On-Demand Webinars
CNLs: Disrupting the Impact of COVID-19 to Deliver Excellent Care
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
Join the Commission on Nurse Certification (CNC) and a panel of certified Clinical Nurse Leaders (CNLs) to hear about efforts to mitigate the lingering effects of COVID-19 even in the most challenging healthcare environments. Find out more about how CNLs are uniquely qualified to advance quality improvement efforts and how their skill set is critical across healthcare settings.
Objectives:
- Explain the unique value of the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL)..
- Examine how the CNL skill set transcends in different healthcare facilities.
- Discuss how CNLs deliver quality care during COVID-19 and confront burnout.
- Understand CNL evidence-based projects that lead to optimized healthcare nationally and internationally.
- Discuss how data driven methodologies are critical to the CNL.
- Identify examples of the impact of the CNL’s skill set while working in healthcare facilities.
Note: Recording of the webinar will be available soon after the webinar airs. Visit AACN's On-Demand Webinars to watch.
Elevating Nursing’s Impact on Boosting Vaccine Confidence
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
As the most trusted profession, nurses have the power to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and other diseases on communities and to keep patients safe. With funding provided by the CDC, AACN launched a national initiative in 2022 focused on Building COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Among Nurses and in Communities, designed to educate vulnerable populations about vaccines and dispel health misinformation. To achieve these objectives, AACN provided funding to 10 schools of nursing to help faculty and students have effective conversations about COVID-19 vaccinations and raise consumer confidence. This webinar will highlight the various educational and outreach strategies launched by participating schools to reach at-risk individuals and populations.
Objectives:
- Describe how to prepare faculty and students to have effective conversations on the need for vaccinations.
- Discuss how to increase the capacity of nursing school faculty and students to share credible vaccine information and respond to misinformation on social media.
- Explain strategies to engage with local communities through health departments, community-based organizations, and other groups to target key populations and address vaccine hesitancy.
Note: Recording of the webinar will be available soon after the webinar airs. Visit AACN's On-Demand Webinars to watch.
Connection before Correction: Leveraging the Teacher-Learner Relationship
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
At the core of nursing education lies the teacher-learner relationship, a cornerstone of our profession. To achieve the transformation required for the full implementation of the AACN Essentials and the transition to competency-based nursing education, we must reimagine this relationship and our roles as educators. Join nurse educators Dr. Mary K. Fey and Dr. Kate J. Morse in this engaging webinar as they embark on a journey of self-reflection regarding their own careers, challenge assumptions about our students, and explore innovative teaching practices aligned with the AACN Essentials.
Objectives:
- To engage in critical self-reflection about themselves as educators
- Explore our assumptions about our learners
- Embrace new teaching practices to implement AACN Essentials
Self-Care: Managing Your Goals by Taking Charge of Your Health
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Overview
There is nothing more valuable than your own health, especially as a caregiver. Join this webinar as the speaker explores the PURPLE prescription to self-care – Pause, Unwind, Relax, Play, Laugh, and Exercise, Eat Mindfully, Escape, Enjoy, and Engage. Use the tips and strategies shared to achieve your own self-care.
Objectives
- Describe Self Care for caregivers.
- Discuss self-care strategies to take charge of your health.
- Discuss how to manage your goals in daily life using self-care tips.
This Webinar is hosted by the Graduate Nursing Student Academy (GNSA). For more information on the GNSA, visit www.aacnnursing.org/GNSA.
The ART and Science of Feedback in Clinical Education
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
Feedback is a fundamental tool of effective teaching and a skill that, though easily learned, takes a lifetime to master. How we interact with each other when we participate in feedback conversations can greatly influence the quality of our relationships and our work, and is critical to our success as team members, clinicians, and educators. This webinar, led by medical educators Dr. Calvin Chou and Kara Myers, introduces an evidence-based model for feedback that emphasizes a relationship-centered, dynamic, bidirectional conversation in the context of a psychologically-safe learning and working environment.
Objectives:
- Define “feedback” in clinical education
- Assimilate literature on feedback into an approach to hosting feedback conversations
- Describe a method of nonjudgmental delivery of feedback
Using Design Thinking to Thread the Social Determinants of Health into Undergraduate Curriculum
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
Nurse educators Dr. Mary Jo Vetter, Dr. Karyn Boyar, Dr. Stacen Keating, and Dr. Emerson E. Ea describe how design thinking was utilized as a unifying framework to foster an understanding of the social determinants of health in an undergraduate nursing program. Students utilize design thinking to develop innovative solutions for clinical problems experienced by diverse populations across all spheres of care in a series of four sequenced courses. Details of the teaching strategy and how it supports the acquisition of competencies defined by AACN Essentials are shared.
