Educational Outreach

Aging and Dementia in the 21st Century: Insights and Innovations in Care

November 10, 2017

Join us for a day filled with research and insights in to dementia and family caregiving. Innovations in care with a particular focus on non-pharmacological approaches to care and support persons with dementia will be explored. This workshop is open to family members who are caring for loved ones with memory problems/dementia, researchers, clinicians, students, and anyone with an interest in dementia. This workshop is being held in conjunction with the 2017 Annual Meeting of the International Dementia Scholars Collaborative. Lunch will be provided.

Conference flyer (PDF)

Registration details coming soon. Check back in September!

Pharmacology Update

Check back in January 2018 for dates and information

Center for Nursing Practice

Email cnp@utk.edu for slides and information from 2016 and 2017

Cultural Competency Series

Courtesy of the Tennessee Action Coalition

Growing Caring Organizations and Initiatives: From the Roots Up

The first webinar, Growing Caring Organizations and Initiatives: From the Roots Up, presented by Sandy Mixer, a transcultural nursing scholar from the University of Tennessee, focuses on one of the six competencies that are foundational to the overall goal of culturally competent nursing care: Cultural competence in health care systems and organizations. Cultural competence in health care systems and organizations occurs when the systems and individuals within the systems, such as nurses, provide high-quality care that takes into account the unique perspectives, practices, and traditions of people. Participants can use learning and examples from this webinar to influence care and achieve positive outcomes for diverse populations including individuals, groups, communities, and systems (patients, families, students, and interdisciplinary team members/organizational employees).

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Patient Advocacy and Empowerment: The Nurse’s Role

The second webinar, Patient Advocacy and Empowerment: The Nurse’s Role, was presented by Joanne Cunningham,director of patient and family-centered care at Methodist Healthcare. Patient advocacy and empowerment is the sixth of 12 standards for culturally competent nursing care. Cunningham shares her experiences as a mother advocating for her child and talks about her work as director of patient and family centered care for Methodist University Hospital in Memphis. Joanne works with a team that focuses on building authentic partnerships between the organization and the patients and families they serve.

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Expand Your Mind and Heart through Reflective Practice 

The third webinar, Expand Your Mind and Heart through Reflective Practice, was presented by Kate Payne, associate professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University and adjunct assistant professor in the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Education, and Research at Albany Medical College, Albany, New York. Critical reflection and reflective practice are at the heart of modern nursing. Critical reflection is a way of critiquing our practice as well as examining our values, beliefs, and cultural heritage. Such reflective practice helps each nurse be aware of how these aspects of our practice affect the care we give as well as our interactions with peers and colleagues. Reflective practice helps us create caring cultures and to continue to learn, grow and develop in and through practice.

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Race and Language in Healthcare: The Impact on Quality of Care

The fourth webinar, Race and Language in Healthcare: The Impact on Quality of Care, presented by Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH, deputy director of the Disparities Solutions Center, is the fourth in our series based on the standards of practice for culturally competent nursing care (2011). The standards provide a basis for reading nurses to care for the increasingly diverse citizens of Tennessee.  This presentation discusses the impact of unconscious bias and stereotyping in our health care system, how this relates to health care disparities, and some of the actions we can take at both a system level and as clinicians.

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Cross-Cultural Leadership to Promote a Culture of Health

This webinar is the fifth in the series based on the standards of practice for culturally competent nursing care (2011) and features Adriana Perez, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.  It provides a five-year retrospective review of the progress achieved since the 2010 release of the Institute of Medicine Future of Nursing:  Leading Change, Advancing Health report identified the lack of diversity as a challenge for the nursing profession and indicated that a more diverse workforce would help better meet the nation’s current and future health care needs. The success of this Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action pillar depends on strategies and efforts that promote the same diversity in leadership among current and future nurses. This presentation integrates the importance of a culture of health and the link between a culture of health and cross-cultural leadership.

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Multicultural Workforce (April 18, 2017)

This webinar is the sixth in the series based on the standards of practice for culturally competent nursing care (2011) and features Josepha Campinha-Bacote, PhD, MAR, PMHCNS-BC, CTN-A, FAAN, president of the Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates. The learning outcomes of this webinar are:

1. Describe workforce cultural competence as a strategy to enhance a culture of health
2. Analyze culturally competent initiatives that enhance workforce diversity
3. Apprise cultural challenges in own organizational workforce and apply webinar concepts/examples

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