Volume 38, No. 1 • September/October 2 016

ANA: Promoting Excellence for New RNs and the Faculty, Deans, and Administrators Who Shape Them Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

aving been a faculty member • What are my legal obligations and throughout my career, I know liabilities as a school of nursing fac - H the unique joys and challenges ulty? educators face. In addition to teaching • What do students need to know undergraduate and graduate students, about transition to practice? as a chief nursing officer, I established Log on with your ANA member ID at strong clinician-faculty collaborative rela - Community.ana.org to join the conver - tionships at several schools of nursing. sation. As president of the American Nurses Association (ANA), I know we must have ANA Webinar Series: a strong, well-educated workforce for the Advancing Faculty Excellence future, and we value the special role you We know it can be difficult to bal - play in educating and nurturing the next ance classroom instruction, clinical generation of registered nurses. supervision, research projects, and Tomorrow’s nurses will require new administrative demands. At ANA, we leadership skills and competencies. As solution to a challenge you are facing. have designed an educational webinar the premier association for all registered ANA is dedicated to helping you navi - series to maximize your limited time. nurses, ANA is especially equipped to gate these challenges and has designed Our first faculty webinar, “ How to advance excellence for newly licensed a new resource precisely for this pur - Effectively Teach Ethics to Nursing registered nurses and the veteran nurses pose: an online community especially for Students ,” was held on October 26. who educate, precept, and mentor them. our members who teach in schools of Presenters Dr. Catherine Robichaux, That is why ANA is working to shape nursing. assistant professor at the University of the nursing workforce of the future by This online community offers a per - Texas Health Science Center and the rolling out new resources not only for new sonalized experience built on network - University of Mary, and Dr. Eileen Weber, RNs, but also for you, the school of nursing ing, sharing, and trust. Our ultimate goal clinical assistant professor at the faculty, deans, and administrators who is to foster a community that encourages University of Minnesota School of Nurs - shape their education and onboarding to you to seek advice and feedback from ing, discussed how delivering a compre - the profession. Read on to learn what like-minded colleagues. hensive education to nursing students we’re doing for you and your students. You have an opportunity to help us includes providing them with the aware - create the conversations and focus on ness and tools they need to successfully Resources for Deans, Faculty, the topics most pertinent to you. Some deal with ethical challenges in daily prac - And Administrators faculty questions we have already heard tice. This session also covered how unad - ANA Faculty Online Community include: dressed ethical issues in nursing practice Sometimes, only a fellow faculty • What are the best ways to model can create distress for students and facul - member can offer the perspective and professional behavior? ty, and ultimately, can affect patients. I know firsthand that teaching nurs - ing students in the clinical setting requires FREE ANA Webinar Series: Advancing Faculty Excellence constant vigilance. Being on the lookout for breaches in safety and professionalism November 29, 2016: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET that might yield significant consequences How to Expertly Manage Students with Unsafe Behaviors in the Clinical Setting Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, To register, visit NursingWorld.org/FacultyWebinars is President, American Nurses Association, Silver Spring, MD.

