On-Demand Webinars
Transition to RN Practice: Are Pre-licensure Program Graduates Ready?
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
Hosted by AACN's Faculty Leadership Network.
Nursing education leaders have made great strides in transforming nursing education to better prepare graduates from pre-licensure programs for contemporary RN practice, yet an education-practice gap persists. This webinar will examine the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for successful transition with attention given to the unique challenges posed by the 2020 pandemic. Strategies to facilitate graduates confidence and readiness for practice will be explored, including practice-education partnership opportunities.
Objectives
- Discuss knowledge, skills, and attitudes the new graduate needs for a successful transition to RN practice
- Identify ways to address unique new challenges educators face in preparing students for clinical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Explore ways that practice-education partnerships can mitigate the education-practice gap
Overview of Funding Opportunities: Bureau of Health Workforce Nursing Programs
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
This webinar is designed to present an overview of previous funding opportunities from the Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) Nursing Programs. A description of the aims of funding and the intended impact will be presented.
Objectives
- Describe the purpose and aims of BHW programs and investments
- Compare & Contrast sources of funding support.
- Discuss impact of funding opportunities.
Mindsets and Mindfulness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Overview
Kindred Healthcare is a nationwide organization that supports patients in two unique long-term settings; long-term acute care hospitals and rehabilitation hospitals. Nurses in these settings are exposed to complex patients that require a skillset to manage high-pressure situations and difficult conversations. With the goal to keep our patients and caregivers protected from COVID-19 and continue to prepare a patient for a lower level of care or to get back to their normal functional level, nurses that have a toolkit for personal well-being will be more effective and satisfied in their work, their lives, their relationships, and with themselves. This webinar will introduce common problematic mindsets, metacognition, and mindful awareness techniques to help control the mind and body response to stress inherent in the nursing profession especially in these trying times.
After participating in this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- The learner will consider how mindsets attribute to personal distress.
- Understand common negative automatic thoughts and cognitive distortions.
- Create a toolkit of techniques to enhance personal well-being.
- Apply concepts to nursing in long-term acute care and rehabilitation hospital settings and as it relates to the pressure of supporting patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Considerations in Negotiating Your Salary
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Overview
Are you prepared to negotiate your salary? Gain a deeper understanding for what is involved, how to prepare, and how to manage the salary negotiation process can help. When considering the right job for you, salary is an important factor. Nurses often don’t realize that negotiating a salary is an option. The idea of negotiating your salary can sound intimidating, but it does not need to be. You may be surprised to find that you already have strong negotiation skills as evidenced by your work in the care delivery setting. By leveraging these skills and doing your homework, you can be well equipped to navigate the process of salary negotiations.
During this webinar you will have a chance to hear from nurse experts who will help you understand the ins and outs of salaries, what influences salaries, what to look for in considering a salary offer, and how to prepare for and manage the salary negotiation process. The webinar will include Q&A so you can get all your questions about salary answered.
After participating in this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Discuss the factors that influence a salary offer.
- Describe non-salary benefits to consider in assessing a salary package.
- Describe three ways that you can prepare for negotiating a salary.
- Discuss best practices in managing the negotiation process
Social Justice During COVID-19: The Critical Role Allies Can Play Dismantling Structural Racism
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Overview
This webinar, offered by AACN and the Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Alumni Council, will focus on acknowledging our roles and responsibility of the healthcare sector in eliminating disparities. The speaker will talk about ways to identify what role each of us can play as allies, what activism looks like, and what it means to be an ally. The goal is to discuss the critical role healthcare professionals can play in dismantling racism. We must do THE WORK! The speaker also will discuss how we can relieve the emotional labor of others and why calling out and cancel culture can be deleterious to the social justice movement and allyship. Come explore how we can work together to eliminate disparities and advance health equity.
After participating in this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- The learner will understand what activism looks like in helping address racism in the healthcare sector.
- The learner will evaluate opportunities for moving their organizations towards eliminating disparities and advancing health equity.
NIDA Grant Opportunity: How to Elevate Your Career and Help the Community
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
AACN is excited to announce its renewed partnership with the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) mentored training award to support a graduate student (Master's, Doctoral, or Post-Doctoral) at an AACN member schools. Come hear from three past grantees and their experiences. Learn about how to apply for this grant and how this opportunity can enhance your network!
