Agenda

Explore the transformative journey of new nursing leaders as they navigate challenges in healthcare leadership. Discover strategies for fostering emotional intelligence, mastering FTE management, and navigating hospital politics to drive organizational success. Empower yourself with practical tools to enhance leadership development and lead with impact in healthcare settings.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the current challenges and gaps in professional development opportunities for new nursing leaders.
• Identify common barriers faced by new nursing leaders, such as inadequate training and limited mentorship opportunities.
• Recognize the importance of effective leadership in nursing for improving patient outcomes, staff retention, and organizational performance.
• Explore strategies and best practices for enhancing leadership development for new nursing leaders.
• Discuss the role of mentorship programs in supporting the growth and development of emerging nursing leaders.
• Gain insights into leadership training workshops and other educational opportunities to strengthen leadership skills.
• Learn how to navigate hospital politics and organizational dynamics to effectively lead teams and drive positive change.
• Understand the fundamentals of FTE (Full-Time Equivalent) management and its significance in nursing leadership.
• Explore the power of emotional intelligence (EI) in leadership and its impact on fostering a supportive and productive work environment.
• Gain practical knowledge and skills to advocate for and implement leadership development initiatives within their healthcare organizations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how continuous learning and professional growth contribute to personal and organizational success in nursing leadership.

Eligible for 1 Contact Hour (CH) or 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

The synergistic relationship between learner-centered and teacher-centered principles is critical. At-risk students engaged in active learning strategies including storytelling, extended debriefing, Boot Camp, and simulation. Through the assessment of the learners’ needs, integrated learner-centered and teacher-centered principles supported student success, ultimately improving program student learning outcomes and patient care.

By the end of this session, the attendees will:

• Understand the theoretical foundations and application of learner-centered and teacher-centered principles in nursing education.
• Gain insights into how to effectively implement these principles to retain special cohorts to improve the program student learning outcomes.
• Recognize how learner-centered and teacher-centered principles such as storytelling, Boot Camp, extended debriefing, and simulation foster active learning, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning, and enhance student engagement.
• Utilize a team approach to retain students and foster a deeper understanding of continuous quality improvement and outcomes assessment.

Eligible for 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

Teaching is not just a calling, it is an opportunity to become a sacred activist in both nursing, healthcare, and education. Caring science advances traditional teaching to Caritas education. This is what Watson (2008) calls "advanced teaching and learning" (p. 31) and the movement towards wisdom, subjective meaning, and purpose in our lives and work. Caritas education consciously and mindfully integrates the concepts of transpersonal relationship, caring-healing environments, multiple ways of learning and teaching, and an honoring of each unique person, both educator and learner. Thus, Caritas education promotes Caritas consciousness, connection, inclusion, and a sacred activism that enlightens and teaches information and skills. I will share my experience as a Caritas online and in-class educator, and how to address each of these Caritas teaching practices and how they can practically be applied in the classroom, clinical, or online.

At the end of this session, the participants will:

• Identify how to cultivate transpersonal relationships with colleagues, staff, and students to enhance teaching.
• Describe how to use multiple ways of knowing to teach and learn.
• Share what sacred activism is as it applies to teaching.
• Compare and contrast traditional teaching with Caritas teaching.

Eligible for 1 Contact Hour (CH) or 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the role of leadership in workforce development is more critical than ever. Join us for an insightful panel discussion featuring Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs) and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) from leading healthcare organizations. This session will delve into strategic initiatives, caring initiatives, and innovative practices shaping the current and future states of workforce development in the healthcare sector.

Eligible for 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

A structured framework for exploring the topic of inclusive innovation in education, covering key concepts, challenges, strategies, and future directions. Each section can be further developed with relevant research, case studies, and practical examples to understand the subject comprehensively.

Building more inclusive educational systems requires collective action and commitment from educators, policymakers, stakeholders, and communities. Here are some key steps for advancing this goal:

• Prioritize Equity: Make equity a guiding principle in educational policy, practice, and decision-making. Prioritize resources and support for schools and communities disproportionately affected by systemic inequities.
• Foster Collaboration: Build partnerships and collaborations among educators, families, communities, and external organizations to address barriers, share best practices, and co-design solutions that promote equity and inclusion.
• Invest in Professional Development: Provide educators with ongoing professional development and support to develop culturally responsive practices, implement universal learning design, and address biases and stereotypes in educational settings.
• Advocate for Policy Change: Advocate for policy changes at the local, state, and national levels that promote equitable funding, support culturally responsive education, and address systemic barriers to inclusion and access.
• Center Student Voice and Agency: Empower students as agents of change in their own education. Listen to their perspectives, experiences, and needs, and involve them in decision-making processes that affect their learning and well-being.
• Commit to Continuous Improvement: Embrace a growth mindset and a commitment to continuous improvement in pursuit of equity and inclusion. Reflect on successes and challenges, learn from feedback and data, and adapt strategies and approaches as needed to ensure progress toward building more inclusive educational systems.

