International QSEN
RN-BSN Task Force
Our charges are to:
- Determine if there is an enhanced RN-BSN QSEN & Systems Thinking curriculum and if so what outcomes can be measured?
- Enhance effort for integration of QSEN competencies and System-Level Thinking on QSEN Website- interactive experiences (publications, studies, integration opportunities, models, tool kits).
- Promote QSEN integration and System-Level Thinking into RN-BSN Education by sharing, obtaining funding, and publishing
- Create a contact list for conference on website
Membership Philosophy
We are inclusive and build upon one another’s work
We are non-competitive and transparent
We mentor one another
We are non-competitive and transparent
We mentor one another
Steering Committee Leadership
Director RN to BSN Degree Completion Option
Clinical Assistant Professor Governor-at-large, National League for Nursing Indiana University School of Nursing 1111 Middle Drive, NU 439 East Indianapolis, IN 46202 (317) 274-6599 tel (317) 274-2411 fax Janet Phillips, PhD, RN, ANEF is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. Phillips is presently the Director for the Indiana University School of Nursing RN to BSN Degree Completion Option, where she oversees the implementation and evaluation of a state-wide program of over 600 students, ranked 7th in the nation for best online RN to BSN programs. Her professional expertise lies in the areas of partnerships and adoption of innovative curricula related to quality and safety education for nurses (QSEN), interprofessional education (IPE), evidence-based practice (EBP), and systems-thinking. Dr. Phillips has been a primary investigator for a national study on innovations in curriculum design, and has been a co-investigator for a simulation study on teamwork and collaboration between nursing students, medical students, and medical residents to prevent medical errors. She led development opportunities on innovative ways to infuse QSEN into the BSN and RN to BSN curricula. Innovations included clinical exercises in error reporting, simulations in all semesters to enhance teamwork and collaboration (IPE), and use of electronic health records to document medications and prevent errors. Dr. Phillips has served as a consultant and peer reviewer for top tier nursing journals and online courses. Janet has been the Project Coordinator for a million-dollar simulation grant for a consortium of schools of nursing. She has served on national committees regarding curriculum innovations, presented at numerous conferences and published in referred journals, books, and web courses on teaching and learning in nursing education. Dr. Phillips was recently inducted as a Fellow in the National League for Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education and was elected as a governor-at-large to the NLN’s Board of Governors. |
Professor
Wright State University College of Nursing and Health 3640 Col. Glenn HWY Dayton, Ohio 45435 128UH 937-371-9946 (cell) 937-775-4571 (fax) Dr. Ann Stalter earned both her BSN and MSN degrees at Wright State University (1983; 1994). In 2009, she earned her PhD from The Ohio State University. The focus of her dissertation work was Body Mass Index Screening of School-age Children in Elementary Schools. She used a mixed methods design. Dr. Stalter's background and experiences include over 30 years serving various vulnerable populations in the Miami Valley Region. She has worked with home health patients, school and parish nurses, as well as, has led prevention efforts, disaster preparedness, and disease awareness events. She also has an almost 20 year teaching history where she taught undergraduate assessment, OB, community health, summer children's camps, and led RN completion students to graduation. She served the college as the RN-BSN Director from 2007-December 2015. In that time, she was a QSEN Pilot school champion and integrated QSEN into a redesigned on-line program. Dr. Stalter is well-published in a variety of journals including the Journal of Professional Nursing. Dr. Stalter's passion lies in community/public health nursing where she addresses needs, fills the gap and disseminates the experience for others.She is a certifies Instructional Designer for Online Learning. She plans to lead this team to advance the science of systems-level thinking in order not only to poise nurses to lead the new health care delivery system, but to advance the quality and safety of patient care across health systems. She wants to design an ongoing resource center within the QSEN organization that will allow nurses across the nation to understand system-based practice. |
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Collaborative Leaders & Members
New Jersey City University
Nursing Department, Rossey 405
2039 Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07305-1
Having many years of experience in teaching nursing in generic, accelerated, and RN-BSN programs, I feel that I have a wealth of information to contribute to the integration of systems level thinking in RN-BSN curricula. In addition to teaching, I’ve also done studies regarding safety issues in clinical settings, namely the sleep deprivation, fatigue, and reduced reaction time that occurs in shift worker nurses. I have a rich understanding of the threats to safety that can occur in the clinical setting—the setting where many RN-BSN students practice. It is important for RN-BSN students to learn to take on leadership roles in promoting patient (and staff) safety in clinical settings. In addition to the promotion of safety at the unit level, the RN-BSN prepared-nurse should provide leadership at the organizational level as well. A strong background in systems thinking, provided in baccalaureate level education, is needed to form these nurses into leaders in their organizations, thus promoting quality and safety.