Objectives
- Define the need for Evidence-based education in the treatment of substance use disorder
- Discuss NIDA Grant Process
- Demonstrate how to implement the NIDA grant though the experiences of past awardees
Online Teaching Strategies to Keep Your Students Engaged Virtually
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
This webinar will offer a forum for nurse educators to explore strategies that can be used to enhance the student educational experience through faculty engagement with students and presence in the online classroom.
This webinar is hosted by the AACN’s Faculty Leadership Network
Objectives
- Identify challenges for faculty engagement in an online learning environment
- Discuss opportunities to increase faculty presence and engagement of students in the online learning environment
- Explore strategies that can be used to enhance communication between faculty and students in an online learning environment
Practice and Policy in a Pandemic: Accreditation, Regulations, Future Implications
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
The widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has created a disruption across the globe in every community, industry, and facet of daily living. At the epicenter, healthcare delivery systems now realize a new normal of working together, delivering care in strained environments, and educating the next generation of healthcare providers. Specifically, the effects of the pandemic on the clinical learning environment have had national and global implications.
Webinar participants will hear the perspectives of several health professions organizations on what has been learned about the clinical learning environment and considerations for the future.
Hosted by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)
Objectives
- Recognize how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the clinical learning environment through the lenses of the learner, the clinician educator and the regulatory bodies
- Identify what strategies and tactics have been implemented to support learners during and after a pandemic
- Discuss the long-term impact on the clinical learning environment, its stakeholders, and the learners
- Share opportunities for growth and flexibility in regulation and accreditation
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Webinar Resources
View the On-Demand COVID-19 related webinars, listed below:
- Making Informed Decisions in Response to COVID-19
- F.A.S.T: Academic Nurse Educators Respond to COVID-19
- Bridging the Gap- Implementing Technology to Deliver Courses Online
- A Call to Leadership: Navigating Uncharted Waters
- Aligning Simulation within COVID-19 Contingency Plans
- COVID-19: Update from Nursing Leadership on the Front Lines
- Teaching Nursing Students How to Manage Crisis During COVID-19
- COVID-19: Breaking Through Denial to Action
- COVID-19 Series: Techniques to Teach Assessment Online NOW!
- Public Health: Nursing Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Considering Pass or No Pass education in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Public Health Insight into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Creating Calm and Civility during Uncertain Times
- Interprofessional Teaching and Collaborative Practice During COVID-19: A Community Conversation
- Moving Your Admissions Process Online During COVID-19
- Making the Pivot: Online Learning During COVID-19
- Preparing & Transitioning Students to Telehealth Clinical Hours in Graduate Education
- Strategic Diversity Leadership & Culturally Relevant Decision-Making During COVID-19
- COVID-19 Implications for Admissions and the Stability of Holistic Admissions Practices
- What is the New Normal? Guidance for Reopening & Returning to Campus
- Addressing the Collective Mental Health Burden Imposed by COVID-19
- Improving Nurse Preparedness for a Pandemic Response: Implications for U.S. Schools of Nursing
- Enhancing Public Trust and Health with COVID-19 Vaccination: Planning Recommendations
- Hosting a Virtual White Coat/Oath Ceremony
These webinars are free and open to the public. Recordings of the webinars will be available soon after the webinars.
Keeping Nursing Students Safe in Clinicals
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Overview
Providing clinical learning opportunities for nursing students following the outbreak of COVID-19 has been a challenge for schools, especially given concerns about keeping students, faculty, and patients safe. Explore the latest guidance on how best to reintroduce student to acute care settings and other learning environments. To assist schools, CastleBranch has developed a COVID-19 Compliance solution to enable program administrators to screen students for common symptoms and exposure, all while complying with CDC guidelines. Find out how this free tool can be used to help ensure students are healthy and safe before returning to clinicals.
