The NLN Report - National League for Nursing

Summer 2011
Issue Fourteen
Special Expanded Edition
The NLN Report
The Member Newsletter of the Voice for Nursing Education
NLN
National League
for Nursing
FOCUS ON
MEMBERSHIP
INSIDE
Who Is Stella?
NLN Membership:
A Portrait of Inclusivity
A New Era in Testing
Services
Foundation Roundup
LeaderNotes
Outcomes and
Competencies:
A Stellar Review
Coming Up
from the NLN
National League
for Nursing
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LeaderNotes
Celebrating Our NLN Leadership
Dear Colleagues,
I love our cover story, but I have to admit
that I have mixed feelings about the
Bellman family photos. Stella, Carl, and
Junior seem just a bit lifeless to me. The
miracle is how alive they become for the
students and therefore for learning. Just
wait until you read the article they illustrate. With humor, compassion, and a
great store of knowledge, Stella helps nursing students learn basic skills and dispenses much-needed advice. Don’t miss this
great story on page 4.
You’ll notice that we’ve doubled the size of
the NLN Report for summer 2011, and
here’s why. Because we are so delighted with
the inclusivity and range of our institutional
members, we want to share their names
with you. Please see pages 8-13 to see your
fellow schools of nursing, whose faculty join
you as proud participants in and recipients
of the rewards of NLN membership.
This edition also has an expanded section
describing all the wonderful things the
NLN Foundation for Nursing Education is
doing to advance nursing education with
your help and the generosity of our corporate donors.
I hope your summer has been and continues
to be restorative and rewarding. See you in
September at our annual Summit.
Best wishes,
Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN
Patricia Allen, EdD, RN, CNE, ANEF, professor and director of the Center for Innovation
in Nursing Education at the Texas Tech
University Anita Thigpen Perry School of
Nursing, has recently had the following articles
published: “West Texas Nursing Education
Portal Project: Developing Regional Centralized Application System” in the Journal of
Professional Nursing; and “Growing Your
Own Nursing Staff with a Collaborative
Accelerated Second-Degree, Web-Based
Program,” in the Journal of Continuing
Education in Nursing. Dr. Allen has also contributed chapters to several books including:
“Initiation and Management of Accessible,
Effective Distance Education Anytime,
Anyplace” in V. K. Saba’s Essentials of Nursing
Informatics and “Program Evaluation” in
Evidence-Based Teaching by C. Boswell and
S. Cannon.
Holistic Nursing Care” at the International
Nursing Research Congress in Cancun in July.
Patricia Ann Castaldi, DNP, RN, ANEF, director of the Practical Nursing Program at Union
County College and one of the lead administrators for the Northern New Jersey Health
Professions Consortium, received funding
from the US Department of Health and
Human Services’ Administration for Children
and Families. The $24 million award will be
shared with nine other community college
partners over a five-year period to provide
health care industry occupational training
through workforce readiness and integrated
basic skills preparation, workforce supportive
services, and occupational skill development
leading to certification and employment for
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(TANF) and other low-income participants.
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In May, NLN board member Gail Baumlein,
PhD, RN, CNS, CNE, ANEF, program chair,
nursing at Franklin University, spoke at the
Ohio Organization of Practical Nurse Educators (OOPNE) annual conference. The conference boasted 200 attendees representing
most of the LPN programs in Ohio. Dr.
Baumlein presented a workshop titled “Nurse
Educator Toolbox: Practical Tips and Tools for
the Busy Educator.”
Betsy Frank, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor at
Indiana State University College of Nursing,
Health, and Human Services, Department of
Baccalaureate Nursing Completion, spent
three months at the Saimaa University of
Applied Sciences in Lappeenranta, Finland on
a faculty exchange. Dr. Frank presented “How
to Review Abstracts” to faculty and “Patient
Satisfaction in the ER.” to emergency room
nurses at the Central Hospital. In addition, she
consulted with faculty and students on their
research projects.
iii
New publications of NLN governor Carol A.
Boswell, EdD, RN, CNE, ANEF, professor
and co-director, Center of Excellence in
Evidence-Based Practice at Texas Tech
University Anita Thigpen Perry School of
Nursing include: Cannon, S. & Boswell, C.,
Evidence-Based Teaching in Nursing: A
Foundation for Educators, and Boswell, C. &
Cannon, S., Nursing Research: An EvidenceBased Practice Approach. Last October, with
Dr. Sharon Cannon, Dr. Boswell presented
“Bridging the Gap Between Practice and
Education Through a Center of Excellence
and Partnerships” at the Professional Nurse
Educator Conference. And, with Dr. Cannon
and Dr. Joyce Miller, Dr. Boswell presented
“Perceptions of Students: Spirituality and
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Joyce P. Griffin-Sobel, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF,
acting dean, Hunter-Bellevue School of
Nursing, recently participated in the NLN
Roundtable on Post-Baccalaureate Education.
She was an invited participant at the
Millennium Conference 2011 on Critical
Thinking at the Carl Shapiro Institute for
Education and Research at Harvard Medical
School and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
where she presented “Nursing Perspectives on
Critical Thinking” with Pat Ebright of Indiana
University, Laurie Clabo of MGH Institute of
Health Professions, and Debbie Lindell of
Case Western Reserve. Other presentations
Continued, next page
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include: “The Past Is Prologue: Best Practices
in Nursing Education” and “Nursing
Education for the Future” at Technology
Advances in Healthcare: Transforming
Education and Practice, in San Antonio.
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In fall 2010, Kathie Krichbaum, PhD, RN,
ANEF, associate professor and associate dean
for academic programs at the University of
Minnesota School of Nursing, was inducted
into the university’s Academic Health Center’s
Academy of Excellence in the Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning.
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Carrie B. Lenburg, EdD, FAAN, ANEF,
received an honorary doctorate from Excelsior
College in Albany, NY, where she spent 17
years (1973-1990) coordinating the development and implementation of the associate and
baccalaureate nursing programs, then known
as the NY Regents External Degree Program.
The innovations in distance learning and competency performance developed in those early
years were once considered academically unacceptable and impossible in a practice discipline
like nursing; today, most US nursing programs
offer distance learning and see the urgent need
to validate competence through performance
examinations. Now 40 years old, the programs
have been recognized with the NLN’s Center
of Excellence designation since 2005.
iii
In December 2008, professor emerita Lois W.
Lowry, DNSc, RN, ANEF, officially retired
from East Tennessee State University after 31
active years as a nurse educator. She is not,
however, just relaxing on her porch. Because
nursing is her passion, she continued to work
full time until she was 75. During the past three
years Dr. Lowry has mentored doctoral students through the dissertation process and
continued educational consultation. Dr. Lowry
receives great satisfaction from contributing to
the Neuman Systems Model International
organization through publications and consultations with nurses in Holland where the
model is used throughout the country to guide
psychiatric and community nurses in rendering
quality care.
iii
On May 12, 2011, NLN board member
Brother Ignatius Perkins, OP, PhD, RN,
FAAN, FNYAM, dean of nursing and RN-
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BSN program director at Aquinas College in
Nashville, was admitted as a fellow in the Royal
Society of Medicine, founded in 1805 in
London and one of the oldest, most respected
medical societies in the world. Fellowship in
the society continues the trajectory of internationally positioning Aquinas College, nursing
and the Dominican Friars in this prestigious
learned society. Like the New York Academy
of Medicine, awarding full fellowship status for
nurses has been a very recent trend. Brother
Perkins’ nomination originated from the New
York Academy of Medicine.
researchers will collaborate in studies across
multiple hospitals to quickly determine what
works in improving bedside care. It will be positioned to move answers rapidly into practice.
iii
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars
selected Deborah Raines, PhD, RN, ANEF, as
the 2010 Distinguished Scholar. Dr. Raines was
also awarded honorary membership in the
society.
