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Wednesday, May 16

OPENING GENERAL SESSION (1:00pm – 2:30pm)

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.

 A6. A Database Driven Web Application for Managing the Student Admission Process
Student Manager © is a web application that uses a 2005 SQL server database to manage the admission process. This application allows users to evaluate student applications against admission criteria to include GPA, test cutoff scores, and prerequisite courses. This application also affords users an opportunity to notify students of their application status. Attend this session to learn more about this admission process and the staff responsibilities involved while reviewing key interfaces and sample e-mail messages.

A7. Let's Simulate a Solution!
Presenters from Pasco-Hernando Community College will demonstrate a model for addressing the growing issue of limited clinical sites as well as ways to enhance student critical thinking skills while providing safe nursing care. This presentation will consider the process of designing, creating, implementing, and evaluating simulation patient hospitals and present students' evaluations of a particular clinical experience.

A8. Mentoring Faculty and Students
An important characteristic of a successful nursing program is the mentoring of faculty and students . During this session, participants will consider the role that mentors play for both these two distinctly different populations. The many definitions of the term “mentor” including that of learning facilitator for classroom and clinical learning, faculty colleague, and role model will be considered. Participants will be encouraged to discuss their own personal experiences as faculty and/or student mentor and will be afforded an opportunity to discuss student outcomes.

A9. A University and Community College Partnership: Concurrent AS-BSN Program
The Concurrent ASN-BSN Enrollment Program is a dual enrollment partnership between the College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida and the Department of Nursing at Seminole Community College . The program, designed to address the nursing shortage in Central Florida , affords students the opportunity to be enrolled in both associate and baccalaureate nursing programs simultaneously. Results from a recent evaluation of this program will be presented.

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.

INTERACTIVE SESSION III (4:15pm – 5:30pm)

B1. A Model Utilizing Clinical Preceptors for Senior Baccalaureate Nursing Leadership and Management Students: Unique Opportunities
This program will examine clinical preceptor relationships with baccalaureate nursing students in a community hospital setting and consider the many opportunities available to students enrolled in “The Professional Nursing Leadership and Management Lab Course”. This course was designed to apply the concepts, principles, and theories of leadership and management in a variety of healthcare and nursing settings. Presenters will share insights on how this learning experience provides unique opportunities for both students and preceptors. This presentation will identify how course projects impact clinical practice, policies and procedures using an evidence-based practice approach.

B2. Full Integration of High-Fidelity Patient Simulation into a Nursing Curriculum
Since Fall 2006, ten percent of each nursing clinical course offered at Pensacola Junior College is scheduled at the Smart Simulation Center . This affords students to schedule 1.5 to 2 hour simulation sessions at times convenient to their own schedules. As a result, during the spring semester, more than 300 nursing students are regularly scheduled on a bi-weekly basis! Attend this session to take a virtual tour of this facility that includes simulation labs, a fully furnished LDRP suite, debriefing rooms, and custom recording systems that can broadcast live or from archives to any A/V equipped classroom and consider how to review the process used to prepare and schedule scenarios.

B3. Using Computer Technology to Support Teaching Laboratory Value Analysis
The purpose of this presentation is to share the methodology and results of an evidence-based research project that has examined online programs to supplement clinical learning experiences using a randomized control experimental design. Discussions will center on findings regarding the impact that additional computer resources and learning activities had on clinical nursing students' abilities to interpret patient laboratory values accurately and learn more about students' perceptions regarding technology.

B4. Developing an Online Tr ansition Program Using Pod Cast Technology
With support from SUCCEED grant funding, Seminole Community College has integrated an LPN to RN and a Paramedic/Respiratory Therapist to RN transition curriculum and, via a partnership between Seminole Community College faculty and an instructional design team from the University of Central Florida, the traditional curriculum has been converted to an online curriculum. This session will address how to: (1) enhance the curriculum with online learning modalities and pod cast technology: (2) augment faculty/student interactions: and, (3) develop partnerships that allow faculty and partners to utilize their respective areas of expertise.

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.

CLOSING TOWN HALL MEETING (2:45pm -4:00pm)

The closing Town Hall Meeting provides an opportunity to review and reflect upon all that has been accomplished at this year's summit. The audience will be encouraged to pose questions and discuss relevant strategies and ideas during the conference and consider future opportunities for collaboration and learning.

Friday, May 18

POST-SUMMIT WORKSHOP (8:00am – 11:00am) $25*

The post-summit workshop will be held on Valencia 's West Campus located at 1800 South Kirkman Road , Orlando , FL 32811 . Transportation will be provided between the Renaissance Resort and the college campus. Click here to see Campus Map

Round trip transportation for the post-summit workshop will be provided to Valencia 's West Campus as follows:

P1. Simulation & Scenario Development
Simulation has been utilized by nursing for years. We have used standardized patients, models and static mannequins to assist students in learning basic skills. The new Hi-fidelity simulators add an exciting dynamic, element to assessments and simulated experiences. This workshop is intended to demonstrate theory-based learning using hi-fidelity simulation. An emphasis will be placed on scenario development and planning with an example of implementation of a simple scenario. Participants will be able to experience the student perspective.

* Post-Summit workshop fee is not included as part of the regular summit registration fee