Co-Sponsored by CastleBranch and AACN
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Webinar Resources
View the On-Demand COVID-19 related webinars, listed below:
- Making Informed Decisions in Response to COVID-19
- F.A.S.T: Academic Nurse Educators Respond to COVID-19
- Bridging the Gap- Implementing Technology to Deliver Courses Online
- A Call to Leadership: Navigating Uncharted Waters
- Aligning Simulation within COVID-19 Contingency Plans
- COVID-19: Update from Nursing Leadership on the Front Lines
- Teaching Nursing Students How to Manage Crisis During COVID-19
- COVID-19: Breaking Through Denial to Action
- COVID-19 Series: Techniques to Teach Assessment Online NOW!
- Public Health: Nursing Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Considering Pass or No Pass education in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Public Health Insight into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Creating Calm and Civility during Uncertain Times
- Interprofessional Teaching and Collaborative Practice During COVID-19: A Community Conversation
- Moving Your Admissions Process Online During COVID-19
- Making the Pivot: Online Learning During COVID-19
- Preparing & Transitioning Students to Telehealth Clinical Hours in Graduate Education
- Strategic Diversity Leadership & Culturally Relevant Decision-Making During COVID-19
- COVID-19 Implications for Admissions and the Stability of Holistic Admissions Practices
- What is the New Normal? Guidance for Reopening & Returning to Campus
- Addressing the Collective Mental Health Burden Imposed by COVID-19
- Improving Nurse Preparedness for a Pandemic Response: Implications for U.S. Schools of Nursing
- Enhancing Public Trust and Health with COVID-19 Vaccination: Planning Recommendations
- Hosting a Virtual White Coat/Oath Ceremony
These webinars are free and open to the public. Recordings of the webinars will be available soon after the webinars.
Clinical Learning Opportunities with the American Red Cross
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
The American Red Cross offers Academic Service-Learning (ASL) opportunities that fit well with pre-licensure and graduate nursing programs. This webinar will address ways that ASL volunteers can serve communities - to help ensure a diverse and adequate blood supply, help communities prepare and respond to disasters and provide case management for members of the military, including veterans and their families. The American Red Cross is currently seeking in-person and virtual volunteers due to the COVID-19 environment. Note that opportunities vary by location.
Objectives
- Discuss Academic Service-Learning (ASL) in-person and virtual volunteer opportunities to serve communities with the Red Cross.
- Describe ASL processes and resources for nursing students and nurses in the Red Cross.
- Appreciate the importance of engaging nursing students with national voluntary organizations in disaster response (NVOADs).
- Discuss American Red Cross Nursing and its efforts to build community resiliency.
NOTE: Please view the webinar through the button below.
Webinar Resources
View the On-Demand COVID-19 related webinars, listed below:
- Making Informed Decisions in Response to COVID-19
- F.A.S.T: Academic Nurse Educators Respond to COVID-19
- Bridging the Gap- Implementing Technology to Deliver Courses Online
- A Call to Leadership: Navigating Uncharted Waters
- Aligning Simulation within COVID-19 Contingency Plans
- COVID-19: Update from Nursing Leadership on the Front Lines
- Teaching Nursing Students How to Manage Crisis During COVID-19
- COVID-19: Breaking Through Denial to Action
- COVID-19 Series: Techniques to Teach Assessment Online NOW!
- Public Health: Nursing Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Considering Pass or No Pass education in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Public Health Insight into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Creating Calm and Civility during Uncertain Times
- Interprofessional Teaching and Collaborative Practice During COVID-19: A Community Conversation
- Moving Your Admissions Process Online During COVID-19
- Making the Pivot: Online Learning During COVID-19
- Preparing & Transitioning Students to Telehealth Clinical Hours in Graduate Education
- Strategic Diversity Leadership & Culturally Relevant Decision-Making During COVID-19
- COVID-19 Implications for Admissions and the Stability of Holistic Admissions Practices
- What is the New Normal? Guidance for Reopening & Returning to Campus
- Addressing the Collective Mental Health Burden Imposed by COVID-19
- Improving Nurse Preparedness for a Pandemic Response: Implications for U.S. Schools of Nursing
- Enhancing Public Trust and Health with COVID-19 Vaccination: Planning Recommendations
- Hosting a Virtual White Coat/Oath Ceremony
These webinars are free and open to the public. There is an attendance limit at 3,000 attendees. Recordings of the webinars will be available soon after the webinars air.