Join us a day early to get more from your ATI solutions as we take a deep dive into ATI product navigation, usage and reporting as well as integration tips and tools. This session features live training and support from ATI's product trainers and integration nurse educators.

A hot breakfast is provided.

The need to effectively prepare nurses for roles in Nursing Education remains challenging today. Transitioning to the role of the nurse educator is often difficult and unpaved, resulting in a higher attrition of eager nurses who just cannot overcome the barriers to success. Providing a clear roadmap and setting the GPS for moving into this new role is essential. This session is a panel format incorporating active participation.

• Incorporate personal experiences regarding the transition into the role of nurse educator
• Discuss how to develop a transition plan
• Identify strategies that foster successful transition and sustainability to the role of the nurse educator

Coffee, water, soft drinks and tea are provided.

Learning the Ropes of Curriculum Development

• Discuss current influences on curriculum revision

• Identify the steps for effective curriculum development/revision

• Review the student learning outcomes for a current or standard curriculum

A hot lunch is provided.

Program Evaluation: What's in it for me?

• Discuss the importance of Program Evaluation

• Identify the relationship between program data and quality outcomes

• Describe the best practices for effective program evaluation

Coffee, water, soft drinks and tea are provided.

Teaching the Teacher About Accreditation

• Differentiate between program accreditation and program approval

• Discuss the purpose of national nursing accreditation

• Differentiate between candidacy, accreditation, and re-accreditation

• Discuss the steps to the accreditation process

ATI Quick Dive: Accrediting Body Q&A (Optional)

Eat & Greet Dinners

Small groups of 8-10 educators sign up to dine together for networking with peers. Sign-ups for dinner groups will open in June 2019.

A hot breakfast is provided.

Let's be Active and Learn in Class!

• Examine the role and competencies of a scholarly teacher based on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

• Explore learner-centered strategies designed to engage a variety of learning styles

• Identify opportunities to create learning opportunities to promote clinical judgment

• Examine classroom assessment techniques

• Identify barriers to implementing active learning strategies and ways to overcome them

ATI Quick Dive: Active Learning Solutions (Optional)

Learn how to immediately (and easily) integrate specific ATI solutions into your curriculum this semester to begin applying the active learning strategies you just learned.

Let's be Active and Learn in Clinical!

• Explore a variety of learning activities for the clinical setting

• Identify opportunities to create learning opportunities in the clinical setting that support deep learning

• Describe principles of debriefing for reflective learning

• Review evidence-based debriefing techniques

The Brave New World of Simulation: Understanding the Basics

• Discuss the importance of clinical competence

• Identify ways in which simulation can be integrated into the nursing curriculum

• Define common simulation terminology and methodologies

ATI Quick Dive: Simulation Solutions (Optional)

Learn how to immediately (and easily) integrate specific ATI solutions into your curriculum this semester to begin applying the simulation strategies you just learned.

Item Writing: A Bird's Eye View

• Identify components necessary in the construction of NCLEX®- style test items

• Develop skill in relation to writing NCLEX® -style items

• Describe common item writing errors

• Practice using the item writing decision tree to revise test items

Lesson Planning: Let's Start at the Very Beginning

• Discuss the importance of lesson planning

• Describe the components of lesson planning

• Develop learning objectives for class and lab/clinical

ATI Quick Dive: Solutions to Simplify Lesson Planning (Optional)

Learn how to immediately (and easily) integrate specific ATI solutions into your curriculum this semester in a way that simplifies lesson planning.

Plenary Session with Dr. Cynthia Clark: Thriving in the Nurse Educator Role: Fostering a Meaningful and Enduring Career

• Describe the skills and attributes of successful and effective nurse educators

• Participate in reflection exercises to enhance self-awareness and professional development

• Explore effective strategies to thrive and succeed as a nurse educator

Optional ATI Deep Dive: ATI's New! Program Manager Solution

Learn how ATI's new solution, Program Manager can help your program simplify the accreditation preparation process with ongoing tracking that arms you with program data for educated decisions-making or program evaluation at any time.

Registration

ATI Product Training Session (Optional)

Join us a day early to get more from your ATI solutions as we take a deep dive into ATI product navigation, usage and reporting as well as integration tips and tools. This session features live training and support from ATI's product trainers and integration nurse educators.

Breakfast

A hot breakfast is provided.

