University of Virginia Clinical Nurse Leader Program

New CNL Calendar in Progress!

2011-04-01T07:20:00.001-07:00

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2009-07-07T13:14:00.000-07:00

Clinical Leadership Project Presentations
Presented by the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL), Class of 2009 Candidates for a Master of Science Degree in Nursing
Camp Heart Center Auditorium, 4th Floor, UVA Medical Center

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

1:30 Bundling Up Clostridium Difficile:
Infection Control and Prevention in the
Surgical, Trauma, Burn ICU
Sarah Meeneghan, STBICU

1:50 “Maximization of Carecast Use as a Vital
Communication Tool, Patient Clinical
Database, and Bridge the Introduction of
EPIC”
Mary Hove
Thoracic Cardiovascular Post-Operative Unit

2:10 Moral Distress on the Nerancy
Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit
Jeffrey Reynolds, NNICU

2:30 Increasing Interpreter Use for the
Hospitalized Limited English Proficiency
Patient
Julia Valette, Medical ICU

2:50 Break

3:10 Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections in the Medical ICU: Preventing Infections
with Technical and Adaptive Solutions
Nathan Maust, MICU

3:30 Interdisciplinary Communication
Surrounding Off-Service Patients in the Coronary Care Unit
Tiffany Small, CCU

3:50 ICU Delirium Prevention and Assessment
in the Coronary Care Unit
Booker Moritz, CCU

4:10 Implementation of SBAR Communication
Tool on 5 Central
Kathryn Gasser, Digestive Health
Thursday, July 30, 2009

2:30 Interdisciplinary Infection Control in General Medicine

Anne Fishwick
Amanda Martinez
General Medicine

3:00 Mucositis Management Project

Sherry Kausch
Kristen Smith
Oncology

3:30 Break

3:50 Implementation of the New Shift Manager Role on General Medicine

Kate Casey
Meghan Sheely
General Medicine

4:20 Painfully Speaking: Improving Assessment and Management of Pain on 5 Central

Carolyne Muhenge
Digestive Health

4:40 The "Leave Work at Work" Project:
Mindfulness Practice in Managing Work-Related Stress

Tim Cunningham
Emergency Department

Friday, July 31, 2009

2:30 Born in the OR: The Mother/Baby Reunion Project
Lindsey Baskette
Sara Read
The Women’s Place

3:00 Investigating Screening for Postpartum Depression in Mothers of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital
Rebecca Bullock
NICU
Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, Richmond

3:20 Infection Control: Ring Wearing by Nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Kerri Murphy
NICU

3:40 Break

4:00 Increasing the Clinicians’ Awareness and Utilization of the Integrative Medicine Program at the Cancer Center

Sylvia Metzger
Cancer Center
4:20 Enhancing Nursing Delivery of Patient- and Family-Centered Care Using Education and Documentation Tools: A Pilot Study

Elly Palmer
Surgical

Class of 2009 receives unexpected gift

2009-05-21T07:22:00.001-07:00

2009 National Summit

2009-02-05T12:11:00.001-08:00

UVA's second-degree MSN-entry Clinical Nurse Leader program at UVA was extremely well represented at the national CNL Summit held in New Orleans January 29-31, 2009. The CNL Summit was co-sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and was attended by over 400 practicing clinical nurse leaders, students, faculty, and nurse executives. Our own Kathryn Reid, CNL program coordinator, serves as a member of the AACN's national CNL Steering Committee, and in her role, moderated several sessions and co-led a CNL faculty forum. In addition, the following UVA abstracts were presented at the conference:

• Dorothy Tullmann gave a podium presentation titled Enhancing Students' Vision of Quality and safety in the Microsystem: The Role of Clinical faculty in Precepted Clinical Experiences.

• Rebecca Salisbury (Class of 2008) and Audrey Snyder gave of podium presentation of Rebecca's UVA Emergency Department capstone project titled A Healthy Work Environment Improvement Project.

