Webinar Overview

Recent reports of the adequacy and future supply of the NP workforce have relied on aggregate data incorporating all NP specialties and the care of all age groups. However, when examined in detail, there are marked differences in both the supply and the pipelines across specialties. Specifically, the increases seen in the pipeline for NPs overall has not occurred for pediatric or neonatal nurse practitioners despite an increase in market demand for those professionals.

Webinar Speakers

Kristy K. Martyn, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC, FNP-BC, FAAN
Assistant Dean of Clinical Advancement
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University

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Gary L. Freed, MD, MPH
Director, Australian Health Workforce Institute
School of Population and Global Health
The University of Melbourne

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Kristin Hittle, MSN, RN, CPNP-AC, CCRN
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

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Suzanne Staebler, DNP, APRN, NNP-BC
Health Policy Consultant
Alliance for Patient Access

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Susan N. Van Cleve, DNP, CPNP-PC, PMHS
Associate Professor, Interim Director of the DNP Program
Robert Morris Univeristy, School of Nursing and Health Sciences

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Webinar Overview

Recent court legislation and civil litigation has set the stage for increased scrutiny over Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) regulations, emphasizing greater awareness and oversight of the protections afforded to students. It is setting new precedence for compliance management in colleges and universities nationwide. CertifiedBackground.com wants to ensure that you are equipped with the most up to date information and the right internal processes to take care of your students, while managing the risks associated with your program's background screening policies and practices.

Topics of discussion in this webinar will include::

• Today's background screening industry - what you know and what you don't know
• The hard truth about the FCRA and how it applies to your college
• Taking care of your students and mitigating your risk.

Webinar SpeakerS

Mike Kenney
Vice President of Sales
Castle Branch/CertifiedBackground.com

Branch works with over 12,000 US organizations including many volunteer and non-profit organizations. Mike joined Castle Branch in 2007, leading the company's business development team. In 2010 he transitioned to his current role, taking with him many of the innovations he developed while leading the Business Development team. Currently, he leads a team of over 50 Sales Professionals servicing the US through their corporate office in Wilmington, NC and their west coast office just outside of San Francisco, CA.

With Comments From:

Joe Finley
President
Castle Branch/CertifiedBackground.com

Michelle Kiesecker
Vice President of Client Solutions
Castle Branch/CertifiedBackground.com

Katie Giacalone
Sales Manager
Castle Branch/CertifiedBackground.com

Webinar Overview

In today’s job market, you have to take responsibility for navigating your career. If you have earned the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) credential or are considering sitting for the CNL certification exam, you are encouraged to attend this Webinar to learn strategies to market your unique knowledge and skillset.

Webinar Speakers

Mary Mather, MSN, RN, CNL
South Texas VA Medical Center

Ms. Mather is a Master’s prepared Clinical Nurse Leader. Her professional experience has included working in the private sector as well as caring for America’s veterans. She joined the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 2003 and has been a Clinical Nurse Leader for 5 years. Her exemplary work as a professional nurse has been recognized by South Texas Veterans Health Care System with the facility level Secretary of Veteran Affairs’ Award for Excellence in Nursing 2006 and 2012. She is certified as a Fellow Mentor with the VA mentoring three to four nurses each year. She provides educational offerings for the hospital education department, local universities, as well as meeting the needs at the unit level. She has published articles on communication strategies and interview techniques to enhance patient care. She produces abstracts related to work place successes that have been accepted by the International Evidenced Based Practice Summer Institute, CNL Summit, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute, Comprehensive Emergency Management Program Evaluation and Research, and the National Gerontological Nurses Association (NGNA) Annual Convention. She has been recognized by the National Nursing Honor Society for contributions as a nursing leader, recognized on the CNL Wall of Fame, a CNL ambassador for certification, and serves as President to the local chapter of the NGNA. Through her work she has demonstrated CNL practice excellence that earned her the 2012 CNL Nationa l Vanguard Award.

Erica DeBoer, MA, RN, CNL, CCRN
Sanford USD Medical Center and South Dakota State University

Erica started her nursing career in 1997 after graduating with her BSN from South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. She completed her MA in 2010 from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD as a part of the first cohort of Clinical Nurse Leaders in the region. The majority of her nursing career has been spent at the bedside in the Critical Care Setting in a variety of roles from Charge Nurse, Clinical Nurse Educator, Clinical Leader, to Clinical Nurse Leader. She has been instrumental in the development of multiple programs in critical care setting as well the implementation of smart pump technology and bedside scanning of medications hospital wide. Erica leads multiple interdisciplinary teams to achieve more reliable processes and outcomes for patients. Over the last 2 year s Ms. DeBoer has taken on a hospital wide roll at Sanford USD Medical Center leading other projects and teams. She is the principal investigator in a cancer related fatigue study and assists with educating frontline staff at Sanford with understanding the basics of Evidenced Based Practice (EBP) and application at the bedside. Erica serves as adjunct faculty at 2 of the local colleges focusing on core CNL courses and EBP and research as well as the importance of implementation at the bedside.

