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10th Annual Meeting
June 16-18, 2011
Pre-Conference
June 15, 2011
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Abstract Submission
November 1, 2010
Virtual Tour Submission
April 30, 2011
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Breaking News
July 20, 2010
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNERS OF 2010
Excellence in Academic Setting Award – This year’s winner is described as: Enthusiastic and passionate, a gentle coach and mentor. She is willing and able to generously share her knowledge and time as she seeks to continuously improve and invest in students and practicing nurses. She is inventive and plays roles with great suspension of disbelief. It is an honor, to honor, TERRI BOESE MSN, RN as the winner of the Excellence in the Academic Setting Award for 2010.
Excellence in Research Award – This year’s winner is an entrepreneur and model for nursing businessmen and women. Her research is centered on use of simulation and EHRs in education with specific to learning outcomes. She is co-author of the Elsevier Simulation Learning System product and also developed the STRIVE Model to aid faculty to implement and expand simulation services. She has been described as “a model researcher, as she not only researches and presents, but also closes the loop by publishing her work in a variety of venues.” – Suzan Kardong-Edgren. The 2010 Excellence in Research Award winner is VALERIE HOWARD EdD, MSN, RN.
Service to INACSL Award – Establishing a scholarship program to the annual INACSL conference is only one of the ways this nurse owned company has promoted the INACSL organization. INACSL brochures are included in every box of products they ship, as well as distributed at conferences where the organization does not exhibit. This company supports INACSL and the use of simulation in nursing education. INACSL Board of Directors wish to recognize the service and support of ANTHONY BATTAGLIA, President and CEO of POCKET NURSE with the 2010 Service to INACSL Award.
2010 INACSL Mini-grant award recipients
#1 Mary (Betsy) Guimond , RN, WHNP-BC, MN
Instructor, College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida
Project Title: Evaluation of a Simulation-Enhanced Obstetric Clinical Experience on Learning Outcomes for Knowledge, Self-efficacy, and Transfer
Betsy’s area of specialization is obstetric nursing and she is certified as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. She holds a Master of Nursing from the University of Florida and she is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Central Florida.
She has been working in nursing education for the last 8 years, specifically working with simulation and technology tools for nursing educators for the last 6 of those years.
She currently teaches Obstetrics, Leadership, and Forensic Nursing in the undergraduate program at the University of Central Florida AND have been slowly incorporating simulation activities into the curriculum while serving as the chair of the College of Nursing's Simulation Committee.
#2 Amy Jones RN, Ed.D., Assistant Professor and Chair Simulation Task Force South Dakota State University Brookings, SD
Title of Project: Assessing Nursing Students’ Clinical judgment Through Simulated Learning
Amy has been chair of the simulation taskforce at South Dakota State University for the past four years--the joint collaboration of the Nursing Educators, Deans and Directors in South Dakota (NEDDS) project which this grant will assist which represents 14 different nursing programs in SD. The group meets yearly. A smaller subset of this group has been working collaboratively (educators from a state university and a private university in conjunction with nurse educators from two large competitive regional hospitals to measure nursing student clinical judgement utilizing the Lasater Clinical Judgement Rubric as well as the NLN tool for Student Satisfaction and Self Confidence in Learning.
#3 Susan Pauly-O’Neill PNP, DNP, Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of San Francisco
Title of Project: Comparison of Student Experience with “Significant Acute Changes in Patient Condition” during both Pediatric Simulation and Pediatric Acute Care Hospital Rotations.
Dr. Susan Pauly-O’Neill is an Assistant Professor of Nursing and the Undergraduate Department Chair at the University of San Francisco. She is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner and practices in a pediatric urgent care center. Dr. Pauly-O’Neill developed a model of high-fidelity pediatric simulation to enhance clinical instruction at USF which was approved as a pilot project by the California Board of Registered Nursing as a 50% substitution of clinical hours. She has been an invited speaker and has published in the area of using simulation as a strategy to improve patient safety in medication administration. Her current data collection quantifying the significant acute changes in patient condition that nursing students respond to while working in the hospital setting and during simulation will help to answer the question—“ What specific acute patient events should be replicated in the pediatric simulation laboratory to ”fill in the gaps” to improve new nurse graduate readiness to practice?”
