Monday, January 4

Trends in Nursing Education: A Competency Focus
Sharon J. Tanner, EdD, RN

Focuses on the impact of emerging education and practice trends on nursing programs and faculty members. Examines the emergence of promising responses to the numerous challenges that nursing programs currently face. Discusses how recently-published competencies are intended to guide future nursing curricula and address the emerging trends and patterns in healthcare environments.

Integrating Technology into Nurse Education Practice
Diane J. Skiba, PhD, FAAN, FACMI

The educator’s portfolio must now include a repertoire of technology tools to teach students, communicate with students and colleagues, to conduct research and publish their scholarship. This presentation will highlight these tools and how faculty can take steps to incorporate them into their nursing education practice.

Refreshment Break • Exhibits • Posters

Educational Redesign: Practice Education Partnerships
Judith Karshmer, PhD, APRN, BC

Discusses rethinking the boundaries between education and practice in order to advance nursing education. Presents a tool kit to implement strategies that work.

Realigning Health Care Education Systems for Coordinated Patient Centered Care: Movement Towards Interdisciplinary Competencies
Alyce A. Schultz, PhD, RN, FAAN

As the complexities of care management and the number of the providers involved with each patient’s care have escalated, the patient and family often feel lost in a sea of unfamiliar faces speaking a language they don’t understand. Interdisciplinary teamwork, initiated in our educational systems, are the core of improved patient outcomes and professional healthcare.

Questions and Discussion
Faculty Panel

Lunch Break

From Stress to Zest: Assess & Address Interactions with Colleagues that Steal Your Joy
Kathleen Heinrich, PhD, RN

What if, instead of fighting or fleeing when under stress, educators mended the disconnects in their relationships with faculty and administrative colleagues? During this interactive session, you will learn how to slow down the action in your professional life to assess and address interactions that steal your joy.

Defining and Evaluating Competency-Based Nurse Education: The Texas Model
Susan Sportsman, PhD, RN

The development of the Texas Board of Nursing Competencies for Transition into Practice (BON G-TIPS), including historical and theoretical foundations, as well as the development process will be discussed.

Inject New Life Into Teaching
Michelle Deck, MEd, BSN, RN, LCCE, FACCE

Seeking new and creative ideas to breathe life into some tired programs? Do your participants sometimes need resuscitation after a particularly long program? Is that program “sick” enough to need some “intensive care”? If so, experience some first aid ideas to rejuvenate even the most ailing programs. Session includes ideas to review critical content points, strategies to begin a training program, ways to resuscitate boring content; and how to use a new idea in your next program.

WELCOME WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION
Exhibit Hall Poster Presentations

On Monday, January 4, following the close of the first Main Conference Day, you are invited to a Welcome Reception in the exhibit hall. Light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will make this 2010 social event a pleasant way to meet your colleagues and our nationallyknown faculty. Take this opportunity to review the posters and meet the authors as well as the exhibitors.

Joy-Stealing Be Gone: Partnership Practices That Double Your Productivity and Pleasure
Kathleen Heinrich, PhD, RN

If you have ever leapt into a collaboration with your hopes flying as high as your assumptions and come away disappointed, this workshop is for you. During this interactive session, you will learn four partnership practices proven effective in keeping collaborations zestful from start to finish.

Innovations in Simulation: Adding Outcomes Measurements to Scenarios

• Adding Outcomes Measurements to Scenarios
Susan A. Walsh, MN, RN, CCRN
Describes challenges and barriers to applying outcome measures when using simulation; Discusses design and implementation of outcome measurements for simulation scenarios; Applies principles of outcome measurement to simulation scenarios.

• A Simulation Strategy for Novice Registered Nurses
Terri W. Summers, MSN, RN
Examines how human patient simulation can contribute to the knowledge, critical thinking and confidence of new graduate registered nurses in the acute care setting. Discusses concepts related to new graduate nurses transition into professional nursing practice. Describes how a human patient simulation strategy can be incorporated into a nursing orientation program.

Teaching Informatics Competencies: Tips for Incorporating into Your Nursing Curriculum
Diane J. Skiba, PhD, FAAN, FACMI

The need for all nurses to have the necessary knowledge and skills to practice in a technology-rich environment is now a reality. Learn how to incorporate informatics competencies throughout your nursing curriculum. The presentation will provide strategies for the incorporation as well as examples about how schools are teaching their students how to use the electronic health record.

Nurse Ed Policies: Love Em or Leave Em
Ann B. Schlumberger, EdD, RN

Discusses current trends in nursing education student policies; Explores strategies to assess sample policies for pertinence, clarity, and consistency; Examines a systematic method of policy documentation, assessment and analysis.

SOS (Success on State Boards) Program
Martha Spies, PhD, RN, CNE

Describes the evolution of a program to guide students as they prepare for the NCLEX-RN. Discusses the resources and processes involved in the program. Provides methods for measuring risk for not being successful on the first attempt on the NCLEX-RN and strategies for using tracking data to inform curriculum revision.

Evidence-Based Practice in the Clinical Setting: Promoting the Spirit of Inquiry in the Clinical Setting
Alyce A. Schultz, PhD, RN, FAAN

Almost 30 years ago, Dr. Janelle Krueger argued that direct care nurses are the link between research and practice. But how do we provide that link for students and promote excitement in a busy clinical setting? Come learn about and participate in strategies that can successfully help you promote clinical scholarship and generate clinical questions that create excitement and commitment in clinical practice.

