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2014 RIBN CONFERENCE Summary

THIRD ANNUAL STATEWIDE RIBN CONFERENCE

 O.Henry Hotel, Greensboro, NC

April 15, 2014

SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS

142 people gathered at the O.Henry Hotel in Greensboro, North Carolina on Tuesday, April 15 ^, 2014 for the Third Annual Statewide RIBN Conference.The keynote address, The Oregon Academic Progression Model: Progress and Lessons Learned was provided by Puala Gubrud-Howe, EdD, MS, RN, FAAN from the Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing.Pamela Johnson Rowsey, PhD, RN from the University of North Carolina School of Nursing gave the morning presentation, Challenges and Opportunities: Recruiting and Supporting Underrepresented Ethnic Minorities into Nursing .After lunch, consultant Patricia Hayes, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, HNB-BC and Mary Knowlton, DNP, RN, CNE, APN-BC from the Western Carolina University School of Nursing presented Transition to Employment drawn from ongoing work in the WNC Collaborative to transition RIBN students into professional practice.Eileen Evans, MSN, RN-BC, VHA-CM and Lynde Mickey, MSN, RN joined Hayes and Knowlton to discuss the process of transitioning students into professional nurses as they complete their BSNs in the afternoon breakout session Transition to Employment: Nuts, Bolts, and Lessons Learned .

The afternoon breakout session Strategies for Success in Increasing the Diversity of our Nursing Workforce featured Jacqueline Wynn, MPH of NC AHEC with Student Success Advocates George Dellinger, MSA and Erin Luce, RN, BSN.Student Success Advocates Mae Mills, BS and Carol Douglas, BS and RIBN students Brett Gustafson, Caroline Jones, Jarred Purvis, and Bridgett Punch presented the breakout session Navigating the System: Supporting the RIBN Student .Polly Johnson, RN, MSN, FAAN, CEO of the Foundation for Nursing Excellence and Maysoun Freij, PhD, MPH of the New York Academy of Medicine ended the day with their joint presentation including Freij’s Evaluation of RIBN: Preliminary Findings from North Carolina and Johnson’s Embedding and Sustaining RIBN into the Future .

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RIBN Conference summary

On April 11, 2013, 124 participants gathered in Greensboro for the Second Annual Statewide RIBN Conference. A keynote address was given by Deb Zimmerman, DNP, RN, NEA-BC on the Importance of Increasing the Educational Preparation of our Nursing Workforce – The Practice Perspective (View the video >). Following the presentation, a panel discussion occurred with three of North Carolina’s practice leaders.

Late in the morning, Nicholas Didow, PhD, MBA presented his findings on Making a Business Case for RIBN: Cost/benefit to the Individual, Academia, and Practice Partners (View the video >). See below for a summary of the ideas generated at each table regarding how to launch a RIBN collaborative in their region. (Download a PDF of the summary >)

The afternoon was also full of important presentations and panel discussions on the important aspects of the RIBN initiative in North Carolina. Topics included:

• Strategies for Success in Increasing the Diversity of our Nursing Workforce (View the video >);
• Building the RIBN Curriculum;
• Keeping RIBN Students Connected; and
• Transitioning into Practice While Completing the BSN:  The WNC-RIBN Transition to Practice Initiative

The meeting wrapped up with a discussion about the Challenges and Opportunities as We Expand RIBN in North Carolina. (Download the PDF presentation >)

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Summary of Ideas on How to Launch and Sustain a RIBN Collaborative
By Attendees at Statewide RIBN Conference on April 11, 2013

Collaboration, Strong Student Success Advocates and Strategic Marketing Are Key Ideas to Move RIBN Forward in North Carolina

Collaboration

• Increase Practice partner involvement including cost sharing, increasing their involvement in selection of RIBN students, tracking retention of RIBN nurses, creating clinical sites; adjunct faculty for Year 4 of RIBN
• Expand conversations to leadership within practice facilities including Human Resources, Nurse Recruiters, Administrators
• Share faculty between community colleges and university settings
• Focus on partnership building; consider ways to change our views of rivalry
• Assist in defining regions and BSN and ADN partners – align data to regions
• Create local advisory councils to assist in bringing partners to the table to launch new collaboratives
• Begin work where groups already work and collaborate well together
• Look for employers who currently pay universities to come to institutions and offer course work to tap for RIBN support
• Seek more scholarship opportunities for RIBN students

Strong Student Success Advocates (SSA)

• Partner with practice agencies to help cover the cost of the SSA
• Use SSAs to support retention
• Further thinking and analysis of the changing role of the SSA over time including incorporating
• RN and BSN coordinator role, functions as a role in admissions and facilitating information about scholarship opportunities

Strategic Marketing

• Develop materials and presentation to sell RIBN to Providers, share ideas and leverage relationships to begin the conversation about the benefits
• Use data and quantify the savings for practice provider in the areas of quality outcome benefits, Affordable Care Act and reimbursements for hospitals
• Address cost comparison of distance learning which is much less expensive by addressing quality of care, incorporate distance learning when creating cost benefits and other analysis
• Market RIBN as the traditional/preferred model for nursing education replacing current ADN program concept, market as a growing profession

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Why are Nursing Competencies Important?

Creating the conditions for the continuous improvement of qualification and certification is the most important factor in ensuring the effective work of nurses.

What is competence?

Competence is a system of knowledge, skills, personal qualities, practical experience that determine a person’s readiness for successful activity in a certain area.

The formation of the missing and improvement of the existing competencies of nursing staff are carried out both inside and outside the medical and preventive treatment facility.

Professional competencies of a nurse

Professional competencies are necessary for the implementation of professional activities.

Professional competencies of a nurse include:

• mercy
• patient tolerance
• humanity
• neatness
• accuracy
• responsibility
• discipline
• compassion
• lack of fear,
• be neatly dressed;
• to position the patient to himself, calm him down, explain the course of the upcoming procedure, encourage, praise the patient for endurance and patience
• during the procedure;
• carry out all manipulations with confidence, observe the appointed time for the procedures.

Self-education is also of great importance for the advancement of nursing personnel. They determine in which area they lack knowledge and try to fill this gap through self-study, by studying special, reference, normative literature and documentation.

Senior nurses should encourage nurses to do this, provide advice on drawing up a program and a self-study plan, selecting the necessary literature.

It is very important that the medical library in a medical institution has all the necessary textbooks, reference books and periodicals on nursing issues.

Importance of nursing competencies

Nursing competencies are very important because a patient’s life can depend on them. A nurse must independently monitor, treat (keep a nursing history) certain groups of patients (for example, in hospices) and call the doctor for consultation only. Nurses having the best knowledge can do their job more efficiently, which will not only influence the well-being of patients, improve the provision of medical care, and also satisfy nurses with their work.