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CENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSESSMENT REPORT

Due to SAAC by October 15

PART 1: CONTACT & PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION

Report Year and Contact Information:

2015 - 2016

Evelyn J. Selva, RVT

Ehamilton9@cnm.edu

224-4000 X 50152

Academic Year

Contact Person

Email

Phone Number

Subject of this Assessment Report:

Program: Veterinary Technology

Gen Ed Area:

Discipline Area:

Certificate

AA

AS X AAS

Applicable to: AA/AS

AAS

PART 2: EVIDENCE OF OVERALL PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS

Summary of Program Successes:

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Seventeen CNM Veterinary Technology graduates sat for the Veterinary Technician National Exam.

The average pass rate for the CNM first time exam candidates was 84%.

This well exceeds the national average which was 69%, and meets the achievement target.

Description and Evaluation of Recent Changes Made in Support of Student Learning:

The Veterinary Receptionist Certificate was developed and put into place in Fall 2015 as a “pipeline” for students to apply to the Veterinary Technology Program.

PART 3: REPORT ON RECENT ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING

Student Learning Outcome(s) Assessed:

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Surgical Nursing:

A. Patient management Skill: Understand and integrate all aspects of patient management for common surgical procedures in a variety of animal species.

B. Procedural management Skill: Understand and provide the proper instruments, supplies, and environment to maintain asepsis during surgical procedures.

VT 1272 / Graduating class May 2016

Laboratory Procedures:

A. Specimen management Skill: Properly package, handle and store specimens for laboratory analysis.

VT 2010 and VT 2610 / Graduating class May 2016

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B. Specimen analysis Skill: Properly carry out analysis of laboratory specimens.

Imaging:

Skill: Safely and effectively produce diagnostic radiographic and non-radiographic images.

VT 1293 / Graduating class May 2016

Laboratory Animal Procedures:

Skill: safely and effectively handle common laboratory animals used in animal research.

VT 2884 / Graduating class May 2016

Avian, Exotics, Small Animals and Fish procedures:

Skill: Understand the approach to providing safe and effective care for birds, reptiles, amphibians, rabbits, and ferrets.

VT 2884 / Graduating class May 2016

Measurement Tool(s) Used:

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Enter X’s for type of tool Initial Achievement Target or Expectation:

Internal

External

Direct

Indirect

Veterinary Technician National Exam (VTNE)

X Students passing the VTNE with a score greater than that of the national

average.

Course performance as measured by quizzes, tests, practical exams (as applicable), or other instruments involved in producing the final course grade.

X

X

Successful passing of the course with a 71% or greater.

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Assessment Findings:

Seventeen students successfully completed the Program (71% or greater in all course work) and graduated in May 2016.

Fifteen of the May 2016 graduates have successfully passed the VTNE.

Analysis and Interpretation of Assessment Findings:

Data collected from the VTNE results included seventeen first time test takers; of which fifteen passed the VTNE, and two failed the exam.

As applied to the student learning outcomes surgical nursing, laboratory procedures, and imaging VTNE scale scores were analyzed. For seventeen first time CNM VTNE examinees, scale scores were reviewed for the CNM students as compared to the United States average, and the results were:

Surgical skills: CNM average scale score 507.47; United States average 441.90

Laboratory procedures: CNM average scale score 571.70; United States average 478.60

Imaging procedures: CNM average scale score 447.47; United States average 435.21

Interpreting the VTNE assessment findings indicates that the CNM students are consistently scoring higher than the average in the United States, and in some cases by nearly 100 points.

All students passed VT 2884 with passing grades of 71% or greater.

Action Plan in Support of Student Learning:

Continue to monitor final grades for courses and student retention / completion of the Program.

Continue to monitor the VTNE scale scores for the CNM students for the various student learning outcomes, especially as compared to national scale scores.