iii
NLN Board of Governors member Teresa
Shellenbarger, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, doctoral program coordinator at the Indiana
University of Pennsylvania Department of
Nursing and Allied Health recently published:
Gazza, E. & Shellenbarger, T. (2010), “The
Lived Experiences of Part-Time Baccalaureate
Nursing Faculty” in the Journal of Professional
Nursing.
iii
In March 2011, Susan B. Stillwell, DNP, RN,
CNE, ANEF, delivered “Spirit of Inquiry: The
Foundation for Life-Long Learning,” the
keynote address at the Alabama League for
Nursing Annual Meeting. Her recent publications include: Mosby’s Nursing PDQ for Critical
Care (2nd ed); “Teaching EBP in Academic
Settings” in Evidenced-Based Practice in
Nursing & Healthcare (2nd ed.), Bernadette
Melnyk & Ellen Fineout-Overholt (Eds);
“National Survey Shows the Majority of
Nurses Use Very Little Research in the First 2
Years after Graduation, Highlighting a Gap
Between Research and Clinical Practice,”
Commentary in Evidence Based Nursing; and in
the American Journal of Nursing, “EvidenceBased Practice: Step by Step: Searching for the
Evidence” and “Evidence-Based Practice: Step
by Step: Asking the Clinical Question.” n
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NLN Board of Governors member Elizabeth
Speakman, EdD, RN, CDE, ANEF, associate
dean of student affairs at the Thomas Jefferson
University Jefferson School of Nursing,
received a $100,000 grant from Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing
for scholarships for minority and underrepresented students entering Jefferson’s second
degree nursing program. To date, Dr. Speakman has received $308,000 for this initiative.
iii
Kathleen R. Stevens, EdD, RN, FAAN, a
national leader in the analysis of health care
quality and a professor of acute nursing care at
the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio,
has received a $3 million grant from the
National Institute for Nursing Research. The
grant was awarded through the NIH’s Grand
Opportunities program. Dr. Stevens will lead
the two-year grant, which will create the first
national research network that focuses on
front-line hospital care provided by nurses.
This network of clinical and academic nurse
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Who in the World Is Stella?
And Why Do Students and Faculty Love Her?
S
BELLMAN is a somewhat typical
young, active suburban mom: she
swims, she gardens, she ice-fishes, she
loves to go out disco dancing with her husband, Carl. She has a Facebook page — naturally — with nearly 600 Facebook friends.
Stella loves to watch House, ER, and Nurse
Jackie on TV. And she’s multi-lingual. She
knows German, Italian, Spanish, and even
some Latin.
TELLA
Except Stella really isn’t like anybody else you
know.
Stella and Carl and their baby, Junior — the
entire Bellman family, in fact — live in the
skills lab at Maricopa Nursing at Mesa
Community College in Arizona. It was there
that Stella and Carl met and fell in love. Stella,
widowed with a son, wasn’t looking for a relationship, but Carl’s persistence and unblinking stare (due to a mysterious medical condition) eventually won her over.
The Bellmans also work together in the skills
lab. They keep the nursing students at MCC
on their toes, learning basic skills, like inserting Foley catheters and the safest way to give
patients a bath. And Stella dispenses muchneeded advice through her Facebook page
such as hints on how to stay calm during finals
week and reminders to dress professionally
when they are working in the hospital.
Have you guessed Stella’s true identity?
If you’re thinking manikin, Bingo!
Not one of the newer, high-tech manikins at
MCC that responds interactively, Stella is actually 15 years old and has long been used primarily by first-year nursing students for the
practice of basic skills: insertion of IVs,
catheters, and nasogastric tubes; bathing; turning; bed-making.
She and Carl, her male counterpart, came to
life around Christmas-time 2009 when Leslie
Baney, a secretary in the Maricopa Nursing
program at MCC and an undergraduate studying technology at Arizona State University,
needed to create a blog for a final project for
one of her courses. Leslie dreamed up Stella
and Carl’s entire back story for the blog, which
she then linked to a Facebook page.
It wasn’t long before Stella caught on among
MCC faculty and nursing students and also
gained followers from nursing schools around
the country. She even inspired imitators, with
nurse educators elsewhere setting up
Facebook pages for their manikins, who, in
turn, “friended” Stella.
Diana Breed, MSN, RN, and Karin J. Sherrill,
MSN, RN, CNE, who teach at MCC, help
manage Stella’s virtual presence; many faculty
and staff handle her work station in the skills
lab.
“Between the blog and Facebook, Stella’s personality really shines through,” said Karin.
“She’s always positive, optimistic, and encouraging to students. Sometimes, faculty have to
be the ‘bad guy,’ and through the messages she
posts, Stella can provide guidance and support.”
And she facilitates faculty communication with
students without violating appropriate facultystudent boundaries. “We can use Stella’s
Facebook page instead of our own personal
pages, which is not as threatening or intimidating to students, and allows us to maintain privacy,” said Diana.
“We now have pictures of Stella and Carl
tacked up around the department (of nursing),” Karin continued. “There’s a wedding
picture on Stella’s nightstand in the lab and the
annual Christmas card with the family portrait
that is sent to other departments on campus.
Students know she’s always in the lab and getting to know her there and through Facebook
has made a difference in how they approach
the manikins. They often apologize for poking
and prodding her.”
In her online messages, Stella offers reassurance. Remember, the skills lab will be available
if you want extra practice and don't forget to
come past my bed and say hi, she wrote on May
12th, as the school semester was ending. “She
makes them feel okay about it. Stella likes to
help the students,” Karin related.
Sometimes, Stella offers sustenance, served up
Diana Breed, MSN, RN, and Karin J. Sherrill,
MSN, RN, CNE, with Stella
with a dose of humor, as in her blog post from
March 31, 2009:
Attention Starving Students (or hungry
medical personnel): I was just given some
really great info to pass along to you scrub
wearers! Megan White, the General
Manager at Qdoba Mexican Grill at
Country Club and Baseline would like to
thank you for all of your hard work & dedication! Come in with your scrubs on or with
any sort of medical ID and be rewarded with
1 free entree per employee with any drink
purchase!
Their menu looks pretty good — pass the
info along to your peers and medical coworkers and have some chips and salsa for
me!
“She’s a wonderful support system,” added
Karin.
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From the nurse educator’s perspective, Stella’s
value is three-fold, according to Diana, the lead
instructor for third-semester students in what
is a four-semester program leading to licensure.
Finally, Diana noted, messages posted on
Stella’s Facebook page can be a window into
difficulties students may be having that they
are reluctant to share with faculty off line.
First, said Diana, Stella’s Facebook postings
link the different blocks of MCC nursing students, fostering networking among students
who wouldn’t ordinarily communicate with
one another. “Stella sends messages to students
in one block that will be seen by students in a
different block,” she explained. “For example,
“To them, Stella is a friend, so they’ll tell her
things they wouldn’t normally tell an instructor,” Diana asserted. “A student may be struggling in a course or perhaps had failed the class.
She’ll sometimes reveal to Stella other things
going on in her life, the impact of her daily life
on her studies. We can then respond with support ideas. Without Stella, we would not have
necessarily recognized what else was going on
in that student’s life that had caused failure.
The compassionate persona created for Stella
allows us to plug into needs of students beyond
the classroom.”
when Stella wishes good luck to first-semester
students going through skills assessment, more
advanced students will respond with messages
saying ‘I remember doing mine. You’ll be
okay.’”
