Table 1 Selected indicators, their categories, and category assignment to the Donabedian Model’s components

1. Staff

1. Ratio of students to administrators’ staff.

2. Ratio of students to teaching staff.

3. Staff by qualification and gender.

4. Tenure track faculty headcount.

5. Indigenous staff participation rate.

6. The proportion of faculty members with more than two years of clinical experience.

7. The proportion of faculty members with expertise in clinical management.

8. The proportion of faculty members with executive experience outside of college.

9. The proportion of teaching staff participating in professional development activities.

10. Staff turnover.

2. Equipment, resources, and facilities

1. The average number of computers available for each student’s use.

2. The number of databases retina available to students and faculty members through the library.

3. The quality of the digital library.

4. The number of online full-text dissertations.

5. Books ratio to students.

6. The overall quality of the facilities/resources in the college.

7. The overall quality of the services in the college.

8. The number of active strategic partners, including schools trusts and hospitals.

9. Buildings, Grounds, Land, Academic and Administrative Space per full-time equivalent.

10. Total grants received.

11. Institutional scholarship total amount.

12. Total annual donor commitments.

13. The income ratio that comes from different resources.

14. Annual budget.

15. Funding.

Structure

3. Guidelines

1. The extent of awareness of the department teaching staff, the students, and the administrative staff of the existence of general regulations and policies concerning and affecting them.

2. Stakeholder evaluation of the Policy Handbook, including administrative flow chart and job responsibilities.

4. Education

1. Teaching effectiveness-student evaluation.

2. Teaching effectiveness-chairman evaluation.

3. Teaching effectiveness-peer evaluation.

4. Students’ overall rating on the quality of their courses.

5. Students’ evaluation of the value and quality of field activities.

6. The appropriateness of the teaching methods according to student evaluation, external reviewers, and the teaching staff for each of the learning domains.

7. The appropriateness of the qualifications and experience of the teaching staff for the courses they teach.

8. Quality of online teaching.

9. Online Student Credit Hour.

10. The volume of continuing professional development work delivered.

Process

5. Communication and collaboration

1. Level of student engagement.

2. Weekly Student Contact Hours.

3. The number of periodic and regular meetings between faculty members, staff, and managers.

4. Membership in international organizations.

5. International activities by faculty members per college.

6. The number of international research collaborations.

7. Number of faculty engaged in professional organizations.

8. The number of membership of boards and committees outside the University.

9. The number of knowledge transfer partnerships and other enterprise partnerships with external businesses.

10. The proportion of full-time teaching and other staff actively engaged in community service activities.

11. High impact practices participation.

6. Evaluation

1. Stakeholder evaluation of Overall: (a) Websites, (b) e-learning services, (c) Hardware and software, (d) Accessibility (e) Learning and Teaching, (f) Assessment and service, (g) Web-based electronic data management system or electronic resources.

2. The evaluation of the quality and usefulness of the courses by advisory bodies of the industrial and professional sectors and other distinctive community sectors.

3. Evaluating the effectiveness of governance and leadership.

4. Evaluating the general performance of administration.

5. Student evaluation of academic and career counseling.

Outcome

7. Survey and accreditation

1. Campus climate survey.

2. National student survey and internal survey ratings.

3. Outcome of alumni survey.

4. The outcome of staff survey.

5. Evidence of current accreditation by a national nursing accrediting body.

8. National and international recognition

1. Number of faculty/student awards granted.

2. School international ranking.

3. School national ranking.

4. Total webpage visits along with new visitors.

5. Top-of-Mind Awareness.

6. Web Analytics.

7. Earned Media.

9. Satisfaction

1. Student satisfaction rate.

2. Graduate satisfaction rate.

3. Staff satisfaction rate.

4. Patient satisfaction rate.

5. Patients’ family satisfaction rate.

6. Employer Satisfaction rate.

10. Sustainability and Financial Efficiency

1. Energy Use Index.

2. Carbon neutrality.

3. The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Evidence.

4. Composite Financial Index.

5. Student Loan Repayment Rate.

6. Annual cost per student.

7. Total teaching & learning expenditure.

8. Total operating expenditure.

9. The student’s services financial stake according to the total operational expenses.

10. Total expense of the university on the research.

11. Faculty Instructional Full Time Equivalent paid in program.

11. Students

1. Enrollment rate.

2. Student entry tariffs score.

3. The students’ cumulative grade point average (CGPA).

4. Health Education Systems Incorporated (HESI) exit examination.

5. National Educational Examinations passing rates.

6. Average number of semesters a student spends under probation.

7. College-level course success rate.

8. Total number of online degrees conferred.

9. Total bachelor’s degrees conferred.

10. Transfer-in rate.

11. Transfer-out rate.

12. Retention rate.

13. Graduation rates.

14. On-Time graduation rate.

15. Assessment of Student Learning: student exit survey.

16. Assessment of Student Learning: alumni and employers’ surveys.

12. Alumni

1. Level of Interest in the field

2. Graduates assessment results (Cognitive, Function, Attitude, Problem Solving, communication, decision making, management, planning, familiarity with legal issues, social responsibility, altruism, self-confidence, professionalization, professional dignity, and ethics).

3. Proportion of graduates from undergraduate program who enrolled in further study.

4. Passing Rates for Licensure Exams (like NCLEX-RN).

5. Employment rate.

6. Percentage of immigration and finding related jobs abroad.

7. Quality of provided care by alumni.

8. Nurse-sensitive indicators.

13. Knowledge related to the field

1. The number of publications in the form of books, book chapters, and technical reports.

2. The number of scientific papers presented in the conferences on the national or international level.

3. The number of research and innovations registered as intellectual property and patents.

4. The number of scientific researches published in the scientific refereed journals.

5. The number of citations in scientific refereed journals of all teaching staff members’ research

6. The number of nursing models developed.