Welcome Message

Keynote Address:
Pathfinding & Trailblazing in Nursing Education: Setting the GPS for Success on your Journey

The need to effectively prepare nurses for roles in Nursing Education remains challenging today. Transitioning to the role of the nurse educator is often difficult and unpaved, resulting in a higher attrition of eager nurses who just cannot overcome the barriers to success. Providing a clear roadmap and setting the GPS for moving into this new role is essential. This session is a panel format incorporating active participation.

• Incorporate personal experiences regarding the transition into the role of nurse educator
• Discuss how to develop a transition plan
• Identify strategies that foster successful transition and sustainability to the role of the nurse educator

Break

Coffee, water, soft drinks and tea are provided.

Staircasing Curriculum: Outcomes, Competencies, and Course Objectives

• Discuss the importance of aligning the curriculum with student outcomes

• Differentiate between course and unit objectives.

• Review a current or standard curriculum to align course objectives with outcomes and competencies

Lunch

A hot lunch is provided.

The Systematic Evaluation Plan (SEP): Building a Plan that Works

• Discuss the purpose of a systematic evaluation plan (SEP)

• Analyze the components of a SEP and their relationship to the nursing process

• Review how data collected is analyzed and evidence-based decisions made based on data

Break

Coffee, water, soft drinks and tea are provided.

The Value in Accreditation and How You Benefit From It

• Discuss the importance of National Nursing Accreditation

• Analyze accreditation standards and criteria/key elements

• Examine the importance of the self-study to a successful accreditation visit

ATI Quick Dive: Accrediting Body Q&A (Optional)

Eat & Greet Dinners

Small groups of 8-10 educators sign up to dine together for networking with peers. Sign-ups for dinner groups will open in June 2019.

Breakfast

A hot breakfast is provided.

The Scrambled Classroom: How You Can Facilitate Learning in a Variety of Ways

• Define the Scrambled Classroom

• Examine how blending the best of both lecture and active learning strategies can create an environment that supports knowledge acquisition, application, and retention

• Analyze principles behind the Scrambled Classroom and the steps and strategies used to create one

• Demonstrate how lecture bursts and active strategies can be used in a complementary manner using a personal or simulated lecture

ATI Quick Dive: Active Learning Solutions (Optional)

Learn how to immediately (and easily) integrate specific ATI solutions into your curriculum this semester to begin applying the active learning strategies you just learned.

Transitioning into Clinical Education and Teaching

• Discuss the transition from practice to clinical teaching for new faculty

• Discuss expectations of clinical courses for students

• Identify strategies for managing clinical student behaviors

• Review evidence-based debriefing techniques for post-clinical

• Discuss clinical evaluation processes

Lunch

A hot lunch is provided.

Simulation Design: Paving the Way

• Define best practices related to simulation-based learning experiences.

• Relate simulation best practices to all phases of simulation including prebriefing, scenario implementation and debriefing.

• Identify available simulation design templates.

ATI Quick Dive: Simulation Solutions (Optional)

Learn how to immediately (and easily) integrate specific ATI solutions into your curriculum this semester to begin applying the simulation strategies you just learned.

Item Analysis and Test Blueprinting: Leaving the Nest

• Differentiate between item discrimination and difficulty.

• Describe desired values for item difficulty and item discrimination

• Analyze the relationship between positive and negative point biserials on both the key and distractors • Analyze sample items and determine need to revise key or distractors based on item statistics • List the steps in test blueprinting development

• Explain how to set the specifications for the elements at the course and program levels.

Breakfast

A hot breakfast is provided.

Lesson Development: The Details Matter

• Review the importance of lesson planning

• Review the components of lesson planning

• Develop a lesson plan for theory and lab/clinical

ATI Quick Dive: Solutions to Simplify Lesson Planning (Optional)

Learn how to immediately (and easily) integrate specific ATI solutions into your curriculum this semester in a way that simplifies lesson planning.

Plenary Session with Dr. Cynthia Clark: Thriving in the Nurse Educator Role: Fostering a Meaningful and Enduring Career

• Describe the skills and attributes of successful and effective nurse educators

• Participate in reflection exercises to enhance self-awareness and professional development

• Explore effective strategies to thrive and succeed as a nurse educator

Closing Remarks

Box Lunch & Depart

Optional ATI Deep Dive: ATI's New! Program Manager Solution

Learn how ATI's new solution, Program Manager can help your program simplify the accreditation preparation process with ongoing tracking that arms you with program data for educated decisions-making or program evaluation at any time.