• Jae-Hoon Kim (Class of 2008) also gave a podium presentation titled A Clinical Microsystem Approach in an Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, detailing his capstone project on UVA's Rucker 3.

• Jess Keim (Class of 2008 and now a student in the PhD program) and Tim Cunningham (Class of 2009) also gave a podium presentation titled Utilizing CNL Roles to Initiate the Development of Global Health Partnerships.

• Sherry Kausch (Class of 2009) presented a poster titled Impact of a CNL Student Impact in Home Health Care Nurses' Teaching.

• Drew Walton (Class of 2008) and Gayle Coolidge (Class of 2008) presented a poster titled Clinical Nurse Leader Students Create a "Green" Tipping Point in an Academic Medical Center. Co-authors include Kiernan Calef (Class of 2008) and our medical center colleagues Kim Sutphin, Kathleen Rea, and Pam Dennison. Please note also that the CNL "Go-Green" initiative has been highlighted last fall by Johnson and Johnson as well as Working Nursing: http://www.workingnurse.com/articles/Nurses-Going-Green, and the Luminary Project: http://www.theluminaryproject.org/story.php?detail=272.

Tim Cunningham's (Class of 2009) work titled Ngudo Nga Zwinepe (Learning through Photos): A Modified Photovoice Methodology Assessing Community Water and Health Perceptions in Limpopo Province, South Africa has been accepted for presentation at Yale's 6th annual Unite for Sight Global Health Conference and at the Global Health Education Consortium & the Western Regional International Health Conference in Seattle, WA, both of which will be held this spring. In case you've not had the opportunity to meet Tim, he also serves as the CNL 2009 "class clown" - literally! His background includes professional clowning with the organization known as Clowns Without Borders, and he attributes these experiences as contributing to his desire to become a nurse.

On a last note, Kathryn Reid has been invited to speak at the upcoming AACN MSN Education conference. She will be speaking during one of the opening sessions titled Moving Graduate Nursing Education into the Future on the topic of Educating Non-Nurses for the CNL Role: Second Degree Master’s Advanced Generalist Preparation. Co-panelists for this presentation include Jean Novotny speaking about Transitioning BSN Graduates to the CNL Role via Master’s Programs and Jean E. DeMartinis speaking about Elevating Specialty Preparation From Master’s to the DNP.

CNL students present Capstone Projects

2008-07-01T13:19:00.000-07:00

Camp Heart Center Auditorium
July 30, 2008
1:30 Corrie Pedro
Caring for Emergency Department Patients in Psychiatric Crisis

1:50 Rebecca Salisbury
Stress and Smoking Cessation in the Emergency Department

2:10 Jamie Johnson
Pediatric Spinal Immobilization: The Challenges Faced by Prehospital Providers

2:30 Laura Vento
Limited English Proficiency Patient Satisfaction in the Emergency Department

2:50 Sarah Cottingham
Evaluation of a New Graduate Orientation Program in the Emergency Department

3:10 Break

3:30 Joel R. Anderson
Improving the Experience of Family Members of Trauma Patients.

3:50 Therese Podorski
Quiet Time in the Medical Intensive Care Unit

4:10 Camden Orgain
Reducing Urinary Tract Infections in the Nerrancy Neuro Intensive Care Unit

4:30 Stephanie Cole Puffenberger
CCRN Certification in the Coronary Care Unit

Thursday, July 31, 2008

2:30 Meredith Cooley
Development of a Teen Health Outreach Package: A Multidisciplinary, Collaborative Approach at the Charlottesville/Albemarle Health Department.

