Nurturing the Future of Nursing: Empowering, Elevating, and Enlightening
Our Story
Fostering the next generation of nurses by connecting nurses to their purpose/professional identity, training to elevate and empower the nursing workforce, and raising awareness through human stories
Mission
To develop a comprehensive academic and clinical nursing preceptor curriculum to support and advocate for the evolving nursing workforce.
Vision
To be the most trusted and respected provider of innovative, relevant, sustainable nursing preceptor curriculum and educational resources through collaborative clinical and community partnerships.
Grant Details and Takeaways
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Workforce Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention
1 Harnessing Innovation, Technology, Business, and Advocacy
There is a need to use the strength of innovation, technology, business development, and advocacy, in addition to developing high quality educational resources, to adequately address this most pressing issue plaguing the nursing profession.
2 Prioritizing Wellbeing and Patient Safety
It is critical that continuous improvement of training for the clinical environment occurs, to include wellbeing, resiliency, and burnout, as the safety of patients is at stake.
3 Enhancing Care: Social Determinants, Cultural Competence
Clinical educator and preceptor training must include elements of social determinants of health and cross cutting elements of culturally competent care.
4 A Key Strategy to Enhance Clinical Faculty Recruitment
The issue of faculty incentives and employment packages is critical in raising the number of nurses willing to transition to clinical faculty status.
5 Enhancing Preceptor Support: Advanced Tool and Resources
A more advanced method to house and disseminate tools and resources to allow for easy access for preceptors in the clinical setting in a highly organized way is imperative.
6 Preceptor Remuneration: Productivity & Policy Complexities
Centralized coordination and advocacy are crucial in resolving productivity challenges and organizational policies that complicate renumeration for otherwise willing preceptors.
7 Building Bridges: Addressing Nursing Infrastructure Barriers
There is a need to remove infrastructure barriers through collaborative academic-clinical community partnerships who recognize the collective benefit.
8 Equity in Clinical Placements and Preceptor Treatment
There is a need to bring overall productivity and training costs to policy makers who can rebalance the equity of clinical placements and treatment of preceptors across the state and region.
9 Building Resilience: Well-being and Burnout in Nursing
As the nursing profession recovers from the strain of post pandemic stressors and rapid turnover, consideration for methods to increase resiliency, promote well-being, identify burnout, and teach methods of self-care must occur.
10 Maximizing Efforts: Administrative Relief & Site Procurement
Existing efforts to address the need for relief from the administrative burden and site procurement across the state and beyond must be leveraged to amplify successful resolution of barriers.
Leadership Team Members
Heidi Keeler
PhD, MSN/MBA, RN Project Director
Kelly Gonzales
PhD, APRN-NP, FNP-C Implementation Co-Lead
Jill Reed
PhD, APRN-NP, FNP-C Implementation Co-Lead
Teresa Hultquist
PhD, MSN, RN, PHCNS-BC, NE-BC Evaluation Lead
Renee Paulin
MSN, RN, CWOCN Professional Development Lead
Nate Beacom
BSBA Administrative Lead
Maninder Hora
BS, MS, CSM IT Lead
Lauren Loyd
MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CNE Preceptor Workforce Coordinator
Sally Heusinkvelt
DNP, APRN-NP, ACNP-BC, ANP-BC APRN Support
Amy Berggren
DNP, ACNP-BC APRN Support
Courtney Smith
MBA Educational Projects Coordinator
Louriann Nieman
MEd Instructional Designer