An innovation in design of a school of nursing evaluation protocol.

Program evaluations in schools of nursing (SONs) serve the purpose of clearly demonstrating how the SON meets the quality standards established by governance, regulatory, and accreditation bodies. The authors describe the step-by-step process taken by a SON to develop a new model of an evaluation protocol that includes linkages to external criteria for evaluation of the plan itself. This analysis and feedback step is often neglected but is essential to the quality improvement process.