This webinar will review the basics of an effective mentoring program as a strategy to enhance the academic success of nursing students at historically marginalized nursing schools. It will also inform and remind participants of available resources for the successful implementation of your mentoring program.

Goals:

• Describe the essential elements of an effective mentoring program.

• Describe available resources to assist the mentoring program

• Discuss the AARP volunteer mentor recruitment process and improvement.

Presenters:

• Vernell P DeWitty, PhD, RN, FAAN

• Jazmine Cooper, MBA

Resources:

Mentoring for Success Presentation

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This webinar is a part of the AIAN Learning Collaborative.

Presenters:

Lieutenant commander (LCDR) Gladys Williams is an active-duty pharmacist with the United States Public Health Service. One of the 8 uniform services of the United States. She served for ten years with experience working as a clinical pharmacist with Indian Health Service on the Navajo Nation in Arizona, Program Analyst with Homeland security Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She currently works with the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology (OSE) as a Project Manager and a Contracting Officer Representative with Regulatory Science Staff. LCDR currently serves as the workgroup team lead for the OSE DEIA HBCU initiative.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending quality time as a new mom with her nine-month-old daughter, her family, and taking road trips when she can.

Lieutenant Chiemena Anyanwu has been an Active Duty Commissioned Nurse Officer in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) since September 2016. LT Anyanwu started her career with USPHS through their Senior Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program (SRCOSTEP) where students entering their final year of graduate school or professional training commit to serve in medically underserved communities for at least two years upon graduation. LT Anyanwu was detailed to a federal prison in Houston Texas as her first assignment where she served for almost three years as a staff nurse.

Currently, LT Anyanwu is detailed to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition’s (CFSAN) Office of International Engagement (OIE) where she serves as an International Policy Analyst working on programs for partnerships between the U.S. FDA and foreign regulatory counterparts, to increase food safety globally. LT Anyanwu leads the United States Government (USG) comment process for measures notified to the World Trade Organization concerning food, cosmetic and dietary supplements, on behalf of CFSAN. Additionally, LT Anyanwu serves as OIE’s Communication Manager, coordinating with FDA’s communication team and OIE staff to execute outreach to internal and external stakeholders on FDA updates and announcements. Furthermore, LT Anyanwu also serves as the lead coordinator for the review and response to inquiries, documents, and meeting requests from other USG agencies and foreign regulatory counterparts, regarding FDA’s polices and regulations on CFSAN managed commodities and programs.

Resources:

OSE -DEIA-AIAN Nurse Targeted Presentation

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Presenter:

Jason Schwartz, MS, Director, Outreach, NCSBN

Resources:

NGN Presentation

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Presenter:

Michael Bleich, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN, is a Wisconsin native with clinical, consultative, academic, and association leadership positions.  Dr. Bleich is a recognized thought leader addressing national and international audiences, including nurses, executives, governance bodies, associations, and the media.  Five contributions advanced the discipline in important ways – his engagement as one of the five nurses on the committee that wrote the original The Future of Nursing, Leading Change, Advancing Health report issued through the Institute of Medicine; Wisdom at Work: the Importance of the Older and Experienced Nurse in the Workplace published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Men in Nursing: Understanding the Challenges Men Face in this Predominantly Female Profession, and Analysis of the Nursing Workforce Crisis: a Call to Action, both published in the American Journal of Nursing and Advancing Diversity Through Inclusive Excellence in Nursing Education in the Journal of Professional Nursing.

Dr. Bleich holds a diploma, BSN, MPH, and Ph.D. from Midwestern Schools and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Rosalind Franklin University.  He completed the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and Fellowships with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the WK Kellogg Foundation.  An inductee of the American Academy of Nursing and the National Academies of Practice, he proudly served as the President of CGFNS, International, and FNINR; both advance science and ensure workforce mobility, quality, and safety.  In recent years, he has served in interim leadership roles as a Dean, Director, and Senior Professor.

Resources:

The Scholar-Leader Presentation

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This webinar is part of the Mentoring Joint Learning Collaborative.

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action invites nursing students, and faculty, to join the Campaign’s NCLEX Trainers for a special training on the Next Generation NCLEX.

The training will provide nursing students with:

• Information on the changes in the Next Generation NCLEX;

• Best strategies to answer clinical judgement questions;

• Additional resources available to test your knowledge prior to the exam.

Background:

For the past several years, the Campaign has been working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Minority Health, Indian Health Services, and several national nursing organizations to prioritize diversifying the nursing workforce and support schools of nursing with creating or updating their mentor programs. The Campaign, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hosts monthly learning collaboratives, offered through its mentoring initiative, to provide peer-to-peer support and technical assistance to deans and faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-serving and American Indian/Alaska Native-serving institutions.

Presenter:

Carrie Barr, MSN, RN, is the director of undergraduate nursing and associate lecturer at the University of Wyoming. Carrie has been a nurse for 16 years, with experience ranging from critical care, cardiothoracic surgery, oncology, med/surg nursing to being a nurse coach. She has been teaching full-time for the past five years in a variety of courses including foundations, patho-pharmacology, leadership, med/surg I & II and preceptorships. She has also served as a skills and simulation lab coordinator.

