Transcript Keys to Success: Preparing Faculty

Keys to Success:
Preparing Faculty
Cheryl Cummings Stegbauer, PhD, APN
Associate Dean for Academic Programs
& Director DNP Program
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
College of Nursing
Build on Strengths: Culture
• Health Science Campus
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Culture of graduate education for health sciences
Clinical resources
Science resources
Interprofessional experiences
School of Public Health
• Liberal Arts
• Broader graduate course resources
• Business school
Build on Strengths: History
• Identify what you do well
• Primary Care
• Acute Care
• Public Health
Build on Strengths: Faculty
• Identify Current & Future Leaders
• Value Practice
• Hold national APN board certification & state
APN license
• Local and National leadership
• Clinical experts with current practice
• Expert on Advanced Practice education
• DNP Essentials
• Regulation: Certification & Licensure
UTHSC Strengths: Culture
• 2000 Students
• 7 Colleges
• Allied Health
• Dentistry
• Health Science
Engineering
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Pharmacy
• Graduate Health Sciences
UTHSC Strengths: History
• Health Science Center
• 100 year history
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1950 BSN
1972 Master’s
1988 PhD
1999 Practice Doctorate
APN Faculty Leaders
Strengths: History & Faculty
• Preparing master’s APNs 30 years
• Diverse programs of faculty practice
provide a resource for clinical inquiry and
practice
• Most faculty hold advanced practice
certification
UTHSC DNP Tracks
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Administration
Acute Care
Forensics
Mental Health
Primary Care
Public Health
Faculty
• Dr. Wendy Likes Class of
2005
• FNP & APN
• GYN Oncology
• Publication: JMST Female
Sexual Function
• 1st Nurse inducted as
Fellow International
Society for Study of
Vulvovaginal Disease
Faculty
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Dr. Carol Thompson
FNP, ACNP, CNS
PhD Case Western
Practice ER VAMC
Active National
Leadership Acute Care
• NIH Genetics Institute
• Acute Care
Coordinator
Faculty
• Dr. Margaret Hartig
• FNP
• Active in Local, State,
& National NP groups
• FNP Coordinator
Faculty
• Dr. Pat Cunningham
• CNS, FNP
• State, National
Leadership Mental
Health
• Active Practice
• PsychFNP Option
Faculty
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Dr. Craig Stotts
FNP
DrPH Univ. of Texas
Public Health
Coordinator
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Dr. Susan Patton
PNP, FNP
Pediatric practice
Active National
Leadership IAFN
• Forensic Nursing
Coordinator
Faculty
• Dr. Leslie McKeon
• CNL Leadership
• Leadership with
practice partners
• Administration
Coordinator
Strengths: Mission & Commitment
• To Prepare Nurse Leaders for Excellence
Today and Tomorrow
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Faculty committed to excellence and progress
Faculty comfort with change & risk
Wisdom for timing
Leadership prepared to guide
2010 Vision
• 1999 Admitted to practice doctorate
• 65 Graduates of the Practice Doctorate
• 2005 Admitted DNP/PhD 2005
• 2 students
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/DNP/pdf/conf/Stake
holders05/MRowser.pdf
• 2006 CNL 2006 with Practice Partners
• 2010 All MSN APN programs to DNP