July 1, 2008

Nursing Continuing Education (NCE) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing offers well-planned, innovative program opportunities for life-long learning to meet the needs for the nursing community in the area of continuing professional education.

We invite you to provide any comments or suggestions. Please send these comments to Sherece McGoon at mcgoon@uthscsa.edu. 

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Continuing Nursing education programs are based on the belief that learning is a life long, self-directed process encompassing the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains. The department serves as a catalyst for providing exciting, accessible, professional, state of the art, quality continuing education programs for enhancing the professional growth and development of local, regional, national and international nurses.

To support the educational needs the department staff promotes education collaboration and operations with other local, regional and national organizations. We host regional, national, and international nursing conferences whenever possible.

The University of Texas Health Science Center is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. The activities meet Type I criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements toward re-licensure as established by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas.

We will update and maintain the NCE web site, so that program information will be readily available to you. If you have any questions, would like additional information about these changes or have recommendations, please feel free to contact us.

We look forward to continued excellence in providing opportunities for lifelong learning for nurses and for identifying and adapting new and innovative ways of delivering NCE.

Sincerely,

The UTHSCSA School of Nursing is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the Texas Nurses Association, which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

ANCC Accreditation Feedback Line

1-866-262-9730

The Accreditation Program of the American Nurses Credentialing Center is interested in the opinions and perspectives of the participants in accredited continuing nursing education activities, particularly those perspectives related to the presence of perceived bias* in the continuing education. For this reason, we are now providing a toll free telephone number.

Participants may access this number at any time to:

• tell us of any noted bias or conflict of interest in the education
• tell us of any concerns, compliments, or opinions
• tell us of a great experience
• tell us of an unpleasant experience
• tell us your thoughts on the process

 

Just call and tell us!

1-866-262-9730

*Bias is defined as: preferential influence that causes a distortion of opinion or of facts. Commercial bias may occur when an educational activity promotes one or more product(s) (drugs, devices, services, software, hardware etc.) This definition is not all inclusive and participants may use their own interpretation in deciding if a presentation is biased.

NOTE: Statements of commercial support and /or conflict of interest disclosures do not represent bias. Such statements inform the learner that the provider has implemented a mechanism to identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to delivery of the educational material.

 

A tax deduction for registration fees, travel, meals, and lodging may be permitted as educational expense if undertaken to maintain and improve professional skills.