National Study on Civility and Incivility in Academic Nursing: Lessons from the Field
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
Incivility, bullying, gaslighting, and other forms of workplace aggression damage relationships, threaten quality of life, cause harm and contributes to mental and physical health conditions to all in involved. Moreover, incivility in nursing education can have a ‘‘spill-over’’ effect into the practice environment and negatively impact worker and patient safety. This thought-provoking session provides a deepened and empirical understanding of faculty and administrator incivility and offers a variety of evidence-based strategies to build and sustain healthy academic work environments and cultures of belonging.
Objectives:
- Describe civility within the context of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Discuss findings from a 2020 national study regarding faculty and administrator perspectives on civility and incivility in academic nursing.
- Explore evidence-based strategies to foster civility, healthy work environments, and cultures of belonging.
Speakers
Speaker
Cynthia Clark, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Professor Emeritus
Boise State University
Dr. Cynthia Clark is the Founder of Civility Matters LLC, Professor Emeritus at Boise State University, and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the NLN Academy of Nursing Education. Her seminal work on fostering civility has brought national and international attention to the controversial issues of incivility in academic and practice environments. Her theory-driven interventions, empirical measurements, theoretical models, and reflective assessments provide best practices to create healthy workplaces around the globe.
Dr. Clark’s many awards include 3-time recipient of the Most Inspirational Professor Award, NLN Excellence in Educational Research Award, Journal of Nursing Education Christine A. Tanner Scholarly Writing Award, Elizabeth Russell Belford Award for Excellence in Education, awarded by Sigma Theta Tau, and the AACN John P. McGovern Lectureship Award.
Dr. Clark's current research includes bridging the education-practice gap to create positive work cultures; designing and testing empirical instruments; integrating civility and inclusion into nursing curricula; and conducting intervention studies to measure the effectiveness of cognitive rehearsal. Her presentations number in the hundreds, her publications have appeared in a broad range of peer-reviewed and open-access venues, and her empirical instruments have been translated into 16 languages and used in more than 30 countries. Her book, Creating and Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education is a must-read for all educators and healthcare professionals. Dr. Clark’s upcoming book, Core Competencies of Civility for Nursing and Healthcare will be available Spring 2022.
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Establishing VA Affairs Affiliation Agreements for Clinical Training of Nursing Students
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
Nursing schools across the nation struggle to expand student enrollment to meet projected nursing workforce demands due to inadequate clinical training capacity and faculty shortages. In recent years, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Academic Affiliations has implemented multiple innovative nursing workforce training programs to enhance nursing education and practice by facilitating a stronger and mutually beneficial partnership between VA and schools of nursing across the nation. In the academic year 2019, more than 25,000 nursing students completed all or part of their clinical training at VA facilities. The purpose of this presentation is to equip participants with an essential information to establish VA Nursing Academic Partnerships.
Objectives
- Provide an overview of the VA education mission, the VA Office of Academic Affiliations, and current nursing training programs
- Discuss the process for establishing VA Affiliation Agreement for clinical training of nursing students
- Share tools and resources for establishing VA Academic Partnerships
Speakers
Speaker
Director of Nursing Education
Office of Academic Affiliations (14AA)
Department of Veterans Affairs
Dr. Jemma Ayvazian is the National Director of Nursing Education at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC. In this role, she assumes responsibility for all Veterans Affairs academic nursing education programs, including more than 25,000 nursing trainees annually. Dr. Ayvazian received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her Masters of Science in Nursing and Post-Master’s Certificate in Teaching at Boston College. She decided to dedicate her professional life to supporting veterans and their families upon completing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Ayvazian is board-certified in Primary Care, Oncology, and Pain Management and served multiple roles at the Veterans Health Administration, with both clinical and administrative responsibilities. She worked at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Bedford, Massachusetts, and served as a Pain Management and Traumatic Brain Injury Nurse Practitioner and Program Coordinator in the Polytrauma Clinic at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio. She assumed clinical and program coordination responsibilities as an Oncology Nurse Practitioner at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center before transitioning to the VA Central Office.Dr. Ayvazian received numerous performance and academic excellence and achievement awards during her career, including Jonas Veterans Healthcare and Bob Woodruff Foundation Scholar Awards.
