Transcript Embedded Faculty: A Value For Multiple Stakeholders` Presentation

“Embedded Faculty: A Value
For Multiple Stakeholders”
Kimberly Fenbert, DNP, CPNP-PC
January 21, 2014
Objectives
• Describe the role of embedded
faculty positions.
• Discuss the benefits of
embedded faculty for unique
stakeholders.
• Describe the challenges in
sustaining embedded faculty
positions.
Background
• The Nursing and Nursing Faculty
shortage
• Increased need for clinical
placements
• May be called a “Clinical
Scholar” or “Clinical Nurse
Leader” in other areas but same
concept
• Term “embedded” comes from
Operation Iraqi Freedom war in
2001
Role of Embedded Faculty
• Coordinate, supervise, and
evaluate the clinical education of
nursing students in collaboration
with school of nursing faculty
• Facilitate student’s acquisition of
clinical competencies, the
development of critical thinking
skills and professional role
modeling
• Embedded faculty have a
working knowledge of the facility
and are therefore very familiar
with the patients and the nursing
practice
Role of Embedded Faculty
• Embedded faculty assigned part
of their hours to patient care and
promoting evidence-based
nursing practice and the other
time is spent working with
students in the clinical setting or
classroom
• Faculty work with staff to assess
needs and identify clinical
practice problems
• Embedded faculty work with
students on identified evidencebased projects and innovative
practices which lead to process
improvements and better patient
outcomes
Student Projects
• Time study of a process
• Evening or weekend parenting
class
• Immunization Clinic
• Satisfaction Survey
• Patient Education Handouts
• Documentation
• And more!
Benefits
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Increased faculty
Increased students
Increased clinical sites available
Enhanced Nursing Practice
Challenges
• Balancing workload of clinicalbased activities and teaching
activities.
• Only Pediatric Provider
• Patient No shows
• Students come for 1-2 days only
AACN’s Essentials of
Doctoral Education
• Embedded Faculty embrace the
essentials of the AACN through:
– Organizational and Systems
Leadership
– Clinical Scholarship and Analytical
Methods for Evidence-Based
Practice
– Information Systems/Technology
– Interprofessional Collaboration for
Improving Patient and Population
Health Outcomes
– Clinical Prevention and Population
Health
Current Embedded Faculty
• Erin Chillag, DNP, RN, CPNP - Mercy
Health Physician Partners Downtown
Office – Pediatrics
• Kim Fenbert, DNP, CPNP- GVSU
Family Health Center
• Kim Lanning, MSN, FNP-BC, APRN
DNP - Mercy Health Physician
Partners- Primary Care
• Elaine Leigh, DNP- Mercy Health
Partners- Ambulatory Clinic
Hepatitis/HIV/Infectious Disease
QUESTIONS??