| Immersion Experience 2011: Leadership
in Nursing Education: A Call to Reform
Mt Washington Conference Center on the campus of
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
June 5 - June 9, 2011
IMMERSION FACULTY
Track 1
Linda Caputi EdD, MSN,RN,CNE
Dr. Caputi has authored over 25 educational multimedia programs, nursing
education books, produced and developed videotapes, and published
book chapters, journal articles, and board games for nursing education.
She is editor of the second edition (2010) of Teaching Nursing: The
Art and Science (Volumes 1, 2, & 3), and coauthor of Teaching
Nursing: The Art and Science, It’s All About Student Success
(Volume 4). She serves on the editoral staff for Nursing Education
Perspectives, as the editor of the column Innovation Center,
a publication of the National League for Nursing. Linda’s work
has won six awards from Sigma Theta Tau, two from American Journal
of Nursing Company, and one from The Association for Educational Communication
and Technology. Dr. Caputi was acknowledged for teaching excellence
in the 1998, 2002, and 2005 editions of Who's Who Among America's
Teachers and the 2008 edition of Who’s Who in Nursing.
She is Professor Emeritus at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois
with over 25 years of teaching experience. She currently teaches online
Masters in Nursing Education courses. Dr. Caputi is a consultant to
undergraduate nursing programs in the areas of curriculum, student
success, NCLEX success, and effective teaching strategies in the classroom,
the nursing laboratory, and clinical. Judy Hermann
PhD, RN
Judy is a nurse educator with a passion for adolescents, nursing
education, and creative teaching strategies across the lifespan.
Experiences in pediatric staff nursing, nursing management and nursing
education provide contexts for current practice as a nurse educator,
nurse researcher, and national speaker. Judy is actively involved
in research related to adolescent brain development, sexuality,
and teaching strategies focusing on age-related learning. Publications
in many and varied journals disseminate results to varied audiences.
Judy’s teaching philosophy embraces innovative methods to
enhance learning, increase retention, and make learning fun! Judy
collected and developed innovative strategies and published a book
in 2008 entitled Creative Teaching Strategies for the Nurse
Educator. Judy lectures on creating innovation in nursing education
and teaching students with diverse learning needs and styles.
Judy’s research has examined adolescent parenting, sexual
decision making, teen pregnancy prevention, adjustment to illness,
teen dating violence, and other issues impacting teens. Judy believes
that teen perceptions are an important basis for the development
of programs and policies impacting teens. In that light, Judy’s
research revolves around teen thoughts and how to ensure that initiatives
speak to the reality of teen life. Judy is currently the Chair of
the Delaware State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Advisory Board, a member
of the Senate Appointed Teen Dating Violence Task force, and is
the Chair of the Delaware Girls Initiative.
Track 2
Janice Brewington PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Janice Gilyard Brewington has distinguished herself as a leader
and a scholar. She is currently employed as the senior director for
professional development at the National League for Nursing in New
York. Dr. Brewington was provost and vice chancellor for academic
affairs at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
While at NC A&T State University, she had a unique opportunity
to be an “executive on loan” for a year with The Gillette
Company in Boston where she was employed as the manager for university
relations in talent acquisition, human resources, global shared services,
North America.
Dr. Brewington is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She
belongs to several organizations, including the American Nurses Association
(ANA), Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, Inc.,
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Golden Key International Honour Society,
North Carolina Nurses Association, National League for Nursing and
A.K. Rice Institute. She has served as a member of the North Carolina
Board of Nursing and chair of the Education Committee and secretary
for the division on maternal child practice, the American Nurses Association.
She has served on numerous community boards including Moses Cone Health
System Board of Trustees, United Way of Greater Greensboro, Hospice
and Palliative Care of Greensboro, Guilford Technical Community College
Board of Trustees, Well Spring Board of Directors, Guilford Adult
Health Advisory Committee and Triad Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation
Board of Directors. She was also a member of the Academy of Excellence
in Institutional Assessment Advisory Board at North Carolina State
University.
She has published numerous articles and book chapters. Dr. Brewington
has conducted research nationally and internationally on violence
prevention, health care for women and children, health promotion
and disease prevention for the elderly, and leadership development
for women. She has acquired over $14 million in grant funding for
projects addressing access to health care, health promotion and
prevention, preparing students for careers in STEM disciplines,
cancer prevention and leadership for women. She has served on grants
review panels for the Division of Nursing, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services and the Heart, Blood and Lung Institute, National
Institutes of Health.