1 Volume 38, No. 1 • September/October 2016 is always top-of-mind, yet teaching, mod - eling, and correcting such behaviors can Chances are, you or a colleague use ANA’s Code of Ethics be difficult. If you can relate, then I encour - age you to join our second webinar on for Nurses with Inter pretive Statements to teach nursing November 29, 2016, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET: “ How to Expertly Manage ethics. As the steward of our profession’s Code, ANA wants Students with Unsafe Behaviors in the to make it as simple as possible for you to “teach the Code.” Clinical Setting .” Dr. Kristy Chunta of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, who also serves as community manager of the ANA Faculty Online Community, will lead the presentation. These webinars are free for mem - bers and non-members alike, so spread • ANA’s award-winning publications: Here, new nurses can ask things the word to your colleagues. We have – American Nurse Today. they may not have learned in the designed these sessions to be relevant to – The American Nurse. classroom. Some conversations we’ve faculty who teach in a range of nursing – The Online Journal of Issues in seen include questions like, “As a new programs, including two-year associate, Nursing (OJIN). nurse, how do I delegate?” and “What four-year baccalaureate, Master’s, doc - – ANA SmartBrief. are some night shift challenges and how toral, or RN-to-BSN programs. Becoming an ANA subscriber is free do I overcome them?” If the new RNs for NSNA members or for anyone open you know are still in the process of FacultyPak: Teaching Nursing Ethics to receiving membership information looking for a position, you can assure Chances are, you or a colleague use from NSNA. Encourage your students to them they have peers who have been or ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses with Inter- visit www.joinANA.org and sign up. are going through this process, as well pretive Statements to teach nursing ethics. who can make suggestions and share As the steward of our profession’s Code, Welcome to the Profession Kit their success stories. ANA wants to make it as simple as pos - It’s a great time to be an RN. In addi - Under the guidance of Community sible for you to “teach the Code.” We tion to being the most trusted profession Manager Dr. Elizabeth Davis, the have developed a FacultyPak to aid you in America 14 years in a row, nurses are community holds live chats and online in this endeavor. taking a greater leadership role in Town Halls on a variety of topics, from When used alongside ANA’s Guide to today’s healthcare system. To smooth how to write a resume to what new RNs the Code of Ethics for Nurses: Development, the transition from nursing student to should consider when voting for a local, Application, and Interpretation, the RN, ANA has developed a digital state, or national candidate for political FacultyPak is a powerful resource. In it, “Welcome to the Profession” Kit that pro - office. you will find slides, notes, assignments, vides resources to answer your students’ and other resources that introduce the questions in the following areas: Coming Soon: Online Community concept of ethics and the nurse’s respon - • Career: For Nursing Students sibility to use the Code as a guide to clin - – Resume Writing. We will be launching an online ical decision-making. It is free and avail - – Interview Success. community for pre-licensure nursing able to anyone teaching the Code. – Finding the Right Job. students later this fall. Students who Download it today ( www.1440n.com/ – Job Outlook for Nurses. have joined ANA as subscribers will be ANA/15-335/3/ ) or add it to your – Social Media and Nursing. notified as soon as the community opens upcoming teaching plans to prepare stu - • Self-Care: for participation. – Staying Healthy. dents for the ethical challenges they are In Closing likely to face in practice. • Professional Issues: – Advocacy. Many of the resources I described Resources for Nursing Students – Keeping Informed. are available only to ANA members. If And New RNs – Get Connected Locally. you are not already a member, consider Free for Nursing Students: Become an • Patient Care: this your personal invitation to join. We ANA Subscriber – Best Practices in Patient Care. need more voices of faculty, administra - The Welcome to the Profession Kit is tors, and deans within our association ANA’s bylaws require that our mem - ranks. We also need your help connect - bers be RNs. However, we recognize that one of many benefits of students becom - ing a subscriber of ANA. ing nursing students and new RNs with nursing students may want and need to ANA early in their careers because they access the content and benefits available New RNs Online Community are the future of our profession and the to members on NursingWorld.org. Your American Nurses Association. students can sign up to access ANA New RNs benefit from peer support just as much as faculty, so in addition to I wish you success as another aca - members-only content, including: demic year begins. Don’t forget—just as • The ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with the faculty-only online community, ANA launched an online community ex - you are a resource for your students, Interpretive Statements ANA is a resource for you. DN • The full text of ANA’s principles and clusively for RNs in their first five years of position papers practice. This members-only community offers a unique experience that encour - ages networking and sharing in a safe environment.

