Bridging the Gap : Bridging the Gap : Supporting the Transition Supporting the Transition

from from Pre-Nursing to NursingPre-Nursing to Nursing

An updateAn update

Monday, January 26, 2009Monday, January 26, 2009

Making connections …Making connections …

• To help integrate the transition To help integrate the transition from pre-nursing to nursing.from pre-nursing to nursing.

• Articulation Agreement looked atArticulation Agreement looked at– Assessment practicesAssessment practices– OutcomesOutcomes

AssessmentAssessment• Content matching but not FormatContent matching but not Format• ODUODU

– Traditional test formatTraditional test format– Primarily lecture basedPrimarily lecture based

• MCCNMCCN– Clinical applicationClinical application– Proximity to hospitalProximity to hospital

• How to Familiarize ODU Students with How to Familiarize ODU Students with MCCN context?MCCN context?

ODU Pre-Nursing Speaker SeriesODU Pre-Nursing Speaker SeriesSchedule of EventsSchedule of EventsSienna Lounge 4:30 – 6:00 pmSienna Lounge 4:30 – 6:00 pm

DateDate Speaker Speaker Topic Topic

October 20 Amy Spencer Study Skills/Student October 20 Amy Spencer Study Skills/Student SuccessSuccess

November 18 Mike LewisNovember 18 Mike Lewis Managing Stress Managing Stress Anne Lombardi Anne Lombardi

January 27 Kim CampbellJanuary 27 Kim Campbell The Application The Application ProcessProcess

February 17 John Thistlewaite Advising IssuesFebruary 17 John Thistlewaite Advising Issues Becky Rowoth Becky Rowoth

March 25March 25 Barb Barta Barb Barta What to Expect at What to Expect at MCCN &MCCN &

Student Panel/MCCN Student Panel/MCCN Tips for a Successful Tips for a Successful Transfer Transfer

April 14 Jennifer Conti April 14 Jennifer Conti Student nursing Student nursing organizationorganization

Faculty CollaborationFaculty Collaboration

• Anatomy & PhysiologyAnatomy & Physiology– ODU: Dr. John ThistlethwaiteODU: Dr. John Thistlethwaite– MCCN: Dr. Kim LosckoMCCN: Dr. Kim Loscko

– Fieldtrip to cadaver labsFieldtrip to cadaver labs– Interaction with MCCN ambassadorsInteraction with MCCN ambassadors– Online journalsOnline journals– ADAM softwareADAM software

Learning from the “ODU 6”Learning from the “ODU 6”

Completed 4 screening filters Completed 4 screening filters Admitted to ODUAdmitted to ODU

Admitted to MCCNAdmitted to MCCN

Successfully completed APPSuccessfully completed APP

Successful completed fall semester at Successful completed fall semester at MCCNMCCN

Survey Monkey findingsSurvey Monkey findings

Survey FindingsSurvey Findings• Felt adequately prepared to succeed

academically at MCCN• “Just make sure that all the transfer students

have had at least one to two visits to the college to make sure they understand where things are located and how things run. They should maybe even have the students come to a day of class at Mt. Carmel to see how things run and to get a head start.”

• Technology I didn’t know about: library resources and search engines such as pubmed and the medication program

• NOTE: ODU uses ANGEL; MCCN uses WebCT

LEARNING PRINCIPLES LEARNING PRINCIPLES AND COLLABORATIVE ACTION AND COLLABORATIVE ACTION • Learning is fundamentally about making and Learning is fundamentally about making and

maintaining connections: biologically through maintaining connections: biologically through neural networks; mentally among concepts, neural networks; mentally among concepts, ideas, and meanings; and experimentally ideas, and meanings; and experimentally through interaction between the mind and through interaction between the mind and the environment, self and other, generality the environment, self and other, generality and context, deliberation and action. and context, deliberation and action.

• Learning is enhanced by taking place in the Learning is enhanced by taking place in the context of a compelling situation that context of a compelling situation that balances challenge and opportunity, balances challenge and opportunity, stimulating and utilizing the brain’s ability to stimulating and utilizing the brain’s ability to conceptualize quickly and its capacity and conceptualize quickly and its capacity and need for contemplation and reflection upon need for contemplation and reflection upon experience.experience.

Using Technology Using Technology • LC using ANGEL to communicate & LC using ANGEL to communicate &

exchange documentsexchange documents• Developing Portal to allow ODU students Developing Portal to allow ODU students

access to MCCN library resources, access to MCCN library resources, particularly journals related to Anatomy particularly journals related to Anatomy & Physiology (in WEBCT) Librarian & Physiology (in WEBCT) Librarian interactioninteraction

• MCCN is filming a virtual tour so that MCCN is filming a virtual tour so that students can become familiar with students can become familiar with campus prior to transferring campus prior to transferring

• MCCN is developing an academic MCCN is developing an academic support website similar to that at ODUsupport website similar to that at ODU

• Perhaps filming field tripsPerhaps filming field trips

Assessment shift / Assessment shift / expansionexpansion

• Academics impacted byAcademics impacted by– Familiarity with context as well as content Familiarity with context as well as content – Interpersonal communication as well as Interpersonal communication as well as

interaction with course contentinteraction with course content

• Assessing and evaluating learning Assessing and evaluating learning communities requires a research approach communities requires a research approach that takes into account the multiple that takes into account the multiple perspectives and academic and social perspectives and academic and social interactions at work in these environments interactions at work in these environments (Ketcheson and Levine, 1999).(Ketcheson and Levine, 1999).