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Thursday May 17
GENERAL SESSION (8:30am – 10:00am)
New Directions
in Nursing Education: Building Partnerships for the Future
Nurses
today are faced with an increasingly complex and outcome focused
health care delivery system. This presentation will outline the
changing expectations and demands this creates for nursing practice
and the related required response from nursing education. New nursing
education models and initiatives to address these expectations will
be identified. Strategies to design and enhance collaborative educational
pathways for nurses will be explored. Current creative partnerships
between nursing education and clinical practice environments designed
to enhance nurse competence and improve patient care outcomes will
be overviewed.
Presenter(s): Jean Bartels,
Dean, Georgia Southern University, School of Nursing
Room: Wedgwood Ballroom |
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Dr. Bartels has been serving as the Chair of the School
of Nursing and Professor of Nursing at Georgia Southern
University, Statesboro , Georgia since 1999. Her practice
and research experiences have focused on community-based
nursing practice and education as well as the health care
needs of individuals responding to chronic illnesses including
those experiencing acute neurological, cardiovascular, and
respiratory impairments. Most recently, her scholarship
has focused on teaching, learning, critical thinking and
outcome assessment in nursing education.
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| Dr. Bartels has served on the educational policies
committees, discipline deans committees, curriculum committees,
strategic planning councils, and research and assessment councils
at Alverno College and Georgia Southern University.
She has taught theory and clinical practice in all areas of
the nursing curriculum. |
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