2010 Third National DNP Conference, San Diego

Breakout Session W1 Details, Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 4PM
San Marino Room

Shawn Bryant Collins, DNP, CRNA
Western Carolina University Nurse Anesthesia Program, Cullowhee, NC
Model for a Reproducible Curriculum Infrastructure to Provide Nurse Anesthesia Continuing Education in Developing Countries

Goal of Presentation:

To describe the use of a reproducible curriculum infrastructure to provide continuing nursing education in developing countries. Anesthesia is an essential component of secondary healthcare and when anesthesia services are inadequate, difficulties are experienced in a number of specialties. Sustainability of development can only come through anesthetists who are both well-trained and able to pass on their training to others (Dobson).

Objectives:
1. Describe the importance of continuing education in competency assurance for practitioners in developing countries
2. Analyze the challenges faced by nurse anesthesia providers in developing countries in obtaining continuing education
3. Demonstrate how a reproducible curriculum infrastructure assists in delivering continuing education in developing countries

Speaker’s Background:
Since receiving my DNP from Rush University in 2008, I have been actively involved with Health Volunteers Overseas in the capacity of a committee member on the Nurse Anesthesia Overseas (NAO) Division. The NAO division overseas volunteer nurse anesthesia education programs in developing countries around the world, both in graduate education and continuing education. I am also in a tenure-track position and the Program Director for a nurse anesthesia program in North Carolina. I have designed and delivered nurse anesthesia continuing education programs in Nigeria, Cambodia, and Vietnam. All of these qualifications meet the DNP conference objectives of demonstrating Doctor of Nursing Practice leadership in advanced practice nursing, nursing education and policy development and exploring how Doctors of Nursing Practice leadership has impacted advanced practice nursing, nursing education and policy formation.

Judy Honig, EdD, DNP, CPNP
Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY
New Horizons: The Scholarship of Nursing Practice

Goal of Presentation:
To explore a broadened definition of nursing scholarship

Objectives:
1. Identify several definitions of scholarship
2. Understand the role of the DNP in promoting the clinical scholarship and the scholarship of practice
3. Understand the distinctiveness and overlap of clinical and research scholarship

Speaker’s Background:
Judy Honig EdD, DNP, CPNP is an Associate Dean, Associate Professor, and Director of the DNP program at Columbia University School of Nursing (CUSN). She has been a faculty member since 1988. In addition to her administrative and practice responsibilities, Dr. Honig was funded by the National Institute of Health to examine mental health status of minority children. She participates in curriculum development and clinical and classroom teaching is a member of the DNP Portfolio Committee.

Dr. Honig has been involved in the national DNP movement. She has served on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Task Force for the Practice Doctorate (2002-2004) and AACN Essentials of Doctor of Nursing Practice (2005-2006). In addition, she was invited to serve on the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties: Curricular Leadership Committee (2007-2008), National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: DNP Position Statement Work Group (2007-2008). She is a member of the Council for the Advancement of Comprehensive Care.

She has served as a consultant for the development of the first master’s degree nurse practitioner program in pediatric primary care. She consulted for the state of Georgia and Texas and provided in depth review of DNP program proposals. She has made multiple presentations about the DNP curriculum, competencies and the innovative DNP portfolio at national and international meetings.

As part of her faculty appointment, she has practiced for 25 years and maintains a faculty NP practice in a busy, urban community-based pediatric practice in behavioral pediatrics. Dr. Honig is on the editorial board of Clinical Scholars Review, peer reviewer for National DNP Conference and Eastern Nurses Research Society and was a Grant Peer Reviewer for National Institute for Health Research, (NIHR) in the United Kingdom (2007).