Linking Education and Practice for Excellence in Public Health Nursing

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Linking Education and Practice for Excellence in
Public Health Nursing
Susan Zahner, DrPH, RN Assistant Professor WPHA
Conference May 24, 2007

• Funded by HRSA, Division of Nursing
• DHHS/HRSA D11HP07731-01-01

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Linkages are important

• Experts recommend it
• AACN (1991) Pew Commission (1995), IOM (2003)
• Funding sources encourage it
• (HRSA, CDC, RWJF)
• Service gaps
• Nursing shortage
• Faculty shortage
• Changing work environment calls for new
  approaches (Bartz Dean-Barr, 2003)

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Project development

• 2004
• Annual PHN Conference
• Academic Linkages Dinner
• Academia and practice participants
• Brainstormed education and practice needs in
  Wisconsin
• HRSA grant
• not funded
• 2005
• Resubmitted with changes
• Funded
• 2006
• Received notice of funding October, 2006
• Funded through June, 2009
• HRSA, Division of Nursing
• 2007
• LEAP launched

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LEAP Partners

• Wisconsin Schools of Nursing
• Wisconsin Division of Public Health
• Wisconsin Local Health Departments
• Community-based, population focused
  organizations

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LEAP Project Activities

• Improved didactic and field PHN education
• Regional learning collaboratives
• Faculty development
• Preceptor development
• Building skills in population-based PHN practice
• Web-delivered CE in population-based PH
  competencies
• Mentored orientation program for new PHN

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Advisory Committee

• Statewide representation (25 members)
• Guidance to project staff
• Quarterly meetings (April 19, 2007)
• Wisconsin PHN Model graphic

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Literature Reviews

• PHN orientation content
• Field experiences for students
• Core content for population based practice
• Core competencies and the undergraduate level
• Population based field experiences
• PHN practice and core competency skills
• National resources for assessing learning needs

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Environmental Scan Field Experience Map
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Baseline PHN competency assessment

• UIC instrument (Essential PH services)
• Online survey in process
• N336 (5/22/07)

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http//www.son.wisc.edu/leap/
chnursed_at_lists.wisc.edu
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Improve didactic and field PHN education
experiences

• Regional Learning Collaboratives
• Collaboration between nursing faculty and public
  health nurses to design meaningful models of
  population-based clinical experiences
• Recruiting and training preceptors
• Designing, implementing and evaluating field
  experiences

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Improve didactic and field PHN education
experiences

• Judith Hansen
• New-LEAP
• SEWEAP
• Marilyn Haynes-Brokopp
• S-LEAP
• Pamela Guthman
• We-LEAP (La Crosse)
• Eau Claire

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RLC Update WeLEAP

• Focus
• Communication tools
• Gather data
• Undergraduate nursing students field experiences
  
• Facilitate and plan
• Define population-based public health
• Identify additional potential partners
• Delineate ADN role in public health

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RLC Update Eau Claire

• Previously existing group
• working on PHN student issues
• extend group to counties where UW-Eau Claire
  College of Nursing places students.
• ACHNE guidelines
• evaluating undergraduate PHN student curriculum
• Future plans
• ½ day conference
• round table discussions on ethical decision
• making

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RLC Update NewLEAP

• Focus
• CE for PHNs student experience
• Activities
• Field experience review w/ emphasis on best
  activities/projects.
• Explore virtual PHN classroom
• Support for agencies by SoN
• Checklist for agencies as basis for student
  projects.
• Improve student functionality for agencies.

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RLC Update SEWEAP

• Focus
• CE for practicing PHNs
• Criteria for field placement
• Recruitment
• Activities
• Content mapping of curricula
• Identify minimum PHN competencies for grads/new
  hires.
• Strengthen recruitment efforts with presentations
  outreach

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RLC Update S-LEAP

• Focus
• Core competencies
• Field experiences
• Activities
• Checklist of core competency skills (field
  experiences)
• Exemplar student PHN field experiences based upon
  competencies and scope and standards.
• Collaboration to improve student PHN field
  experiences.

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Improve didactic and field PHN education

• Faculty development
• ?Curriculum content and methods for teaching
  contemporary population-based public health
  nursing practice
• Annual faculty development conference
• Annual PHN Conference
• Academic Linkages Dinner

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Improve didactic and field PHN education

• Preceptor development
• ?Free access to Precepting Community/Public
  Health Nursing Students in Wisconsin online CE
  course
• http//www.son.wisc.edu/leap/preceptor

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Building skills for population-based PHN practice

• Develop 5 web-delivered CE courses
• Core concepts for population-focused PHN practice
• Core skills in cultural dimensions
• Core skills in analytic assessment
• Core skills in community dimensions
• Core skills in program planning and evaluation

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Develop mentored orientation program

• Develop model PHN mentored orientation program
• Train PHN mentors
• Web-net working and communication through
  listserve CHNURSED
• LEAP website

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There are two ways of spreading light to be the
candle, or the mirror that reflects it. Edith
Wharton
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Linking Education and Practice for Excellence in
Public Health Nursing

• Susan J. Zahner, Dr.PH
• Project Director
• sjzahner_at_wisc.edu
• 608-263-5258
• Marilyn Haynes-Brokopp, M.S.,R.N., B.C.
• Project Manager
• haynesbrokop_at_wisc.edu
• 608-263-9190

• Pam Guthman, R.N., B.C.
• Education Practice Liaison
• guthman_at_wisc.edu
• 715-836-2064
• Judith M. Hansen, M.S., B.S.N., R.N.
• Education Practice Liaison
• jmhansen4_at_wisc.edu
• 414-229-5647