Faculty Link Newsletter: February 2022 Monday, February 14, 2022 Share with Your Social Network February 2022 Issue Elevate Your Career with ELAN Latest Update on the AACN Essentials Faculty Resource Central Featured Conferences Upcoming Webinars CCNE Board Call for Nominations Explore Faculty Vacancies in Academic Nursing Washington Weekly New Wellness Wednesday Webinar Series for Faculty and Staff Resource for Faculty: IRUN Curriculum Mapping Tool Join the Conversation on AACN Connect Wellness Wednesday Webinar Series for Faculty and Staff The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a major toll on the mental health of many. The Big Ten/National Wellness Action Alliance, an action collaborative comprised of faculty from each of the Big Ten universities and the University of Kentucky, is bringing together national experts for the new Wellness Wednesday Webinar Series for Faculty and Staff, a 13-week collection of half-hour sessions designed to help you build skills, knowledge and confidence to handle stress, optimize health and well-being in yourself and your students, and bring about meaningful change to promote cultures of wellness across your communities. There's still time to earn 6 contact hours if you attend 10 live sessions. The next webinar is scheduled for February 16. View the full schedule and register here. Resource for Faculty: IRUN Curriculum Mapping Tool Are you currently planning a prelicensure nursing course and wondering how you can better incorporate immunization content? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Association for Prevention Teaching and Research recently launched a resource, the Curriculum Mapping Tool (CMT), within the Immunization Resources for Undergraduate Nursing (IRUN) project to support the education of prelicensure nursing students. The CMT operationalizes the IRUN Framework to link the 12 framework topics to 13 common nursing courses. This tool is useful for both individual faculty and curriculum committees for both curricular and course integration. Visit the IRUN website to download the Curriculum Mapping Tool. Join the Conversation on AACN Connect AACN Connect is the place to have your voice heard in the academic nursing community. Here's what fellow members are talking about: New AACN Essentials - Clinical Requirements for Nurse Educators Nursing Faculty with Less than 7 Years of Experience Competency-Based Curricula See more discussions and chime in on these important conversations via AACN Connect. Elevate Your Career with AACN's Premier Leadership Development Program for Faculty The Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing (ELAN) program provides aspiring deans and senior faculty a number of interactive opportunities to enhance their executive leadership skills. This year-long program features a week-long immersion experience, peer coaching, virtual workshops, and more. Why ELAN? When you join with peers with similar experiences and challenges, you'll create new bonds and gain likeminded colleagues to learn from. Why You? If you are currently in a senior faculty role, or ready to take the next step in your leadership journey - ELAN will prepare you to take on every challenge with great confidence. Why Now? There has never been a more crucial time for strong leadership - especially in health care and health care education. Learn More | Apply Now Application Deadline: March 15, 2022 Learn About Additional AACN LEADS Opportunities The application cycle is open for additional AACN LEADS programs! Share these opportunities with your peers. Latest Updates on AACN's New Essentials AACN is committed to providing resources, education, and guidance to assist member schools in implementing the new AACN Essentials and to help all stakeholders understand this historic shift in nursing education. Next AACN Essentials Implementation Webinar Scheduled for February 23 On February 23 at 12:00 PM (ET), AACN will host the latest Essentials Implementation Webinar titled Curriculum Evaluation and Integration of Competencies: An Undergraduate Program Experience led by Dr. Ann White from the University of Southern Indiana. Click here to find out more about this event and the full webinar series. New AACN Resource to Measure Population Health Competencies AACN is pleased to announce the availability of a Public/Population Health Nursing Assessment Vignette to measure BSN-level competencies in population health. The vignette can be used as part of a course in population or public health or as part of an end-of-program course to determine student ability to synthesize population health concepts with other knowledge/skills across the patient care continuum. Click here to access the vignette. New AACN Essentials Implementation Tools Posted As the transition to the new AACN Essentials continues at nursing schools nationwide, AACN is publishing tools and resources to help support this important work. Posted as part of the Implementation Tool Kit, the latest resources include a spreadsheet focused on the concept of Clinical Judgment, and a new Curriculum Map, which covers all 10 Essentials Domains and Level-2 Sub-Competencies. Please send any information regarding your school’s efforts to implement the AACN Essentials to rrosseter@aacnnursing.org. Back to top Faculty Resource Central AACN develops a variety of resources and tool kits to help nursing school faculty enhance curriculum and program development. Each month, AACN will use this space to highlight teaching resources, essential documents, curriculum guides, faculty tool kits, and other helpful tools for nurse faculty teaching in baccalaureate and higher degree programs. 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