Innovative Primary Care Nursing Academic Practice Partnership

Dr. Ziehm has 30 years of experience teaching and serving as an academic administrator overseeing Master’s Entry programs. He has been an invited consultant to over 20 universities to either develop or revise accelerated programs that offer entre to nursing for second career students. He has published nationally and internationally on this work. In 2018, he presented at the AACN Masters Conference titled, “Accelerated Masters-Entry Programs: Structuring a Program Built for Success.”

Since 2015, Dr. Ziehm has served as the Associate Dean for Prelicensure Programs and Accreditation and Professor at the University of San Francisco, School of Nursing and Health Professions. His work on this initiative focused on making revisions to ensure the program met high quality outcomes for the students and the partnership.

Mary Donnelly, DNP, MPH, ANP-BC, ACNP-BC, CNL has a record of leadership and advocacy for increasing patient access to primary care and advocating for the increased presence of nursing leadership in primary care settings.

Dr. Donnelly has provided primary care for over 40 years in a variety of settings on three continents. This experience has provided her with the expertise in practice and in graduate education to foster and promote independence, ethical behavior, critical thinking and sensitivity to the varied perspectives of culturally diverse populations.

Dr. Donnelly was a site supervisor for a nurse run community health center is Baltimore, MD which provided healthcare resources for community member with no insurance or insufficient health insurance while precepting medical residents and graduate nursing students in primary care management of chronic diseases. She received the Johns Hopkins Biennial Retreat in Primary Care, Service Excellence Award for this work. Dr. Donnelly also received a grant award for over $9,000.00 to evaluate a program for Reducing Cardiovascular Risk factors in the Urban Environment, sponsored by Urban Health Institute.

As an educator, Dr. Donnelly has 12 years of experience working with Masters’ entry into nursing programs, formerly with the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and currently with the San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions. She is currently serving on a task force with the AAACN to develop guidelines for academic and practice partnerships.

Erica Hooper-Arana has nursing experience working in the areas of geriatrics, pediatrics, primary care, public health, leadership, program development, research, and education. She has a BSN and DNP in Health Care Systems Leadership from the University of San Francisco. She also has an MSN in Advanced Community Health and International Nursing with a minor in Education from the University of California San Francisco. She has been a nurse educator at the University of San Francisco since 2005.

At USF Erica Hooper-Arana serves as faculty lead for the Joint Venture Health Initiative (JVHI), which is a clinical option designed to prepare nursing master’s-entry students for nursing roles in primary care. She was a participant in the 2016 Macy Conference on preparing registered nurses for enhanced roles in primary care. In 2019, she co-authored a poster presented at the annual AAACN conference that described the incorporation of ambulatory care competencies in USF nursing education. She recently published a co-authored Nurse Educator manuscript describing the pilot years of JVHI. She is also a co-author for the 2019 AACN award nomination for innovations in professional nursing education based on JVHI, which led to USF being selected as recipient of the award and to the fruition of this webinar.

Additionally, Erica Hooper-Arana is a Caritas Coach® and has a passion for alternative healing practices as well as promoting the health and wellness of vulnerable populations. She has an expertise working in community health with an emphasis on juvenile justice system-involved youth.