182042 Teaching and Learning Policy, Politics and Public Health Nursing with DEMN CNL Graduate Students

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 4:50 PM

Christine W. Saltzberg, PhD, MS, APRN, BC , College of Health and Human Services, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Pamela Levesque, MS, APRN, BC , College of Health and Human Services, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
     
The purposes of this session/presentation are:

a) to describe a variety of challenges associated with teaching Policy, Politics, and Public Health Nursing to Direct Entry Masters in Nursing Clinical Nurse Leader students who bring unique characteristics and knowledge to nursing; b) to engage in and interact around strategies found successful in educating students with undergraduate and graduate degrees in fields other than nursing; and c) to discuss how strategies for learning in the classroom may have differed from those in nursing practice.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session the participant will be able to: 1. Describe challenges associated with teaching Direct Entry Masters in Nursing Clinical Nurse Leader students in the classroom and nursing practice. 2. Discuss successful strategies for learning when educating students with undergraduate and graduate degrees in fields other than nursing.

Keywords: Public Health Nursing, Policy/Policy Development

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am ANCC certification, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Board Certified, Clinical Specialist, Public Health Nursing; MS, Public Health Nursing, University of Rochester; PhD, Education, Cornell University; Assistant Professor Nursing, University of New Hampshire; Educator in Public Health Nursing; Public Policy, Ethics and Politics; Hold legislative appointments to policy making bodies; Elected/appointed to policy making boards
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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