Wednesday, May 16

INTERACTIVE SESSION I (2:45pm – 4:00pm)

A1. Recruiting and Retaining Minority Nursing Students through Mentoring: The “TEAM” Approach
With support from a Federal grant, Indian River Community College is working to improve access to nursing education for minority and/or disadvantaged students and addressing issues of diversity and cultural competence. This session will consider opportunities and challenges encountered during the implementation stages of the TEAM grant. Recruitment topics to be discussed will include summer youth camps, education sessions for both high school counselors and their students, enrollment management and retention issues, mentoring strategies, as well as ways to link strategically to the community via health fairs and meetings. A synopsis of the program's evaluation process and the statistical findings compiled to date will be presented during this session.

A2. Simulation Best Practices: Curriculum Integration and Making it Real
We have simulators and I have to use them . . . now what? This session will address strategies for integrating simulation practices into nursing education curricula and will afford attendees an opportunity to collectively identify learning strategies to maximize simulated clinical experiences. Participants will be encouraged to draw upon past and previous experiences to identify what works and what does not work in patient simulation. Let's get together to determine the nuts and bolts of making simulation real!

A3. Create a Sensation … With Medication Education!
Have you perhaps considered the benefits of creative teaching strategies that use rhymes, raps, and songs that faculty might incorporate into classroom or online courses to facilitate student learning? During this workshop, original examples of raps and songs will be presented that have been developed to support student learning of medication classifications, drug actions and drug side effects. Attendees will be afforded an opportunity to work in small groups to create rhymes or raps for common medications.

A4. Grand Rounds: Enhancing Clinical Practice
Both the medical and nursing disciplines use Grand Rounds to supplement information to enhance learning as well as help improve patient outcomes. The concept of Grand Rounds and its benefit to student learning will be considered during this session and two examples of Grand Rounds currently used at Cincinnati Children's Medical Center will be presented. The first, “Evidenced Based Practice,” will present the work of Dr. Kenner PhD/FAAN while the second, “Pediatric Stroke,” to be presented by Dr. Friedman , will focus on the number of undiagnosed stroke cases in the pediatric population, which can easily be identified by the nurse during the admission exam to the pediatric unit.

A5. Harnessing the Power of Public Private Partnership to Address the Nursing Shortage