Second, Stella can be a very effective as an educational tool to promote critical thinking, as
this recent Facebook posting illustrates:
May 4th: In honor of Mothers Day... “If
amniocentesis fluid contains Barr, bodies,
what is the sex?” The 1996 Nurse’s Trivia
Calendar of 265 unimportant answers every
nurse should know. (Take a guess....you
have a 50/50 chance!) hehehehe
Students chime in with answers, said Diana,
and today’s nurse educators, “comfortable with
social networking and other forms of high-tech
instruction, provide feedback, through Stella,
and encourage the students to ‘take it a little
deeper.’ It’s very motivating. Sometimes even
people who have graduated will join the conversation and say, ‘Oh, I had a case like that,’
bringing in their real-world experience.”
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Diana and Karin, who have been teaching and
writing about simulation, technology, and
informatics for years — both were selected
NLN Health Information Technology Scholars
(HITS) several years ago — recognized the
manikin’s value as a learning tool early on.
Particularly in pediatrics (the area of Diana’s
clinical expertise), where clinical placements
for students are difficult to arrange, high fidelity, high acuity simulation scenarios with
manikins play an extremely important role in
assessing student progress.
concerned about the emotional impact on students when ‘patients’ die during simulations,
sometimes because of student performance,”
said Karin. “They experience guilt that can
negatively impact their learning. Sometimes
they cry. Learning how to deal with that is all
part of being a nurse, and Stella is part of the
safe, controlled environment we’ve created for
them to work this out. They can practice their
skills on her without fear they will really harm
her.”
However, despite the increasing sophistication
of simulation, Karin and Diana believe that a
low-tech, basic skills manikin like Stella still has
a critical function in nursing education. “We’re
Ever upbeat, Stella herself is just glad summer
is here, giving her a break from all that poking
and prodding. Hi everyone, how’s the summer?
she wondered on May 24th. Be safe and see you
in August!! n
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Focus on Funders
With thanks from the NLN, the NLN Foundation for Nursing Education, and the nursing community
N
ow in its second year, the NLN Jonas
Scholars Program continues to help
PhD candidates complete their dissertations.
The generous two-year, $75,000 grant from the
Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence in New
York City helps the NLN meet its goal of
advancing the science of nursing education
through evidence-based research. Chosen
through competitive review, and awarded
$6,000 each, the Jonas Scholars are paired with
NLN Academy of Nursing Education fellows
who provide support in leadership and career
development.
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T
hanks to the generous folks at the nurseowned and nurse-operated Pocket
Nurse, the NLN Scholarly Writing
Retreat program is having a landmark year,
expanding to three sessions across the country.
Dr. Marilyn Oermann was the leader in
Indianapolis in March. Dr. Leslie Nicoll led the
April retreat in San Francisco and will direct
the just-added session in Baltimore in
December. A five-year grant from Pocket
Nurse has allowed the NLN to expand the
popular program that helps nurse faculty who
are actively involved in nursing education
research to share their findings. The scholarly
manuscripts submitted by retreat participants
have assisted faculty to develop new methods
to assess and evaluate students, replicate creative approaches to clinical instruction, and
utilize simulation techniques in varied settings.
T
he NLN and the NLN Foundation are
proud of a thriving partnership
with the Johnson &
Johnson Campaign
for Nursing’s Future.
Through the J&J/
NLN Faculty Leadership and Mentoring
Program five Academy of Nursing Education
fellows serve as mentors, paired with five new
faculty protégés. Since 2007, there have been
four cohorts of nurse educators working
together on leadership development, manuscripts for publication, presentations (international and regional), and increased professional opportunities.
A
s National League for Nursing research
and other recent studies have amply
demonstrated, health outcomes show
significant improvement when the nursing
workforce reflects the economic and cultural
diversity of the patient population served. It is
in that spirit of advancing public health that
the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded the
NLN a prestigious $150,000 grant to pilot
Project Success. Over the two-year period of
the grant, the NLN will develop a model that
can expand to a large number of historically
black colleges and universities. The comprehensive program will focus on increasing
recruitment of minority applicants to nursing
programs and on improving graduation rates
and providing faculty development in the form
of role-playing, workshops, and scholarly writing assignments at participating institutions.
HBCU nursing school graduates will be
encouraged to take their skills and knowledge
into urban and rural communities to provide
culturally sensitive care to those who have been
traditionally underserved.
A two-year initiative funded by the W. K.
Kellogg Foundation has helped the NLN to be
more responsive to members and current
health policy issues in its role as the voice for
nursing education. The $395,000 grant,
“Strengthening the Voice for Nursing
Education,” provided operating support for
the NLN specifically targeting IT infrastructure (including disaster preparedness), program analysis (exploring expansion of professional certification program to adjunct and
part-time faculty), and NLN Testing Services
(facilitating and improving the assessment and
evaluation process).
Fostering Geriatrics in
Pre-Licensure Nursing Education,
Phase II
T
he Advancing Care Excellence for
Seniors (ACES) project, now in its third
year, was developed through a partnership of the National League for Nursing and
Community College of Philadelphia, with
funding from the John A. Hartford
Foundation, Laerdal Medical, and the
Independence Foundation. The ACES framework is designed to
help faculty prepare
students to provide
the best care for older
adults. Unfolding case
studies and teaching strategies developed by
experts on geriatric nursing education are
designed to be used throughout the curriculum. Tools are provided to help incorporate
ACES into both classroom and clinical learning experiences.
High-Stakes Testing
L
aerdal Medical is funding a three-year initiative to create and test simulation scenarios as evaluation tools. The project,
now in its second year, is being implemented
by a subgroup of the NLN Presidential Task
Force on High-Stakes Testing. Comprising
leaders in nursing education, the task force
explored current thinking about competency
evaluation as a viable end-of-program testing
method and made recommendations for high-
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stakes testing policy
guidelines
and practices in nursing education programs. The subgroup is in
the process of identifying program outcomes
that can be evaluated using simulation and –
during the next phase of the project – will
develop and pilot test simulation scenarios and
evaluation tools at schools of nursing across the
country.
T
hanks to NLN member Joyce R. GriffinSobel, PhD, RN, AOCN, ACNS-BC,
CNE, the NLN Foundation for Nursing
Education has an additional $5,000 in research
grant funding to award in 2011 and for four
years thereafter. Acting dean at HunterBellevue School of Nursing in New York, Dr.
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Griffin-Sobel established a new five-year
$25,000 research grant through the NLN
Foundation with the express purpose of supporting research into clinical nursing education.
the annual Sigma Theta Tau International/
National League for Nursing Grant to support
research that advances the science of nursing
education through the use of ttechnology to
disseminate knowledge. n
The Griffin-Sobel Research Grant for Clinical
Nursing Education is part of a larger research
grant program administered by the NLN, one
of the few such programs in existence. Past
donors include Dr. Nancy Langston, former
president of the NLN and the first chair of the
foundation, who designated her donation
specifically for research; the late Dr. Ruth
Corcoran, immediate past CEO of the NLN,
who established the Ruth D. Corcoran Fund
for Nursing Education Research; Dr. Mary
Anne Rizzolo, who retired from the NLN last
winter after establishing the Mary Anne
Rizzolo Faculty Dissertation Scholarship
Fund; and Dr. Diane Billings, who established
Benefiting the initiatives of the
NLN Foundation
for Nursing Education
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Member Recognition
T
he National League for Nursing would like to recognize our
member schools. Representing nursing education programs
across the academic spectrum, these member schools are committed to excellence. Their continued support allows us to provide the
quality programs and services that offer significant educational and
leadership opportunities for faculty.
Our constituent leagues provide leadership at the local level. States with
a constituent league are noted in red. For information about the league
in your state visit, www.nln.org/stateleagues
Is a member of your faculty a fellow in the NLN Academy of Nursing
Education? Fellows hail from many schools and represent a distinguished network of educators who have made substantial contributions
to nursing education. Schools with fellows are noted in purple.
