Wednesday, May 16

INTERACTIVE SESSION IV (1:15pm – 2:30pm)

B5. Preparing the Clinical Nurse Leader to Precept via an Online Workshop
In response to numerous health care system challenges, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing has introduced a new nursing role -- the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) who is prepared at the MSN level with a curriculum focused on leadership, clinical outcome management, and management of the care environment. This workshop highlights one online workshop that has been developed to help non-CNL preceptors guide and evaluate CNL students during their role immersion experience. Focusing both on enhancing preceptor skills and understanding the CNL role, the online workshop creates links between the CNL education program and its clinical application.

B6. Creating Regional Partnerships to Optimize Simulation in Nursing
Collaboration remains at the core of successfully overcoming the myriad of challenges facing nursing education. This presentation will provide an in-depth review of one partnership between three community colleges, area hospitals, and the local workforce board who came together with a common goal of enhancing simulation at each of the community colleges. Presenters will examine curriculum integration, faculty development, purchasing power, instructional technology, and the numerous opportunities and challenges afforded to each community partner.

B7. Transition to Associate Degree Nursing Goes Hybrid
Responding to the critical nursing shortage, Brevard Community College is morphing its Transition to Associate Degree Nursing program into a hybrid offering. This new program combines online learning with face-to-face lab and clinical experiences and is built using a performance-based curriculum structure complete with competencies, performance standards, learning plans, learning activities, and performance assessments. Presenters will highlight the re-designing of a program, technologies involved, and the high-level of faculty collaboration necessary to accomplish this transition and present examples of the highly interactive learning environment. Discussion will focus on how the project will be sustained and applied to other college courses.

B8. Pediatric Clinical Challenges
The “Pediatric Clinical Challenge” is a simulated clinical activity designed to increase students' knowledge and skills in pediatric emergency situations while allowing the student to build on previous knowledge and experience acquired during their pediatric hospital rotation. This session will present an overview of this model program that uses four simulated stations prepared with pediatric scenarios designed to test students' different levels of knowledge and skills in small group settings. Collectively, students must identify a team leader and recorder, perform the necessary hands-on skills, and make “triage decisions” based on their rapid initial assessment.