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Key Trends – Outside In
Nursing Education
Transformation
Increased Focus on
Competency to Practice
Nurse educators need to
find new ways to
engager learners and
deliver content
Anxiety over Change
• Call to action from IOM for 80% of
nursing workforce to hold a BSN degree
by 2020
• Schools turning away qualified
applicants due to lack of faculty and
clinical sites
• Curriculum overwhelming and
redundant
• Schools not producing what is needed
in today’s workforce
• Post graduate training needs are
significant
• Nurse educators are searching for new
ways to engage their students due to
new learning styles: self-directed,
immersive
• Integration of clinical experiences into
the classroom produce a better result
• Instructors are “opting-out” of change
process creating more challenges for
the lack of faculty
• Those who stay are in overwhelm and
have anxiety over change
• Practicing nurses returning to school
for degrees create double-digit grown
in RN to BSN programs
• Need for alternate solutions for
education and clinical
• Standardized curriculums (state,
concept, competency based)
• Learning solutions which promote
active learning, critical thinking as
well as interprofessional skills
• Bridge to Practice solutions
• Need for solutions that promote
active, application learning that can
be used in flipped classrooms; and that
create opportunities for students to
learn and demonstrate critical thinking
skills
• Turnover will create new relationships
and new opportunities
• Consulting Services and Customer
Support critical to ease the Change
Process
Description
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