“Embedded Faculty: A Value For Multiple Stakeholders”

1. “Embedded Faculty: A Value For Multiple Stakeholders” Kimberly Fenbert, DNP, CPNP-PC January 21, 2014

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Student Projects • Time study of a process • Evening or weekend parenting class • Immunization Clinic • Satisfaction Survey • Patient Education Handouts • Documentation • And more!

7. Benefits • Increased faculty • Increased students • Increased clinical sites available • Enhanced Nursing Practice

8. Challenges • Balancing workload of clinical-based activities and teaching activities. • Only Pediatric Provider • Patient No shows • Students come for 1-2 days only

9. 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

10. 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

11. Questions??