Faculty Development for DNP Education

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Faculty Development for DNP Education

• JoAnne Herman PhD, RN, CSME
• Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and
  Graduate Director
• University of South Carolina

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Environmental Influences on Faculty Development

• Timeframe 1996
• Very few DNP programs
• Essentials not developed
• Outcome competencies rudimentary
• Role expectations in infancy

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Decisions

• Should we proceed with the development of the DNP
  program?
• How will we acquire the expertise needed to teach
  in such a program?
• How will we monitor quality?

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Step 1Gathering Information

• Literature review
• DNP education
• Futurist predictions about evolving health care
  system
• Futurist predictions about skills and abilities
  needed by nurses in this health care system
• Curricula from existing programs

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Step 2Beginning the Dialogue

• Forums sponsored by Curriculum Committee
• Health care system of the future
• What could DNP contribute
• What skills and abilities would be needed
• What would the graduate look like
• What content was needed to produce our ideal
  graduate

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Step 3Asking the Experts

• Nursing Summit January 1997
• Dr. Lois Halstead, Associate Dean Rush University
  
• Michael Carter, Dean University of Tennessee at
  Memphis
• Joyce Fitzpatrick, Dean Case Western Reserve
  University

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Step 4Assessing Need for Faculty Development

• Nurse practitioner faculty were well prepared to
  teach the clinical content for advanced practice
• Faculty development in
• Role socialization for the DNP
• Organizational leadership
• Healthcare policy formulation political
  activism
• Evidenced based practice research

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Step 5Faculty Development Role Socialization

• Consensus building about the outcome competencies
  for the DNP graduate
• Values clarification

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Faculty Development Organization Leadership

• Collaboration with the Arnold School of Public
  Health
• Consulted with faculty from Amy V. Cockcroft
  Program
• Center for Nursing Leadership established in 2004

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Faculty Development Health Care Policy
Formulation Political Activism

• PhD clinical faculty with expertise in this area
• Consultation with the Center for Health Care
  Policy

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Faculty Development Evidence Based Practice
Research

• Discussions differences about PhD and DNP
  research
• Consultants for evidenced based practice
• Faculty forums
• Syllabus template

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QUESTIONS?

• JoAnne Herman, PhD joanne.herman_at_sc.edu