Measuring BSN Competencies in Public and Population Health

This webinar will discuss the importance of student nurses developing specific and measurable knowledge and skills in population health at the pre-licensure level of education. The presenters will then discuss a process for measuring such student competencies, and preliminary data from a pilot test of the competency assessment method. The presenters will conclude with recommendations for education at the pre-licensure level to achieve measurable results.

NOTE:This webinar is open to everyone including non-members, communities of interest, practice representatives, and AACN member schools including deans, faculty, staff and students

Webinar Speakers

Joan Stanley, PhD
Chief Academic Officer
AACN

Dr. Joan M. Stanley, is Chief Academic Officer at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. For the past five years, Dr. Stanley has served as PI on the AACN/CDC Cooperative Agreement. The focus of this initiative has been to expand the nursing public health work force and enhance population health in nursing curricula. She serves as AACN’s representative to numerous nursing education initiatives including the National Task Force on Quality Nurse Practitioner Education and the APRN Consensus Process which developed the national Model for APRN Regulation: Licensure, Accreditation, Certification and Education. Her book, Advanced Practice Nursing: Emphasizing Common Roles is in its third edition.

Susan Swider, PhD
Professor
Community, Systems and Mental Health Nursing
Rush University

Dr. Susan Swider is a Professor in the Department of Community, Systems, and Mental Health Nursing at Rush University in Chicago. Dr. Swider has practiced in acute care, home health care, and public health settings over the past thirty years. In 2011, Dr. Swider was appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health, a group designed to advise on the development and implementation of the National Prevention Strategy. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. In 2016, she was appointed to serve on the Community Preventive Services Task Force of the CDC.

Lisa Campbell, DNP
Executive Director
Population Health Consultants

Dr. Lisa Campbell is an associate professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing and teaches in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. Her teaching focus for doctoral students is population health, epidemiology, and health policy. Through her teaching role, Dr. Campbell engages students in real world population health and policy projects that include environmental health related topics. Dr. Campbell founded Population Health Consultants, LLC a company whose mission is building human capital to improve population health. Dr. Campbell was recently elected as chair-elect for the American Public Health Associate Public Health Nursing Section & is a member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments’ Board of Directors.

Judy Didion, PhD
Dean and Professor
Oakland University

Dr. Judy Didion begins her role as Dean of the Oakland University School of Nursing in July, 2017. Previously, Dr. Didion was a Dean and Professor of Nursing at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. She has been a nurse for over 30 years. She is active nationally with AACN as an expert advisory member for a Center for Disease Control agreement to promote public health education for professionals, and she has been actively involved in the Quality and Safety in Nursing Education national initiative as a program planner and a researcher. Dr. Didion earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Toledo, a Master of Science in nursing with a clinical nurse specialist and administration specialty from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and a PhD in nursing from Duquesne University.