Is your school a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education? This designation recognizes schools that are committed to the achievement of
excellence. COE schools are noted in green.
Centers of Excellence schools with a fellow are noted in purple and
green.
We have made every effort to include all member schools (as of June 1).
Please contact membership@nln.org if an omission was made.
NLN MEMBER SCHOOLS
A Portrait of Inclusivity
ALASKA
University of Alaska-Anchorage
ALABAMA
Bevill State Community College
Bishop State Community CollegeCentral Campus
Calhoun Community College
Central Alabama Community CollegeCoosa Valley School of Nursing
Chattahoochee Valley Community
College
Faulkner State Community College
Gadsden State Community College
George C. Wallace Community College
H. Councill Trenholm State Technical
College
Ida V. Moffett School-Samford
University
Jacksonville State University
Jefferson Davis Community College
Jefferson State Community College
Lawson State Community College
Northeast Alabama Community
College
Northwest Shoals Community College
Oakwood University
Shelton State Community College
Snead State Community College
Southern Union State Community
College
Troy University
Tuskegee University
University of Alabama
University of Mobile
University of West Alabama
Wallace Community College-Selma
Wallace State Community College
ARKANSAS
Arkansas Northeastern College
Arkansas State University
Arkansas Tech University
Baptist Health Schools Little Rock
East Arkansas Community College
Harding University
Henderson State University
Jefferson Regional Medical Center
National Park Community College
North Arkansas College
Phillips Community College
Southeast Arkansas College
Southern Arkansas University
University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
University of Arkansas-Little Rock
University of Arkansas-Monticello
University of Central Arkansas
ARIZONA
Arizona Western College
Brookline College
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Cochise College
Arizona State University
Eastern Arizona College
Everest College
Grand Canyon University College
Maricopa Community
College District
Mohave Community College
Northland Pioneer College
Pima Community College
University of Phoenix
Yavapai College
CALIFORNIA
Angeles Institute
Azusa Pacific University
Brandman University
California Baptist University
California State University - Dominguez
California State University-East Bay
Cerritos College
Chabot College
Chaffey College
City College of San Francisco
College of Marin
College of the Canyons
College of the Desert
Cypress College
El Camino Community College
Everest College
Evergreen Valley College
Glendale Community College
Golden West College
Grossmont College
Hartnell College
Loma Linda University
Long Beach City College
Los Angeles Harbor College
Los Angeles Pierce College
Los Angeles Valley College
Mira Costa College
Monterey Peninsula College
Moorpark College
National University
Ohlone College
Pacific Union College
Palomar College
Point Loma Nazarene University
Riverside Community College
Saddleback College
Saint Francis Career College
Samuel Merritt University
San Bernardino Valley College
San Diego City College
San Francisco State University
Santa Ana College
Santa Barbara City College
Santa Monica College
Southwestern College
Unitek College - Fremont
University of California-Los Angeles
COLORADO
Aims Community College
Colorado Mountain College
Colorado State University
Denver School of Nursing
Front Range Community College
Lamar Community College
Mesa State College
Metropolitan State College of Denver
Morgan Community College
Otero Junior College
Pickens Technical College
Pikes Peak Community College
Pueblo Community College
Regis University
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
University of Colorado Denver
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University of Northern Colorado
CONNECTICUT
Bridgeport Hospital
Capital Community College
Gateway Community College
Goodwin College
Naugatuck Valley Community College
Northwestern Connecticut Community
College
Norwalk Community College
Quinnipiac University
Saint Joseph College
Saint Vincent's College
Southern Connecticut State University
Three Rivers Community College
University of Connecticut
University of Hartford
Western Connecticut State University
Yale University
DISTRICT of COLUMBIA
Catholic University of America
Howard University
University of the District of Columbia
DELAWARE
Beebe Medical Center
Delaware State University
Delaware Technical & Community
College
Delaware Technical & Community
Collegen - Stanton Campus
Delaware Technical & Community
College - Owens Campus
Wesley College
FLORIDA
Bethune - Cookman University
Brevard Community College
Broward Community College
College of Central Florida
Daytona State College
Edison State College
Everest University
Florida A & M University
Florida Gateway College
Florida Hospital College of Health
Science
Florida International University
Florida State College at Jacksonville
Florida State University
Gulf Coast Community College
Hillsborough Community College
Indian River State College
Lake-Sumter Community College
Manatee Technical Institute
Miami Dade College Medical Center
Northwest Florida State College
Nova Southeastern University
Palm Beach Atlantic University
Palm Beach State College
Pasco-Hernando Community College
Pensacola State College
Polk State College
Rasmussen Colleges - Florida
Saint John's River State College
Santa Fe College
Sarasota County Technical Institute
The School Board of Broward County
Seminole State College of Florida
Summer 2011
St. Petersburg College
State College of Florida, Manatee
Sarasota
University of Central Florida
University of Miami
University of North Florida
University of South Florida
University of Tampa
Valencia Community College
GEORGIA
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Albany State University
Armstrong Atlantic State University
Athens Technical College
Augusta State University
Augusta Technical College
Bainbridge College
Brenau University
Chattahoochee Technical College
Clayton State University
College of Coastal Georgia
Columbus State University
Columbus Technical College
Dalton State College
Darton College
Emory University - Nell Hodgson
Woodruff
Georgia Baptist College of Nursing
Georgia College and State University
Georgia Highlands College
Georgia Northwestern Technical
College
Georgia Perimeter College
Georgia Southwestern State University
Georgia State University
Gordon College, Division of Nursing
Gwinnett Technical College
Kennesaw State University
LaGrange College
Macon State College
Middle Georgia College
North Georgia College & State
University
Piedmont College
Savannah Technical College
South Georgia College
Thomas University
West Georgia Technical College
HAWAII
Hawaii Community College
Hawaii Pacific University
Kapiolani Community College
Maui Community College
University of Hawaii at Hilo
University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii Kauai
IDAHO
Boise State University
Brigham Young University - Idaho
College of Southern Idaho
Idaho State University
North Idaho College
ILLINOIS
Ambria College of Nursing
Benedictine University
Black Hawk College
Blessing-Rieman College
Bradley University
The Voice for Nursing Education
Capital Area Career Center
Carl Sandburg College
CCC - Malcolm X College
Chicago Public Schools
Chicago State University
College of DuPage
DePaul University
Eastern Illinois University
Elgin Community College
Elmhurst College
Governors State University
Graham Hospital
Heartland Community College
Illinois Central College
Illinois College of Nursing
Illinois Eastern Community Colleges
Illinois Valley Community College
John Wood Community College
Joliet Junior College
Kaplan University
Kaskaskia College
Lake Land College
Lakeview College
Lewis & Clark Community College
Lincoln Land Community College
Loyola University - Chicago
McKendree College
Methodist College of Nursing
Millikin University
Moraine Valley Community College
Morton College
Northwestern College
Northwestern Institute
Oakton Community College
Parkland College
Prairie State College
Resurrection University
Richard J Daley College
Richland Community College
Robert Morris College
Rockford College
Saint Anthony College of Nursing
Saint Francis Medical Center
Saint Xavier University
South Suburban College
Southwestern Illinois College
St. John's College of Nursing
Trinity College of Nursing
Triton College
University of Saint Francis
William Rainey Harper College
INDIANA
Ancilla College
Ball State University
Bethel College
Goshen College
Harrison College
Indiana State University
Indiana University - Purdue University
at Fort Wayne
Indiana University
Indiana University East
Indiana University-Northwest
ITT Technical Institute
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
Marian University - Indianapolis
Medtech College
Purdue University - North Central
Purdue University Calumet
Saint Mary’s College
