<div dir="ltr">Four-year public schools with nursing programs:<div><br></div><div>We are interested in knowing how your institution applies ODHE's credit hour definition to clinical and practicum courses in your nursing programs? And, are those definitions consistent for all clinical and practicum courses across academic programs institution wide?</div><div><br></div><div>ODHE Credit Hour Definition:</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">"A minimum of 750 minutes for a semester credit hour or 500 minutes for a quarter credit hour of formalized instruction that typically requires students to work at out-of-class assignments an average of twice the amount of time as the amount of formalized instruction. Credit hours may be calculated differently for other types of instruction (e.g., laboratory experience, directed practice experience, practicum experience, cooperative work experience, field experience, observation experience, seminar, and studio experi­ence) as long as the credit hour calculations align with commonly accepted practices in higher education and with the regulations of regional accreditors and the federal financial aid program."</span>  </i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Thank you,</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Juan
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