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VNIP Quarterly Report January through March, 2010
Within this report we recap the work and planning that VNIP staff and faculty are involved in. While this includes the highlights of time spent in support of our mission and vision, it does not include the many individual requests for information and presentations that arrive via e-mail. Our content and focus continue to be a common concern within healthcare staff development.
Vermont Preceptor and/or Staff Development Instruction/Consulting :
· Basic Preceptor Workshops occurred at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor on January 8 and 15.
· Special intensive VNIP course that merged with the Nurse Leadership Summit on March 23 through March 27 at the Grand Hotel in Killington, Vermont. This combined the core preceptor development work with evidence-based instruction, competence development and assessment of new graduates, new hires. We had attendees from Colorado and Kentucky for the combination of the two-day Clinical Coaching workshop and intensive sessions on teaching/learning and competency systems.
· Presentations offered as part of the Nurse Leadership Summit included Advanced Preceptor Development Courses and Evidence based Competency Programs. Participants came from Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York City as well as many educators and managers from Vermont.
Presentations for specific agencies and/or regional conferences outside Vermont:
· January 15 – Presentation at Portsmouth (NH) Regional Hospital.
· On March 10 and 11, presented at the Institute for Educators in Nursing and Health Professions a the University of Maryland School of Nursing conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Content focus included our work in Preceptor and Internship Development, especially pertaining to clinical instruction. The overall focus of the conference was on excellence in teaching with break-out sessions targeting concept-based program structure and use of technology for teaching.
· Clinical Competence Development Courses –
As contracted with New York City College of Technology (NYCCT) Nursing Program, January 25, 26, 27 and February 4 and 5 at college campus in Brooklyn, NY. This work was funded through a HRSA grant submitted by NYCCT Nursing Program and involved several Brooklyn area healthcare agencies and at least two schools of nursing.
Upcoming presentations – within Vermont:
· Basic preceptor workshops are scheduled for June 10 & 11 (at the Franklin Conference Center at the Howe Center, Rutland) and June 23 & 24 (at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans).
· Advanced courses can be scheduled with Anne Walker for presentation at VT agencies.
Other news and work:
· Annual VNIP Board Retreat occurred on January 12.
· VNIP’s revised Mission Statement accepted at February 8 Board of Director’s Meeting.
· Pam Puccia resigned from Board of Directors for personal reasons. New Director is Carol Hodges from Northeastern Vermont Medical Center.
· St. Anthony’s Central and St. Anthony’s Summit Medical Centers have purchased site licenses for the VNIP resources and key educators attended the special course that was held in conjunction with the Nurse Leadership Summit.
· Anne Walker, Jane Oliphant, Gail Hanlon and Ellen Hagman continue their services with consulting and our website. VNIP has now published nine editions of the VNIP newsletter.
· Vermont research workgroup is yet to be convened.
· Mary Val Palumbo collaborated with Susan Boyer and Betty Rambur to complete an article for the Journal of Nursing Regulation. It has been accepted for publication pending revisions and clarification of editor’s comments.
· Pat Fry, Richard Watters and Ellen Hagman continue to pursue publication of articles pertaining to our research outcomes.
· VNIP support staff continues to implement budget management, establish program records, accept registrations, schedule resources for presentations and maintain the varied efforts of VNIP.
Contract Discussions:
o Army Nurse Corps – no word
o NYSNA – no formal word on the grant application
o Kaiser – no further discussion.
o Centura – 2 of the 10 Centura hospitals have contracted and will run their first pilot this year. It looks like the rest of the system has moved away from the idea of standardization because of budget concerns.
o A third Centura Medical Center has inquired about site licensing and framework utilization. Contract development has started with licensing pricing shifting to a ‘per Nursing Dept FTE’ structure.
o Query from Nebraska - The Nebraska Center for Nursing has grant funding from the NCSBN and currently intends to implement VNIP preceptor development. Contract discussions are pending with consideration of a statewide site license that is calculated based on the number of licensed nursed in the state.
Other work
· Nurse Leadership Summit - Susan was the lead contact for the Grand Hotel and completed the contact hour application with electronic submission
· Liability Insurance was purchased for VNIP and the contracted faculty were added to our Worker’s Compensation coverage.
· Susan served on the Committee that reviewed applications for the VT AHEC loan repayment and determined disbursement of funds.
· Webinar offered on February 26 to introduce the Centura group to VNIP
· HNIP teleconferencing occurs quarterly
· Changes for by-laws proposed – to be submitted for vote in April
· Consider design for preceptor pin and naming of newsletter – Solicit authors for newsletter articles.
Upcoming work:
· Work on system, structure, deliverables and pricing for site license renewals continues.
Respectfully Submitted,
Susan Boyer, Executive Director, VNIP