The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) has reaffirmed Belmont University’s social work program accreditation for the next eight years. The action came at the February meeting of the Council’s Commission on Accreditation, and recognizes the university’s social work department with its highest endorsement. “This is great news for our students,” said Dr. Lorraina Scholten, Chair of Belmont’s Social Work Department, “not only to know that their education meets the highest standards of our profession, but also to benefit from the advanced standing they will enjoy in graduate programs around the country.”
Belmont University offers a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree and the program has been accredited since 1999. The Council on Social Work Education represents more than 3,000 individual members, as well as graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in this country. CSWE administers a multi-step accreditation process that involves program self-studies, site visits, and commission reviews. There are currently 471 fully-accredited baccalaureate social work programs in the United States.
The Social Work Department is part of the Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing at Belmont University. This alignment affords social work majors the opportunity to interface with allied health pre-professionals in nursing, occupational and physical therapy, and pharmacy, enhancing their preparation for a wide array of career options. Social work students at Belmont also benefit from individual attention from faculty members who are experienced practitioners, excellent field placement options, and unique course offerings. The Social Work Department is housed in the Gordon E. Inman Center on the campus’ northeast corner.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Belmont University School of Physical Therapy helps the Nashville Predators improve their shot
Belmont University’s School of Physical Therapy has been consulting with the Nashville Predators hockey team this season to help players perfect their slap shots. The work of PT faculty members Dr. Kevin Robinson and Dr. Pat Sells, using the school’s Motion Analysis Lab, was featured during an in-game report on Fox Sports South when the Preds hosted the Detroit Red Wings on February 5. The video can be viewed below.
Belmont’s consultation with the Predators is ongoing and will continue with additional research later this year in the Motion Analysis Lab. In November, Dr. Robinson’s work with the Predators Shea Weber was featured in a story in Canada’s National Post. The story is available online at National Post’s website, and is reprinted below.
College of Health Sciences selected for Health Information Technology Scholars Program
The Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing at Belmont University has been selected to be part of the 2011 Health Information Technology Scholars Program (HITS), which is supported by a five-year $1.5 million grant provided by The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr) in partnership with the Office of Health Information Technology (OHIT). This is the fourth year of the grant and Belmont is one of 29 universities to join the program in 2011.
Dr. Beth Hallmark from the School of Nursing and Dr. Kelley Kiningham from the School of Pharmacy submitted the project proposal to integrate electronic health records in medical simulation via inter-professional collaboration. Both will attend a planning conference in March and complete the project during the next year.
The HITS program is designed to merge informatics, tele-health, simulation and e-learning to create powerful learning environments, to integrate IT in curricula to educate future practitioners, to expand infrastructure for clinical learning processes, and to optimize patient safety and drive improvements in healthcare quality.
Hachtel Selected for AOTF/Patterson Foundation Award
Dr Yvette Hachtel, professor of occupational therapy, has been selected as a recipient of an AOTF/Patterson Foundation award for Community Volunteerism. This award, a joint project of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation and the Patterson Foundation of St. Paul, Minnesota, is being given for the first time this year and recognizes outstanding community volunteerism that meets the needs of disadvantaged individuals who would otherwise not be able to benefit from occupational therapy services. This award was given for the work on the Odyssey program of the Campus for Human Development in Nashville and was viewed by the selection committee as one of the applications best reflecting the overall purpose of the award. Her accomplishment will be recognized during the Award Ceremony at the Annual AOTA Conference and Exposition to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 16, 2011. In addition to this award, Dr Hachtel will receive a check for $1,000.