keys to success: preparing faculty
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Keys to Success:Preparing Faculty
Cheryl Cummings Stegbauer, PhD, APNAssociate Dean for Academic Programs
& Director DNP Program
University of Tennessee Health Science CenterCollege of Nursing
Build on Strengths: Culture
• Health Science Campus• Culture of graduate education for health sciences• Clinical resources• Science resources • Interprofessional experiences• School of Public Health
• Liberal Arts• Broader graduate course resources • Business school
Build on Strengths: History
• Identify what you do well• Primary Care• Acute Care• Public Health
Build on Strengths: Faculty
• Identify Current & Future Leaders • Value Practice • Hold national APN board certification & state
APN license• Local and National leadership• Clinical experts with current practice• Expert on Advanced Practice education
• DNP Essentials• Regulation: Certification & Licensure
UTHSC Strengths: Culture
• 2000 Students• 7 Colleges
• Allied Health
• Dentistry
• Health Science Engineering
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Pharmacy
• Graduate Health Sciences
UTHSC Strengths: History
• Health Science Center• 100 year history
• 1950 BSN• 1972 Master’s • 1988 PhD
• 1999 Practice Doctorate• APN Faculty Leaders
Strengths: History & Faculty
• Preparing master’s APNs 30 years• Diverse programs of faculty practice
provide a resource for clinical inquiry and practice
• Most faculty hold advanced practice certification
UTHSC DNP Tracks
• Administration• Acute Care • Forensics• Mental Health • Primary Care • Public Health
Faculty
• Dr. Wendy Likes Class of 2005
• FNP & APN• GYN Oncology• Publication: JMST Female
Sexual Function• 1st Nurse inducted as
Fellow International Society for Study of Vulvovaginal Disease
Faculty
• Dr. Carol Thompson• FNP, ACNP, CNS• PhD Case Western• Practice ER VAMC• Active National
Leadership Acute Care• NIH Genetics Institute• Acute Care
Coordinator
Faculty
• Dr. Margaret Hartig• FNP• Active in Local, State,
& National NP groups• FNP Coordinator
Faculty
• Dr. Pat Cunningham• CNS, FNP• State, National
Leadership Mental Health
• Active Practice• PsychFNP Option
Faculty
• Dr. Craig Stotts• FNP • DrPH Univ. of Texas• Public Health
Coordinator
Faculty
• Dr. Susan Patton• PNP, FNP• Pediatric practice• Active National
Leadership IAFN• Forensic Nursing
Coordinator
Faculty
• Dr. Leslie McKeon• CNL Leadership• Leadership with
practice partners• Administration
Coordinator
Strengths: Mission & Commitment
• To Prepare Nurse Leaders for Excellence Today and Tomorrow• Faculty committed to excellence and progress• Faculty comfort with change & risk
• Wisdom for timing • Leadership prepared to guide
2010 Vision
• 1999 Admitted to practice doctorate• 65 Graduates of the Practice Doctorate
• 2005 Admitted DNP/PhD 2005• 2 students
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/DNP/pdf/conf/Stakeholders05/MRowser.pdf
• 2006 CNL 2006 with Practice Partners• 2010 All MSN APN programs to DNP