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After the webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Articulate the impact of competency-based education on their academic program.
2. Review the newly revised AACN Domains and Concepts that provide a framework for nursing practice.
3. Evaluate where gaps exist in your current program of study compared to the 2021 AACN revisions to the Essentials.
4. Discuss teaching strategies for incorporating domains and concepts throughout the program of study.
Carolyn Hart, PhD, RN, CNE
Dean of Nursing and Associate Professor Nursing
Coker University
Dr. Hart received her diploma in nursing in 1996 from the Lancaster General School of Nursing in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Most of her bedside experience in nursing was in the Trauma-Neuro ICU at Lancaster General where she credits her nursing expertise to the mentorship of senior nurses in that unit. In 2002, she received the Weidman Award in Nursing Excellence. Dr. Hart continued her studies and obtained a BSN from Chamberlain College of Nursing in2008and an MSN in Nursing Education from South University in 2009. In 2012, she graduated from the University of Missouri- Kansas City with a PhD in Nursing Science. Her dissertation topic was development of the Persistence Scale for Online Education in Nursing. Dr. Hart is the only nurse to have attended all three Sigma Theta tau International Leadership Academies. As a result of these experiences, she specializes in developing new nursing programs that are innovative in meeting the need of students, communities, and the profession. Dr. Hart is currently the Dean of Nursing at Coker University in South Carolina.
Pegge L. Bell, PHD, RN, WHMP
Educational Consultant
Dr. Bell began her nursing career after completing an ADN in 1973 from what is now Columbus State University in Georgia. Her clinical experience has since focused on maternal-child services. She completed her BSN in 1976 at Georgia Southwestern University and an MSN from the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 1979. After years of teaching maternal-child nursing, she then assumed academic leadership positions. She completed her PhD at the University of Virginia where she chose the Complex Organizations in Nursing specialization. Returning to an academic position, she took the opportunity to complete a women’s health nursing practitioner post-MSN certificate. This allowed her to have a faculty practice, opening a new family planning clinic at a local high school and a collaboration with the Arkansas Department of Health.
Dr. Bell held several academic administrative positions and used that knowledge to lead the development of Sigma’s Emerging Educational Administrator Institute, while also serving as a consultant for Sigma’s Maternal Child Health Academy. She values her legacy of developing nursing leaders and continues to be available for her past mentees.
As we continue to provide strategies to transform nursing education, this webinar focuses on the intentionality of creating the learning encounter. In order for students to learn, they need to DO something. As nurse educators, careful assessment and planning as we prepare to engage our learners is imperative. This webinar will explore learning in mind – a foundational element to engage clinical judgment. You will go behind the curtain to experience Context, Content, and Course © - a framework to guide you to power up your learning encounters that create opportunities for students to DO something with an emphasis on learning in mind.
Mary Fey, PhD, RN, CHSE-A, ANEF
Principal Faculty
Center for Medical Simulation Boston
As a teacher and a critical care nurse, Mary has a keen interest in the dynamics of human interaction. Whether in a classroom, a clinical area, or a simulation lab, she believes that the words we choose to use and the way we choose to say them can have a profound effect on learners’ motivation and their ability to take the next developmental step. It is on this teacher-learner interaction that Mary focuses her work.
Mary received her PhD from the University of Maryland, where her research focused on debriefing in simulation-based learning experiences. She is past director of the Debra L. Spunt Clinical Simulation Laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Her work with the National League for Nursing, includes co-authoring two white papers: The NLN Vision for Teaching with Simulation and the NLN Vision for Debriefing Across the Curriculum. She was recently inducted into the National League for Nursing’s Academy of Nurse Educators and continues to collaborate with the NLN. She is actively involved in both the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. With SSH, she led the development of the CHSE-A certification program. With INACSL, she has been involved in the ongoing development of the Standards of Best Practice: Simulation since their inception and has served on the Board of Directors.
Susan G. Forneris, PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE-A, FAAN
Director
NLN Division for Innovation in Education Excellence National League for Nursing
Susan Forneris is currently the Director for the NLN Center for Innovation in Education Excellence at the National League for Nursing in Washington, D.C., and has been working in the field of clinical simulation since 2003. Sue’s expertise is in curriculum and instruction with emphasis on simulation and debriefing in combination with her research on critical thinking. Her publications focus on the development and use of reflective teaching strategies to enhance critical thinking. She was a former Director and Professor of Nursing at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN. Together with Dr. Fey, they co-authored Critical Conversations: The NLN Guide for Teaching Thinking.
