Zoom3 : Interprofessional Education in the Age of COVID-19
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
This webinar will focus on avoiding a “ZoomZaster” by presenting an exemplar program at Loyola University Chicago which engaged more than 300 health professional learners about the topic of interprofessional infection prevention in the time of COVID-19. What would regularly have been performed in person, had to shift with innovative strategies to keep everyone safe. Lessons learned and pitfalls will be discussed.
Objectives:
- Present an exemplar program of interprofessional education
- Describe innovations in virtual education
- Discuss essential resources needed for effective Zoom education for large audiences
Speakers
Speakers
Co-Director, Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Education
Professor, Family Medicine, Bioethics & Health Policy, and Medical Education
Loyola University Chicago
Aaron J. Michelfelder, M.D., FAAFP, FAAMA, grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado and moved to Illinois to attend Northwestern University. He then attended the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and completed a family medicine residency at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. In 2000, He joined the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Loyola University Medical Center as a faculty member. He later completed a fellowship in medical acupuncture and advanced training in medical hypnosis. Dr. Michelfelder currently serves as Loyola’s chair of family medicine and interim director of primary care, co-director for Loyola’s Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Education, and is a professor of family medicine, bioethics & health policy, and medical education. He also serves as the President-Elect for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. His clinical practice includes general family medicine along with integrative medicine. His research interests are in practice transformation and the process of traveling from interprofessional education to collaborative practice. He is also interested in global health and has participated in 25 international medical and educational trips to 10 countries.
Co-Director, Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Education
Professor, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing; Professor
Stritch School of Medicine
Loyola University Chicago
Dr. Frances Vlasses’ career spans 40 years in healthcare, academia, and administration. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the NLN Academy of Nursing Education, as well as one of the 100 Ohio State University College of Nursing, Alumni Transformers in Nursing and Healthcare.
Most recently, her focus has been studying innovation in the redesign of healthcare system infrastructure to improve patient outcomes. She has attracted grant money and led the implementation of an integrated, interprofessional, nurse-led team delivery model in Primary Care. In this project, the scope of the registered nurse leadership role was expanded, online education modules related to interdisciplinary and community culture were developed, and electronic documentation was created to capture quality and nursing outcomes and provide evidence for sustainability. This project has been recognized as a Nexus Innovation Network site by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration.
As the inaugural Co-Director of the Loyola Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Education, Dr. Vlasses has cultivated the additional interprofessional sphere of influence to develop policy on education and practice for health professional students and faculty on the development of high performing teams to enhance quality and safety. She has been invited to serve as a panelist and respondent to discuss nursing roles, interprofessional education, and teamwork for the AACME, LGME, the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE), and the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC).
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Resiliency and Self-Care
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
Nurses and healthcare workers often sacrifice their own health while caring for others. The unprecedented professional demands during the COVID-19 pandemic presents new and daunting challenges. It is quite easy to offer support and care to others, but nurse educators need to address their personal self-care and resiliency needs in order to be effective in the workplace. This webinar offers strategies for personal renewal and suggestions for improving resiliency.
Objectives:
- Define resiliency
- Discuss strategies to promote self-care
- Identify healthy practices to include in daily living
This webinar is hosted by the AACN’s Faculty Leadership Network.
Speakers
Speakers
Associate Professor; School of Nursing Archive Coordinator
University of Alabama School of Nursing
Lynn Nichols has been a nurse educator for nearly 30 years and has taught a wide variety of courses in both undergraduate and graduate programs. She is an advocate for RN-BSN education and serves as the Director of the National RN-BSN Faculty Forum, a professional organization for RN-BSN educators. Her clinical background is in pediatrics and women’s health, and she enjoys being involved with interprofessional education opportunities, such as poverty simulation and ethics activities.
Director, RN-NS Program
Boise State University School of Nursing
Marilyn O’Mallon serves as Director of the online RN-BS Completion Program at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. She is passionate about hospice and palliative nursing, and works as a Faith Community Nurse in the Treasure Valley.
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Promoting Health & Well-Being Within & Across Health Professions Learners
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
Hosted by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)
Multi-prong efforts to promote the well-being and resilience of health professional learners are needed now more than ever, especially as the country faces the national public health epidemic of clinician burnout. The topic of health and well-being in the health processions is increasingly identified as a needed area of focus in health professional education. In collaboration with the American Psychological Association (APA), the Interprofessional Education Collaborative’s (IPEC) first 2021 webinar addresses the mental health and wellness needs of interprofessional learners.
Webinar participants will hear innovative strategies to integrate wellness academic programming into interprofessional education curricula at their home institutions.
