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Online Teaching Preparedness: What About Our Faculty?, Kellie Smith, Edd, Rn, Elizabeth Elkind, Rnc, Msn, Mba, Phd(C) Jun 2008

Online Teaching Preparedness: What About Our Faculty?, Kellie Smith, Edd, Rn, Elizabeth Elkind, Rnc, Msn, Mba, Phd(C)

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

Rutgers Twenty-Sixth Annual International Nursing Computer and Technology Conference. Las Vegas, NV. (podium presentation).

22 PowerPoint slides.


Making Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators Real In Ambulatory Care, Beth Ann Swan May 2008

Making Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators Real In Ambulatory Care, Beth Ann Swan

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

Pay for performance initiatives are changing the quality landscape.

Gaps exist in quantifying and linking ambulatory care quality indicators to care provided by nurses in ambulatory care.

Ambulatory care quality indicators that are sensitive to nursing care, standardized, and tested need to be identified and adopted by ambulatory care nurses, ambulatory care provider organizations, professional organizations, and endorsed by a consensus organization.


Online Teaching Preparedness: What About Faculty?, Elizabeth Elkind, Rnc, Msn, Mba, Phd(C), Kellie Smith, Edd, Rn Mar 2008

Online Teaching Preparedness: What About Faculty?, Elizabeth Elkind, Rnc, Msn, Mba, Phd(C), Kellie Smith, Edd, Rn

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

Faculty development and online teaching: What about faculty? Drexel University’s e-learning 2.0 conference. Philadelphia, PA (podium presentation).

18 PowerPoint slides.


Project Esl: Enhancing Student Learning For Esl Nursing Students, Mary Powell, Barbara Hoerst, Gloria Kersey-Matusiak, Lyn Buchheit, Terry Mcgee, Alexis Marsella Feb 2008

Project Esl: Enhancing Student Learning For Esl Nursing Students, Mary Powell, Barbara Hoerst, Gloria Kersey-Matusiak, Lyn Buchheit, Terry Mcgee, Alexis Marsella

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

It is incumbent upon nursing programs to recognize the demographics and issues involved in training nursing students for whom English is not their first language. Project ESL used a variety of techniques to boost academic success, facilitate progress through graduation, and develop faculty sensitivity to language and cultural issues.


Parenting Foster Children With Chronic Illness And Complex Medical Needs, Lori S. Lauver Phd, Rn Feb 2008

Parenting Foster Children With Chronic Illness And Complex Medical Needs, Lori S. Lauver Phd, Rn

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

The experience of parenting foster children with chronic illness and complex medical needs was explored in a phenomenological inquiry with 10 foster families. Thirteen participants currently fostering chronically ill children with complex medical needs were interviewed. Recorded interviews were transcribed and analyzed using van Manen's method. Data analysis yielded five essential themes: Foster parents described being committed to the child in their care, coming to know the needs of a medically complex foster child, and identifying effective and ineffective interventions encountered through day-to-day living with a medically complex child. Furthermore, they shared what it was like to experience loss of …


Enhancing Teaching And Learning: Integrating Technology And Nursing Education, Kellie Smith, Edd, Rn, Elizabeth Elkind, Rnc, Msn, Mba, Phd(C) Jan 2008

Enhancing Teaching And Learning: Integrating Technology And Nursing Education, Kellie Smith, Edd, Rn, Elizabeth Elkind, Rnc, Msn, Mba, Phd(C)

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

Enhancing teaching and learning: Integrating technology and nursing education. Jefferson School of Nursing Faculty Development Day: Understanding scholarship: The Boyer model and career development. Philadelphia, PA (podium)

15 PowerPoint slides.