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Charge: The task force will develop a document that delineates the essential professional nursing competencies that should be acquired upon graduation from a master’s degree program in nursing. The task force is also charged with assuring that a wide range of opinions and feedback are sought from representatives of higher education, professional nursing education and practice, and consumers in developing its recommendations. The task force will:
- Identify how healthcare trends and expectations will influence nursing’s role within healthcare delivery for the next decade.
- Assess the professional community's expectations for master's level nursing practice.
- Develop recommendations for the competencies for master' level nursing practice. These competencies will address new nursing knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate for nurses prepared at this level.
- Develop recommendations for the clinical learning experiences necessary to assure that master's graduates are prepared for safe and high quality nursing practice, irrespective of role.
- Recommend how this nursing knowledge can be used in a variety of roles.
- Identify the faculty, student, clinical learning, and other resources necessary to implement high quality learning experiences to achieve end-of-program competencies.
- Describe the essential elements of education and practice partnerships necessary to assure high quality learning experiences and to promote practice innovations which allow the master's prepared nurse to shape future care delivery models and outcomes.
- Develop a process to assure stakeholders’ consensus related to the competencies and clinical learning experiences for master's level practice.
- Develop recommendations and strategies for AACN and the full contingent of AACN’s academic programs to respond to the transition of master’s programs to advanced generalist education.
The revised Essentials for Master’s Education in Nursing should address articulation of the entry-level generalist nurse to master's level programs and the master's prepared nurse to doctoral education, either the DNP or the PhD. The task force should take special care to assure that the expectations for master's level nursing practice are distinctly differentiated from those required for the baccalaureate degree preparing a generalist nurse and the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree preparing nurses in an area of advanced specialty practice. Further, these essentials should create a foundational set of expectations for professional practice that will prepare a professional for future career transitions and educational growth.
The task force should seek to complete its charge by July 2010 for review and potential approval by the AACN Board of Directors at the July 2010 board meeting and approval of the membership at the October 2010 semiannual meeting.
Please
address your comments to either the task force chair or the AACN
staff liaisons.
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Joanne Warner, DNS, RN, Chair
Dean, University of Portland
School of Nursing
5000 N. Willamette Boulevard
Portland, OR 97203-5798
(503) 943-7509
FAX: (503) 943-8680
warner@up.edu
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Linda Thompson Adams, PhD, RN, Dean
Oakland University
School of Nursing
428 O’Dowd Hall
Rochester, MI 48309-4401
248-370-4480
FAX: 248-370-4279
thompso2@oakland.edu
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Lynn Babington, PhD, RN, CCNE liaison
Associate Professor, Northeastern University
Bouve College of Health Sciences
School of Nursing
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 373-4603
FAX: (617) 373-8675
l.babington@neu.edu
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Jean Bartels, PhD, RN
Chair, Georgia Southern University
School of Nursing
P.O. Box 8158
Statesboro, GA 30460-8158
(912) 478-5455
FAX: (912) 478-0536
jbartels@georgiasouthern.edu
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Joyce Batcheller, MSN, RN, NEA-BC
SVP/Network Chief Nursing Officer
RWJ Nurse Fellow Alumna
Seton Family of Hospitals
512-324-1957
FAX: 512-459-5629
jbatcheller@seton.org
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Patricia Martin, PhD, RN
Dean, Wright State University
College of Nursing and Health
3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
Dayton, OH 45435-0001
(937) 775-3133
FAX: (937) 775-4571
patricia.martin@wright.edu
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David Reyes, MN, MPH, RN
Public Health Practice Liaison
Health Services Administrator
Public Health – Seattle & King County
10501 Meridian Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98133
(206) 296-4911
david.reyes@kingcounty.gov
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Julie Sebastian, PhD, RN
AACN Board liaison
Dean, University of Missouri-Saint Louis
College of Nursing
One University Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63121
(314) 516-6066
sebastianj@umsl.edu
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Polly Bednash, Staff Liaison
AACN CEO and Executive Director
(202) 463-6930, ext. 222
pbednash@aacn.nche.edu
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Kathy McGuinn, Staff Liaison
AACN Director of Special Projects
(202) 463-6930, ext. 262
kmcguinn@aacn.nche.edu |
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Joan
Stanley, Staff Liaison
AACN Senior Director of Education Policy
(202) 463-6930, ext. 254
jstanley@aacn.nche.edu
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Horacio Oliveira, Staff Liaison
AACN Education Policy and
Special Projects Coordinator
(202) 463-6930, ext. 250
holiveir@aacn.nche.edu
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