DNP Team Projects: Best Practice in Student & Faculty Engagement
Webinar Details
Based on the AACN report from the Task Force on the Implementation of the DNP, Team Projects can be a meaningful experience, developed to prepare graduates to function in interprofessional teams in the future. The Team Project can also be challenging, particularly from an evaluative perspective. This webinar will provide one DNP program's experience with Team Projects, providing an evolutionary perspective from the faculty and students' view and future implications for leadership roles and accountability for deliverables.
Speakers
Linda Roussel, PhDProfessor, DNP Program Coordinator
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Dr. Roussel’s practice initiatives focus on clinical nurse leadership, academic-clinical partnership, and frontline engagement. A specific emphasis of her work has been on Transforming Care at the Bedside centering on how healthcare providers improve patient outcomes at the point of care. Dr. Roussel has received Health Resources and Services Administration) funding to establish Our Neighborhood Healthcare Clinic, a nurse-managed clinic providing care to vulnerable populations. A previous Nurse executive with more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, Dr. Roussel has served in leadership roles in acute, post-acute, long-term care and transitional care management. Dr. Roussel is the DNP Program Director and in her faculty role at UAB, she teaches courses in leadership, translational and improvement science, and Scholarly Project Design and Implementation. Dr. Roussel has authored and co-authored nursing textbooks including Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators, Integrating and Sustaining the Clinical Nurse Leader Role, Project Planning and Management, A Guide for CNLs, DNPs, and Nurse Administrators, and Evidence-Based Practice, an Integrative Approach to research, Administration, and Practice. She serves as a professor and faculty mentor for doctoral students.
Melanie Gibbons Hallman, DNPInstructor/Family and Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Family/Child Health and Caregiving Department
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Melanie Gibbons Hallman is a national leader in emergency services. During the past 38 years, she has provided both prehospital and hospital-based emergency care. She is an active leader in the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners (AAENP). Dr. Hallman serves as an emergency services NP, DNP faculty, and is the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Subspecialty Track Coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing. She is experienced in facilitation of DNP team projects and mentorship.
Annette Hess, PhDAssistant Professor/Family Nurse Practitioner
Acute, Chronic and Continuing Care
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Hess, is a leading expert in the Southeast on the management of diabetes and obesity. Dr. Hess has been in nursing for more than 27 years and the academic setting for more than 23 years. Currently, she teaches in the pre-licensure program and the RN-BSN Mobility program. She is an advisor, mentor, and project chair for pre-licensure, master’s and doctoral nursing students. She serves as the Chair for SON Faculty Practice committee and a member of the SON Executive Committee. She is on the Board of Directors for the Southeastern Diabetes Education Services, National Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health education committee member, Gerontogical Advanced Practice Nurses Association education committee member and an invited consultant for Takeda pharmaceutical boards. She currently practices one day per week as a family nurse practitioner in 2 clinics (Diabetes Clinic & the Weight Management Clinic) at the Cooper Green Mercy Health system with Dr. Andrea Cherrington.