2 Volume 38, No. 1 • September/October 2016 NSNA 65th Anniversary Convention Highlights

Pre-Conference Faculty Prior to becoming Acting Workshop Plan Now to Attend Deputy Secretary, Dr. Wakefield Learning to Use Debriefing for was admini strator of the Health Meaningful Learning Resources and Services Ad- Debriefing has been identi - ministration (HRSA) from 2009 fied as an essential component to 2015. HRSA, an agency of the of practice teaching for the U.S. Department of Health and development of clinical reason - Human Services, works to ing skills and to augment mean - strengthen the health care ingful learning in students. The workforce, build healthy com - evidence supporting it as a munities, increase health equity, powerful method for teaching and provide health care and and learning continues to grow. support services to people who However, good debriefing does - are geographically isolat ed, n’t just happen. We need nurse economically or medically vul - faculty who are prepared to nerable, or live in a health pro- apply evidence-based debrief - fessional shortage area. ing methods that use Socratic Dr. Wakefield joined HRSA reasoning and critical conversa - from the University of North tions to guide students to reflect Dakota (UND), where she was in, on, and beyond the clinical associate dean for rural health experience. By transcending the at the School of Medicine and traditional learning environ - Health Sciences. ments of today, students will be In the 1990s, she served as thoughtful clinicians tomorrow. chief of staff to two North During this one-day workshop, Dakota senators: Kent Conrad we will learn how to engage (D) and Quentin Burdick (D). students in critical conversa - She also has served as tions during debriefing and how director of the Center for Health to use the Debriefing for Policy, Research and Ethics at Meaningful Learning method. George Mason Univer sity in Contact hours will be awarded Fairfax, VA, and worked on site for this program by the National League for Nursing, an author - as a consultant to the World Health Organiza tion’s Global ized provider through the International Association of Con - Programme on AIDS in Geneva, Switzerland. tinuing Education and Training (IACET). There is no partial credit Dr. Wakefield is a fellow in the American Academy of awarded. You must attend the learning event in its entirety and Nursing and a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). She complete all required assessments to receive contact hours. served on the IOM committee that produced the land mark Speaker: Kristina Thomas Dreifuerst, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm . She also Dr. Dreifuerst is an assistant professor at the Indiana co-chaired the IOM committee that produced the re port Health University School of Nursing. The teaching method she devel - Professions Education and chaired the committee that produced oped, Debriefing for Meaningful Learning (DML), has been the report Quality through Collaboration: Health Care in Rural adopted by schools of nursing and interdisciplinary schools in America . health sciences across the United States, Canada, Australia, and In addition, she has served on the Medicare Payment the United Kingdom for use in simulation and other clinical set - Advisory Commis sion, as chair of the National Advisory Council tings. for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as a Sponsor: National League for Nursing, Washington, DC, member of President Clinton’s Advisory Commission on and National Student Nurses’ Association (NSNA), Brooklyn, NY Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, and as a member of the National Advisory Committee to HRSA’s Mary Wakefield to Keynote NSNA 65th Annual Convention Office of Rural Health Policy. Think Big: Nursing on a Global Scale Dr. Wakefield is a native of Devils Lake, ND. She has a NSNA is pleased to announce that Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from the University of Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, who serves as Mary in Bismarck and master’s and doctoral degrees in nursing the Acting Deputy Secretary of the from the University of Texas at Austin. Department of Health and Human Please join us for the 65 th Annual NSNA Convention, April Services, will keynote the 65 th Annual 5–9. 2017. Visit www.nsna.org for more details. NSNA Convention. The Keynote takes Source: http://www.hhs.gov/about/ leader ship/mary-wake place during the Opening Ceremony on field Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at the Hilton continued on page 4 Anatole in Dallas, TX. Mary Wakefield

3 Volume 38, No. 1 • September/October 2016 Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. PRSRT STD US Postage East Holly Avenue, Box 56 CHANGE SERVICE Volume 38, No. 1 • September/October 2016 Pitman, NJ 08071-0056 REQUESTED PAID Editor Deptford, NJ Diane J. Mancino, EdD, RN, CAE, FAAN Permit #142 President, NSNA Adam Tebben Executive Director Diane Mancino, EdD, RN, CAE, FAAN Art Director Jack Bryant Managing Editor Katie R. Rayburn, ELS Layout and Design Specialist Darin Peters Publisher Anthony J. Jannetti Advisory Board G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN Michael L. Evans, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Florence L. Huey, MS, FNP Mary P. Tarbox, EdD, RN Rebecca M. Wheeler, PhD, RN is indexed in Cum ulative Index to NDeuarsnin’sg N&o Atells ied Health Literature. Dean’s Notes is published five times a year (September/October, November/December, January/February, March/April, and May/June) by Anthony J. Jannetti Inc., East Holly Avenue, Box 56, Pitman, New Jersey 08071-0056. Telephone 856.256.2300. FAX 856.589.7463. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the express written permission of the publisher. Address changes should include mailing label and be forwarded to the publisher. www.facebook.com/NSNAinc www.twitter.com/NSNAinc

© Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc., 2016

continued from page 3

65th Anniversary Special Plenary Session NSNA, nursing students, and nursing education, em - Julie A. Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN, bedded in the evolving context of professional nursing and nurse historian, author, and researcher advancing practice, will help today’s NSNA members will bring to light the many changes in understand how the past impacts the present and influences clinical practice and nursing policy since the future. Engaged in policy develop ment and on the cutting the inception of NSNA in 1952. A highly edge of change through the process of writing and debating accomplished nurse historian, her article resolutions, NSNA student leaders have gone on to become “History Counts: How History Can Shape leaders of the nursing profession. Dr. Fairman will take us on a Our Understanding of Health Policy,” co- journey that shapes our understanding of how the past can authored with Penn Nursing colleague advance our understanding the present and help us envision Patricia D’Antonio, won the 2015 Ameri- the future. can Academy of Nursing Excellence in Julie Fairman Dr. Fairman is Professor of Nursing; Professor, Department Media Award. Her book, Making Room in of History and Sociology of Science; and Endowed Chair, the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Nightingale Professor in Nursing at the University of Care , which examines the growth of the nurse practitioner Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA. movement, won the Lavinia Dock Award for Exemplary Watch for more information on the NSNA website at Historical Research Writing. “History shapes nurs ing and health www.nsna.org care practice and policy because it shows us what works, what doesn’t, and how context shapes our thinking.”

4 Volume 38, No. 1 • September/October 2016