St. Elizabeth Regional Health
University of Evansville
University of Indianapolis
University of Saint Francis
Valparaiso University
Vincennes University
IOWA
Allen College
Briar Cliff University
Des Moines Area Community College
Iowa Lakes Community College
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mercy College of Health Sciences
North Iowa Area Community College
St. Luke's College - Iowa Health System
Western Iowa Tech Community College
KANSAS
Barton County Community College
Butler County Community College
Cloud County Community College
Colby Community College
Dodge City Community College
Emporia State University
Fort Scott Community College
Garden City Community College
Highland Community College
Hutchinson Community College
Johnson County Community College
Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kansas Wesleyan University
Labette Community College
Manhattan Area Technical College
Neosho County Community College
North Central Kansas Technical College
Pratt Community College
Seward County Community College
University of Kansas Medical Center
Washburn Institute of Technology
Wichita Area Technical College
Wichita State University
KENTUCKY
Ashland Community College
Beckfield College
Bellarmine University - Lansing
Big Sandy Community & Technical
College
Bluegrass Community & Technical
College
Eastern Kentucky University
Elizabethtown Community & Technical
College
Frontier School of Midwifery and
Family Nursing
Galen College of Nursing
Hopkinsville Community College
Jefferson Community Technical College
Kentucky State University
Madisonville Community College
Midway College
Morehead State University
Northern Kentucky University
Pikeville College
Somerset Community College
Southeast Kentucky Community and
Technical College
Spalding University
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Spencerian College
Thomas More College
West Kentucky Community &
Technical College
Western Kentucky University
LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge Community College
Baton Rouge General Medical Center
Delgado Community College
Dillard University
Grambling State University
Louisiana Delta Community College
Louisiana State University - Alexandria
Louisiana State University - Eunice
Louisiana State University
Louisiana Tech University
McNeese State University
Nicholls State University
Northwestern State University
Our Lady of Holy Cross College
Our Lady of the Lake College
Southeastern Louisiana University
Southern University at Shreveport
Southern University and A&M College
University of Louisiana-Lafayette
MASSACHUSETTS
Anna Maria College
Assabet Valley Regional Technical
School
Atlantic Union College
Bay State College
Becker College
Berkshire Community College
Bristol Community College
Bunker Hill Community College
Cape Cod Community College
Curry College
Emmanuel College
Endicott College
Framingham State College
Greenfield Community College
Holyoke Community College
Laboure College
Massachusetts Bay Community College
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy &
Health Science
Massasoit Community College
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Middlesex Community College
Mount Wachusett Community College
North Shore Community College
Northeastern University
Northern Essex Community College
Quincy College
Quinsigamond Community College
Regis College
Roxbury Community College
Salem State University
Signature Healthcare/Brockton
Hospital
Simmons College
Springfield Technical Community
College
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Summer 2011
MARYLAND
Allegany College of Maryland
Anne Arundel Community College
Baltimore City Community College
Bowie State University
Carroll Community College
Cecil College
College of Notre Dame of Maryland
College of Southern Maryland
Coppin State University
Frederick Community College
Harford Community College
Howard Community College
Johns Hopkins University
Montgomery College
Prince Georges Community College
Stevenson University
The Community College of Baltimore
County
Towson University
Uniformed Services University
University of Maryland - Baltimore
Washington Adventist University
MAINE
Central Maine Community College
Central Maine Medical Center
Eastern Maine Community College
Kennebec Valley Community College
Northern Maine Community College
Southern Maine Community College
University of Maine-Augusta
University of New England
MICHIGAN
Alpena Community College
Andrews University
Baker College - Owosso
Bay de Noc Community College
Davenport University
Delta College
Eastern Michigan University
Ferris State University
Gogebic Community Colleges
Grand Rapids Community College
Grand Valley State University
Henry Ford Community College
Jackson Community College
Kellogg Community College
Lake Superior State University
Lansing Community College
Macomb Community College
Madonna University
Monroe County Community College
Mott Community College
Muskegon Community College
Northwestern Michigan College
Oakland Community College
Oakland University
Schoolcraft College
University of Detroit Mercy
Washtenaw Community College
Western Michigan University
MINNESOTA
Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Bethel University
Century College
Hibbing Community College
Inver Hills
Minneapolis Community and Technical
The Voice for Nursing Education
College
Minnesota State Community and
Technical College
Minnesota State University - Mankato
Minnesota West Community &
Technical College
Normandale Community College
North Hennepin Community College
Northland Community and
Technical College
Rasmussen Colleges
Ridgewater College
Riverland Community College
Rochester Community and
Technical College
Saint Cloud Technical College
Saint Paul College
South Central College
St. Catherine University
Walden University
MISSOURI
Barnes-Jewish College
College of the Ozarks
Columbia College
Cox College
East Central College - Union
Hannibal LaGrange College
Lincoln University
Lutheran School of Nursing
Metropolitan Community College
Missouri Southern State University
Missouri State University - West Plains
Park University
Saint Louis Community College
Saint Louis University
Sanford-Brown College - St. Peters
Southeast Missouri Hospital College
Southwest Baptist University
St. Charles Community College
Three Rivers Community College Poplar Bluff
Webster University
MISSISSIPPI
Alcorn State University
Coahoma Community College
Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Delta State University
East Central Community College
Hinds Community College
Holmes Community College
Itawamba Community College
Jones County Junior College
Meridian Community College
Mississippi College
Mississippi Delta Community College
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community
College
Mississippi University for Women
Northeast Mississippi Community
College
Pearl River Community College
Southwest Mississippi Community
College
University of Mississippi Medical
Center
William Carey University
MONTANA
Flathead Valley Community College
Miles Community College
Montana State University
Salish Kootenai College
NEBRASKA
BryanLGH College of Health Sciences
Central Community College
Clarkson College
College of Saint Mary
Creighton University
Metropolitan Community College
Midland Lutheran College
Mid-Plains Community College Area
Nebraska Methodist College
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Northeast Community College
Southeast Community College
Western Nebraska Community College
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Franklin Pierce University
Great Bay Community College
Manchester Community College
Nashua Community College
New Hampshire Technical Institute
River Valley Community College
Rivier College
Saint Anselm College
St. Joseph School of Nursing
NEW JERSEY
Atlantic Cape Community College
Bayonne Medical Center
Bergen Community College
Brookdale Community College
Burlington County College
Capital Health School of Nursing
Christ Hospital
The College of New Jersey
College of Saint Elizabeth
County College of Morris
Cumberland County College
Eastwick College
Essex County College
Felician College
Georgian Court Meridian Health School
Gloucester County College
Helene Fuld School of Nursing
Holy Name Hospital School
Kean University
Mercer County Community College
Middlesex County College
Monmouth University
Mountainside Hospital
Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center
School
New Jersey City University
Ocean County College
Ocean County Vocational Technical
School
Our Lady of Lourdes School
Passaic County Community College
Prism Career Institute
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Raritan Valley Community College
Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey
Saint Peter’s College School of Nursing
Seton Hall University College of Nursing
St. Francis Medical Center School
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Thomas Edison State College
Trinitas School of Nursing
Union County College
Universal Training Institute, Inc.
