Upcoming Webinar on May 17, 1-2pm EST: Lifelong Learning: Creating Partnerships to Build a Culture for Professional Growth

The INQRI program is pleased to announce the fifth webinar in our series focused on the IOM report, 'The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health."    

This session will focus on the sixth recommendation made in the IOM report, which focuses on ensuring that nurses engage in lifelong learning. Accrediting bodies, schools of nursing, health care organizations, and continuing competency educators from multiple health professions should collaborate to ensure that nurses and nursing students and faculty continue their education and engage in lifelong learning to gain the competencies needed to provide care for diverse populations across the lifespan.

 

Lifelong Learning: Creating Partnerships to Build a Culture for Professional Growth  

Presented by:

Teresa Wehrwein PhD, RN, Associate Dean for Academic and Clinical Affairs Michigan State University College of Nursing    

Kathleen Kessler, MSN, RN, Director of Professional Partnerships Michigan State University College of Nursing    

Thursday, May 17, 2012  1pm - 2pm ET 

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The programs we will be discussing are: "Nursing for Life: RN Career Transition Program" and "Leading Toward Tomorrow: Creating a Community of Nurse Leaders" in Michigan.

Webinar Objectives:

1.   Discuss lifelong learning and strategies to engage nurses.

2.   Describe specific programs developed to support career development for practicing nurses.

3.   Explore how utilizing partnerships can leverage lifelong learning program development.

Nurse Clinicians and Researchers Partner at the University of Louisville

Inspired by the IOM report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, the University of Louisville School of Nursing faculty are teaming up with nurses and other health care team members from the University of Louisville Hospital and James Graham Brown Cancer Center to improve patient care and quality of life through clinical nursing research and evidence based practice projects.

M. Cynthia Logsdon, a professor in the School of Nursing and the associate chief of nursing for research at the hospital and cancer center, is facilitating partnerships between nurses in clinical practice and doctorally prepared nurse scholars.

Click here to learn more about their collaborations.

The Future of Nursing Report: Education

In the IOM report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, the committee made several recommendations related to education, including an increase in the proportion of nurses with baccalaureate and doctoral degrees, an engagement in lifelong learning and more. 
  
Click here to download a report brief on the Future of Nursing: Focus on Education.
 
Last week, we learned that there are some new standards at play for master's prepared nurses and that the current educational capacity has room for improvement...

Advance for Nurses has reported "a bold move to transform nursing education at the graduate level."  Nursing schools affiliated with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing recently voted to endorse The Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing, a set of national standards for preparing nurses to have a high impact in the healthcare environment.

 

Click here for more information.

 

Last week, the National League for Nursing released its annual survey of schools of nursing for 2009-2010.  Their data shows some progress toward meeting the goals outlined in the IOM report related to increasing workforce diversity and higher levels of education and training... but also show areas for improvement.  For example, hispanics are still underrepresented among basic RN students and demand for nursing education continues to exceed the current capacity due to faculty shortages and lack of clinical placements.

 

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Attention Nurses in Maryland...

The American Nurses Association (ANA) is proving, Hospital-Based First Receivers: Teaching the Caring Professional to Take Care, a one day course (6.74 contact hours) for registered nurses.

Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
Location: ANA Offices, Silver Spring, MD
Cost: No charge!

This event is funded by an educational grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences through the International Chemical Workers Union Council consortium.

Click here for more information.

Events like these are a great way for nurses to engage in lifelong learning activities, as recommended  in the IOM report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.