Title: Preparing For the Transition: Preparing Faculty for a Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
1Preparing For the Transition Preparing Faculty
for a Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
- Juliann G. Sebastian, ARNP, PhD, FAAN
- Assistant Dean for Advanced Practice Nursing and
Professor - Co-Director, DNP Program
- Carolyn A. Williams, RN, PhD, FAAN
- Dean and Professor
- Marcia Stanhope, RN, DSN, FAAN
- Associate Dean and Professor
- Co-Director, DNP Program
- University of Kentucky College of Nursing
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2Considerations
- Identify faculty groups to include
- Determine types of transitions
- Examine faculty development issues related to the
nature of the program
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3Context
- Strong commitment to clinical practice
- Faculty practice program initiated in 1984
- Faculty practice plan in 1994
- Practice arrangements include clinical
appointments within the academic health center,
College of Nursing owned and operated sites, and
contracts with clinical agencies
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4Setting the stage
- Deans conversations with Chancellor about the
concept of a professional practice-oriented
doctoral program during the couple of years prior
to convening a planning committee - Dean discussed the concept of a professional
practice doctorate with Dean of the Graduate
School.
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5Stages of transition
- Curriculum transition
- Pre-implementation
- Curriculum implementation
- Program implementation
- Curriculum advancement
- Formative evaluation and enhancement
Farmer, E.A. (2004). Faculty development for
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Dental Education, 8(2), 59-66.
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6Pre-ImplementationFaculty involvement in
curriculum development
- Input into decision to develop a DNP program
(1998-99) - Dean convened a planning committee
- Faculty fora and focus groups
- Curriculum committee and faculty meeting
discussions - Retreat with planning committee
- Development of program objectives (post MSN),
curriculum framework and structure, courses,
admission and progression standards - Total faculty vote on the program proposal (1999)
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7Program ImplementationDevelopment of the core
faculty group
- DNP Coordinating Committee, 5/01
- Composition
- All faculty members teaching in the DNP program
- All are doctorally prepared
- Director of the PhD program
- All work with both DNP and PhD students
- Two teach PhD courses
- Others advise students as dissertation chairs or
committee members
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8Functions of DNP Coordinating Committee
- Planning, implementing, and evaluating the DNP
program - Admissions
- Operational policies and procedures
- Academic guidelines
- Communication (ex., monthly graduate faculty
meetings) - Evaluation
- Formative
- Summative
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9Student Committees
Faculty Advisor
Student
Faculty Committee Member
Clinical Mentor
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10Faculty advisors
- Evidence of understanding and operating from a
nursing model - Evidence of scholarship related to clinical
practice e.g., extramurally funded evaluation
research, publications, presentations - Provision of clinical leadership in
decision-making - Use of an evidence-based approach to clinical
decision-making
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11Clinical mentors
- Top level clinical or executive experts with
responsibility for population-focused health care
delivery - Mentors are selected from among a variety of
disciplines, thereby building the students
interdisciplinary experiences.
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12Connecting with faculty advisors and clinical
mentors
- Faculty advisors invited to attend course
discussions - Course faculty encourage students to work
directly with faculty advisors committees - Committees meet regularly to consult with
students sharing different perspectives from
practice academe enrich all.
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13Ongoing operationalization of curriculum
- Ongoing, scheduled faculty meetings to discuss
issues, values and ideas - Monthly DNP Coordinating Committee meetings
- Discussion of the nature of the curriculum,
clinical capstone projects, evaluation and
modification of requirements - Faculty retreat, Jan., 2005
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14Evolution of the clinical capstone projects
- Faculty discussions of assumptions, goals,
beliefs - Examination of various types of clinical change
projects - Outcomes evaluation, program evaluation and
evaluation research
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15Communication strategies
- Monthly reports at Graduate Faculty meetings
- Updates at Total Faculty meetings
- All faculty and students invited to DNP student
presentations and special lectures, presentations
by visiting professors - DNP students encouraged to make Brown Bag
presentations and to participate in poster
sessions - Sharing occurs with faculty members in other
disciplines via academic council discussions,
Brown Bag presentations, invitations to visiting
professor seminars and colloquia
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16Communication strategies (cont.)
- Electronic mail announcements, congratulatory
messages - College newsletter
- Print advertisements
17Faculty Involvement in National Meetings
- AACN Doctoral conference
- Regional DNP conferences
- Participation in specialty organization
discussions
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18Formative Evaluation and Enhancement
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19Formative Evaluation
- Real time changes as student or faculty needs
indicate - E.G., addition of Evidence-Based Practice course
in the first year - Curricular modifications in 2005
- Balanced clinical hours across the two tracks
- Added economics/finance course for clinical
students - Distributed final clinical project over two
semesters
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20Summative Evaluation
- Incorporation into the full College academic
evaluation plan - End of program surveys, Jan., 2006
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