3:00 Heather Alexander
Development of a Tuberculosis Screening Policy for Long-term Care

3:20 Natalie Comer
Mouth Care on Acute Pediatrics

3:40 Rachel Bennett
Getting Ready to Go Home: The Discharge Process in the Women's Place

4:10 Michele Walsh
Staff and Patient Education on the Benefits of Skin-to-Skin Contact in the Immediate Post-Partum Time Period

Friday, August 1, 2008

1:30 Kiernan Calef
1:50 Drew Walton
2:10 Gayle Coolidge
Waste Reduction: The “Go Green” Initiative

2:30 Jessica Keim
Implementation of a Mucositis Assessment in the Oncology Population

2:50 Meredith Harris
Enhancing Communication: The Greaseboard Utilization Project on 4E-Cardiology

3:10 Break

3:30 Susan Humphrey
Falls Prevention on 6 Central, Neurology/Stroke

3:50 Mika Richardson
Improving Restraint Documentation to Meet JCAHO Standards

4:10 Christina Staton
Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance on 3 West, General Medicine

4:30 Jessica Silcox
Improving Patient Communication: Development and Implementation of an Information Guide for the Patients and Families of 6 West

Board of Nursing visit November 6 and 7

2007-11-10T13:56:00.000-08:00

We anticipate Board of Nursing approval on January 28, 2008.
APPROVED January 28,2008!

School of Nursing welcomes third class of CNL students

2007-08-25T09:58:00.000-07:00

Twenty eight new Clinical Nurse Leader Students arrive in Mcleod Hall on Monday August 27 for orientation. This talented and diverse group of students enter the CNL program without nursing degrees and are prepared in 24 months to become nurses and clinical nurse leaders.

The School of Nursing Graduates First CNL class

2007-08-25T09:56:00.001-07:00

Degrees were conferred for 19 graduating Clinical Nurse Leaders on August 14, 2007. Out of the first class of 19, X will be employed by the UVA Health System. Others will be going to NAME these..

CNL Capstone Projects 2007

2007-07-27T09:27:00.000-07:00

Clinical Leadership Project presentations
July 2007

Presented by the candidates for a Master of Science in Nursing (CNL), Class of 2007

Improving Patient Satisfaction Among Long Term Antepartum Women on Bedrest
Standardized Assessment of Postpartum Depression on an Inpatient Basis
Telephone-based Nurse Follow-up for Discharged Heart Failure Patients
Improving Communication Between Staff and Families of NNICU Patients
Barriers to Pain Reassessment Charting
Retention Intervention: The Preservation of Wisdom

Acuity Assessment and Accuracy in Pediatric Acute Care Nursing
Evidence-Based Practice Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders
Call Light Use and Nursing Rounds
Decreasing Barriers to Care Among Spanish-speaking Obstetrical Patients
Patient Satisfaction and Goal Participation

Finding Money in the Trash
Standardizing Handoff of Care Processes
Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Cost-Savings Analysis of Single-Use Medical Supplies in Isolation Rooms
Implementation of a Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Protocol
Labeling Lifelines

Scholarships Awarded

2006-03-25T15:54:00.000-08:00

2006-03-22T15:09:00.000-08:00

CNL PROGRAM UPDATE
In Fall 2005, we welcomed 22 pre-licensed graduate students for a new generalist masters program called the Clinical Nurse Leader. The students in this group have made the decision to change a career or direction they were going to the new direction that includes the profession of nursing.
They are part of a larger vision: to champion innovations that improve patient outcomes, ensure quality care and reduce healthcare cost. The CNL will integrate emerging nursing science into practice and leads the effort to enhance patient care. A recognized leader in all settings, the CNL's will be advocates for reforming the health care delivery system and putting best practices into action.
They are coming to us with degrees in the biological & physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Six of the CNL students have already earned graduate degrees (including degrees in chemistry, education, mathematics and divinity). The diversity of talents and interests they bring is certainly remarkable, as is their commitment to the vision of the CNL
We have marathon runners along side people who have excelled in the arts through acting, dancing, music and art.
" Most have significant volunteer experience, in the United States as well as around the world, including Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Kenya
" We have students who are fluent in Spanish, French, Swahili and Arabic.
" Many choose nursing as a second or third career: among our incoming class are former Chemists, chaplains, dolphin trainers, engineers, computer scientists.
The skills, talents and experiences the students bring to the School of Nursing will enrich our communities of interest both in the School and the community, as well as the University and the profession. I am excited to be part of this new era and ask you to join me in welcoming this group to our School.