Faculty Spotlight

Under the leadership of Jill Terrien, the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing received a $4million grant to advance the teaching and precepting skills of nurses across New England. During the four year grant period, the New England Nursing Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academy will support 20 nurse preceptors in each state with a small stipend to attend Teaching of Tomorrow, a clinical faculty training program developed by the Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health and participate in periodic webinars. The grant is also budgeted each year to support preceptors for the GSN. This is an opportunity to recruit new preceptors and/or support current preceptors with skills development. For more information, contact Jill.

The project is also looking for faculty to present on teaching and precepting skills in the webinars. The grant focuses on nurse educators at all levels for nurses from the LPN/ADN level to DNP and NP residents. Nurses have expressed interest in learning more about many things. This is a sample: techniques to improve patient teaching, how to build a structured interprofessional bedside shift report, self-care for learners, supporting atypical/non-traditional leaners on their development, addressing diversity, positions of power and language, understanding learning styles and how to respond, and so on. If you are interested in developing a webinar (there is ad-comp funding available), please contact NENurseAcademy@umassmed.edu Here is the link to the first edition: February Edition 1.1 (constantcontact.com) If you want to be added to the newsletter circulation list, please contact NENurseAcademy@umassmed.edu

Dr. Joan Vitello, Dean of the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing gave a presentation titled “PhD Attrition: Ideas, Strategies, Solutions” at the AACN Doctoral Education Conference in Coronado, CA.

The conference explores national trends in doctoral nursing education, strategies to increase enrollment, and ways to increase or maintain rigor in terminal degree programs

Patricia White, PhD, ANP-BC, FAANP Associate Professor spoke at the 2nd International Palliative Care Masterclass in January 2023. The conference was held virtually and hosted by the University of Transylvania and Hospices of Hope in Romania. Over 40 participants attended from Romania and surrounding countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Her topic was “Ethical Analysis and Decision Making in caring for patients and families”.

Chrystina Soloperto, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC Assistant Professor wrote a story for Worcester Medicine titled “A pandemic’s role on vaccine hesitancy in the pediatric population”. Read the full article on pages 22-23 Worcester Medicine October 2022 by wdms - Issuu