FNU Announces 2023 Nurse Educator Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Fellows

Frontier Nursing University (FNU) announced the ten FNU faculty members to participate in the University’s inaugural Nurse Educator Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Fellowship program. Through this initiative, which is fully funded by FNU, the faculty members attend a 12-week DEI training. This program rejects the traditional DEI approach and uses an individualized peer education model to facilitate faculty development of knowledge and skills to engage in anti-racism education. Upon completion of the program, each fellow will then be assigned to coach other members of the FNU faculty for 12 weeks. This was a competitive process, and the application was open to all faculty at FNU.

The 10 Nurse Educator Faculty Fellows are Drs. Tia Andrighetti, Joshua Barnes, Joanne Keefe, Heidi Loomis, Rebecca

Lopez, Doreen Thomas-Payne, Audrey Perry, April Phillips, Kevin Scalf, and Erin Tenney.

“This initiative came out of the President’s DEI Task Force,” said FNU Chief Diversity Equity and Inclusion Officer Dr. Paula Alexander-Delpech, Ph.D., PMHNP-BC, APRN. “I am so proud that the university has invested in this important development and training for our faculty, who can then lead and learn from one another.”

A national as well as university leader, Dr. Alexander-Delpech presented “The Development of A Faculty DEI Fellows Program” at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Diversity Leadership Institute last June.

Suture Donations Needed for Clinical Bound

Clinical Bound is a week-long skills-intensive event that prepares students to begin clinical experiences with preceptors in their home communities. Students and faculty from the nurse-midwifery, family nurse practitioner (FNP), women’s health nurse practitioner (WHNP), and psychiatricmental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) programs participate in Clinical Bounds. Students learn foundational skills, such as hand maneuvers for attending births, suturing techniques, and performing patient histories and physical exams that will prepare them to enter clinical sites. Students also practice conducting patient visits using clinical simulations that students perform under the observation of their instructors. These simulations allow students to experience patient interactions in a simulated environment. It is important that the simulations are realistic to help students gain confidence in their skills and clinical decisionmaking before working with actual patients.

One of the costly ongoing expenses for Clinical Bound is suture. Financial donations toward the purchase of suture may be made online by visiting Frontier.edu/give-to-fnu/ and selecting “Clinical Training Supplies.” Also, Frontier can accept donations of expired suture in its original packaging. Donations of suture can be sent to:

Frontier Nursing University

Attn: Dr. Joan Slager, Dean of Nursing

2050 Lexington Road Versailles, KY 40383