Over the past two years, Carrie has been the associate degree program coordinator for Alaska Pacific University (an Alaska native tribal university), which recently received initial accreditation through the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing and got special commendation for its focus on cultural safety. The ADN program has already expanded to two distance sites in rural Alaska with the overall goal to increase the number of indigenous nurses serving in their communities.

Resources:

2023 RN Test Plan

NGN News Spring 2020

Medline Plus: Understanding Medical Words Tutorial

Appendix A: Word Parts and What They Mean: MedlinePlus

NCLEX Lab Values Review For Nursing Students | NurseJournal.org

2023_RN_Test Plan_English_FINAL.pdf (ncsbn.org)

Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) | NCLEX

NGN_Fall21_English_Final.pdf (ncsbn.org)

NGN_Spring21_Eng.pdf (ncsbn.org)

2023_NCLEX_Candidate_Bulletin.pdf (ncsbn.org)

View (sigmanursing.org)

Maryland Nursing Workforce Center Student Test Bank

Case Study Example

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This webinar is part of the Mentoring Joint Learning Collaborative.

Presenter:

Melissa Bellamy, MSN, RN, is the BSN Curriculum Administrator at Morgan State University. She oversees the undergraduate didactic and clinical faculty and serves as a support to the program director. Additionally, she teaches undergraduate courses including Critical Care Nursing, Gerontology and Medication/Dosage calculation. Before joining Morgan State University, Melissa worked for the University of Maryland Health Systems as an emergency room nurse for nine years and spent an additional two years in the health system as the ER nurse educator. She earned her master’s degree in nursing education at Chamberlain College of Nursing, and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from The Helene Fuld School of Nursing at Coppin State University.

Co-facilitators from Morgan State University:

Angela Davis, MS, RN

Pawn Johnson-Hunter, MS, BSN, RN GERO-BC, CM/DN

Joshua Saylor, MSN, RN, CNL, CPN

Resources:

NCLEX-RN® Test Plan

Using the Maryland NextGen Test Bank For Faculty

Faculty Case Studies

Using the Maryland NextGen Test Bank for Students

Student Case Studies

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This webinar is part of the Mentoring Joint Learning Collaborative.

Presenter:

Twanda Toliver Gainer, RN, MSN is the founder and ceo of RN Reach, LLC. Where she provides academic support, coaching and mentoring services for aspiring nursing students.

Nurse educator, leader and veteran with over 30 years of nursing experience. Twanda has served as the nurse resident program coordinator at Howard University Hospital. Assistant professor, nurse recruiter, and counselor for Hampton University Veterans Education Transition for Success (HU-VETs). She also served as the BSN program coordinator for Norfolk State University; and, clinical adjunct and academic success coach for both Virginia Commonwealth and South University.

Twanda holds a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degree from Hampton University. She is currently pursuing an EdD at the University of Phoenix.

Resources:

Post-Test Analysis

RN REACH Success Model

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The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) will present a webinar aimed primarily at nursing schools that serve students of color to prepare for the new National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) that will debut in April 2023. The Campaign is an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This work is a continuation of the Campaign’s commitment to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and schools of nursing from Hispanic-serving and American Indian/Alaska Native-serving Institutions. The webinar is directed toward them and our general audience is welcome to join.

For the past three years, many schools of nursing have been doing their due diligence to prepare for the new exam, “Next Generation NCLEX.” In this webinar, NCSBN’s test development director will talk about what students can expect on the new generation NCLEX.

Objectives:

• Review changes coming to NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN exams in 2023
• Understand the connection between the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model and the new case studies and item types that will measure clinical judgment on the Next Generation NCLEX
• Gain hands-on experience with the Next Generation NCLEX item types and scoring methods

Presenter:

• Jason Schwartz, MS, Director, Outreach, Marketing and Advocacy, NCSBN

Questions? Email Jazmine Cooper at: jncooper@aarp.org.

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Many organizations are looking to fund projects and work to advance health equity. In this webinar, we will use the National Academy of Medicine’s latest nursing report, the Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity, to appeal to potential funders about your work and how it can benefit them, your target population, and society. 

Presenters:

• Kelly Brittain, PhD, RN, senior program officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
• Audrey Harvey, MPH, CPH, executive director and CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
• Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior adviser for Nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and director, Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action
• Paul Leon, RN, CEO, Illumination Foundation, a non-profit that provides targeted, interdisciplinary services for homeless adults and children. 

Additional Resources:

• Grant, Programs, Funding and Recommendations, HRSA webinar.
• United Philanthropy Forum: Reginal Associations
• How to Engage Funders and Get Money: the 10 Rs You Need to Know
• Fundraising Toolkit

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This webinar is part of the Mentoring Joint Learning Collaborative. The webinar featured the American Associations of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) new Essentials, which are used to delineate competency expectations for graduates of baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs. In addition, participants reviewed a video from AACN’s Diversity Symposium which discussed how the new essentials can be applied to the workforce’s effort of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

This learning collaborative includes nursing faculty and deans from historically black colleagues and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, American Indian/ Alaska Native schools of nursing, and the Campaign’s state-base Action Coalition leaders.

Key Objectives:

• Orient the schools of nursing on the new Essentials.
• Review the competency expectations in 10 domains that are central to nursing practice.
• Explore how to apply the Essentials to the workforce’s effort of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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