Objectives
- Discuss the importance of wellness integration into health professions education
- Highlight curricular innovations that target health professions learners to cultivate resiliency and wellbeing
- Share "lessons learned" in implementing educational strategies to foster resilience in health professions students
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Speakers
Speakers
Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center
University of Virginia School of Medicine Contemplative Sciences Center University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
Jennifer “Kim” Penberthy, PhD, ABPP, is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where she conducts research, teaches, provides clinical care, and promotes clinician and learner wellbeing. Dr. Penberthy is the Associate Director for the UVA Clinician Wellbeing Program as well as a founding member of the Wisdom & Wellbeing Program that addresses both systems and individual occupational challenges in the healthcare setting. She is the Co-Director of the Effective Coping and Communication Skills for Clinicians Program, a national CME approved offering. She is a member of the UVA Contemplative Sciences Center, the UVA Academy of Distinguished Educators, the UVA Leadership in Academic Matters Program, and is a Fellow of Humanism in Medicine at the University of Virginia. Dr. Penberthy is also a member of the UVA Diversity Consortium and past chair of APA Division 12 Diversity Committee. She is a fellow in the APA Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology and currently serving on the advisory committee for the American Psychological Association Continuing Education Committee after being chair. She is an APA Council Representative for the Society of Clinical Psychology, past-president of the International Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) Society and a founding member of the CBASP Training Program. Dr. Penberthy has published extensively on clinician wellbeing and lectures nationally and internationally on psychotherapy with a focus on mindfulness-based interventions, and clinician and learner health and wellbeing.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing, Director of Graduate Health and Wellness
Academic Programming, Director of Innovative Telehealth Services
The Ohio State University College of Nursing
Alice M. Teall is Director of Graduate Wellness Academic Programming, Director of Innovative Telehealth Services, and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing at Ohio State University. She was a founding member of the College of Nursing’s team delivering distance education and served as Director of the online Family Nurse Practitioner program. She has published and presented nationally about innovation in online education, incorporation of health and wellness coaching techniques in clinical practice, and best practices for teaching telehealth competencies. In recognition of her contributions to advanced practice nursing education, Dr. Teall was honored with the Ohio State University Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching and inducted into the Academy of Teaching.
Alice Teall has received leadership, alumni, and practice awards, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. As a certified Nurse Practitioner and an Integrative Nurse Coach, her areas of clinical practice expertise include adolescent health, primary care of at-risk youth and families, college health, and statewide quality improvement initiatives in primary care. In response to the pandemic and in collaboration with the Ohio State University Chief Wellness Officer, Dr. Teall implemented the Wellness Partner Program, which established an emotional support line for nurses working in COVID-19 hotspots, provides wellness assessments for university students across all campuses, and pairs graduate students with clinicians to provide wellness support and partnership.
Chief Education Officer
American Psychological Association
Catherine L. Grus, PhD is the chief education officer at the American Psychological Association and has been on the staff of the APA since 2005. She was named deputy executive director, Education in 2010. In her role as chief education officer, she leads the association’s efforts to promote psychology in education and education in psychology. Grus has played a lead role in the association’s efforts related to advancing interprofessional education for psychology students, primary care psychology practice, development of models and tools for competency assessment, and supervision. She serves as APA’s representative to the National Academy of Medicine’s Global Forum on Innovations in Health Professions Education, the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative and the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions.
Before coming to APA, Grus was an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Miami School of Medicine where she served as the director of an APA accredited internship program. Grus is the recipient of many awards including the Paul Nelson Award, the Friend of the Association of Directors of Psychology Training Clinics and the Nova University Distinguished Alumni Achievement award. In 2016 she was inducted into the National Academies of Practice as a distinguished scholar and Fellow. Grus is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on topics including competency-based education, supervision and professionalism.
Grus completed her PhD in clinical psychology at Nova University, with an internship in pediatric psychology at the University of Miami School of Medicine Mailman Center for Child Development and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
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COVID-19 Vaccine: Key Considerations for Academic Nursing
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
This webinar will provide an overview of the COVID-19 vaccines that are currently available and an update on vaccination implementation programs, including the latest scientific information on vaccine storage, distribution, safety and efficacy, and monitoring for adverse reactions. Our discussion will reinforce those non-pharmaceutical interventions such as masking and social distancing that need to be maintained to prevent transmission of COVID-19 throughout the vaccine campaign.
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These webinars are free and open to the public. Recordings of the webinars will be available soon after the webinars air.
