“Embedded Faculty: A Value For Multiple Stakeholders”

Kimberly Fenbert, DNP, CPNP-PCJanuary 21, 2014

Objectives

• Describe the role of embedded faculty positions.

• Discuss the benefits of embedded faculty for unique stakeholders.

• Describe the challenges in sustaining embedded faculty positions.

Background

• The Nursing and Nursing Faculty shortage

• Increased need for clinical placements

• May be called a “Clinical Scholar” or “Clinical Nurse Leader” in other areas but same concept

• Term “embedded” comes from Operation Iraqi Freedom war in 2001

Role of Embedded Faculty

• Coordinate, supervise, and evaluate the clinical education of nursing students in collaboration with school of nursing faculty

• Facilitate student’s acquisition of clinical competencies, the development of critical thinking skills and professional role modeling

• Embedded faculty have a working knowledge of the facility and are therefore very familiar with the patients and the nursing practice

Role of Embedded Faculty• Embedded faculty assigned

part of their hours to patient care and promoting evidence-based nursing practice and the other time is spent working with students in the clinical setting or classroom

• Faculty work with staff to assess needs and identify clinical practice problems

• Embedded faculty work with students on identified evidence-based projects and innovative practices which lead to process improvements and better patient outcomes

Student Projects

• Time study of a process• Evening or weekend

parenting class• Immunization Clinic• Satisfaction Survey• Patient Education Handouts• Documentation • And more!

Benefits

• Increased faculty• Increased students• Increased clinical sites

available• Enhanced Nursing Practice

Challenges

• Balancing workload of clinical-based activities and teaching activities.

• Only Pediatric Provider• Patient No shows• Students come for 1-2 days

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AACN’s Essentials of Doctoral Education

• Embedded Faculty embrace the essentials of the AACN through:– Organizational and Systems

Leadership– Clinical Scholarship and

Analytical Methods for Evidence-Based Practice

– Information Systems/Technology

– Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes

– Clinical Prevention and Population Health

Current Embedded Faculty

• Erin Chillag, DNP, RN, CPNP - Mercy Health Physician Partners Downtown Office – Pediatrics

• Kim Fenbert, DNP, CPNP- GVSU Family Health Center

• Kim Lanning, MSN, FNP-BC, APRN DNP - Mercy Health Physician Partners- Primary Care

• Elaine Leigh, DNP- Mercy Health Partners- Ambulatory Clinic Hepatitis/HIV/Infectious Disease

QUESTIONS??