Building bridges to change the face of nursing

Abstracts at a time of increasing enrollment and increased faculty/ student ratios. doi:10.1016/j.teln.2006.02.010

Building bridges to change the face of nursing Rosemarie Hirsch MN, RN, CCRN (Assistant Director, Project Director) Extended Campus Program/Pipeline to Nursing, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA A College Nursing Department was awarded a large, three-year Nursing Workforce Diversity grant by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in fall 2004. This presentation describes the issues, challenges and rewards of writing, submitting, receiving, and implementing a grant. This session will provide a concrete, bnuts and bolts,Q how-to approach to 1) getting started, 2) moving the grant from the written word to action, and 3) lessons learned along the way. The backdrop of this presentation will be a discussion of the Pipeline to Nursing (PtN) activities and first year outcomes. The main purpose of the PtN project is to increase recruitment and retention of disadvantaged groups, specifically Hispanic pre-nursing and nursing students. A series of targeted activities include 1) recruiting future nurses from minority–majority junior and senior high schools; 2) increasing student success in basic skills such as reading, English, and math; 3) supporting student retention through learning communities, structured mentoring and tutoring; and 4) preparing a culturally competent and sensitive healthcare workforce. doi:10.1016/j.teln.2006.02.011

Good news: four new faculty are hired! Now what?? Ivory Coleman EdD, RN (Professor) Barbara McLaughlin DNSc, RN (Associate Professor) Community College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

29 of a nurse practitioner program with no teaching experience. The other two faculty members had taught for years in diploma programs. The needs of each faculty member were varied and mentoring and coaching took on wide-ranging meanings for each new faculty member. This presentation will focus on strategies used to facilitate the transition of these new faculty members into an established faculty group. Strategies included weekly coaching regarding evaluation methods, suggestions for creative approaches to instructional techniques, and opportunities for weekly dialogue about student advisement and development. As the shortage of nurse educators continues, it challenges faculty to seek creative ways of recruiting and mentoring. The concept of bgrow your ownQ faculty will be explored and discussed. This concept helps nurses to explore the educator role and begin to appreciate it as an advanced practice option. doi:10.1016/j.teln.2006.02.012 Putting the bfunQ into fundamentals Janet Ritenour MSN, RN,C, CS (Instructor) Charlotte Stotelmyer MSN, MSEd, CRNP, RN (Instructor) Elizabeth Barry DPH, MA, MSN, CRNP, GNP, APRN, BC (Instructor) The Pennsylvania State University, Fayette, The Eberly Campus, Uniontown, PA, USA This presentation will demonstrate various strategies designed to integrate technology modems into the Fundamentals of Nursing course. Using a specific technology such as ANGEL, supplementary materials will be presented as an adjunct to course lectures. The purpose of using such strategies is to motivate the learner to understand basic theoretical concepts. As a result, the learner will accept responsibility for the learning process in a fun, non-threatening, and challenging environment. The core of the presentation will describe the realitybased game of Survivor, a proven delivery strategy successful in bridging the gap between nursing theory and the introduction of new concepts. doi:10.1016/j.teln.2006.02.013

This presentation will focus on issues related to the current critical shortage of nurse faculty in associate degree nursing education. Specifically, this presentation takes into consideration the issue that as nurses, often prepared as nurse practitioners, become integrated into new teaching opportunities, they often experience transition issues and do not have a clear concept of the work of the nurse educator. In fall 2003 and 2004 four new full-time master’s prepared nurses joined the faculty at a large urban community college. Two new hires were recent graduates

Managing learning styles through technology Juanita Kaness MSN, RN (Professor, Coordinator) Lehigh Carbon Community College, Schnecksville, PA, USA Research has identified three major learning styles among adult learners. Visual learners sit in the front of the class and need to see the teacher’s face and expressions to fully understand the concepts presented. Auditory learners