Faculty Practice Conference
Faculty Practice: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Possibilities
February 20-21, 2008
Master’s Education Conference
Shaping the Future of Master’s Education in Nursing
February 21-23, 2008
Hyatt Regency Newport Beach
Newport Beach, CA
Registration Form
Conference Highlights
The Faculty Practice and Master’s Education Conferences are offered consecutively to enable faculty to attend both events. Join colleagues in exploring topics and issues of mutual interest, with the help of experts from the full spectrum of nursing education. Deans, program directors, and faculty are encouraged to join colleagues in this beautiful setting to address issues unique to faculty practice and master's education in nursing.
Faculty Practice Conference
Faculty Practice: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Possibilities
February 20-21, 2008
Wednesday, February 20
7:30-8:30 a.m.
Registration
Light Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions
Program Session
What Does Practice Mean in our Current Environment?
The meaning and characteristics of practice are open to interpretation at a time when practice opportunities are expanding. What are emerging practice roles and settings? How can the scholarship of practice be operationalized? What might the future hold in practice? Reflect on these questions and more with seasoned colleagues.
Speaker: Melanie C. Dreher, PhD, RN, FAAN, John L. and Helen Kellogg Dean, School of Nursing and Marilyn Wideman, DNP, RN, Director of Faculty Practice, School of Nursing, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
10:00-10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Program Session
Making it Work: Integrating Practice into the Faculty Role
How is practice viewed within the academic environment? How can one maximize individual and institutional support for practice? What are the realities of combining academic and practice roles, and what advice can be gleaned? Join experienced colleagues to consider these and other questions about making practice an integral part of the faculty role.
Speakers: Doreen C. Harper, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Beth Ann Swan, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate Program, School of Nursing, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; and Denise G. Link, DNSc , WHCNP, CNE, FNAP, Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Clinical Practice and Community Partnerships, College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix , AZ
12:00-1:15 p.m.
Lunch (on your own) or Box Lunch (Available by advance purchase as a courtesy, but you may participate in the discussion without purchasing lunch)
Informal Discussion: Practice and the DNP
Facilitated by the Faculty Practice Conference Subcommittee
Discuss what practice means in terms of the DNP; how DNP graduates are practicing; and how practice at this level differs from other types and levels of practice.
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Program Session
Practice Compensation Issues
Consider issues such as pay for performance and other incentive or outcome-based forms of compensation; various approaches to negotiating a practice, contracting, and compensation; and relative advantages and disadvantages of each. Share successful compensation strategies with colleagues.
Speakers: Thomas A. Mackey, PhD, RN-C, FAAN, FAANP, Associate Dean for Practice and Professor of Clinical Nursing, The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston, Houston, TX and Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN, Shearer Term Associate Professor for Healthy Community Practices, and Associate Dean for Practice and Community Affairs, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
3:00-5:45 p.m.
Abstract Presentations
5:45-7:00 p.m.
Reception and Posters
Thursday, February 21
7:15-9:00 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast
7:30-8:45 a.m.
Practice Leadership Network Business Meeting
9:00-10:15 a.m.
Program Session
Keeping Practices Solvent
Running a business in the midst of an academic setting is no easy endeavor. While nursing prides itself on providing care when and where it is needed, skillful management of resources is essential to success of the practice. Consider pragmatic approaches to the challenges inherent in running a fiscally sound practice.
Speakers: Marilyn Wideman, DNP, RN, Director of Faculty Practice, School of Nursing, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL and Pam Jones, MSN, RN, Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for Faculty Practice, School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, T
10:15-10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Closing Program Session
Considering Outcomes and Quality of Practice
Practice increasingly must be assessed and justified within the academic environment. How can we know if faculty are doing anything worthwhile? Explore approaches to evaluating all types of practice, including revenue as well as other outcome measures. Highlight outcome and quality measures of importance from the perspective of the school as well as the individual’s practice.