May 12, 2010
NEWLY ELECTED BOARD OF DIRECTOR MEMBERS FOR 2010 – 2012
PRESIDENT ELECT – VALERIE HOWARD Ed,D RN
Valerie Howard, is Associate Professor of Nursing and Director of the Robert Morris University Regional Research and Innovation in Simulation Education (RISE) Center. She has over 16 years of experience in higher education, with the past 6 years dedicated to researching, developing and implementing simulation experiences across the curriculum. Since 2004, she has been responsible for integrating academically sound simulation experiences for undergraduate and graduate students, and has supervised the expansion of the RMU Simulation lab into a 2,000 square foot facility, currently the RISE Center. Her research interests include the use of simulation and EHR’s in education specifically related to student learning outcomes, with her most recent published study entitled, Human Patient Simulators and Interactive Case Studies—A Comparative Analysis of Learning Outcomes and Student Perceptions (CIN, 2010). Other publications include Communication and Human Patient Simulation in Psychiatric Nursing (Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2009) and Integration of Simulation Across the Curriculum: Student and Faculty Perspectives (Clinical Simulation in Nursing, in press). Valerie is currently directing a funded project examining the use of the VISTA / CPRS electronic charting system in undergraduate education. She is co-Author of the Elsevier Simulation Learning System Product and has presented nationally and internationally on the topic of simulation,electronic health records, and online learning at conferences held by Sigma Theta Tau, AACN, INACSL, SSIH, Mosby, Contemporary Forums, and Emerging Technologies. Dr. Howard developed the STRIVE Model ©Howard 2010 to assist faculty with the implementation and expansion of simulation services in their respective institutions.
VICE PRESIDENT of COMMUNICATIONS -- BEVERLY HEWETT PhD, RN
Beverly Hewett is Clinical Assistant Professor at Idaho State University. Beverly has served on the Ad Hoc Task force to develop a survey determining interest in a professional organization for learning resource center faculty and staff developers. She is a charter member of INACSL and has served on the Communications Committee as a member for the past 4 years, web site manager for 2 years and is currently the listserv manager. Beverly has been a nurse educator for much of her nursing career. Most of her responsibility for the past 17 years has been as Coordinator of Idaho State University School of Nursing Learning Resource Center. In that role she has enhanced the school of nursing’s simulation lab environment and resources. Currently her responsibilities include teaching in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. At ISU School of Nursing, Beverly is a member of the Simulation Steering Committee which developed and implemented an organizational capacity building model which was published in Clinical Simulation in Nursing in 2009. She is also a member of the Office of Professional Development and Northwest Rural Nurse Advisory Committees. Duties include program development and evaluation of simulation via asynchronous and synchronous distance technologies and review of continuing education standards.
VICE PRESIDENT of MEMBERSHIP– NICOLE HARDER, RN, MPA, PhD(c)
Nicole has been an active member of INACSL for several years and values the rich resources that it provides. She is the coordinator of the skills labs and simulation center at a large University in Winnipeg, Canada for the past 8 years. Nicole has developed and conducted many local and international faculty development workshops related to psychomotor skill acquisition and education using simulation. Her research interests are primarily related to the learning that takes place during simulation and the culture of simulation. She brings a strong background in teaching with simulation, research into teaching and learning with simulation, and expertise in faculty development to the INACSL Board. Nicole enjoys networking and communicating with other interested colleagues and looks forward to bringing this enthusiasm to the VP of membership role.
January 25, 2010
Announcement
Dear INACSL Membership,
We have very exciting news to announce! Over the past year we have had several meetings with Board representatives from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) to discuss how best to promote simulation in healthcare, while preserving and combining resources. These discussions have resulted in an affiliation agreement between INACSL and SSH!
The incoming President of SSH, Mary Patterson, will announce this affiliation during the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, which is being held in Phoenix January 23-27, 2010. While we will announce the affiliation at our own conference this June, we believed it was important to share this breaking news with you now.
What does this mean for INACSL as an organization? The Boards of SSH and INACSL will continue to meet at least twice/year to discuss how best to promote simulation, while using our resources in a fiscally responsible manner. Each organization will be provided free exhibitor space at each other’s conferences. We will also provide links to each other’s organizations on our websites. The most obvious benefit that you, as a member, will see is a reduced total membership fee if you join both organizations! A joint membership will expand your ability to network and also provide access to the SSH journal as well as our own Clinical Simulation in Nursing.
As your renewal date approaches, look for information on the INACSL website (www.inacsl.org) that will provide guidance if you should choose to activate a membership with SSH in addition to your INACSL membership.
I hope that you are as pleased as the Board is with this affiliation agreement. We applaud all efforts to promote simulation and enhance learning for our students and clinicians.
Sincerely,
Kim Leighton
President, INACSL
January 25, 2010
Announcement
Dear INACSL members,
Happy New Year to you! I am writing to inform you that the INACSL "Debra Spunt" Research Mini Grant award process is underway.
The Committee is now seeking and accepting applications for the INACSL "Debra Spunt" Research Mini Grant. The goal of this program is to support basic and applied research activities of INACSL members. Following the application review process, two individuals or groups will be awarded a mini grant of $500 each. If you are working on or planning to develop a research proposal, please send an email with the attached document to me at colleen.meakim@villanova.edu. Applications will be accepted until Friday March 19th, 2010 at 4 PM EST.
Downloads:
2010 INACSL Mini Research Grant Criteria Final.doc
2010 Qualifications Minigrant Submitter Final.doc
Sincerely,
Colleen
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