Recommendations, Proposals, and/or Funding Requests:

The expansion of the veterinary technology learning centers (rooms at the South Valley Campus) have aided in the quality of education being presented. Current funding, regular budget and Perkins, meets daily supply needs. The Association of Veterinary Technician Educators (AVTE) conference will be held in Albuquerque in August 2017, and funding to allow all full time faculty and as many as possible part time faculty as possible to attend will be requested.

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PART 4: EMBEDDED OUTCOMES

Critical Thinking and Life Skills/Teamwork Development within Programs:

a) Please describe how Critical Thinking assessment is embedded within your program assessment.

b) Please describe how Life Skills/Teamwork assessment is embedded within your program assessment.

a)

In VT 2892 (dentistry laboratory) a critical thinking rubric is completed by faculty members as a student assessment. In all three Clinical courses, critical thinking is evaluated by the Clinical Coordinator and by preceptors, especially as applied to the profession of veterinary technology.

b)

In VT 2692 (anesthesia laboratory) a teamwork rubric is completed by faculty members as a student assessment. In all three Clinical courses, life skills are evaluated by the Clinical Coordinator and by preceptors, especially applying skills to the profession of veterinary technology.

PART 5: ASSESSMENT CYCLE PLAN (Copy and paste from original plan if unchanged)

Cycle Years: Plan Description:

2016 - 2021

Student Learning Outcomes: When Measured: Where Measured: How Measured:

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1. Office and hospital procedures, client relations, and

communication :

A. Management Skill: Participate in facility

management utilizing traditional and electronic media

and appropriate veterinary medical terminology and

abbreviations.

B. Communication Skill: Communicate in a professional

manner in all formats -written, oral, non-verbal, and

electronic.

c. Laws and ethics Skill: Follow and uphold applicable

laws and the veterinary technology profession's ethical

code to provide high quality care to patients.

2016 - 2019 VT 1292: Veterinary Office

Skills Lab

VT 2890: Clinical

Final course grade

2. Pharmacy and pharmacology:

Skill: Safely and effectively administer prescribed drugs

to patients

2016 - 2019 VT 2803: Pharmacology VTNE score

3. Nursing:

A. Patient assessment Skill: Demonstrate and perform

patient assessment techniques in a variety of animal

species.

B. Patient care Skill: Understand and demonstrate

husbandry, nutrition, therapeutic and dentistry

techniques

2016 - 2019 VT 2674: Applied

Therapeutics and Care I

VT 2892: Dentistry

VTNE score

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4. Anesthesia:

A. Patient management Skill: Safely and effectively

manage patients in all phases of anesthetic procedures.

B. Equipment and facility management Skill: Safely and

effectively select, utilize and maintain anesthetic delivery

and monitor instruments and equipment.

2016 - 2019 VT 2892: Dentistry

VT 2651: Anesthesiology Lec

VT 2692: Anesthesiology Lab

VTNE score

5. Surgical Nursing:

Patient management Skill: Understand and integrate all

aspects of patient management for common surgical

procedures in a variety of animal species.

Procedural management Skill: Understand and provide

the proper instruments, supplies, and environment to

maintain asepsis during surgical procedures.

2019 - 2021 VT 1272: Surgical Technology VTNE score

6. Laboratory Procedures:

Specimen management Skill: Properly package, handle

and store specimens for laboratory analysis.

Specimen analysis Skill: Properly carry out analysis of

laboratory specimens.

2019 - 2021 VT 2010: Clin Path I

VT 2610: Clin Path II

VTNE Score

7. Imaging:

Skill: Safely and effectively produce diagnostic

radiographic and non-radiographic images.

2019 - 2021 VT 1293: Radiology VTNE Score

8. Laboratory Animal Procedures:

Skill: safely and effectively handle common laboratory

animals used in animal research.

2019 - 2021 VT 2884: Applied

Therapeutics and Care II

Final Score

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9. Avian, Exotics, Small Animals and Fish procedures:

Skill: Understand the approach to providing safe and

effective care for birds, reptiles, amphibians, rabbits,

and ferrets.

2019 - 2021 VT 2884: Applied

Therapeutics and Care II

Final Score

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