Speaker(s): Kathleen L. Becker, MS, CRNP, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Adult Nurse Practitioner Program, and Kathleen White PhD, RN, CNAA, BC, Associate Professor, Director of the Masters Program, and Interim Director on the DNP Program, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Special Pre-Conference
End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)
Train-the-Trainer Program for Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing Faculty
Wednesday, February 20 – 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 21 – 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Nurses educated at the master's level for any type of generalist or specialist practice need current information about end-of-life/palliative care. The steadily increasing aging population and mandates for excellent care at the end of life by Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services make it even more vital that nursing faculty be educated in this area so they may teach others. The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Project, a national educational program administered by City of Hope and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, is designed to enhance end-of-life/palliative care in nursing.
Faculty: Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, FAAN, Principal Investigator of ELNEC and Research Scientist, City of Hope, Duarte, CA; Marianne LaPorte Matzo, PhD, APRN, GNP-BC, FAAN, Professor and the Frances E. and A. Earl Ziegler Chair in Palliative Care Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK; Deborah Sherman, PhD, APRN, ANP, PCM, BC, FAAN, Associate Professor, College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY
To register for this course, go to: www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC
Master’s Education Conference
Shaping the Future of Master’s Education in Nursing
February 21-23, 2008
Thursday, February 21
12:00-4:00 p.m.
Conference Registration
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Welcome, Introductions
Opening Program Session
Today and Tomorrow: The Intergenerational Nature of Nurses and Nursing Students
The four generations present in today's academic and corporate environments each has different priorities and expectations, sometimes conflicting. Is intergenerational harmony a realistic goal in the nursing workplace? Gain insights into how we can maximize intergenerational relationships and encourage the best each generation has to offer as we join forces to provide quality care to patients.
Speaker: K. Lynn Wieck, PhD, RN, FAAN, Jacqueline M. Braithwaite Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
3:00-3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Program Session
From Baby Boomers to Millennials: Tomorrow’s Graduate Students
Nursing faculty anecdotally have observed deterioration in the personal and professional behaviors of today’s younger students. Are these observations valid according to our student services colleagues? How can faculty best respond? How can we help modern students embrace the more traditional values of professional nursing? What campus resources exist to assist nursing faculty meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s “millennial” students? Join a student affairs professional who offers valuable insights.
Speaker: Robert DeBard, EdD, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH and co-author of Serving the Millennial Generation: New Directions for Student Services, No. 106
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Reception and Poster Presentations
Friday, February 22
7:15-8:30 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast
7:30-8:20 a.m.
Informal Discussion
Entrance Exams in Graduate Nursing Education
Facilitated by the Master’s Education Conference Subcommittee
8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Sessions 1-4 are offered at 8:30-10:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. separated by a 30-minute break, allowing you to select two topics. Note that session 5 lasts all morning.
1. Using Simulation to Prepare Nurses for Advanced Practice
Simulation is an increasingly important strategy to enhance realism in decision making and evaluate learner competency. Join a respected colleague to discover the many forms simulation can take, the various uses of these approaches, and how master’s faculty can begin to use or increase their use of simulation.
Speaker: Wendy M. Nehring, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAIDD, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of the Graduate School, College of Nursing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
2. Improving Student Writing
Nursing faculty anecdotally observe that student writing is not as good as it should be. Gain valuable insights about the roots and characteristics of the problem, and specific strategies nursing faculty can use to improve learner performance in this critically important professional skill.
Speaker: Mary Goldschmidt, PhD, Director, The Writing Program, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
3. Integrating Quality, Safety, and Collaboration into the Master’s Curriculum
Examine the concepts of quality, safety, and collaboration, and learn what is happening nationally in teaching these important topics. Discuss practical approaches to improve teaching about our complex health care system, and receive a complimentary CD containing the curriculum of Achieving Competence Today, a national health systems and quality improvement initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Speaker: Maryjoan Ladden, PhD, RN, FAAN, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and former Co-Director, Achieving Competence Today
4. Ensuring Important Infrastructure for APN Education
Explore the uniqueness of advanced practice nurse preparation described by the National Task Force Criteria for Evaluation of Nurse Practitioner Programs and the Advanced Practice Nurse Consensus process. Hear about these consequential national initiatives and documents from colleagues who have represented AACN in these deliberations.
Speakers: Elizabeth Hawkins-Walsh, PhD, CPNP, Director, Doctor of Nursing Practice and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Programs, The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC and Jean Johnson, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior Associate Dean for Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
5. Teaching Genetics/Genomics
This session lasts all morning.
