Empowering New Nurses with Stronger Skills in Mindfulness, Self-Care, Well-Being, and Leadership : AACN

Webinar Details

In today’s complex and evolving healthcare environment, mindfulness, self-care, well-being, and leadership skills are indispensable to the role of the professional nurse. With funding provided by the Johnson & Johnson Foundation in partnership with the Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation, AACN launched a national initiative titled A Competency-Based Approach to Leadership Development and Resilience for Student Nurses focused on building leadership capacity in new nurses with a special emphasis on developing essential skills in mindfulness, self-care, and well-being. AACN convened an expert advisory group to identify learning and assessment strategies that foster health, resilience, and well-being. Ten pilot schools were selected to implement and evaluate diverse strategies to integrate these concepts and related competencies across the entry-level curriculum. Speakers will highlight the importance of and strategies for integrating across the curricula.

Objectives:

Describe learning strategies and clinical experiences that develop skills in mindfulness, self-care, well-being, and leadership.
Explore ways to evaluate student’s competence in mindfulness, self-care, and well-being.
Describe opportunities to enhance faculty-practice partnerships to prioritize mindfulness, self-care, and well-being in students and practicing nurses.

Note: Recording of the webinar will be available soon after the webinar airs. Visit AACN's On-Demand Webinars to watch.

Speakers

Catherine A. Stubin, PhD, RN headshot of Catherine Stubin , CNE, CCRN-K
Assistant Professor
Rutgers School of Nursing - Camden

Dr. Catherine A. Stubin is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University School of Nursing-Camden and has been an undergraduate nurse educator for over 20 years. She holds national certification as both a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) and Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN). As a PhD-prepared nurse researcher, she has designed and conducted qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods nursing research as both a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on resilience, stress, anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation in nursing students. Dr. Stubin has been the recipient of several internal and external small grants, including awards from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, and a co-sponsored National League for Nursing (NLN)/ Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) doctoral research grant. She was also selected to the eighth cohort of the NLN Jonas Scholars Program, a prestigious honor which supports doctoral research in nursing education. Dr. Stubin has disseminated her research on nursing student mental health by way of numerous national and international peer-reviewed, professional nursing education conferences and published, peer-reviewed articles.

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Ludy Llasus, PhD, RN, APRN, NP-C
Associate Professor
Nevada State University

Dr. Llasus is a tenured Associate Professor at Nevada State University School of Nursing. She earned her PhD in Nursing from University of Nevada Las Vegas. She holds certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Dr. Llasus has 32 years of experience in nursing, including 23 years in nursing education. She has been a major force in the establishment of the nursing curriculum and programmatic infrastructure at Nevada State. She played a significant role in establishing the structure of simulation education and received recognition by the Nevada Board of Regents for her outstanding contribution in the development of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas.

She has served as Interim Dean, Associate Dean and Pre-Licensure Director for the School of Nursing and was instrumental in facilitating the growth for both the RN to BSN and pre-licensure programs. Dr. Llasus is a Watson Caring Science Institute Caritas Coach®. She provides leadership in the integration of Caring Science in the BSN curriculum at Nevada State. Her soul's work is nursing education and remains committed in educating future nurses who are expected to lead and advance the nursing profession.

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Moderator

Kate Gawlik, DNP, RN, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
Associate Clinical Professor
Project Manager, Million Hearts
Director of Undergraduate Health and Wellness Academic Programming
Co-Director of Bachelor of Science in Health and Wellness
The Ohio State University

Kate Gawlik is an Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing, Director of Undergraduate Health and Wellness Academic Programming, and Project Manager for the Million Hearts® initiative at Ohio State University. She is a Family Nurse Practitioner and her areas of expertise are in wellness, cardiovascular prevention, 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 100,000 people nationwide and has been embedded into nursing curricula across the U.S. This work has received four national awards, including most recently, the 2022 AACN’s Innovation Award. She is a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Academy of Nursing. She is the editor of four nursing textbooks.

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.