Board of Regents: Accreditation Report for the Nurse Anesthesia Program, University of Iowa, January 31, 2000

Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs (COA) granted continuing accreditation to the University of Iowa's Nurse Anesthesia Program. In subsequent correspondence (October 22, 1999), the COA has indicated that all documentation relative to previously raised concerns was complete. The two-year re-accreditation period began October 10, 1998; it is in effect until October 2000. Another visit is to be conducted in the Spring of 2000. In the report to be prepared for that visit, several ongoing concerns are to be addressed. Accreditation is one method of measuring quality of academic programs. Such a practice is consistent with KRA 1.0.0.0, Quality, of the Board of Regents' strategic plan. More specifically, it relates to Objective 1.1.0.0, "to improve the quality of existing and newly created educational programs.