Focus on established competencies and guidelines for teaching genetics and genomics; approaches to integrate genetics and genomics into existing curricula; resources to educate nurses in this field; and the status of national initiatives to improve education in genetics and genomics.
Speakers: Jean F. Jenkins, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior Clinical Advisor, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD and Kathleen A. Calzone, MSN, RN, APNG, FAAN, Senior Nurse Specialist (Research), National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, Genetics Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Lunch and Informal Networking (on your own)
1:30-5:15 p.m.
Abstract Presentations
Saturday, February 23
8:00-8:30 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Program Session
Revision of the CCNE Standards for Accreditation
The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Standards for Accreditation of Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Programs (amended October 2003) is being revised for the accreditation of baccalaureate, master's, and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs. Learn about the standards revisions process and proposed changes, and take advantage of the opportunity to provide feedback to the CCNE Standards Committee.
Speakers: Jennifer Butlin, EdD, Director, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education,
Washington, DC; Mary Jo Clark, PhD, RN, Vice Chair, CCNE Board of Commissioners and
Member, CCNE Standards Committee; and Patricia Clinton, PhD, RN, Member, CCNE
Standards Committee
10:00-10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Closing Program Session
Program Session
Highlights and Pitfalls: Transitioning Toward the CNL and DNP
Hear from colleagues who have successful CNL and/or DNP programs to consider the importance of these two initiatives to the future of nursing; lessons learned in implementation; particularly successful instructional approaches in these new programs; what CNL and DNP graduates are doing in the workforce; and new possibilities for research on roles and utilization. Speakers: Donna K. Hathaway, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Dean, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Jane M. Kirschling, DNS, RN, Dean, College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY; Eileen Breslin, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; and Carol Harrison, EdD, RN, Chair, Division of Nursing, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
General Information
Join AACN for the 2008 Faculty Practice and Master’s Education Conferences in scenic Newport Beach, California.
The Call for Abstracts for both conferences can be found on AACN’s website: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Conferences/
Registration
The registration fee is $389 for members/ $459 for non-members. The deadline for early registration is February 1, 2007. The registration fee after February 1 is $489 for members/ $559 for non-members. For AACN member schools, there is a $30 discount for each additional registrant from the same school. Email messages confirming registration will be sent to all participants.
NOTE: Capacity for each of these conferences is limited. Please register early:
Faculty Practice Conference: 100
Master’s Education Conference: 380
Hotel Information
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, 1107 Jamboree Road, Newport Beach, California, 92660. The room rate is $179 single/double. The cutoff date for room reservations is January 29, 2008. For reservations, please call the hotel directly at (949)729-1234. When calling, please ask for Group Room Reservations and request the group rate for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing or AACN. Reservations made after January 29 will be on a space and availability basis, so be sure to make your arrangements early.
Transportation
John Wayne Airport is located approximately 6 miles from the hotel. Airport shuttles and taxis are available for transportation to the hotel. There is a complimentary shuttle provided by the Hyatt Regency which runs every hour. Airport information ports can help assist you in locating the shuttle. A cab costs $20.00 one way from the airport. Additional information on ground transportation and airlines serving John Wayne Airport, please visit: http://www.ocair.com/default.asp
Continuing Education Credit
Continuing education contact hours will be provided by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing to all conference participants at no additional cost. CE Certificates will be provided in your conference packet.
Refund and Cancellation Policy
Registrations that are cancelled up to one week before the meeting will be refunded minus a $50 administrative fee. Cancellations received with less than one week’s notice will be refunded minus a $150 administrative fee. There will be no refunds for no-shows.
AACN reserves the right to cancel this conference and any group activity that does not meet minimal group requirements. Non-refundable airline tickets are the responsibility of the registrant.
Additional Information
For more information, contact AACN, One Dupont Circle, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 463-6930. If you require any special access in order to take part in this meeting, please contact Meghan DeFord at AACN or by email at mdeford@aacn.nche.edu. The Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Information about this and other AACN conferences is available at the AACN website: www.aacn.nche.edu/conferences
