2. INTRODUCTION
Accreditation means an official approval of an
organization.
Accreditation means the act of granting approval
to an organization by an official review board
after the organization has met specific written
requirements or standards..
3. DEFINITION
– According to Selden
“Accrediting is the process whereby an organization
agency recognizes a college or university or a program
of study as having met certain predetermined
qualifications and standard”.
OR
4. Accreditation refers to a voluntary
review process of educational programs
by a professional organization.
6. PURPOSE
Administration requirements
Uniform standards of nursing education,
Institutional self-improvement by evaluation
and inspection.
Safeguard the institution from social,
educational and political pressure.
7. Purpose cont…
Prescribe syllabus
Grant recognition
Inspection
Improve the quality of nursing
education
8. Protect the autonomy of health service
programme
Preserves the quality of nursing education
Protects the public from ill-prepared nurses
Protects the institution from political pressure
helps the practioner for the ever expanding or
the broad scope of nursing practices
FUNCTIONS
11. CLASSIFICATION
Accrediting Agencies in Higher Education
National accrediting agency.
National professional accrediting
Agency
State accrediting bodies.
12. NATIONAL ACCREDITING
AGENCY
Concerned with appraising the total of institution
of higher learning and safeguarding the quality of
education
Each agency establishes criteria for the evaluation
of the institution and it publishes from time to
time a list of those agencies which it has
accredited
13. Indian Councils
Central advisory board of education
All India council for elementary education
All India council for secondary education
University grants commission
All India council for technical education
National assessment and accreditation
council.
14. National professional accrediting
Agency
Professional accrediting is supported by state
license laws.
In the field of health All national
professional accrediting agencies, have
existed:
Medical council of India
Indian nursing council
Dental council of India
Pharmacy council of India
15. STATE ACCREDITING
AGENCIES
State universities commissions and other agency
are authorized in some state to evaluate college, to
give initial approval to institutions to higher
learning to formulate standards, to issue licenses
and to have various other responsibilities.
16. PROCESS OF
ACCREDITATION:
Applying for the institution to be accredited.
Preparing a report by the institutional head
according to the criteria and format sent by the
accrediting agency.
Visit to the site by the inspector appoint by the
accrediting agency to verify the self study report.
17. Cont…..
Preparing a report by the visitors.
Report made by the visitors along with the
institutional report is sent to the review board of
council.
The board of review on the basis of all data and
reports makes the final decisions whether
accreditation should be granted or not.
18. Type of training given
Date of previous inspection
Recognition of the college by the government order
no. date and no. of seats sanctioned for the year.
Number of the students admitted for the year after
the cost date of inspection and regarding the detail
of staff qualification.
CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION:REPORT
OF THE INSPECTION OF THE COLLEGE
HELD ON:
20. PROCESS OF RECOGNITION OF
SCHOOL/COLLEGES
Trial basis:
Recognition given on the temporary basis
based on the application submitted plus pending
inspection and is done after the favorable report of
accreditation.
21. Permanent recognition:
After the inspection and evaluation that is
when the school /college meet college all the
criteria prescribed by the INC permanent
recognition is given.
22. SERVICE RENDERED BY
ACCREDITATION
Registration and admission of students.
Distribution of study material
Organization of personal contact program
Registering students for external examination
Distribution of mark sheets and certificates.
23. THE SCHOOL AND COLLEGES ARE
EXPECTED TO KEEP READY THE
FOLLOWING:
General information:
The name of the university is affiliated.
Date of establishment of program
Date recognition by state nursing council , INC or
university.
Number of students graduating per year.
24. CONT…..
Philosophy:
Aims and objectives of the institution and
departments
Organization and administration:
Organization chart of institution and college
Placement of principal
Line of authority
Teaching and non-teaching staff
26. CONT..
Administration and physical set up:
Office and room for principal
Staff, clinical staff, number of classroom,
nutrition lab etc.