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An Insider’s Look at 2020-2030 Future of Nursing Report: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
On May 11, 2021, the National Academy of Medicine will release the highly anticipated report, The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. Based on the results of a consensus committee process, this report will cover the vision for the nursing profession into 2030 and chart a path for the nursing profession to help our nation create a culture of health, reduce health disparities, and improve the health and well-being of the U.S. population in the 21st century. Dr. Susan Hassmiller, who served as a key member of the leadership team for the report, will provide an overview of the report’s findings and discuss how nursing educators and students can help to advance health equity.
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Speakers
Speakers
Senior Scholar-In-Residence
Senior Adviser to the President
National Academy of Medicine
Susan Hassmiller is currently serving as the Senior Scholar-In-Residence and Senior Adviser to the President on Nursing at the National Academy of Medicine from January 2019 through August 2021. In this role, she is serving as a key member of the leadership team for the Future of Nursing 2030 report. She is also the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Senior Adviser for Nursing, and in partnership with AARP, Hassmiller also directs the Foundation’s Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. This 50-state and District of Columbia effort strives to implement the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine’s report on The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health and will additionally seek to build a Culture of Health. Hassmiller served as the report’s study director.
Hassmiller’s work has included service in public health settings at the local, state and national levels, including HRSA. She taught community health nursing at the University of Nebraska and George Mason University in Virginia.
Board of Directors, AACN
Vice President for Nursing Affairs, Professor, and Dean
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing
Dr. Susan Bakewell-Sachs is a nationally recognized scholar and clinical expert in the care of prematurely born infants, as well as a distinguished leader in academic nursing. Prior to assuming her current role at OHSU in 2013, she served as nursing faculty at the University of Pennsylvania; program director, professor and dean at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) School of Nursing, Health & Exercise Science; and Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at TCNJ. A strong nurse advocate, she was the director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) New Jersey Nursing Initiative, chair of the New Jersey Association of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Programs, member of the March of Dimes National Nursing Advisory Council, and on the steering committee of the Oregon Action Coalition. Dr. Bakewell-Sachs was an RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow, Cohort 2007, where her leadership development project focused on strategic effectiveness and nursing education.
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Public Health and Population Health: A Distinction with a Difference: Part 2
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
For the past decade, leaders in health care have been talking about population health and its importance in improving the health of the nation. The simplest definition of population health is "the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group" (Kindig and Stoddart, 2003). This term is often used seemingly interchangeably with public health-so what does that mean? Is population health the same as public health? If they are different, what are the differences? How do these concepts look in nursing practice-and how can faculty educate nurses effectively in each area, at both entry and advanced practice levels? The new AACN Essentials focus on core population health competencies at both the entry and advanced level of nursing practice. As examples of this, AACN will present two webinars looking at similarities and differences between public health and population health in nursing practice-and nursing education. Part 1 webinar will focus on public health and population health in nursing education at the prelicensure/entry level of education and practice, and Part 2 webinar will focus on population and public health in advanced/specialty nursing practice and education.
This webinar is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Academic Partnerships to Improve Health.
Objectives
- Compare and contrast population health and public health in nursing education
- Describe key characteristics of public health clinical experiences at the
- Graduate level
- Entry level
- Describe key characteristics of population health in clinical practice at the
- Graduate level
- Entry level
Speakers
Speakers
Professor
Community, Systems and Mental Health Nursing
Rush University
Susan Swider is a Professor in the Department of Community, Systems and Mental Health Nursing at Rush University in Chicago. Dr. Swider has practiced in acute care, home health care and public health settings over the past thirty years. Her research has focused on program development and evaluation of community health workers, engaging urban communities in health promotion, and health policy to support health promotion efforts. She has taught public health nursing at the pre-licensure and graduate/specialty level at several universities, and co-directed 10 years of HRSA supported work to develop an online doctoral program in Advanced Public Health Nursing, ensuring that it met the Quad Council competencies for Public Health Nursing practice. She is a member of a number of public health and public health nursing organizations and is a past president of the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators (ACHNE). In her role with ACHNE, she served on the Quad Council for Public Health Nursing organizations and was a member of the Task Force that revised the Competencies for Public Health Nursing (2010-2012). In 2011, Dr. Swider was appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health, a group designed to advise on the development and implementation of the National Prevention Strategy. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. In 2016, she was appointed to serve on the Community Preventive Services Task Force of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Assistant Professor
Director of PMHNP Program
College of Nursing
Rush University
Michelle Heyland is a board certification psychiatric & mental health nurse practitioner with 8 years of experience as a nurse practitioner and 13 years as a nurse working in mental health overall. She has worked in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, currently working at a community mental health center and operating her own private practice. She is also director of the PMHNP program at Rush University College of Nursing and an Associate Professor. Her area of scholarship is emergency department diversion of people in mental health crisis. She has worked extensively with the Living Room model, which provides a community based crisis respite center for people experiencing psychiatric emergencies.
