Sabbatical Fall
2005
Name:
Julia
Munkvold
Department: Family & Health
Careers
Ext.
5754
I explored two current concepts/driving forces in nursing education in Oregon
1. Use of simulated clinical experiences to allow nursing students to learn and practice real-world clinical situations and treatments in the LCC Nursing Lab with use of a high-tech simulation mannequin currently in use at several other nursing programs in Oregon.
2. Possibilities and realities of Lane Community College joining in the combined statewide nursing education curriculum and programming through the Oregon Consortium of Nursing Education
I learned how the simulation mannequin is used and integrated into curriculum.
1. Oregon Consortium of Nursing Education Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) created a Nursing Consortium in 2001 to link all Associate Degree Nursing programs into a statewide curriculum for nursing education. As of April 2004 more than half of the A.D.N. programs in the state have chosen to join the Consortium. Lane has not joined at this time. Planning has begun on the statewide nursing curriculum. I would like to attend curriculum planning meetings in Portland to gain more information to the nursing faculty regarding the Consortium, and to represent our interests in the establishment of statewide prerequisites and nursing curriculum
1. Clinical Simulations:
a. I completed a post-graduate course at OHSU on Simulation inf Nursing Education NUR 547.
b. I attended the OHSU Sim Lab for 12 days to see the Simulation mannequin in use and to evaluate how its use is integrated into the nursing curriculum at OHSU.
c. I spent 4 days in Roseburg at Umpqua Community College where the nursing program recently created a new nursing lab with a simulation mannequin.
d. I obtained funding from the Sim-man (simulation mannequin manufacturer) to visit their production and training facility in Texas.
2. Oregon Nursing Consortium
a. I attended Curriculum planning meetings every other Thursday evening/Friday daytime in Portland. All Oregon school representatives are welcome so access is assured.
b. I attended monthly planning meetings for the Nursing Consortium to ascertain the benefits/disadvantages of Lane joining the Consortium. All information would be reported to the Nursing Faculty for their ultimate decision.
The purchase of a clinical simulator (“Sim-Man”) has been done and the Sim Lab has been started. Respiratory therapy, EMT, as well as nursing faculty are interested in using the simulation lab with a “Sim-Man”.
Lane Nursing faculty have voted to join the OCNE