Implementing a Pre-Nursing Admission Matrix to Predict Nursing Student Success
Martha Spies, PhD, RN, CNE

With the implementation of a newly revised curriculum in 2006, an Admission Matrix was developed to foster more consistent and accurate admission decisions. Describes the success of this matrix as well as the evolution in the components and use of the matrix.

The Impact of Hi Fi Patient Simulation on Clinical Competence
Susan Sportsman, PhD, RN

Evaluation results of the impact of scenario-based high fidelity patient simulation as a component of the clinical experience of an associate degree and baccalaureate nursing program will be shared.

Creating a Climate of Civility: Issues of Concern in Faculty Practice
Susan Luparell, PhD, ACNS-BC, CNE

Have you been unpleasantly surprised and emotionally drained by the nature of your interactions with some of your student? Explores the extent and impact of incivility in nursing education; Addresses incivility more assertively based on a solid base of rationale. Examines critical discourse that may prove beneficial in fostering a more civil educational environment overall.

Developing Alternate Format Test Items as a Platform for Effective Critical Thinking Exams
Mary J. Yoho, PhD, RN, CNE

Designed to help you improve the quality of alternate-format items which reflect various cognitive levels; construct exams which promote critical thinking concepts throughout the curriculum; evaluate and edit test items in terms of their ability to test critical thinking.

Evidence that Guides Nursing Care: What Nursing Evidence Faculty Should Teach NOW!
Betty J. Ackley, EdS, MSN, RN

An examination of new relevant nursing evidence that directs nursing care. The power of nursing care will be presented to improve patient outcomes. Examples will be given of evidence that should be shared with nursing students in many nursing courses.

Inquiry-Based Learning: Teaching for Life-Long and Life-Wide Learning
Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN

Are you lecturing more but enjoying it less? Are your students achieving the learning outcomes you expect? Envision converting one lecture into an inquiry based learning format. Turn Bloom’s taxonomy upside-down and produce a life-long learner using inquiry based learning. This methodology is not for the faint of heart but it will invigorate you and your students. Move your students from content to concept mastery and build their ability to think like a nurse for lifelong, life-wide learning.

Incivility Issues: Strategies to Create a Climate of Civility
Susan Luparell, PhD, ACNS-BC, CNE

Shares proactive strategies for preventing incivility and other inappropriate student behavior. Multiple reactive strategies including specific language, will be shared for dealing with uncivil behavior or other difficult student circumstances.

The Business of Simulation: Building the Case for a Return on Investment
K.T. Waxman DNP, MBA, RN, CNL

The current health care environment requires leaders to create program plans that build a case for maximum return on investment (ROI). Focuses on strategies and guidelines to support the building and sustaining a case for a simulation program.

Seventh Study on Predicting NCLEX Success with the Exit Exam
Pamela Willson, PhD, RN, FNP, BC
Anne Young, EdD, RN

A national random stratified sample was implemented to determine accuracy of the HESI Exit Exam (E2) in predicting students’ NCLEX success for the academic years of 2006–2007. The E2 predictive rates, schools benchmarks, remediation techniques and retesting outcomes will be discussed.

Interactive Learning Techniques and Tools: Integrating into the Curriculum
Tim J. Bristol, PhD, RN, CNE

Reviews educational innovations that will not only provide for more interaction in the classroom but also will assist the learners outside the classroom. As audio and video make learning content available outside of class, the classtime can become a dynamic time of collaborations and discovery. Learn the tips and tricks needed to easily implement audio and video as a supplement and expeditor of learning within your curriculum.

Developing Critical Thinking Multiple Choice Test Items
Mary J. Yoho, PhD, RN, CNE

Describes five (5) guidelines for developing effective critical thinking test items; Identifies the components of a three (3) step method for exam item analysis; Evaluates test items in terms of their ability to test critical thinking.

Methods to Infuse EBP into Nursing Education Programs and Courses
Betty J. Ackley, EdS, MSN, RN

Evidence-based Nursing has the inherent power to transform nursing from a job to a scientifically based profession. Participants will receive helpful information on how to teach EBN as part of their nursing courses, and integrate EBN into the curriculum of the nursing program. For Baccalaureate and Associate Degree nursing programs.

Writing for Publication: You CAN Do This!
Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN

The ability to write for publication is sought after in academia, health care management, and the practice arena. What does it take to produce that first article? What is the process for submitting, review, and publication of a manuscript? Discuss all of these ideas with a nursing journal editor and come away feeling inspired and believing that you CAN write for publication.

Integration of Adjunct Clinical Faculty into the Nursing Program: Giving Them Ownership and Maintaining Program Consistency
Barbara Winckler, MS, RN, FNP

Identifies three (3) strategies that can be used to transition clinical staff nurses into the role of clinical educator; examines three (3) strategies that can be implemented to give adjunct clinical adjunct faculty ownership of the curriculum and role of clinical nurse educator; Discusses ways to incorporate the NLN Nurse Educator Core Competencies into a plan of mentoring novice adjunct clinical faculty.