Nursing Department, Rossey 405
2039 Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07305-1
Having many years of experience in teaching nursing in generic, accelerated, and RN-BSN programs, I feel that I have a wealth of information to contribute to the integration of systems level thinking in RN-BSN curricula. In addition to teaching, I’ve also done studies regarding safety issues in clinical settings, namely the sleep deprivation, fatigue, and reduced reaction time that occurs in shift worker nurses. I have a rich understanding of the threats to safety that can occur in the clinical setting—the setting where many RN-BSN students practice. It is important for RN-BSN students to learn to take on leadership roles in promoting patient (and staff) safety in clinical settings. In addition to the promotion of safety at the unit level, the RN-BSN prepared-nurse should provide leadership at the organizational level as well. A strong background in systems thinking, provided in baccalaureate level education, is needed to form these nurses into leaders in their organizations, thus promoting quality and safety.
Debra Scardaville, RN, PhD, CPNP
Associate Professor, Dept. of Nursing
New Jersey City University
Rossey 405
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07305
I have been an educator in a variety of nurse education programs for approximately 30 years. I am currently an Associate Professor at New Jersey City University. I have served in numerous roles relevant to the RN-BSN Program, including Coordinator for the RN-BSN Program, (2010-2011) and Chair at New Jersey City University, (2011-2014). Currently, I am a member of the RN-BSN Sub-Committee charged with major curricular review and revision of the RN-BSN Tract of Study. I have written and have obtained approval for two elective courses in the RN-BSN Tract of Study, inclusive of revised and new courses, reflecting QSEN Standards. I additionally have an IRB approved qualitative research study correlating the use of the reflective journal as a mechanism for evidence of reflective practice, critical thinking, clinical decision-making, and role attainment in a select RN-BSN student group. The findings of this study can be correlated with the BSN Essential II, Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality and Safety, and the QSEN competencies in the education of RN-BSN students toward leadership in quality and safety in health care.
New Jersey City University
Rossey 405
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07305
I have been an educator in a variety of nurse education programs for approximately 30 years. I am currently an Associate Professor at New Jersey City University. I have served in numerous roles relevant to the RN-BSN Program, including Coordinator for the RN-BSN Program, (2010-2011) and Chair at New Jersey City University, (2011-2014). Currently, I am a member of the RN-BSN Sub-Committee charged with major curricular review and revision of the RN-BSN Tract of Study. I have written and have obtained approval for two elective courses in the RN-BSN Tract of Study, inclusive of revised and new courses, reflecting QSEN Standards. I additionally have an IRB approved qualitative research study correlating the use of the reflective journal as a mechanism for evidence of reflective practice, critical thinking, clinical decision-making, and role attainment in a select RN-BSN student group. The findings of this study can be correlated with the BSN Essential II, Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality and Safety, and the QSEN competencies in the education of RN-BSN students toward leadership in quality and safety in health care.
Assistant Professor of Practice
School of Nursing
North Dakota State University
NDSU Dept 2670 PO Box 605
Fargo, ND 58108-6050
Dr. Kathleen Swanson is an assistant professor of practice in the School of Nursing at North Dakota State University. She received her Associate Degree in Nursing from North Dakota State University, her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Minnesota State University Moorhead and her Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Minnesota. Her doctorate is in Health Innovation and Leadership. She also earned a certificate in Health Care Design and Innovation at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Swanson’s nursing background includes experience as a staff nurse, nursing manager, educator for rural nurses, risk management, and teaching practical nursing students and pre-licensure nursing students. She is currently involved in the development of a new RN to BSN program that admitted its first cohort in Fall 2016. Her interests include relationships in health care, incivility, quality, systems thinking, and mental health. She is a member of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau International.
