class or clinical
- Prepared for class including having assignments done
- Willingness to participate and demonstrate interest
- Positive attitude and generally completes assignments on time.
- Generally functions satisfactorily with minimum guidance in the usual clinical situation
- Demonstrates above average performance of nursing care
- Usually displays professionalism
A “C” student demonstrates the following:
- Meets minimum requirements for the nursing program
- Functions safely with a moderate amount of guidance in the usual clinical situation.
- Demonstrates average performance of nursing care
Nursing Department Grading Scale
Grade Points Percentage
A 100-93%
A- 92-90%
B+ 89-87%
B 86-83%
B- 82-80%
C+ 79-77%
C 76-73%
C- 72-70%
D+ 69-67%
D 63-66%
D- 62-60%
F 59-0%
A grade below 77% is not a passing grade in any nursing course. There is no rounding up of grades.
Section II: Student Standards and Procedures
See Nursing Student Handbook. All faculty are required to be aware of and hold students to those standards.