Faculty Policy Think Tank: Success in Policy Scholarship
Webinar Description
The AACN Board of Directors approved the creation of a Faculty Policy Think Tank (FPTT) in 2015 to provide critical insight into the state of policy education in undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. The FPTT was comprised of health policy experts from member schools around the nation. The primary charge of the Think Tank was to make recommendations toward informing and improving health policy education in nursing. The Think Tank envisioned a robust agenda outlined in the final report and recommendations made to the Board with the intent of enhancing the reach and influence of the nursing profession.
Nurses experience the impact of health policy on their practice each day, with implications for the care they provide and its outcomes for patient and families. Shaping these policies requires nurses skilled and engaged in policy leadership and research. Policy scholarship builds those skills and positions nurses to meaningfully influence the direction of policy.
This offering is the second in the series, visit AACN’s On-Demand Webinar page.
Objectives:
- Identify and support faculty policy leadership/scholarship within schools of nursing.
- Support health policy scholarly work as part of the promotion and tenure process.
- Build collaboration in policy research.
Speakers
Sally Cohen, PhD, RN, FAAN
Clinical Professor
New York University (NYU)
Dr. Cohen is Clinical Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She has extensive experience in federal and state health policy. She has a PhD from Columbia University, MSN from Yale University, and BA from Cornell University. Her scholarship has advanced nurses as leaders in health policy through integration of health policy into nursing curricula and interdisciplinary education of nurses and social scientist. Dr. Cohen also has expertise on policies for children and youth in areas such as early care and education, child health coverage, bullying prevention, and the rights of children. She has held tenured faculty positions at Yale University and the University of New Mexico, where she directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative. In 2014-2015, she was the Institute of Medicine (IOM)-American Academy of Nursing-American Nurses Association-American Nurses Foundation, Distinguished Nurse Scholar in Residence at the IOM. She is the editor-in-chief of Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice and a member of the American Academy of Nursing.
Julie Sochalski, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing, Associate Dean for Academic Programs
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Sochalski is recognized as a national and international expert in health policy and the health care workforce. From 2010-2013, Dr. Sochalski directed the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Division of Nursing and was its principal advisor for health workforce policy, overseeing a $250 billion budget. She directed interagency initiatives that promoted research and program innovations to build a right-sized, well-skilled, and effectively-deployed health care workforce.
An investigator in health systems analysis and health policy, Dr. Sochalski studies gaps in the U.S. health care system and how policy solutions are devised and implemented to fill them. She also studies the impact - intended and unintended - of health policy decisions. She is particularly interested in how nurses and other health care professionals are best deployed to achieve optimal population health.
Dr. Sochalski is now investigating the impact of nurse practitioners working to the extent of their practice authority in the Veterans Administration health system, the nation’s largest employer of nurse practitioners. Her study, funded by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, includes 6,000 nurse practitioners in urban and rural clinics and health centers in all 50 states. She expects the data to shed light on a perennial question: whether care is less costly when nurse practitioners are allowed to practice to the full extent of their licensure, and whether and how patients benefit.
Dr. Sochalski received her MS and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan, focusing on Health Economics, Public Policy, and Public Health nursing.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.