Transcript Transforming Nursing Education

Judith A. Halstead, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Indiana University School of Nursing
Indiana State Nurses Association Annual Meeting
September 28, 2012
Nurses Should Practice to the Full
Extent of Their Education and
Training
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Remove scope of practice barriers
Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and
diffuse collaborative improvement efforts
Implement nurse residency programs
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Develop skills related to quality improvement,
research, improving health care outcomes, cost
reduction, collaboration, developing patientcentered care models, entrepreneurship, advocacy
Interprofessional education and practice
Focus on transition from education to practice
through prelicensure and advanced practice
residencies, across all care settings
Nurses Should Achieve Higher Levels of
Education and Training Through an
Improved Education System That
Promotes Seamless Academic Progression
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Increase the proportion of nurses with a
baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020
Double the number of nurses with a
doctorate by 2020
Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong
learning
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Seamless academic progression
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Academic/practice partnerships
Student and faculty diversity
Faculty capacity
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RN-BSN education
APRN education
Advanced degrees
Faculty development – novice and experienced
New clinical models
Nurses Should Be Full Partners, with
Physicians and Other Health Care
Professionals, in Redesigning Health
Care in the United States.
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Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to
advance health
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Take responsibility to seek leadership
development at all levels
Integrate leadership theory and business
practices across nursing curricula
Effective Workforce Planning and
Policy Making Require Better Data
Collection and Information
Infrastructure
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Build an infrastructure for the collection
and analysis of interprofessional health care
workforce data
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Standardized minimum data sets across
states and health care disciplines
Collaboration amongst state boards,
workforce centers, HRSA, Dept. of Labor
Goal of improving data collection and
analysis, timeliness of data and public
accessibility to data
Indiana Center for Nursing
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Nursing students
Frontline nurses
Community nurses
Chief nursing officers
Nurse educators
Nursing organizations