“How To’s” for Building a Competency-Based Education Program
March 08, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details
Dr. Gerry Altmiller, professor of nursing and director of The College of New Jersey Quality and Safety Innovation Center, discusses how to encourage faculty colleagues to utilize competency-based education strategies aligned with the 2021 Essentials. Topics include approaches for conducting effective and useful curriculum mapping and strategies for streamlining the process for colleagues. Dr. Altmiller will share examples for integrating sub-competencies appropriate to pre-licensure, RN-BSN, and graduate education into curricula, along with ideas to operationalize this new alignment on a small and large scale.
For the latest updates and resources on the new AACN's Essentials, visit www.aacnnursing.org/AACN-Essentials.
Speakers
Speakers
Gerry Altmiller,EdD, APRN, ACNS-BC, ANEF, FAAN
Professor of Nursing
The College of New Jersey
Gerry Altmiller, EdD, APRN, ACNS-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is a professor of nursing at The College of New Jersey, a clinical nurse specialist consultant for Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has pioneered the integration of quality and safety competencies in nursing education since 2006 when she served as a faculty leader for one of the 15 pilot schools for the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Collaboration. She currently is a national consultant for QSEN and director of the Quality and Safety Innovation Center at The College of New Jersey. She leads the QSEN Academic Task Force, creating opportunities for its 110 members to network, share ideas, and conduct academic focused research. Dr. Altmiller authored the Teamwork and Communication Module of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s Transition to Practice program and in 2014 she received a Lindback Award for distinguished teaching. Her work on constructive feedback led to the development, testing, and dissemination of support tools for nurse educators and learning tools for students to view feedback as an opportunity. Dr. Altmiller was co-editor of a special QSEN issue of Nurse Educator and currently serves on the journal’s editorial board. Her research focuses on clinical evaluation, QSEN integration, and communication challenges in educational and practice environments.