The entire college community, friends, and family are invited to attend 2024 Nurse Pinning Ceremony in the Abbey Church. At that time, the class of 2024 student nurses will receive their nursing pins in recognition for their hard work and accomplishments throughout the last four years.

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Please join us for a New Hampshire Primary Election Watch Party!

PRIMETIME SPECIAL CO-ANCHORED BY CHRIS CUOMO, ELIZABETH VARGAS, AND DAN ABRAMS FROM 7-11 PM ET
NewsNation will present special live coverage of the New Hampshire Primary on Tuesday, January 23rd beginning on “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” at 5 p.m. ET. A three-hour primetime broadcast “Decision Desk HQ 2024: The New Hampshire Primary” will be co-anchored by Chris Cuomo, Elizabeth Vargas, and Dan Abrams from 7-11 p.m. ET.

Fusing Lessons of the Past with Current Innovations: Preparing Nurses for the Future

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Location: Sea Crest Beach Hotel, North Falmouth, MA

Join us for this 2 day in-person event that brings together experts, practitioners, policymakers, and advocates to explore critical issues impacting community well-being and equity. The conference features insightful sessions on pressing topics such as loneliness, infectious diseases, drinking water inequities, cannabis, cultural humility, and the role of community health workers, homelessness, H1N1 influenza, and supporting individuals with disabilities.

Target Audience- This conference is ideal for nurses and other healthcare professionals who practice in a variety of public health settings.

Learner Outcomes

Participants will:

• Gain insights into multifaceted public health challenges and innovative solutions across diverse populations and settings.
• Acquire evidence-based strategies, best practices, and policy recommendations to address key public health issues and promote health equity.
• Enhance skills in cultural humility, community engagement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and crisis response for effective public health practice.
• Foster networking opportunities, collaborations, and partnerships to strengthen public health initiatives, resilience, and community well-being.

Up to 11.75 Nursing Contact Hours

This comprehensive 2-day workshop has been developed to empower nurses transitioning or aspiring to transition into clinical nursing faculty roles within academic and healthcare settings. The workshop aims to equip participants with essential skills, strategies, and best practices necessary for effective clinical teaching, including methods for fostering clinical judgment, the art of debriefing, using constructive feedback approaches, and accessing resources for continued development such as toolkits, templates, and mentor relationships. The program will include simulation exercises, opportunities for cognitive rehearsal as well as group discussion to address individual questions and increase learner confidence.

Learning Outcome:
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to articulate the core responsibilities and expectations of clinical nursing faculty in academia, describe strategies to foster clinical judgment and critical thinking skills in nursing students, apply effective debriefing techniques to facilitate reflective learning, compare constructive and ineffective feedback approaches, and access resources for continued development such as toolkits, templates, and mentor relationships.

Planned Sessions:

Day one: 9:30-4:30pm - Monday August 19, 2024    

• Transitioning to Clinical Faculty Roles 
• Developing Clinical Judgment in Nursing Students 
• The Art of Debriefing

Day two: 8:30-2:30pm - Tuesday August 20, 2024  

• Feedback Essentials
• Teaching Best Practices Using Evidence
• Addressing Role Confusion and Building Confidence
• Coordinating with Skills Labs: Delivering a Consistent Message
• Mentorship: Finding a Mentor, Being a Mentor

Target Audience:

• Registered Nurses (RNs) transitioning or interested in transitioning to clinical nursing faculty roles.
• Experienced clinical faculty seeking to enhance their teaching skills and adopt evidence-based practices in clinical education.
• Nursing educators, program coordinators, and administrators responsible for faculty development and curriculum design in nursing education programs.

Contact Hours: 11.25