Inez Tuck PhD, MBA, RN, MDiv
Inez Tuck, PhD, MBA, RN, MDiv is a professor of nursing in the School
of Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond Virginia
where she has taught for thirteen years. She has held previous faculty
and administrative positions at several universities in the southeast.
At VCU, she teaches qualitative research in the doctoral program,
a course in ethics to undergraduate students, and psychiatric-mental
health counseling to graduate students.
Her research focuses on the effect of spirituality/religion and healing
on psychosocial and physiological measures in persons living with
acute and chronic diseases, terminal illness, or who have experienced
a devastating life event. She consults and writes in the area of spirituality
and health. She has been a co-investigator in a National Institutes
of Health study implementing spirituality as a complementary health
intervention with persons living with HIV/AIDS. This research team
just completed a second study funded by the National Cancer Institute
for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. She has explored spirituality
in persons with terminal cancer and provided a healing retreat for
family members who lost a loved one through homicide. She has a long-standing
commitment to exploring forgiveness in relationships and for maintaining
balance in life and as a way to heal. She published two books on the
topic of forgiveness: To Err is Human. A Collection of Forgiveness
Readings, and A Path to Forgiveness. Her practice in
spiritual direction is a part of her social networking as Positive
Outreach.
Track 3
Barbara McLaughlin PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF
Barbara McLaughlin is currently Professor and Head of the Department
of Nursing at the Community College of Philadelphia. Barbara has been
an associate degree nurse educator for over 25 years. She received
her diploma in nursing from Episcopal Hospital School of Nursing in
Philadelphia, a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Holy Family
University, a Masters Degree in Education from Arcadia University,
a Masters Degree in Nursing with a concentration in nursing education
from Villanova University, and a Doctorate in Nursing Science, concentrating
in nursing education, from Widener University. Barbara is a Certified
Nurse Educator and a Fellow in the Academy of Nurse Educators.
Since joining the full time faculty at Community College of Philadelphia,
Barbara has participated in several grants including the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation funded Community College-Nursing Home Partnership to
integrate gerontology into curricula and a Helene Fuld Health Trust
grant related to refocusing associate degree nursing education into
community based settings. Work on both of these grants included
numerous local, regional, and national faculty development workshops.
Barbara has served as Project Coordinator for a grant from the John
A. Hartford Foundation to foster the integration of geriatrics in
associate degree nursing education. She continues to work on Hartford
grant activities related to Advancing Care Excellence for Seniors
(ACES) through dissemination activities and project development.
Carol F. Durham, EdD, RN, ANEF
Carol Fowler Durham, MSN, RN is a Clinical Associate Professor of
Nursing at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School
of Nursing. Mrs. Durham has been involved in nursing education and
curriculum development for over 25 years. In her role as Director
of the Clinical Education & Resource Center, she has established
and grown a state of the art simulation lab. She has developed many
simulation experiences for a variety of learners including undergraduate
students, nurse practitioner students, practicing RNs, LPNs, and
nursing assistants. She has been involved in a multi-site teamwork
and communication grant that involves simulation development for
interdisciplinary teams of medical and nursing students. She has
been instrumental as the simulation expert in teaching and training
Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) nurses in the use of simulation
in their programs as part of Improving the Care of the Acutely
Ill Elder (PI – Mary Palmer).
She was named the Nurse Educator of the Year by the North Carolina
Nurses Association in 2005. Since October 2005, she has been a core
faculty member for the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
(PI - Linda Cronenwett). She and colleagues received the Educator
Award for their work on implementing Safe Patient Handling and Movement
(SPHM) in nursing curriculum in 2006. SPHM is a collaborative initiative
with ANA Handle with Care program and the Tampa VA. In 2007 she
was selected as a simulation expert by the National League of Nursing
to develop an online module for the Simulation Innovation Resource
Center Project for the National League for Nursing and Laerdal Medical.
She has worked with various schools of nursing assisting them to
integrate simulation into their curriculum. Carol has made presentations
on simulation and quality and safety in nursing education at national
and international conferences. |