University of Medicine and Dentistry-NJ
Warren County Community College
NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque Public Schools
Central New Mexico Community College
Clovis Community College
Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell
New Mexico Junior College
New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University at Carlsbad
Northern New Mexico College
San Juan College
Santa Fe Community College
University of New Mexico Gallup Campus
Western New Mexico University
NEVADA
Apollo College
College of Southern Nevada
Great Basin College
Truckee Meadows Community College
University of Nevada - Las Vegas
University of Nevada - Reno
University of Southern Nevada
Western Nevada College
NEW YORK
Adelphi University
Adirondack Community College
Arnot Ogden Medical Center School
Bronx Community College
Broome Community College
Cayuga County Community College
Clinton Community College
Cochran School of Nursing
College of Mount St. Vincent
College of Staten Island - CUNY
Columbia - Greene Community College
Corning Community College
Crouse Hospital School
CUNY - Borough of Manhattan
Community College
Daemen College
Dorothea Hopfer School of Nursing
Dutchess Community College
D’Youville College
Ellis School of Nursing
Elmira College
Erie Community College
Excelsior College
Farmingdale State College
Finger Lakes Community College
Genesee Community College
Geneva General Hospital
Helene Fuld College of Nursing
Hudson Valley Community College
Hunter College - Bellevue
Isabella Graham Hart School of Nursing
Jamestown Community College
Jefferson Community College
Keuka College
Kingsborough Community College CUNY
LaGuardia Community College
Long Island College Hospital School
Summer 2011
Long Island University - Brooklyn
Campus
Maria College
Memorial Hospital School
Mohawk Valley Community College
Monroe College
Monroe Community College
Nassau Community College
Nassau VEEB PN Program
Nazareth College
New York City College of Technology
New York Institute of Technology
New York University
Niagara County Community College
Onondaga Community College
Orange County Community College
Phillips Beth Israel Medical Center
School
Queensborough Community College
Roberts Wesleyan College
Rockland Community College
The Sage Colleges
Saint Elizabeth College of Nursing
Samaritan Hospital School
St. Joseph's College - Main Campus
St.Joseph’s Hospital Health Center
School
State University of New York - Delhi
Suffolk County Community College
SUNY - College of Technology at
Alfred
SUNY Empire State College
SUNY - College of Technology at
Canton
SUNY - College of Technology at
Morrisville
Tompkins Cortland Community College
Touro College
Trocaire College
Ulster County Community College
University of Rochester
Utica College
Western Suffolk BOCES
NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville-Buncombe Technical
Community College
Beaufort County Community College
Brunswick Community College
Cabarrus College of Health Sciences
Caldwell Community College &
Technical Institute
Cape Fear Community College
Carolinas College of Health Sciences
Catawba Valley Community College
College of the Albemarle
Craven Community College
Davidson County Community College
East Carolina University
Fayetteville Technical Community
College
Gardner-Webb University
Lenoir Community College
Lenoir-Rhyne University
Mayland Community College
Mercy School of Nursing
Mitchell Community College
North Carolina Agricultural &
Technical University
The Voice for Nursing Education
North Carolina Central University
Presbyterian School of Nursing at
Queens
Randolph Community College
Robeson Community College
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
Sandhills Community College
South College - Asheville
University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
University of North CarolinaGreensboro
University of North CarolinaWilmington
Watts School of Nursing
Wayne Community College
Western Piedmont Community College
Wilkes Community College
NORTH DAKOTA
Dakota Nurse Program, Consortium
Dickinson State University
Jamestown College
Minot State University
North Dakota State College of Science
United Tribes Technical College
OHIO
Ashland University Dwight Schar
ATS Institute of Technology
Aultman College of Nursing
Bryant & Stratton College
Butler Tech
Case Western Reserve University
Cedarville University
Central Ohio Technical College
Christ College of Nursing and Health
Science
Cincinnati State Great Oaks
Cincinnati State Technical &
Community College
Clark State Community College
College of Mount St. Joseph
Collins Career Center
Columbus State Community College
Cuyahoga Community College
Edison State Community College
ETI Technical College
Firelands Regional Medical Center
Fortis College
Franciscan University - Steubenville
Good Samaritan College
Hannah E. Mullins School
Hondros College
James A. Rhodes State College
Kent State Regional College
Kent State University
Kettering College of Medical Arts
Lakeland Community College
Lorain County Community College
Lourdes College
Malone University
Marion Technical College
Mercy College of Northwest Ohio
Miami University
Mount Carmel College of Nursing
North Central State College
Northwest State Community College
Notre Dame College
Ohio University
Ohio Valley College of Technology
Otterbein College
Owens State Community College
Practical Nurse Program of Canton City
Schools
Shawnee State University
Sinclair Community College
Southern State Community College
Springfield Regional School of Nursing
Stark State College of Technology
Trinity Health Systems School of
Nursing
University of Akron
University of Cincinnati
University of Rio Grande Holzer
Walsh University
West Virginia University at Parkersburg
Wright State University
Youngstown State University
OKLAHOMA
Autry Technology Center
Bacone College
Canadian Valley Technology Center
Carl Albert State College
Central Technology Center
Chisholm Trail Technology Center
Connors State College
East Central University
Eastern Oklahoma State College
Francis Tuttle Technology Center
Great Plains Technology Center
Indian Capital Technology Center
Kiamichi Technology Center
Langston University
Meridian Technology Center
Metro Technology Centers
Mid-America Technology Center
Mid-Del Lewis Eubanks Technology
Center
Moore Norman Technology Center
Murray State College
Northeast Technology Center
Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College
Northeastern State University
Northern Oklahoma College
Northwestern Oklahoma State
University
Oklahoma Christian University
Oklahoma City Community College
Oklahoma City University
Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Oklahoma State University Institute of
Technology
Oklahoma State University - Oklahoma
City
Pioneer Technology Center
Platt College
Red River Technology Center
Redlands Community College
Rogers State University
Rose State College
Seminole State College
Southern Oklahoma Technology Center
Southwestern Oklahoma State
University
Tricounty Technology Center
Tulsa Community College
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Tulsa Technology Center
University of Central Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma
University of Tulsa
Western Oklahoma State College
Western Technology Center
OREGON
Chemeketa Community College
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland Community College
Umpqua Community College
Walla Walla University
PENNSYLVANIA
Abington Memorial Hospital School
Alle-Kiski Medical Center
Alvernia University
Aria Health School of Nursing
Bloomsburg University
Bucks County Community College
Butler County Community College
Career Technology Center
Cedar Crest College
Central Pennsylvania Institute of
Science & Technology
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit
Chatham University
Chester County Intermediate Unit
Clarion County Career Center
Clarion University of Pennsylvania Venango Campus
Clearfield County Career and
Technology Center
Community College of Allegheny
County
Community College of Beaver County
Community College of Philadelphia
Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital
Crawford County Career and Technical
Center
Delaware County Community College
Delaware County Technical School
DeSales University
Drexel University
Duquesne University
East Stroudsburg University
Eastern Center for Arts & Technology
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Fayette County Area Vocational/
Technical School
Franklin County Career and Technology
Center
Gannon University
Greene County Career and Technology
Center
Gwynedd-Mercy College
Hanover Public School District
Harcum College
Harrisburg Area Community College
Hazleton Area Career Center
Heritage Valley Sewickley
Holy Family University
Huntingdon County Career and
Technology Center
Immaculata University
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Jameson Health System
Jefferson County Du Bois AVTS
Kutztown University
Summer 2011
La Roche College
La Salle University
Lawrence County Vocational/Technical
School
Lehigh Carbon Community College
Lenape Area Vocational Technical
School
Lewistown Hospital
Lincoln Technical Institute
Luzerne County Community College
Mansfield University
Marywood University
Mercy Hospital
Mercyhurst College-North East
Mifflin-Juniata Career and Technology
Center
Millersville University
Misericordia University
Montgomery County Community
College
Mount Aloysius College
Neumann University
New Courtland Education Center
Northampton Community College
Northeastern Hospital School
Northern Tier Career Center
Ohio Valley General Hospital
Pennsylvania College of Technology
Pennsylvania Institute of Technology
Pennsylvania State University
