The directory is a set of entities and the relations between them. Eight kinds of node, seven kinds of edge, and on every edge the publisher who said it. Nothing here is inferred from a resemblance: an edge exists because a board, an accreditor, a federal survey or the school itself put it in writing.
The school is the unit. An authority points at it, the school points at what it produces, and each arrow carries the number of times this build can draw it.
The nodes
Node
Count
What it is
Who publishes it
School
2,678
One provider at one site holding at least one program whose graduates may register as a nurse.
U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS
Program
8,454
One award a school confers, in one CIP code at one level.
IPEDS Completions
Credential
211
The award itself: a CIP code at a level, shared by every school that confers it.
IPEDS Completions
Board of nursing
58
The body that may approve a program in a state or territory.
Each board
Accreditor
4
A national body that accredits nursing programs.
ACEN, CCNE, CNEA, COA
Person
5,807
Someone a school names on its own nursing faculty page, with the role it printed.
The school
Hospital
7
A Medicare-certified hospital a school names as a place it puts students.
CMS, and the school
Place
1,742
The city and state a school is in.
IPEDS directory
The edges
An edge is a claim with an author. A self-published edge is the school's own word and is never counted as an authority's.
Edge
From and to
Lane
Count
What it proves
funds
Funder → School
Federal award
2,650
The agency awarded this school money under a listing whose own title names nursing.
subawards to
Prime recipient → School
Federal subaward
1,562
The prime recipient reports paying this school out of its own award under a nursing listing.
approves
Board of nursing → School
Regulator approval
3,042
The board lists the program as approved, in the words the board printed.
accredits
Accreditor → School
Accreditation
3,684
The accreditor lists the program as accredited, with its next review.
examines
School → Exam cohort
Exam census
2,923
A board reported candidates from this program in a year, and how many passed.
confers
School → Credential
Completions
8,454
The federal survey counted awards conferred in the year.
teaches at
Person → School
Self-published
5,807
The school names this person on its nursing faculty page.
places students at
School → Hospital
Self-published
8
The school says it places students there, and the hospital is the one Medicare certifies.
located in
School → Place
Completions
2,678
The federal directory gives the school this address.
Seven federal assistance listings carry nursing in their own title. Every award on the federal record for October 2015 onward is here, which includes awards that began earlier and still run, and an award reaches a school on the same rule the rest of the build uses: a name unique in the state, with the city deciding between campuses. An award whose recipient is a hospital, a state agency or a system office is counted and is not drawn at a school.
$6.14bnawarded under a nursing listing, FY2016 onward
$4.12bnof it reaching a school on this directory
492schools carrying at least one award
3,577awards, plus 4,349 subawards a prime recipient reports paying on; 3,714 of all of them reach no school here
Assistance listing
93.178 Nursing Workforce Diversity
93.247 Advanced Nursing Education
93.264 Nurse Faculty Loan Program
93.359 Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention
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