Speakers
Speakers
Senior Advisor, Policy, Advocacy & Communications
Director, Adult Vaccines
International Vaccine Access Center, Department of International Health
Lois Privor-Dumm is Senior Advisor, Policy, Advocacy & Communications and Director, Adult Vaccines, at the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). She is an expert on immunization across the life-course. She is currently advising a variety of institutions including the Maryland Department of Health, Baltimore City Health Department, and the World Health Organizations on decision making and implementation around influenza and COVID-19 vaccination. She works with a variety of stakeholders including governments, healthcare professionals, organizations working on health and social justice issues as well as with a network of pastors in Baltimore to help address hesitancy issues around healthcare and vaccines. She worked with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to contribute to the Interim Framework for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation and Distribution in the United States and report on the Public’s role in COVID-19 Vaccination.
She joined JHSPH in 2005 and supported vaccine programs in more than 70 countries. Previously she worked in the pharmaceutical industry where introduced of a variety of vaccines including the first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. She holds a master of International Business Studies (University of South Carolina) and executive certificates in Innovation and Human-Centered Design and Business Communication from Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business.
Professor of Nursing and Public Health, Visiting Scholar
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, is a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a Professor of Nursing and Public Health in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At the Center, she conducts, manages, and leads research projects to explore health systems optimization and healthcare worker protection during disasters and large-scale biological events. She also serves as an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and Bioterrorism). Dr. Veenema’s program of research focuses upon informing evidence-based policy related to health care systems and public health response for catastrophic events such as pandemics and radiation/nuclear disasters. She has conducted national workforce analyses evaluating emergency healthcare worker readiness and health systems coordination for disaster response in Ireland, Japan and the United States. Dr. Veenema is currently conducting studies addressing the use of personal protective equipment and the mental health burden on emergency healthcare providers during COVID-19. She is editor of Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, 4th Ed., the leading textbook in the field and developer of Disaster Nursing, a digital technology application (“App”) to provide decision support during disasters at the point of care. Dr. Veenema was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal of Honor (International Red Crescent, 2013) the highest international award in Nursing for her professional service in disasters and public health emergencies. Dr. Veenema served as the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) 2017-18 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence.
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Social Justice During COVID-19: The Critical Role Allies Can Play Dismantling Structural Racism
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Overview
This webinar, offered by AACN and the Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Alumni Council, will focus on acknowledging our roles and responsibility of the healthcare sector in eliminating disparities. The speaker will talk about ways to identify what role each of us can play as allies, what activism looks like, and what it means to be an ally. The goal is to discuss the critical role healthcare professionals can play in dismantling racism. We must do THE WORK! The speaker also will discuss how we can relieve the emotional labor of others and why calling out and cancel culture can be deleterious to the social justice movement and allyship. Come explore how we can work together to eliminate disparities and advance health equity.
After participating in this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- The learner will understand what activism looks like in helping address racism in the healthcare sector.
- The learner will evaluate opportunities for moving their organizations towards eliminating disparities and advancing health equity.
Speakers
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Senior Philanthropic Advisor and Independent Executive Consultant
Dr. Pérez is Senior Philanthropic Advisor and Executive Consultant to national foundations, federal grant making entities, and higher education. She has been a leader in advancing equity and accountability for three of the nation’s leading foundations and higher education organizations. Dr. Pérez has served on multiple committees and received multiple awards. At the National Science Foundation Educative Human Resources Advisory Committee, she led the subcommittee on Broadening Participation. In addition to her professional achievements, she has been recognized for her outstanding work mentoring underrepresented and emerging leaders as well as supporting others succeed in advancing equity. Dr. Perez has received multiple community awards including the 2019 Latinx Amplify Award, the 2015 Hispanics Inspiring Student Achievement Leadership in Mentoring award, the 2016 Hispanics in Philanthropy HIPGiver, the 2011 YWCA Women of Industry Award and the 2010 Latino Trendsetter Award. In 2015 she received an Honorary Doctorate from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. She was also featured in Latina Style Magazine as one of the Latina leaders in philanthropy.
In her work in professional private philanthropy, Dr. Pérez previously served as Chief Measurement and Evaluation Officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She also served as Vice President of Research, Evaluation, and Learning at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Interim Vice President at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Throughout her career, she has been responsible for bringing diverse perspectives to the table of research and policy decision-making. She has been responsible for developing many initiatives to foster high-quality multidisciplinary research and expanding various dimensions of diversity.
Dr. Pérez is the first in her family to go to college. She earned a bachelor’s in communication from Rutgers University/Douglass College; a Master’s in Social Science and Women’s Studies from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England; a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York; and a PhD in health policy from Harvard University.