Assistant Professor
Eastern Michigan University
Elizabeth A. Loomis is an Assistant Professor at Eastern Michigan University, School of Nursing and a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner. Dr. Loomis received her DNP at Rush University in Transformative Leadership: Population Health. In addition to teaching full time, Dr. Loomis practices part-time in an OB/GYN office. Her clinical interests include safe opioid prescribing, and the primary care of women, specifically working with adolescents and young adults regarding safe sex practices and STD prevention.
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Maintaining Program Integrity During a Pandemic: Balancing Rigor with Compassion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
This webinar will highlight the changing landscape of nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The speaker will discuss how the incorporation of professionalism, ethics and accountability can play a role in educating nursing students during this time. Potential stakeholders will be identified. Finally, discussion will take place over how to balance rigor with compassion while moving past the pandemic.
Objectives
- Review the changing landscape of nursing education during COVID-19.
- Discuss the role of professionalism, ethics, and accountability in the education of nursing students during the pandemic.
- Explore the potential impact the pandemic has on potential stakeholders, while educators attempt to balance rigor with compassion.
Speakers
Speakers
ABSN Program Director and Assistant Professor
Gwynedd Mercy University
Dr. Mary Ann Siciliano McLaughlin has been the ABSN Program Director and an Assistant Professor of Nursing in the Frances M. Maguire School of Nursing and Health Professions since August of 2017. Dr. McLaughlin earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Degree from the University of Pennsylvania; her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Degree in Adult Health and Illness, Cardiopulmonary Clinical Nurse Specialist, from the University of Pennsylvania; and her Doctorate in Education, in Nursing Leadership and Organization, from Teachers College at Columbia University.
Dr. McLaughlin is a member of the Xi, Alpha Zeta, and Iotta Kappa chapters of Sigma Theta Tau, the National Honor Society for Nurses; the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN); the AACN Faculty Leadership Network; the National League for Nursing (NLN); the American Nurses Association (ANA); the New Jersey State Nurses Association; and the Nursing Education Alumni Association (NEAA) of Teachers College at Columbia University.
Dr. McLaughlin’s areas of experience and expertise include: cardiac nursing, medical surgical nursing, education, publishing, NCLEX, disease management, telehealth, nursing management, professionalism, leadership, and ethics.
Dr. McLaughlin’s scholarship interests include publications and presentations related to cardiac nursing, medical surgical nursing, NCLEX, professionalism, and ethics. The main focus of her scholarship now revolves around ethical practice in nursing. She has had opportunities to present locally, nationally, and internationally relating to her scholarship on ethics and her model, the Siciliano-McLaughlin Model of Ethics.
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University School of Nursing-Camden
Dr. Tyshaneka Saffold is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University School of Nursing-Camden. Dr. Saffold is an advocate who is passionate about improving the health of those in underserved populations. Her core values shape her philosophy of nursing: everyone deserves to be treated with kindness and compassion regardless of race or socioeconomic status. Her service relates closely to her commitment to ensure fair and equitable service to all regardless of their income level. Dr. Saffold volunteers both locally and internationally, providing free health and education services to community members.
Dr. Saffold's program of research is health disparities in urban populations; prevention of both social and racial injustice; impact of poverty on health; and improving the health of vulnerable populations. Dr. Saffold has been a nurse for 18 years, with clinical expertise in the areas of cardiac care, community health, nursing education, geriatrics, and leadership. Currently, her research centers on social determinants of health; particularly health disparities, social injustice, racial injustice, and inequalities in healthcare.
Dean - School of Nursing
Florida A&M University
Dr. Shelley Johnson holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nursing, and a doctorate in educational leadership. She also completed certificate programs from Harvard University in educational leadership and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and a Community Participatory Research Fellowship at University of Pennsylvania. She is dedicated to lifelong learning and was graduated from Northwestern University’s, Kellogg School of Management’s Executive MBA program. Dr. Johnson lives servant leadership. She serves as subject matter expert and participates in research related to healthy educational environments, health disparities, cultural diversity, advocacy, leadership, and nursing education.