Eligible for 1 Contact Hour (CH) or 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

A comprehensive approach to enhancing student learning, utilizing data from assessments to inform curriculum and instruction. This approach looks at various types of assessments and their purpose, grading practices with the issue of fairness and equity in grading, and recommendations for implementing these strategies.

At the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose of assessments in education
• Know the relationship between standards, assessment, curriculum, and instruction
• Reflect on current grading practices
• Determine fairness in grading
• Employ the recommendations for strengthening the connection between curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Eligible for 1 Contact Hour (CH) or 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

This presentation will discuss the trends toward competency-based education and the lessons learned working side-by-side with healthcare partners in education and accreditation. The discussion will demonstrate how to align your institution’s curriculum map with required competencies to illustrate learner performance, identify learning gaps, and remediation requirements.

Learning Objectives:

• Define best practices to include competencies in curriculum mapping.
• Discuss exemplars in mapping formative and summative assessments to competencies, EPAs, and outcomes.
• Interpret a visual dashboard illustrating where remediation needs to take place.

Eligible for 1 Contact Hour (CH) or 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

The nursing community is facing challenges with staffing related to both recruitment and retention. “New nurse grad turnover rates are roughly 30% in the first year of practice, and as high as 57% in the second year” (Wolters Kluwer, 2017). New graduate nurses are specifically at risk for dissatisfaction within the profession. We have seen prompt burnout due to “heavy workloads, disillusionment about scheduling, insufficient time with patients, absence of autonomous practice, and the lack of intrinsic and extrinsic workplace rewards” (Wolters Kluwer, 2017). We developed the Admission Nurse Intern (ANI) program geared specifically for nursing students to help develop and support them as they prepare to enter into a graduate nurse role.

Learning Objective:

1. Generate nursing support and create an applicant pipeline for recruitment of graduate nurses.

Purpose:

This panel aims to gain insight into the learner perspective from the First Year Experience course (FYE100) and how it has benefited learners. Learners will be asked questions to help clarify their journey and the impact of the Foundations or Success course.  

Learning Objectives:  

• Explore outcomes of the CliftonStrengths assessment on student success 
• Discuss the impact of the Foundations of Success course on the student learning experience 
• Discover the beneficial concepts from the course and how they helped support academic preparedness  

Abstract:  

The FYE100 Foundations of Success course was designed as part of a healthcare degree program to ensure that new online BSN students are prepared for success at the start of their journey.  In this panel, three Unitek Learning students will share their experiences with this course and how it has impacted their academic and professional lives. Additional panel members include the subject matter expert, the instructional designer, and an instructor for FYE100 to provide additional insights.  

Eligible for 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

Unitek's Human Caring Council panel will co-create a heart-centered discussion of the Council's purpose, mission, and initiatives that inspire caring consciousness in educators, staff, and students. The panel offers an authentic opportunity to share and explore ideas around Caring Science in higher education.

Key Points:

• Learn about Unitek's Human Caring Council.
• Understand the Human Caring Council's purpose and mission.
• Describe initiatives to nurture caring consciousness in higher education.
• Participate in methods to infuse caring science into your own practice.
• Become an active member in co-creating safe, inclusive learning environments.

Eligible for 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

Linkage to appropriate post-acute healthcare resources is already strained due to multiple factors. Still, with the shortage of healthcare professionals at all levels, we must change what we do. If not, our healthcare system is headed toward a major public health crisis, with hospitals overflowing and caregivers expected to take their loved ones home.