Reading Area Community College
The Reading Hospital School of Health
Sciences
Roxborough Memorial Hospital School
Saint Luke's School of Nursing
Schuylkill Health
Sharon Regional Health System
Slippery Rock University
St. Joseph's Hospital
St. Margaret Memorial Hospital
Thomas Jefferson University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
University of Pittsburgh at Titusville
University of Scranton
UPMC Shadyside
Venango Technology Center
Villanova University
Washington Hospital
Waynesburg University
West Chester University
Western Area Career and Technology
Center
Western Pennsylvania Hospital
Westmoreland County Community
College
Widener University
Wilkes-Barre Area Career and
Technical Center
York College of Pennsylvania
York County School of Technology
RHODE ISLAND
Community College of Rhode Island
New England Institute of Technology
Rhode Island College School of Nursing
Salve Regina University
St. Joseph School of Nursing
University of Rhode Island
The Voice for Nursing Education
SOUTH CAROLINA
Aiken Technical College
Central Carolina Technical College
Charleston Southern University
Clemson University
Coastal Carolina University
Florence Darlington Technical College
Francis Marion University
Greenville Technical College
Horry Georgetown Technical College
Lander University
Midlands Technical College
Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College
Piedmont Technical College
Technical College of the Lowcountry
Tri-County Technical College
Trident Technical College
University of South Carolina-Aiken
Williamsburg Technical College
York Technical College
Dakota Wesleyan University
SOUTH DAKOTA
Lake Area Technical Institute
National American University
Presentation College
University of South Dakota
TENNESSEE
Aquinas College
Austin Peay State University
Baptist College of Health Sciences
Belmont University
Bethel University
Chattanooga State Technical
Community College
Cleveland State Community College
Columbia State Community College
Cumberland University
Jackson State Community College
Lincoln Memorial University
Lipscomb University
Middle Tennessee State University
Motlow State Community College
Roane State Community College
South College
Southern Adventist University
Southwest Tennessee Community
College
Tennessee State University
Tennessee Technological University
University of Memphis
University of Tennessee at Martin
Vanderbilt University
Walters State Community College
TEXAS
Alvin Community College
Amarillo College
Angelo State University
Austin Community College
Baptist Health System School of
Professional Nursing
Blinn College
Brookhaven College
Central Texas College
Cisco College
College of the Mainland
Collin County Community College
Covenant School of Nursing
Del Mar College
El Centro College
El Paso Community College
Galveston College
Houston Baptist University
Houston Community College
Howard College - Big Spring
Lamar University
Laredo Community College
Lee College
Lone Star College - Cy-Fair College
Lone Star College - Kingwood College
Lone Star College - Montgomery
Lone Star College - North Harris
Lone Star College - Tomball College
McLennan Community College
Midland College
Midwestern State University
Navarro College
North Central Texas College
Odessa College
Panola College
Paris Junior College
Patty Hanks Shelton
Prairie View A&M University
Saint Philip’s College
San Antonio College
San Jacinto College - South
South Plains College
South Texas College
Southwestern Adventist University
Stephen F. Austin State University
Tarrant County College
Temple College
Texarkana College
Texas A&M Health Science Center
Texas A&M International University
Texas State University - San Marcos
Trinity Valley Community College
University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas-Brownsville
Victoria College
Wayland Baptist University
Wharton County Junior College
UTAH
Ameritech College
Bridgerland Applied Technical College
Brigham Young University
Davis Applied Technology College
Dixie State College
Ogden Weber Applied Technology
College
Provo College
Rocky Mountain University
Salt Lake Community College
Snow College - South Allied Health
Southern Utah University
Utah State University - College of
Eastern Utah
Utah Valley University
Weber State University
Western Governors University
VIRGINIA
Blue Ridge Community College
Bon Secours Memorial College of
Nursing
Centra Health, Lynchburg General
Hospital
Central School of Practical Nursing
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Dabney S. Lancaster Community
College
Danville Regional Medical Center
Eastern Mennonite University
Germanna Community College
Hampton University
Henrico County Public Schools
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community
College
Jefferson College of Health Sciences
John Tyler Community College
Marymount University
Medical Careers Institute
New Horizons Regional Education
Center
Norfolk State University
Northern Virginia Community College
Old Dominion University
Patrick Henry Community College
Paul D. Camp Community College
Rappahannock Community College
Riverside School of Health Careers
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
Shenandoah University
Southside Regional Medical Center
Stratford University
Thomas Nelson Community College
Tidewater Community College
University of Virginia’s College at Wise
Virginia Appalachian Tricollege
Virginia Beach School of Practical
Nursing
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia State University
Virginia Western Community College
Wytheville Community College
VERMONT
Castleton State College
Norwich University
Southern Vermont College
Vermont Technical College
WASHINGTON
Bellevue College
Clark College
Everett Community College
Grays Harbor College
Highline Community College
Lower Columbia College
Olympic College
Pacific Lutheran University
Peninsula College
Pierce College
Renton Technical College
Seattle Central Community College
Shoreline Community College
Skagit Valley College
South Puget Sound Community College
Spokane Community College
Tacoma Community College
Walla Walla Community College
Whatcom Community College
Yakima Valley Community College
Wood County Board of Education
WEST VIRGINIA
Alderson- Broaddus College
Blue Ridge Community and Technical
College
Bluefield State College
Summer 2011
The Voice for Nursing Education
BM Spurr School of Practical Nursing
Davis & Elkins College
Fairmont State University
Kanawha Valley Community and
Technical College
Marshall University
Mountain State University
Shepherd University
Southern West Virginia Community &
Technical College
St. Mary’s Hospital and Marshall
University
University of Charleston
West Virginia Northern
Community College
West Virginia Wesleyan College
WISCONSIN
Alverno College
Bellin College
Blackhawk Technical College
Bryant and Stratton College
Cardinal Stritch University
Carroll University
Chippewa Valley Technical College
College of Menominee Nation
Columbia College of Nursing
Concordia University
Edgewood College
Fox Valley Technical College
Gateway Technical College
Herzing University
Lakeshore Technical College
Madison Area Technical College
Marian University
Marquette University
Mid State Technical College
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Moraine Park Technical College
Nicolet Area Technical College
North Central Technical College
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Southwest Wisconsin Technical College
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Waukesha County Technical College
Western Technical College
Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College
Wisconsin Lutheran College
WYOMING
Casper College - H.E. Stuckenhoff
Central Wyoming College
Laramie County Community College
Northern Wyoming Community College
Northwest College
Western Wyoming Community College
GUAM
University of Guam
PHILIPPINES
Kennedy Global School of Business
PUERTO RICO
Antillean Adventist University
Pontifical Catholic University-Puerto
Rico
Ryder Memorial Hospital
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Universidad de Puerto Rico Universitario
de Arecibo
Universidad de Puerto Rico-Universitario
de Humacao
Universidad Del Sagrado Corazón
Universidad Interameicana de Puerto
Rico Recinto Metropolitano
Universidad Interamerican de Puerto
Rico
Universidad Interamericana de Puerto
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Nominate a Colleague for the
NLN Constituent League Volunteer Award
RECOGNIZING OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
The deadline to submit nominations is August 1, 2011.
Constituent leagues represent the NLN at the grass roots level with programming, scholarships, and other activities that support our mission to
promote excellence in nursing education to build a strong and diverse
nursing workforce to advance the nation's health.
This fourth annual award program recognizes: 1) an individual that goes
that extra mile for her/his state, the NLN, and the nursing education
community, and 2) the constituent league that demonstrates positive
membership activities.
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recognized for her or his outstanding performance for the Outstanding
Leadership (of a Constituent League) award.
Nominate the affiliated constituent league that has demonstrated positive membership results for the Innovative & Effective Membership
Recruitment award.
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Both constituent league members and NLN members in states/regions with fully affiliated
constituent leagues are eligible to vote for their constituent leaders.
Please visit www.nln.org/stateleagues and click on League Awards.
