Faculty Policy Think Tank: Content Leveling
Webinar Description
AACN’s Faculty Policy Think Tank (FPTT) provides 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 who were charged with making recommendations on improving health policy education in nursing.
The FPTT recently developed recommendations for policy education in all levels of nursing education. Within the overarching perspective that policy topics include advocacy, analysis, and research, there are levels of knowledge and skills that should be acquired by students. In this webinar, we will discuss the expectation for competencies essential for BSN, master’s and doctoral students to demonstrate. Examples of leveled content and suggestions for evaluating student performance will be presented.
View Faculty Policy Think Tank Members and Final Report and Recommendation.
Objectives:
- Compare and contrast suggested policy competencies based on the educational level-BSN, master’s or doctoral.
- Identify strategies for developing course curricula that account for variation in students’ baseline knowledge and skills.
- Appraise useful approaches for teaching and learning health policy and advocacy.
This offering is the fourth in the series, for the rest of the series visit AACN’s On-Demand Webinar page.
Speakers
Christine Anderson, PhD, RNClinical Associate Professor, Department of Systems, Populations & Leadership
University of Michigan
AACN Faculty Policy Think Tank member Dr. Christine Anderson teaches implementation science, quality improvement, and health policy and politics at the University of Michigan. She received her BSN from the University of Michigan and master’s in history from Eastern Michigan University, focusing on early twentieth century efforts to reform nursing education. Her PhD in nursing was obtained at Michigan with a focus on using complex system science methods to study opinion leader influence on the uptake of evidence-based practices. Dr. Anderson has extensive clinical background in the operating room setting and continues to consult with perioperative leaders on quality and policy related projects. Her research interests include using agent-based computer models and social network analysis to enhance understanding of complex, dynamic systems.
Patricia Brennan, PhD, RN, DFNAPProfessor
Samuel Merritt University
Dr. Patricia (Trish) Brennan, also on the FPTT, teaches health policy across undergraduate and graduate curriculum at Samuel Merritt University and has mentored undergraduate as well as APRN and doctoral students in the areas of health policy advocacy and policy analysis. Dr. Brennan received her undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Nursing from Emory University and her master’s and PhD degrees at the University of California, San Francisco in Critical Care/Trauma and Health Policy respectively. In addition, she has been a champion in the integration of genetics and genomics into health professional education. She has been engaged nationally through collaborations at the National Institutes of Health as a Faculty Champion in Genetics and Genomics and serves on the Editorial Board of the NIH National Genome Research Institute’s Genetics and Genomics Competency Center. Her research interests include health policy issues related to access to care, particularly in regard to genetics and genomics and acuity based models of organ allocation. In addition, Dr. Brennan is currently assessing the outcomes of simulation and immersive learning (including virtual reality), particularly related to genomic education and clinical practice.
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.