School of Nursing
North Dakota State University
NDSU Dept 2670 PO Box 605
Fargo, ND 58108-6050
Dr. Kathleen Swanson is an assistant professor of practice in the School of Nursing at North Dakota State University. She received her Associate Degree in Nursing from North Dakota State University, her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Minnesota State University Moorhead and her Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Minnesota. Her doctorate is in Health Innovation and Leadership. She also earned a certificate in Health Care Design and Innovation at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Swanson’s nursing background includes experience as a staff nurse, nursing manager, educator for rural nurses, risk management, and teaching practical nursing students and pre-licensure nursing students. She is currently involved in the development of a new RN to BSN program that admitted its first cohort in Fall 2016. Her interests include relationships in health care, incivility, quality, systems thinking, and mental health. She is a member of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau International.
Sherri Winegardner, DNP, MSN, MHA, RN
Director of Nursing and Associate Professor
Bluffton University
www.bluffton.edu
Phone: 419-358-3242 | Cell phone: 419-234-2006
[email protected]
Dr. Sherri Winegardner earned her BSN degree from Bluffton University in 1991, her MSN degree from Medical College of Ohio in 1995 and her MHA degree from University of Phoenix in 2007. In 2014, she earned her DNP from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The focus of her scholarly study at Duquesne University was the implementation of a clinical decision making model for use in the long-term care setting aimed toward the reduction of unnecessary hospital readmissions for geriatric patients with Congestive Heart Failure. Dr. Winegardner’s background encompasses a 35 year nursing career with experience in the acute and long-term care clinical settings serving in many practice and administrative roles including Clinical Nurse Specialist for critical care units, Director of Critical Care Services, Director of Nursing and Vice President of Clinical Services. In addition, she has served as faculty in an undergraduate nursing program teaching courses in Nursing Research, Nursing Leadership and Management and Pathophysiology. Dr. Winegardner is currently serving as the Director of Nursing and Associate Professor for the newly developing RN to BSN Completion and undergraduate BSN programs at Bluffton University. A focus for the development of the new nursing curriculum for Bluffton University will be the incorporation of QSEN standards for safety and the integration of systems level thinking for undergraduate students.
Bluffton University
www.bluffton.edu
Phone: 419-358-3242 | Cell phone: 419-234-2006
[email protected]
Dr. Sherri Winegardner earned her BSN degree from Bluffton University in 1991, her MSN degree from Medical College of Ohio in 1995 and her MHA degree from University of Phoenix in 2007. In 2014, she earned her DNP from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The focus of her scholarly study at Duquesne University was the implementation of a clinical decision making model for use in the long-term care setting aimed toward the reduction of unnecessary hospital readmissions for geriatric patients with Congestive Heart Failure. Dr. Winegardner’s background encompasses a 35 year nursing career with experience in the acute and long-term care clinical settings serving in many practice and administrative roles including Clinical Nurse Specialist for critical care units, Director of Critical Care Services, Director of Nursing and Vice President of Clinical Services. In addition, she has served as faculty in an undergraduate nursing program teaching courses in Nursing Research, Nursing Leadership and Management and Pathophysiology. Dr. Winegardner is currently serving as the Director of Nursing and Associate Professor for the newly developing RN to BSN Completion and undergraduate BSN programs at Bluffton University. A focus for the development of the new nursing curriculum for Bluffton University will be the incorporation of QSEN standards for safety and the integration of systems level thinking for undergraduate students.
Mary E Mckay, DNP, ARNP, CNE
Associate Clinical Professor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Nursing Programs
Wallace Gilroy Endowed Chair
Associate Clinical Professor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Nursing Programs
Wallace Gilroy Endowed Chair
University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies
5030 Brunson Drive
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
[email protected]
5030 Brunson Drive
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
[email protected]
Dr. Mary Mckay, is an Associate Clinical Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate nursing programs at the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies in Coral Gables, Florida. Mary Mckay is the Safety Assurance Director for the School of Nursing and Health Studies (SONHS) and has led the development of a patient safety program that includes a faculty/student led patient safety committee and a simulation based online adverse event reporting system. She has conducted research, presented and published in the areas of clinical simulation, patient safety, inter professional team based training and mindfulness. Dr. Mckay has led the development and implementation of the first SONHS blended and online courses including the RN-BSN program. She is a co-recipient of the Blackboard Exemplar Course Award for online programs. Dr. Mckay teaches primarily in the undergraduate BSN and RN-BSN programs. She is actively involved in curriculum development and program evaluation