Summer 2011
The Voice for Nursing Education
A New Era in Testing Services
Introducing ACTION, an Innovative Platform to Advance Excellence in Nursing Education
An innovative testing services platform three years in the making, ACTION (Advanced Collegiate Testing
and Integrated Online Network), is set to be unveiled this summer. Fully integrated, ACTION has been
designed to support both paper and web-based testing environments, with features that include
NEW:
‰ Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) Module that allows students to test in a true NCLEX environment
‰ Tools for easier test session navigation
‰ NCLEX® Preparation & Review Module
‰ Updated norming data in achievement exams
‰ Spanish language line of achievement exams, with norming data
‰ Score report format, based on feedback from nurse educators
‰ Assessment reports, with fast turn-around, for schools, faculty, and students
‰ Multi-campus administrative module
‰ Upgraded security, for example, proctor accounts that allow proctors to control all aspects of
an exam session from their computer at the exam location.
‰ Upgraded registration tools to permit schools to self-monitor registration
“As always, as the voice for nursing education, the NLN seeks to provide the highest quality tools to promote success in today’s learning environment for future leaders in nursing, as well as those currently advancing through their nursing careers,” said NLN president Cathleen M. Shultz, PhD, RN, CNE, FAAN.
“ACTION represents a significant investment to improve the NLN’s full range of testing and remediation
services. In accordance with the NLN’s core values of caring, integrity, diversity, and excellence, this new testing platform is certain to insure a seamless experience for all administrators, faculty, and, most importantly,
nursing students,” added Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, the NLN’s CEO. “We thank the Kellogg
Foundation for their generous grant which helped the ACTION project come to fruition.”
Equally important is the substantial investment the NLN has made in cutting-edge IT and technology
resources to support this new testing platform, enabling ACTION to perform at the highest Internet speeds.
Additionally, the NLN has established data centers in two separate locations – New York and Atlanta – to
minimize systen downtime and provide comprehensive backup of all data and testing software. Both sites are
equipped with state-of-the-art servers, dual redundant failover systems, and load balancers, allowing maximum optimization and ensuring the most reliable testing platform and remediation environment possible.
For more information and to inquire about the new ACTION Testing Services Platform, email customerhelp@nln.org.
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Coming Up from the NLN
CONFERENCES
September 21 - 24
NLN EDUCATION
SUMMIT
Marriot World Center,
Orlando, FL
November 4-6, 2011
Sixth Annual NLN Technology
Conference
Duke University School of Nursing
Durham, North Carolina
Poster abstracts due August 19, 2011
Please visit www.nln.org/facultydevelopment for details.
WEBINARS
IMPORTANT DATES
Four webinar series are coming
this fall. Topics include:
1) civility and incivility,
2) coaching and leadership,
3) teaching strategies, and
4) integrating the NLN Outcomes
and Competencies into your
program.
August 1
Constituent League Awards:
nominations submissions due
Watch your email for details.
ONGOING
Indiana University School of
Nursing/NLN Online Courses
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Teaching and Learning in WebBased Courses Certificate Program
(4 courses)
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Clinical Faculty: A New Practice
Role (1 course)
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Teaching in Nursing Certificate
Program (3 courses)
WORKSHOPS
Sept 7, 2011
Strengthen Your Core:
How to Apply Core
Competencies to Curriculum
Latham, NY. Presenters: Marilyn
Brady, PhD, RN; June Larson, MS,
RN, ANEF. Co-sponsored with the
New York State Nurses Association
December 2-4
Scholarly Writing Retreat
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Ju d!Mt. Washington
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Johns Hopkins
University
Baltimore, MD.
Leader:
Leslie H. Nicoll, PhD, MBA, RN, BC
Applications due August 15, 2011
Please visit www.nlnfoundation.org
for details.
AT YOUR SERVICE
Updated, detailed information on all
faculty development programs can be
found at nln.org/facultydevelopment.
Shop the NLN Marketplace to register
for all these events and more.
August 15
Scholarly Writing Retreat:
applications due
August 19
Technology Conference:
poster abstracts due
August 31
Summit 2011 Second Early Bird
Registration ends
August 31
Call for Manuscripts
A special issue of Nursing Education
Perspectives on educating students for
geriatric care is scheduled for spring
2012. Visit www.nln.org/nlnjournal
for details.
September 2
Last day to vote for NLN leadership.
Click on easy link from the NLN
homepage at nln.org.
October 15
COE Initial Application due for
2012 cycle
Be sure to browse the calendar at
www.nln.org/stateleagues for events
sponsored by the NLN Affiliated
Constituent Leagues.
NLN Leadership Institute 2011-2012
LEAD, the NLN’s program for nurse educators in emerging faculty and administrative leadership roles, directed by NLN CEO Dr. Beverly Malone, is now
accepting applications for its second cohort. Visit the NLN professional
development page for more information.
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Across the Academic Spectrum:
Outcomes and Competencies for Nursing Graduates
This review was originally published in the MayJune issue of Nursing Education Perspectives.
It was written by Liana Orsolini-Hain, PhD,
RN, CCRN, an instructor at the City College of
San Francisco, a member of the Committee on
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative
on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of
Medicine, and a 2011-2012 Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Health Policy fellow.
Outcomes and Competencies for Graduates
of Practical/Vocational, Diploma, Associate
Degree, Baccalaureate, Master’s, Practice
Doctorate, and Research Doctorate Programs
in Nursing
National League for Nursing, 2010
The NLN has unveiled its magnum opus of outcomes and competencies to drive all levels of
undergraduate and graduate nursing education
curricula. Don’t let this little book fool you.
While brief, it is very dense and rich in its
explication of an entirely new model for framing and delivering nursing education.
This model, which looks like a tree of life, is the
result of work done by a subgroup of the NLN
Nursing Education Advisory Council (NEAC).
Members of the NLN Educational Competency Work Group canvassed experts in
nursing education and nursing practice, among
others, and poured over much literature and
research over a two-year period. Using a systems approach, the group identified inputs,
core values (seven); throughputs, integrating
concepts (six); and outputs, outcomes necessary for nursing practice (four).
Four of the seven core values, which come
from the NLN, are caring, integrity, diversity,
and excellence. The others are ethics, patientcenteredness, and holism. The core values are
the foundation of the tree. The integrating concepts — context and environment, knowledge
and science, personal and professional development, quality and safety, relationship-centered care, and teamwork — are the tree’s
branches. Finally, the outcomes — human
flourishing, nursing judgment, professional
identity, and spirit of inquiry — are fruit on the
tree’s branches.
The lack of depth in which human flourishing
is presented is disappointing. Human flourishing is a concept that is based in philosophy, and
it would be wonderful if the NLN can present
it more deeply in the future, perhaps in a journal article. The promotion of human flourishing will better prepare nurses to practice within the new models of care delivery that come
about with the implementation of health care
reform.
This book is logically divided into sections,
which explain how the model was developed;
offer definitions for core values, concepts, and
outcomes; describe how we can operationalize
values, concepts, and outcomes through new
models of service/academic partnerships; and
present implications for the nursing workforce
of the future. Each integrating concept is presented using the Carnegie apprenticeships of
knowledge, practice (knowhow), and ethical
comportment, and program outcomes are nicely leveled according to nursing program type.
Of particular interest to this reviewer is the
chapter “Implications of the Model for the
Future of Nursing,” which calls for a real curricular transformation, not just wordsmithing
old curricula to look new. Also, don’t skip the
appendices; they are jam packed with resources.
This model beautifully balances not being too
prescriptive with enough guidance to make
implementation straightforward. It is also noteworthy that the model allows for advanced
practice to remain at the master’s level, giving
nursing graduate programs more flexibility.
Bravo to the NLN and NEAC, whose evidence-based work provides nurse educators
everywhere with a wonderful new model that
will be a joy to implement. n