Abstract
Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:
The healthcare crisis in the United States requires new approaches and continuous improvement. Nursing has the unique opportunity to champion grassroots efforts to enact change through their immersion in and direct influence on patient care. As educators, our job is to prepare the newest members of the profession with the tools, skills, and motivation to carry out these efforts. Indeed, fundamental nursing skills are expanding to include quality improvement, interprofessional teamwork, and systems thinking (Irondside & McNelis, 2011). The acquisition of these essential skills requires, however, developing didactic and experiential learning opportunities that bridge the classroom and practice contexts. Service learning, built upon strong academic-practice partnerships, provides the mechanism for successful implementation (Voss et al., 2015). The purpose of this research project is to examine the impact of an educational innovation bringing pre-licensure nursing students and practice partners together to execute a quality improvement project using a service-learning framework.
Sigma Membership
Delta Omicron
Lead Author Affiliation
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Type
Poster
Format Type
Text-based Document
Research Approach
N/A
Keywords:
Clinical Education, Quality Improvement, Academic-practice Partnership
Recommended Citation
Karagory, Pamela M.; McComb, Sara A.; and Kirkpatrick, Jane M., "Educating next generation nursing leaders and enhancing education-practice partnerships: The role of quality improvement projects" (2016). NERC (Nursing Education Research Conference). 69.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/nerc/2016/posters_2016/69
Conference Name
Nursing Education Research Conference 2016
Conference Host
Sigma Theta Tau International,National League for Nursing
Conference Location
Washington, DC, USA
Conference Year
2016
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Proxy-submission
Educating next generation nursing leaders and enhancing education-practice partnerships: The role of quality improvement projects
Washington, DC, USA
Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:
The healthcare crisis in the United States requires new approaches and continuous improvement. Nursing has the unique opportunity to champion grassroots efforts to enact change through their immersion in and direct influence on patient care. As educators, our job is to prepare the newest members of the profession with the tools, skills, and motivation to carry out these efforts. Indeed, fundamental nursing skills are expanding to include quality improvement, interprofessional teamwork, and systems thinking (Irondside & McNelis, 2011). The acquisition of these essential skills requires, however, developing didactic and experiential learning opportunities that bridge the classroom and practice contexts. Service learning, built upon strong academic-practice partnerships, provides the mechanism for successful implementation (Voss et al., 2015). The purpose of this research project is to examine the impact of an educational innovation bringing pre-licensure nursing students and practice partners together to execute a quality improvement project using a service-learning framework.