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Volume 1, Issue 1 J Nurs Res Pract Nursing Care & Breast Congress 2017
December 11-13, 2017
Page 12
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December 11-13, 2017 | Rome, Italy
Joint Event
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45th WORLD CONGRESS ON NURSING CARE
8TH EUROPEAN BREAST CONGRESS
Beth Ann Swan, J Nurs Res Pract 2017, 1:1(Suppl)
Synchronizing nursing education and practice to improve care
Healthcare reform and changing population health demographics call for a radical transformation in healthcare delivery
and the education of healthcare providers. Nurses comprise the largest proportion of healthcare providers making it
necessary to ensure that they are prepared to address the challenges that arise from the evolving healthcare delivery system.
A key message of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM, 2011) The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, is that
nurses must lead healthcare change. To accomplish this, leaders in nursing education and nursing practice must recognize their
role in creating change in nursing education and practice. Specifically, they must recognize their role in forming partnerships
to improve nursing education and nursing practice. In this context, this presentation will share two exemplars of the future
of nursing education in synchronizing education and all aspects of practice to improve care for individuals and families. The
first exemplar with describe an innovative baccalaureate nursing curriculum for health - H.E.R.E. – Humanistic, Evidence-
based, Reflective, and Excellence in clinical leaders. The curricular framework that guides the newly designed concept-based
baccalaureate curriculum is Promoting Health and Quality of Life Along the Care Continuum. This framework emphasizes the
promotion of health and quality of life in a variety of populations during transitions of care from one setting to another and
is guided by the curricular themes of innovation, population health, interprofessional collaboration, and practice excellence.
Central to the curriculum is the need to leverage partnerships to support the newly developed course offerings, immersion
experiences (formerly clinical experiences), service learning, and experiential opportunities in interprofessional, community-
based primary care. These partnerships are mutually beneficial to promote health and foster cross sector collaboration to
improve well-being. The second exemplar, Communication Catalyst Program, will illustrate an academic-practice partnership
that is transforming the care transitions experience through nurse-patient communication.
Biography
Beth Ann Swan is Professor and Former Dean at the Jefferson College of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
She is past President of the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing and a 2007-2010 Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow. She was a Member of
the Veterans Health Administration Choice Act Blue Ribbon Panel and is a Member of the Josiah Macy Jr. Planning Committee for Preparing Registered Nurses for New
Roles in Primary Care. She also served as an Honorary Visiting Expert, Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) for the Ministry of Health, Singapore. She has a
distinguished record of extramural funding, publications, and presentations nationally and internationally.
Beth Ann Swan
Thomas Jefferson University, USA