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Putting Innovations in Nursing Education to the Test
Read more about EIN’s first cycle of grantees as they are profiled in RWJF’s Sharing Nursing’s Knowledge in the recently released article, “Putting Innovations in Nursing to the Test.”
Cost Measures
The NPO will assist EIN grantees in estimating the marginal costs associated with implementing the proposed interventions. Because of the variability in resource input and activities, each intervention will be treated as a case study and guided by common design features to facilitate comparison across interventions. Results from this assessment will be valuable to organizations that are interested in replicating the interventions.
University of Portland (Oregon), School of Nursing
Dedicated Education Unit: Evaluating Innovation in Clinical Education
Principal Investigator: Susan R Moscato, Ed.D., RN
Program Evaluator: Michael Coe, Ph. D., Cedar Lake Research Group
The University of Portland (Oregon), School of Nursing will evaluate the “Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) Model.” The DEU is a hospital teaching unit designed to expand teaching capacity and improve clinical education for nursing students. The DEU reorganizes the roles of staff nurses and academic faculty to increase both the quantity and quality of faculty supervision and clinical education available to students. Practicing nurses receive additional professional development and support to become the primary teachers of students during clinical rotations; academic faculty members provide education and coaching for DEU nurses to increase their clinical teaching skills. The evaluation of the DEU model at four schools of nursing and their acute care hospital partners that operate both DEUs and traditional teaching sites will be conducted by Dr. Michael Coe and his team. Data gathered from student and nurse faculty surveys will be used to compare teaching capacity, faculty work satisfaction and quality of clinical learning environment at DEUs and traditional clinical education sites.
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, College of Nursing
Technology Rich Online Accelerated B.S.N. Program
Principal Investigators: Dawn Pope, MS, and Dr. Jaya Jambunathan, Ph.D.
Program Evaluator: Chere C. Gibson, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
This project will evaluate the 12-month accelerated online Bachelor’s to BSN program (ACCEL) at the College of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. ACCEL is a technology-rich program, which relies upon on-campus as well as remote sites for didactic and clinical education, engages faculty in teaching courses in one to six-week blocks, and uses online curricula and specially trained clinical preceptors. The impact of the intervention on three EIN outcomes will be assessed: teaching productivity, faculty work-life, and quality of education (including the breadth of education measures provided by the NPO). The evaluation, conducted by Dr. Chere C. Gibson and her team at University of Wisconsin, Madison, will include three comparison schools and collect data from surveys of students and faculty, and interviews with preceptors, coaches and clinical instructors. Outcome measures will be compared among the intervention and comparison schools. Items from the NPO-provided breadth of education measure will be included in student surveys.