Objectives:
- Describe how design thinking was utilized as a unifying framework to foster an understanding of the social determinants of health in an undergraduate nursing program.
- Discuss teaching strategies utilized to promote the acquisition of competencies defined by AACN’s Essential Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education.
- Explore methods to evaluate competency-based student outcomes.
Competency-Based Education: Practical Tips to Move Your Work Forward
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
Dr. Nancy O’Neill, Acting Director of the University System of Maryland’s William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, shares practical tips to move your competency-based education (CBE) efforts forward. In this webinar, Dr. O’Neill will draw on outside resources that can help facilitate the move to CBE. She builds on the paradigm shift concept introduced by Dr. Englander in the AACN webinar “Moving the Needle on Meaningful Competency Assessment,” and covers the refinement of course learning outcomes, a framework for engaged learning to guide course improvement, and the benefits of signature assignments.
Objectives:
- Learn about resources outside of nursing education that can help move your efforts forward
- Identify strategies for course improvement
- Reduce anxiety about the next steps
Publishing Part 6: The Key to a Successful Manuscript Review
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
This is the sixth and final webinar in the six-part webinar series on publishing in professional journals. Journals rely on volunteer peer reviewers to be the gatekeepers of the quality of written work. The speaker will describe the components of an excellent manuscript review and what to consider when reviewing a manuscript.
Objectives:
- Explain the purpose of manuscript reviews.
- Describe the steps for becoming a reviewer and how to respond to a review invitation.
- Examine the criteria to use when evaluating a manuscript and making a recommendation.
This webinar is part of a six-part series addressing how to publish in professional journals successfully. For additional webinars in this series, see the links below.
Publishing Part 1: Getting Started with a Topic and Selected Journal
Publishing Part 2: Deciding Authorship, Overcoming Writer’s Block, and Selecting Format
Publishing Part 3: Writing the First Draft and Completing the Final Version
Publishing Part 4: Responding to the Editor’s Decision
Publishing Part 5: Helping Grad Students Turn a Paper into a Publishable Manuscript
Publishing Part 6: The Key to a Successful Manuscript Review
Publishing Part 5: Helping Grad Students Turn a Paper into a Publishable Manuscript
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
This is the fifth webinar in the six-part webinar series on publishing in professional journals. Faculty often require or encourage students to publish their graduate school papers and projects. This webinar addresses the key differences between student papers and journal articles, and highlights what editors look for in a publishable student work. Suggestions for guiding students in the transition for a school paper to a publishable manuscript are explained.
Objectives:
- Differentiate the characteristics of a school paper versus those of a journal article.
- Describe the criteria editors use to evaluate a school paper for publication.
- Explain strategies to assist students to turn school papers into publishable journal articles.
This webinar is part of a six-part series addressing how to publish in professional journals successfully. For additional webinars in this series, see the links below.
Publishing Part 1: Getting Started with a Topic and Selected Journal
Publishing Part 2: Deciding Authorship, Overcoming Writer’s Block, and Selecting Format
Publishing Part 3: Writing the First Draft and Completing the Final Version
Publishing Part 4: Responding to the Editor’s Decision
Publishing Part 5: Helping Grad Students Turn a Paper into a Publishable Manuscript
Publishing Part 6: The Key to a Successful Manuscript Review
The AACN Essentials and the Graduate Student - What Does it Mean for Me?
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Overview
The 2021 Essentials outline a framework towards a competency-based approach for nursing education. As a graduate student, you may be wondering what does competency-based education mean and how will it differ from the previous approach to nursing education? What does this transition mean for practice? As a current graduate student, you may be wondering how you fit in and how you will be affected. In this webinar, Dr. Brittany Hay, Assistant Professor in the University of South Florida College of Nursing, explores competency-based education and shares what you may expect to see in nursing practice.
Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar, learners will be able to
- Relate the purpose and structure of the 2021 AACN Essentials.
- Outline key components of competency-based education including classroom and clinical applications.
- Explain how competency-based education prepares practice-ready nurses.
This Webinar is hosted by the Graduate Nursing Student Academy (GNSA). For more information on the GNSA, visit www.aacnnursing.org/GNSA.