Ann Deerhake, MS, RN, CNL, CCRN
St. Rita’s Medical Center and The Ohio State University

Since 1991, Ann has been a critical care nurse at St. Rita’s Medical Center, a Level II Trauma Center in Lima, OH. Her love of caring for critically ill patients in the medical-surgical-neurological ICU began in 1997 and she continued on to become a Critical Care Clinical Resource Nurse for the nightshift nur sing staff in 2006. As one of the leaders of the Rapid Response and Code Blue teams, Ann continually found gaps in processes that led to decreased patient safety and suboptimal outcomes. While completing her BSN at Ohio Northern University in 2007, she discovered the Clinical Nurse Leader role and was thrilled at the prospect of furthering her education in preparation to remain at the bedside while improving the quality of care. After receiving her MS in Nursing from The Ohio State University, as well as her Clinical Nurse Leader certification, Ann advocated for the CNL role, obtaining the initial Clinical Nurse Leader position at St. Rita’s Medical Center. While in this role she has focused on education, developing an Open Heart Practicum for care of the immediate out of surgery open heart patient, an annual ICU competency day, and progressive care educational boot camps. Ann has collaborated with many transdisciplinary teams to improve quality, working on such initiatives as reducing pressure ulcer and nosocomial infection, increasing staff and patient satisfaction, and encouraging professional development of frontline nursing staff. In 2012, she became an Epic credentialed tr ainer and was integral in the system implementation, becoming a critical care clinical documentation resource for St. Rita’s and Catholic Health Partners. Ann also serves as part-time faculty for the graduate nursing program at The Ohio State university, teaching Health Promotion and Transition to CNL Practice.

Webinar Overview

Developing the next generation of leaders for public health nursing will require innovation, education, and dedication to the goals of population health nursing. This Webinar provides insight into how to use the advanced public health nursing competencies to support leadership development in the advanced public health nursing curriculum. Practical examples that help students’ bridge education to practice, curriculum planning ideas, and evaluation strategies will be presented and discussed. This Webinar will provide information immediately useful to curriculum planners, program directors, and faculty who prepare advanced practice public health nurses.

Webinar SpeakerS

Pamela A. Kulbok, DNSc, PHCNS-BC, FAAN
Chair, Department of Family, Community, and Mental Health Systems
University of Virginia School of Nursing

Dr. Kulbok coordinates and teaches in the public health nursing leadership (PHNL) specialty track of the MSN program. She was co-director of the Nursing Leadership in Rural Health Care, advanced education nursing (AEN) training grant (2009-2012) and formerly co-directed an AEN grant in Leadership in Public Health Nursing and Health Systems Management (2003-2006). Her teaching focus is in PHN leadership, rural health, health promotion and health behavior research, and nursing knowledge development related to nursing science and public health nursing. Dr. Kulbok’s clinical focus is on public health nursing leadership and emerging roles for advanced public health nurses. She is particularly interested in community participatory health promotion and adolescent health promotion and risk reduction. She is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Executive Nurse Fellow (2012-2015).

Joy Reed, EdD, RN, FAAN
Head, Public Health Nursing and Professional Development Unit
North Carolina Division of Public Health

Dr. Reed currently serves as the division lead in a new health information systems project to meet the needs of both the Division of Public Health and the 85 local health departments in the state of North Carolina. She is the Chair of the Quad Council, and is the President of the Association of Public Health Nurses. In 2008, she received the ANA's Pearl McIver Award for Public Health Nursing and was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing. In addition to her many roles, Dr. Reed served as Chair of the committee to revise the Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing for the American Nurses Association. Within North Carolina, she is the Head of the Local Technical Assistance & Training Branch within the Division of Public Health. In previous years Dr. Reed served as the division lead in developing a system to accredit local health departments. Because of her role in that effort, she served on the Standards Workgroup of the Exploring Accr editation initiative also funded by RWJF and is now on the Standards Workgroup for the national Public Health Accreditation Board.

Susan Swider, PhD, APHN-BC, FAAN
Professor
Rush University, College of Nursing

Dr. Swider is the specialty coordinator of the Rush University College of Nursing’s advanced public health nursing program. Over the past 20 years, her research has focused on program development and evaluation of community health workers, and on engaging urban communities in health promotion. From 1995 to 1998, Swider was a Kellogg International Leadership Program Fellow. She also served on the board of directors for the Erie Family Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Chicago, from 1992 to 2009. Most recently Dr. Swider was appointed to serve on President Barack Obama's Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health. She is a member of several professional organizations in public health nursing, including the American Public Health Association, the Institute of Medicine of Chicago and the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators, where she currently serves as president.

Webinar Overview

Peer evaluation of teaching is an important aspect of quality improvement for educators and may be required for faculty retention and promotion. Since resources for peer evaluation of classroom teaching at schools can be ineffective for assessing online teaching, a more appropriate tool is needed. During this Webinar, viewers will learn the process of developing a peer evaluation form for online teaching.

Webinar SpeakerS

Carol Gaskamp PhD, RN, APHN-BC
Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing
University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing

Dr. Carol Gaskamp, an Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing, received a BSN from the University of Texas System School of Nursing at Houston in 1 976, a MA in community health nursing and nursing education from University of Iowa in 1981, and a PhD in nursing systems and preventive medicine in 2000 from University of Kansas. Her clinical experience includes staff and administrative positions in local health departments in Wisconsin and Kansas. Dr. Gaskamp has been a full-time nurse educator since 1991, teaching a variety of BSN, RN-BSN and MSN face-to-face and online courses. Dr. Gaskamp’s approach to online teaching was shaped by 10 years experience in distance education during the 1990s. Dr. Gaskamp has been with the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing since 2001, and is part of the school’s administrative team as a division chair.

Eileen K. Kintner, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor and Senior NIH Investigator
University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing

Dr. Kintner completed her BSN at Northern Michigan University i n 1979. In 1987, she served as the staff educator introducing computers and the new electronic data-entry system to nurses at a trauma 1 medical center in Tucson, AZ. She earned her PhD at The University of Arizona in 1996 and completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at The University of Michigan from 1997-1999. Over the past 15 years, as an assistant and associate professor, Dr. Kintner has continually facilitated online and hybrid nursing education courses with exemplary student and peer evaluations. Teaching at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral levels using six different platforms across four universities, course content has primarily focused on nursing research, and growth and development of individuals and families across the lifespan.