On-Demand Webinars
Challenges & Strategies: A Culturally Competent Conversation About Vaccine Hesitancy
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
Individuals who are hesitant can still be convinced of the vaccines’ safety, efficacy, and necessity. The challenge is how do you prioritize vulnerable members of minority communities? By recognizing the role of nurses as trusted sources of information that could reduce the perceptions of risk of vaccines among people from ethnic minorities. Such communications can be made more effective by providing educational resources using a culturally congruent approach.
Objectives:
- Discuss the impact of historical events that lead to mistrust of healthcare providers and systems
- Describe culturally based reasons for vaccine hesitancy.
- List effective strategies to address vaccine hesitancy using culturally congruent care approach
Assessment Strategies for a Competency-Based Curriculum
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
Alverno College’s Margaret Rauschenberger, Dr. Judeen Schulte, Ann Van Eerden, and Dr. Heather Mernitz highlight principles for developing performance-based assessments and share examples that integrate competency-based practices into curriculum.
For the latest updates and resources on the 2021 Essentials, visit www.aacnnursing.org/Essentials.
Ensuring Success in Transitions to Practice
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
The significant nursing workforce challenges that have exacerbated during the pandemic have highlighted the importance of ensuring a successful transition to practice for new graduate nurses. The retention of new graduate nurses is critical for building a sustainable nursing workforce. This session will explore the unique role of employers, faculty, and new graduates can contribute to ensure a positive transition from school to practice.
Objectives:
- Describe how faculty can positively contribute to the transition to practice process success for graduating nurses
- Identify criteria that new graduates should consider when evaluating employment opportunities
- Understand the characteristics of successful transition to practice programs
- Describe strategies a graduate can utilize to ensure a successful transition to practice
- Describe how new nurses can make the most of the preceptor relationship during the transition to practice process
The Nursing Crisis: Confronting Distress, Burnout, and Moral Injury
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
In a rapidly evolving health care work environment, nurses are participants in “the great resignation”. This webinar will address the current nursing workforce crisis in the U.S. and explore the factors accelerating it. We will discuss recent evidence on the mental health and ethical impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers and explore the failures of protective frameworks to prevent burnout and moral suffering in nurses. As society grapples with the realities of the triple threat of confluent crises, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest and violence and climate change, we explore the implications for academic nursing in building healthier work environments and a more resilient nursing workforce. Building upon the National Academy of Medicine Future of Nursing 2020-2030 report and the new AACN Essentials, we propose strategies for strengthening the fabric of nursing.
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Applying Social Determinants of Learning™ to Guide Holistic Admissions
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
The National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Report highlights the importance of holistic admissions and how greater racial and ethnic diversity in nursing is critical to advancing health equity. Despite the numerous factors that hinder efforts to diversify the nursing workforce and implement holistic admissions, some schools have been successful. This presentation emphasizes upstream approaches that center on educational justice and mitigate barriers to diversifying the workforce. Using the social determinants of health model as a foundation, this webinar will reveal how the Social Determinants of Learning™ framework can be used to reconcile educational injustices, strengthen diversity, and advance health equity.
Objectives:
- Increase the capacity of participants to synthesize the tenants of holistic admissions.
- Demonstrate how the Social Determinants of Learning™ can be used to guide the adoption of holistic admissions.
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Self Preservation: Practicing Radical Self-Care During Difficult Times
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Overview
Self-care is an essential survival skill for nurses. Now more than ever, nurses must equip themselves with the tools to practice radical self-care, as an act of self-preservation. This presentation will focus on your overall physical, emotional, and mental health in a way that feels relevant and measurable for nurses, paying specific attention to areas of your life that directly impact work-life balance. Tangible steps to practice self-care will be discussed.
Objectives
- Learn about the five domains of wellness: Workplace, Social, Physical, Emotional, Societal,
- Develop plan of action for how you will achieve wellness in each domain,
- Share your own wellness “best-practices” and learn from others in the course
This Webinar is hosted by the Graduate Nursing Student Academy (GNSA). For more information on the GNSA, visit www.aacnnursing.org/GNSA.
Teaching Effectively in a Competency-Based Curriculum
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
This webinar emphasizes the importance of learner-centered behavioral outcomes. Nurse educators Margaret Rauschenberger, Dr. Judeen Schulte, and Ann Van Eerden from Alverno College discuss the student’s role in CBE and the importance of strategies that require student engagement, experiential learning, and learner self-assessment. Approaches for growing faculty expertise are explored.
For the latest updates and resources on the 2021 Essentials, visit www.aacnnursing.org/Essentials.
Competency-Based Online Graduate Nursing Education: Instructional Design and Delivery
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Sponsored by AACN's Faculty Leadership Network.
Webinar Details & Objectives
With the publication of the new AACN Essentials and the rise of graduate competency-based nursing education, nurse educators must rethink course design and delivery. Attendees will explore practical, evidence-based instructional design strategies used to create the optimum teaching and learning experience for students, faculty, and leadership. This webinar will offer real world examples for collaboratively meeting online design and delivery challenges.
Objectives:
- Differentiate between instructional design and delivery (a shared language).
- Apply evidence-based instructional design strategies for consistency in competency-based graduate nursing education.
- Select evidence-based instructional design strategies for sustainability in competency-based graduate nursing education.
Beginning Steps for Building a Competency-Based Curriculum
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
Dr. Gerry Altmiller, professor of nursing and director of The College of New Jersey Quality and Safety Innovation Center, explains the importance of curriculum mapping, identifying gaps, and implementing a curriculum based on the domains and competencies featured in the 2021 Essentials. Learn how an early adopter initiated the integration of the new competencies into existing programs and evolved their approach to nursing education.
For the latest updates and resources on the 2021 Essentials, visit www.aacnnursing.org/Essentials.
National Study on Civility and Incivility in Academic Nursing: Lessons from the Field
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
Incivility, bullying, gaslighting, and other forms of workplace aggression damage relationships, threaten quality of life, cause harm and contributes to mental and physical health conditions to all in involved. Moreover, incivility in nursing education can have a ‘‘spill-over’’ effect into the practice environment and negatively impact worker and patient safety. This thought-provoking session provides a deepened and empirical understanding of faculty and administrator incivility and offers a variety of evidence-based strategies to build and sustain healthy academic work environments and cultures of belonging.
Objectives:
- Describe civility within the context of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Discuss findings from a 2020 national study regarding faculty and administrator perspectives on civility and incivility in academic nursing.
- Explore evidence-based strategies to foster civility, healthy work environments, and cultures of belonging.