Hostel, criteria, dining hall, reading hall, toilet
facility etc.
Number of books ,periodical
27. CONT…….
Finance:
Total budget sanctioned
Drawing offices- separate and combined
Committee:
Advisory committee, development committee,
student welfare committee
28. CON…
Staff teaching:
Monitoring technique
Construction and institution facilities:
Syllabus , prospectus, application forms, bond
paper etc.
Health facilities for students and staff:
Medical checkup
29. CONT…..
Clinical setup:
Community experience , family people co-curricular
activities.
Research of students , application forms and bond
paper signed,
Attendance registration , practical record ,level
records
Evaluation forms ,master plans ,examination
result and assignments.
Drug study, lesson plans, nursing care plans and
clinical presentation.
30. ROLE OF INDIAN NURSING COUNCIL,
STATE REGISTRATION NURSING
COUNCILS,BOARDS AND UNIVERSITY.
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION
COUNCIL:
National assessment and accreditation council (NAAC)
was established by the university grants commission
( UGC) on16th
sept.1994 for ensuring quality in higher
education ,in pursuance of the national policy on
education and the program of action in 1986.
It is located at Bangalore.
NAAC is entrusted with the task of performance
evaluation, assessment and accreditation of universities
and colleges in India.
31. VISION:
To make quality the defining element of
higher education in India through a combination
of self quality and external quality evaluation and
sustenance initiatives.
32. MISSION:
To arrange for periodic assessment and
accreditation of institutions of higher education or
units therefore or specific academic programme or
projects.
To stimulate the academic environment for
promotion of quality of teaching –learning and
research in higher education institutions.
To Assessment a performance and evaluation of
institutions
33. STEPS IN ASSESSMENT
Steps1:
Preparation of the self study report by the institution,
its submission to NAAC
Step2:
Peer team visit to the institution for validation of the
self –study report followed presentation of a
comprehensive assessment report to the institution.
Step3:
Grading, certification and accreditation based on the
evaluation report by the peer team
34. GRADING:
The assessment is on a four point scale
A-Excellent or very good
B-Good
C-Satisfactory
NA- not accredited.
If the overall score is more than 55% the institutions gets
the “accredited status “and any score less than that will
lead to “not accredited” status.
The NAAC accreditation is valid for five years.
36. AIMS OF INC:
To establish the uniform standard of training
throughout the state
prohibit practice of nursing by non-qualified
nurses.
37. Functions of INC
Prescribing and revising syllabus for
various courses of nursing.
Inspection, monitoring and regulating
nursing educational institutions
Registration.
Recognition of qualification in nursing.
Collection of data from training and
educational institutions of nursing.
38. Functions cont…
Authority to control nursing education.
Withdrawal of recognition from
defaulting institutions and examining
bodies.
Prescribing the standards of
examination
Evaluating the syllabus implemented by
the school and college of Nursing.
40. 1st
Inspection
This is the first step towards INC recognition.
The school that seek recognition are
required to submit:
Permission letter for state government
Permission letter for state nursing councils
A copy of the inspection report of the state nursing
council
41. Re-inspection
These are done for institutions which are found
unsuitable on first or subsequent inspection by
INC.
Once the institution takes necessary steps to
remove the deficiencies and inform the INC re-
inspection is done within one year or earlier.
42. Periodic Inspection
Once an institution is give recognition by INC the
institute required to send an annual inspection fee
regularly.
The INC inspects the institute generally after 3
year.
43. CONCLUSION:
Accreditation refers to a voluntary review process
of educational programs by a professional
organization. At the end of seminar student will
be able to understand the knowledge about
accreditation and use it in hospital and college
settings.
44. SUMMERY:
Today we have learned about accreditation
definition objectives of accreditation, purposes,
advantages, disadvantages, functions, types nature and
criteria for selection for affiliation institute and role of
Indian council in accreditation .I hope u all understood
my presentation and use this knowledge in hospital
settings .
