Recognizing & Overcoming Implicit Bias in Clinical Settings

Live via Zoom

This seminar will provide healthcare professionals with valuable insights and practical tools to address the critical issue of implicit bias in patient care. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of implicit bias, learning to recognize its presence in clinical interactions and its potential impact on patient outcomes.

Integrating the AACN Essentials Into the Curriculum: The Educator’s Role

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This presentation will discuss step-by-step processes that can be taken to move faculty colleagues toward a competency-based curriculum aligned with the 2021 Essentials. Approaches for conducting an effective and useful curriculum mapping will be demonstrated. Strategies to engage colleagues in the innovative work of developing and growing competency-based teaching activities and assessments will be discussed.

Barb Bancroft’s Clinical Topics for Faculty, Nurses and Students: Lab Tests – Shaken & Stirred

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Whaaaat? Join us for a day of education and entertainment. You find out the answers to some fun case studies: A young man urinated on his former girlfriend's pregnancy test and was positive for a pregnancy! What body part should be examed in that young man? Why? What enzyme found on the "blue dress" worn by Monica Lewinsky implicated Bill Clinton? What husband of Elizabeth Taylor had hemophilia? Yep! Barb will take the mystery out of interpreting the meaning of lab tests in numerous clinical conditions encountered in the primary care setting, the ER, and the Med-Surg and the ICU patient.

Using Concept Mapping To Promote Clinical Judgment

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This session provides a "how–to” approach for developing a concept map as an active teaching/learning tool helping students "put the pieces of the puzzle together.” Development, grading, repetition and barriers will be discussed. Concept Maps will be provided as examples for use for study or examples with teaching. Understanding how concept mapping really works in developing clinical judgment is an eye-opener for many.

Enhancing Clinical Judgment in Nursing Education: Leveraging Case Studies and Item Writing

Live via Zoom

This presentation will explore the critical role of case studies and item writing in fostering clinical judgment. A step-by-step guide for developing unfolding case studies will be explored, emphasizing strategies for enhancing clinical reasoning and problem-solving. The session will also include practical techniques for crafting NCLEX questions to promote critical thinking and knowledge application.