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Title Teaching Care of Veterans and Their Families in an OnlineNursing Program

Authors Marzalik, Penny R.; Spalla, Tara Lynn

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Community  Course  Prac0ce  Experience  

Teaching Care of Veterans and Their Families In an Online Nursing Program

Penny R. Marzalik, PhD, APRN and Tara Spalla, PhD, RN

Joining Forces is a national initiative to support and honor America’s service members and their families through employment, education, and wellness. 1

Nursing educational programs voluntarily pledge to participate in this initiative to:

•  Raise awareness of critical issues facing service members, veterans, their families, and their caregivers

•  Integrate content that addresses unique health and wellness challenges of this population

•  Enrich curriculum to ensure inclusion of best practices associated with caring for clinical challenges, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and depression

•  Faculty awareness of initiative

•  Current curriculum content, learning activities and assessment review

•  Determination of most appropriate placement of veteran-centric content in an online RN-BSN curriculum

•  Resources for faculty identified

•  Implementation/tracking

•  Evaluation

•  Identify a Veterans Affairs activity

•  Secure permission to attend activity noting contact person, credentials, date, time, organization, and contact information

•  Prepare by identifying organization mission; community health theory; national, state, and local demographics; Healthy People 2020 goals and objectives

•  Participate (appropriate dress, name tag)

•  Paper (preparation, event summary, reflection)

•  Difficulty identifying a VA community practice activity

•  Frustration at lack of resources readily available to veterans

•  Appreciation and gratitude for the veteran’s service and resilience in obtaining necessary services

•  Clinical Informatics for Veteran Care2 (informatics)

•  Moral Injury of War3 (ethics)

•  Public Policy for Veteran Care4 (foundations)

•  Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment5 (assessment)

•  Describing Data related to Women Veterans6 (statistics)

•  Conducting Research with Women Veterans6(research)

•  Epidemiology of PTSD7 (community)

•  Geriatric Care for Veterans8 (older adult)

Didac0c  Topics  (course)  

Overview/Background    Prac0ce  Experience  Examples  

Student  Reflec0on  Themes  

References  

•  Allison, Iowa: Butler County VA Commission: Advocacy for legislation/services

•  Baltimore, MD: Veteran Center: Group counseling organized by conflict

•  Columbus, OH: City of Columbus: Therapeutic Recreation Program

•  Miami, FL: VA Medical Center: Friday Night Safe Zones

•  Saginaw, MI: HUD-VASH Program: Housing and Urban Development Veterans Affairs Supported Housing

1. American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN]. 2012. Joining forces: Enhancing veteran’s care tool kit. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu

2. National Center for Telehealth & Technology. (2015). PTSD Coach. Department of Defense. Retrieved from http://t2health.dcoe.mil/apps/ptsd-coach

3. Maguen, S. & Litz, B. (2012) Moral injury in veterans of war. PTSD Research Quarterly, 23(1). Retrieved from http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/newsletters/research-quarterly/v23n1.pdf

4. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs [USDVA]. (2014). Office of Academic Affiliations: VA Nursing Academy Partnerships. Retrieved from http://www.va.gov/oaa/vanap/partners.asp

5. USDVA. (2015a). Toolkit for providers of clients with co-occuring TBI and mental health symptoms. Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers [MIRECC]/Centers of Excellence [CoE]. Retrieved from http://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn19/tbi_toolkit/tbi.asp

6. USDVA. (2011). Conducting research with women veterans. PTSD: National Center for PTSD. Retrieved from http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/continuing_ed/researchinwomen/

7. USDVA. (2015b). Epidemiology of PTSD. PTSD: National Center for PTSD. Retrieved from http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/continuing_ed/epidemiology.asp

8. USDVA. (2012). Geriatric research education and clinical centers [GRECC]. Retrieved from http://www.va.gov/grecc/

Planning  Phase