The First Annual Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Conference on Nursing Excellence:

Developing Professional Nurses as Teachers in the Practice Setting

April 21 – 23, 2008 The Woodstock Inn, Woodstock, VT

Monday

7:00 Registration and continental breakfast, Visit Vendors

7:45 Opening Remarks: Ellen Ceppetelli, Director of Education, DHMC

8:00 Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre, MSN, RN:

“Fostering Critical Thinking in the Clinical Setting” (1.5 CH) Part I.

This two-part session addresses the latest information on promoting and evaluating critical thinking. It stresses the need to be “on the same page” using evidence-based terms, rather than buzzwords. You get new tools to help you inspire and support novices in their journey to becoming experts.

9:30 Break - Visit Vendors

10:00 Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre, MSN, RN:

“Fostering Critical Thinking in the Clinical Setting” (1.5 CH) Part II

11:30 Lunch (buffet) - Visit Vendors

12:45 a. Susan Boyer, MS, RN: Differentiating among Mentoring, Coaching, Precepting and Teaching in the Clinical Setting – Each of these include elements of development, personal interactions, and evaluation. Participants will explore the roles/programs and determine which is best for various

agency needs. (1.5 CH)

a. Peg Gagne: Coaching for Clinical Competence at the bedside –

Part I Coaching: An expert analysis of: needs assessment, goal setting, planning, novice to expert, reflection, and fostering critical thinking development (1.5 CH)

b.  Anne Walker, MS, RN: Personality Styles, challenging situations, and dealing with the ‘Difficult Preceptee’: Understanding the personality styles that are involved helps us to find solutions to specific challenges faced by preceptors. (1.5 CH)

2:15 Stretch Break and Change Rooms

2:30 Concurrent Sessions

a.  Amy Eilertsen, MS, RN: State-of- the-Art in Precepting- Dialogue with the audience will follow a comprehensive review of the literature on best practices in precepting and creating a clinical environment supportive to both the preceptor and preceptee. (1.5 CH)

b.  Peg Gagne & Susan Boyer: Coaching for Clinical Competence at the bedside –

Part II Competence: Comprehensive clinical competence evaluation; with consideration of liability, research, evidence collection, and sampling. (1.5 CH)

c. Anne Walker, MS, RN: Civility in the workplace - Seeking Solutions to interpersonal challenges in the clinical setting: First we must name the dilemma of interpersonal conflict in the health care workplace and academic setting; then target individual and group responses that can bring resolution. (1.5 CH)

4:15 – 6:00 Reception, Book Signing (Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre), and Celebration of Preceptors

Tuesday

Conference Day 2

7:45 – 8:45 Registration, Continental Breakfast, Visit Vendors

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Speaker

9:00 – 10:15 Keynote Address: Quality and Safety in Nursing Education (1.25)

Gwen Sherwood, RN

10:15 – 10:45 Break and Visit Vendors

10:45 – 12:00 Core Competencies for the nurse of the future

Maureen Sroczynski, RN (1.25)

12:00 – 1:15 Luncheon (sit down)

1:15 – 2:30 Michele Deck: Presentation Number One (1.25)

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 – 4:00 Michele Deck: Presentation Number Two (1.25)

4:00 – 4:30 Discussion, Q & A, Evaluation and Adjournment

Dinner on your own…

Wednesday

Conference Day 3

7:15 – 7:55 Registration and Breakfast (full breakfast)

7:55 – 8:00 Welcome and Introduction of Speaker -

Vicki George, PhD, RN, FAAN

8:00 – 9:15 Molly Sutphen, PhD:

Update on Carnegie –Nurses as Teachers (1.25)

9:15 – 9:30 Break (replenish coffee/hot water for tea)

9:30 – 10:30 Molly Sutphen, PhD and Lisa Day, RN: (1.0)

Nurses as Teachers: A Dramatization

10:30 – 10:40 Stretch Break

10:40 – 11:40 End Note: Vicki George, PhD, RN, FAAN

Nurse as Teacher: A Global Perspective (1.0)

11:40 – 12:00 Discussion, Q & A and Adjournment