Integrating the Essentials and Quality Improvement Using the Million Hearts Initiative (Part 1 of 2)
Webinar Details
This webinar is designed to introduce nursing educators to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Million Hearts initiative. This session will explore how the initiative aligns with the AACN Essentials and competency-based education, highlighting opportunities for integration into nursing curricula. Attendees will learn about clinical applications, available resources for nursing professionals, and how colleges of nursing can incorporate these strategies. Additionally, the webinar will showcase the Million Hearts Fellowship educational modules, providing a comprehensive overview of this online learning tool.
Outcomes:
The learner will be able to:
- Describe the Million Hearts Initiative
- Understand ways to integrate the Nursing Essentials and Competency-Based Education with the Million Hearts initiative
- Discuss clinical application and resources for nursing and colleges of nursing
- Integrate the Million Hearts Fellowship into nursing curricula
Note: Recording of the webinar will be available soon after the webinar airs. Visit AACN's On-Demand Webinars to watch.
Speakers
Kate Gawlik, DNP, APRN-CNP, FAAN, FNAP, FAANP
Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing
The Ohio State University
Dr. Kate Gawlik is an Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing, Director of Undergraduate Health and Wellness Academic Programming, and the Director of the Bachelor of Science in health and wellness program at The Ohio State University. She is a Family Nurse Practitioner and her areas of expertise are in wellness, cardiovascular prevention, parental burnout, and nursing education. She pioneered an online educational program, the Million Hearts Fellowship, for healthcare professionals that has resulted in the cardiovascular screening and education of over 110,000 people nationwide and has been embedded into nursing curricula across the U.S. This work has received four national awards, including most recently, the AACN’s Innovation in Professional Nursing Education Award. She is a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Academy of Nursing.
Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAAN, FAANP, FNAP
Professor and Dean Emeritus
The Ohio State University
Dr. Bernadette Melnyk is an inspirational speaker, author, leader, innovator, entrepreneur and recognized expert in evidence-based practice, mental health, population health and well-being, intervention research and organizational culture change. She also is CEO and founder of COPE2Thrive, LLC. For the past 13 years, she served as Vice President for Health Promotion and Chief Wellness Officer at The Ohio State University, where she also was the Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Evidence-based Practice . She founded the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare. Dr. Melnyk is editor of eight books and has over 600 publications and received more than $36 million dollars of sponsored funding from N IH, AHRQ, and foundations as a principal investigator. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Nursing that has recognized her three times as an Edge Runner, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Melnyk has served on several national advisory boards, including the United States Preventive Services Task Force, and led nursing colleges at Ohio State University and Arizona State University. She is currently the elected chair of the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and received honorary doctoral degrees from the State University of New York and Frontier Nursing University. Dr. Melnyk's COPE programs for depression and anxiety are used across 50 states and in several countries. She is editor-in-chief of Sigma’s top ranked journal Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing and serves on the advisory board for the ANA’s Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation initiative.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to all.
Continuing Nursing Education
One nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) credit is associated with this webinar; attendees must be present for the entire webinar and complete the evaluation to receive a certificate of completion.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.