At the end of the presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Identify at least 3 elements you must review with a new caregiver who will assume total care of their loved one and will be needed to include in any care plan or Individualized Patient Plan (IPP).
2. Identify all elements that must be included in the training plan to prepare a caregiver for their new role.
3. Identify key elements to include as the caregiver prepares the home and develops an emergency preparedness plan.
4. Understand the importance of developing their own care plan and what is needed for the loved one.
5. Avoidance of a "fuzzy brain":
   • It is important to keep a to-do list, keep a calendar up to date, and keep a notebook or cellphone handy for note-taking.
   • Importance of learning to say yes and no.
   • Importance of taking care of themselves.
6. As the caregiver "walks the walk":
   • It is important to do their own research and learn all they can to advocate for their needs and be an informed healthcare consumer and savvy caregiver.

Eligible for 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

This presentation aims to describe a novel public health theory proposing conscious regulation of the endocannabinoid system to amplify mental, spiritual, and planetary climates of well-being through the human biocrystal.

Key Objectives:

• Describe the human biocrystal and the living matrix.
• Explain the endocannabinoid system and its homeostatic regulation of the living matrix.
• Name a theoretical model for integrating phytocannabinoids ethically into population-focused public health nursing practice.
• Identify three multidimensional energetic healing practices to cultivate a healthy endocannabinoid system and intentionally tune the human biocrystal to create localized climates of well-being.

Eligible for 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)

By the end of this session, the attendees will learn: 

• Identify the benefits of ATI’s Engage Series in enhancing the student learning experience
• Explore the comprehensive faculty resources available to create student centered active learning activities for all areas of instruction 
• Plan enhancements to the current classroom management style using the Engage Modules to add audio, video, and interactive components to lectures 
• Understand how ATIs first AI powered assistant, Claire AI, can reduce time when creating new test items 
• Create their own high-quality items in Custom Assessment Builder with the assistance of Claire AI.

Cultivating Caritas Consciousness By Integrating Self-Care Spiritual Micro-Practices Through Aesthetics

Creation of a Caritas Room where students and faculty can engage in aesthetic micro-practices to encounter spirituality through aesthetics to help improve mindfulness, healing, and resilience.

How to create a Caritas Room on Campus

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LEADING WITH CARE: Integrating of Watsons' 10 Caritas Processes® Into Leading with CARE Model - Infusing Micro-Practices into Caring Moments

Leading with CARE modality intentionally influences and elevates existing institutional care models and organizational culture. The Leading with CARE modality synthesizes renown business, healthcare systems, and nursing leadership training modalities, coupled with the infusion of micro-practices, caring moments, and integrates Watson’s 10 Caritas Processes® to provide a foundation for ontological leadership practice with guidance toward ‘being-in right-relations’ with self, others, and systems (Watson 2008). Leading with CARE Model addresses the gap in business systems, healthcare, and nursing leadership modalities designed to train leaders to grow self/others and operate in caring spaces. This model clearly defines the intentional role that caritas consciousness and caritas leadership can play in the lives and moments of leaders.

*Contrasting Existing Leadership Models with the Leading with Care Leadership Model
*Integrate Watson's 10 Caritas Processes® to Foster a Caring Culture
* Highlight areas that fostering harmonious relationships with self, others, and systems
*The Leading with CARE Model addresses the gap within business systems and healthcare aimed at nurturing leaders
*Introduce Caring Micro-Practices into Mentorship, Meetings, and Interactions with Purpose
*Recognize the deliberate role that caritas consciousness and caritas leadership can play in the daily lives and interactions of leaders

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Honoring and Nurturing Self in Nursing: Using Watson's Human Caring Science

Honoring and nurturing self in nursing is supporting by the American Nurses Association and is an Affordable Care Act Quadruple Aim. Poster viewers will discover how Watson's Caring Science can be applied as the theoretical base to support the need for nurse well-being and wholeness. Poster viewers will learn how patient's lives, and health outcomes are dependent upon the overall well-being and wholeness of the nurse caring for them.

- Understand the importance of nurse well-being as a societal concern. 
- Describe nursing burnout, outcomes of nursing burnout, and projected nurse shortages. 
- Explain nursing stressors and self-care strategies. 
- Deepen awareness of Watson Caring Science and Human Caring Theory and how this applies to nurse well-being. 
- Describe three key takeaways and future direction of the importance of honoring and nurturing self in nursing.

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Nurses Valuing Nurses: A Caritas Conflict Resolution Curriculum Design Model

Nurses are inspired to love and care for their clients. Nurses must first learn pathways to consistently love, value, and support themselves and each other. Dr. Jean Watson's Human Caring Science Caritas provide the pathways to conflict resolution through nurses belonging to each other!