5th Annual Best Practices in Nursing Education Conference

Agenda
8:15– 8:45 Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:45– 9:00 Welcome
Marge DiCuccio, CNO, UPMC Mercy
9:00–10:00 Keynote address
“Innovation in Nursing Education”
Dr. Teresa Shellenbarger
10:00–10:15 Break
10:15–11:15 Concurrent Session 1
11:15–11:45 Session 2 Poster Presentations
11:45–12:30 Lunch and PLN Award Ceremony
12:30–1:30 Concurrent Session 3
1:30–2:00 Dessert Break
2:00–3:00 “Concept-Based Curriculums—
the Future of Nursing Education”
Dr. Linda Kmetz, Executive Director
UPMC Schools of Nursing
3:00–3:15 Evaluation/award CE Certificates
4.5 CEs will be awarded, pending approval for attending
the entire conference, through PSNA
Return registration form with payment by
March 11, 2013
CONCURRENT SESSION 1
1-A Remediation 101: Strategies for Nurse Educators
A downward trend in the National Council Licensure for
Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) pass rates and unsuccessful
student completion of associate degree (AD) nursing
education programs has increased remedial measures in
nursing education over the past decade. Lack of empirical
research on remediation in AD nursing education indicates
that students receive varied remediation approaches and
methods. This presentation identifies implementation
strategies for nurse educators.
1-B Student Driven Simulation: Increasing Nursing
Skills and Confidence Teaching nursing students to
develop critical thinking habits that promote patient safety
and positive patient outcomes is a challenging endeavor.
The challenge for nurse faculty is to design and develop
educational scenarios that not only simulate real patient
centered experiences, but also promote skill proficiency
in a cost effective and creative manner. Student nurses
can also be active participants in creating and generating
realistic and safe learning environments.
1-C Non-traditional Clinical Sites as Viable Alternatives
for Student Learning The problem of access to
traditional clinical sites for nursing education exists in all
educational settings. Nursing faculty have utilized alternatives
to traditional inpatient acute care hospital experiences,
including a county correctional facility, a bilingual
pediatric clinic and a healthcare program for the
homeless. Faculty have discovered that these experiences
have the potential to accelerate students’ professional role
development while supporting the changing contemporary
demographics of nursing practice.
SESSION 2 – Poster Presentations
Pre-Licensure Students’ Perceived Importance of
Concepts in Nursing Practice In response to errors occurring
in healthcare, the Institute of Medicine identified
five core competencies healthcare professionals should
possess in order to provide safe, quality care. In 2005,
the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
project was implemented to meet the challenge of preparing
future nurses for practice. Faculty developed this project
to assess changes in students’ perceptions related to
key concepts in nursing practice.
OR Traffic: Implementing Change through Education
Surgical site infection (SSI) is a hospital National Patient
Safety Goal. SSI is the second most common hospital
acquired infection. The Association of periOperative
Registered Nurses (AORN) recommends limiting traffic
in the operating room suite and entering the operating
room from an anteroom or middle room entrance. A two
phase study to determine the number of door swings per
case was planned with 30 surgeries observed for traffic.
Face Time – Up Close and Personal: Improving Communication
and Collaboration through the Use of
Panel Discussions in Educational Courses Effective
communication is vital throughout every level and type of
health care provider to insure positive outcomes and patient
satisfaction. Additionally, effective communication
fosters improved collaboration with peers and those from
other disciplines. At UPMC Mercy, the Nursing Education
Department has been restructuring its educational
courses to focus on communication and collaboration
among health care providers.
Student Perceptions Regarding Utilization of a High
Fidelity Mannequin vs. Standardized Patient in a
Simulation Scenario The use of technology has greatly
impacted how learning occurs in schools of nursing.
Faculty at a local school of nursing explored the
students’ perceptions in relation to high fidelity simulation
by collecting data on students’ preferences utilizing
a high fidelity mannequin or the standardized patient in
a simulation scenario for learning activities.
CONCURRENT SESSION 3
3-A Purposeful PeriOperative Education to Support
the Culture of Safety in a Nursing Curriculum
Improving patient safety has become a global ambition
for healthcare delivery systems. A particular concern is
the provision of safe care during surgical procedures.
A test of change project and pilot study was designed to
help students benefit from experiences in the
periOperative setting by facilitating the internalization
of QSEN competencies related to the themes of safety
and teamwork in the practice setting.
3-B Reaching New Heights: Redesigning Evaluation
for the Simulation and Clinical Environments As
the health care environment becomes more complex and
diverse, nurse educators are challenged to provide an
educational setting that produces graduates who can
provide safe, competent, quality care in a reliable and
consistent manner. Simulation has been affirmed as an
effective pedagogy for healthcare educators to utilize.
The evaluation of a student’s simulated learning
experience is a critical element in the assessment of a
student’s clinical competence. Developing and
implementing appropriate and unbiased evaluation tools
is critical.
3-C Casino Day: Using Gaming as a Method to
Evaluate Retention of Basic Level Nursing Skills
Assessing a student’s competency in performing skills
has changed reflective of the characteristics of the
millennial student learner at one school of nursing. The
millennial generation performs best through interaction.
Today’s students would rather “do” than memorize.
Utilizing the concept of “gaming”, a group of faculty
has developed a “Casino Day” to not only assess how
the student performs a skill, but also as a mechanism to
reinforce knowledge and encourage collaboration among
students.