Workshop Topics

Faculty Development Workshops
Currently I am offering the following listed topics for faculty development workshops. However, if you have a topic of interest that is not listed, please contact me and we can discuss your needs.
The length of the workshops can vary from 1/2 day to 1, 2, or 3 days or more, depending on your needs.
New workshops focused on the following clinical topics:
Many of these topics can also be used as a conference keynote.

1.     ***NEW***** Transforming Clinical Instruction  ***NEW*****: Learn how to make clinical meaningful for students and faculty AND develop a valid and reliable clinical evaluation tool
2.    ***NEW***** The Curriculum Revision Toolkit©  ***NEW*****: A Toolkit for nursing programs to use to guide their curriculum revision process, available as either an onsite workshop or for purchase with telephone consultation.
3.      ***NEW***** Strategies for Teaching Pharmacology ***NEW***** Provides learning strategies that are meaningful and engaging.
4.     ***NEW***** Review Course for Preparing to Take the Certified Nurse Educator Exam ***NEW***** This can be a one or two-day workshop.
5.     ***NEW***** Aligning Nursing Education with Practice: How we can make it happen! ***NEW***** This presentations provides an overview of the education/practice gap and offers practical ideas about how to close the gap.
6.      Nursing Curriculum Revisited: “What’s New” and “How to Implement”
7.      An Overview of Curriculum Development from the Mission Statement to Making it Happen in the Classroom
8.      Getting Ready for Accreditation: From the Bigger Picture to the Nuts and Bolts
9.      An Evidence-Based Action Plan for NCLEX Success: Provides an evidence-based approach to develop a plan of action for increasing NCLEX pass rates.
10.    Integrating the IOM Report and QSEN into the Nursing Curriculum
11.    The Concept-Based Curriculum
12.    Critical Thinking in Nursing Education: How to Teach Students to Think Like a Nurse
13.    Seven Habits of Highly Effective Nurse Educators
14.    Using the Caputi Clinical Activities Portfolio (CAP)
15.    Humor in the Workplace: A Cure for Stress!
16.    Humor in the Nursing Classroom? Don’t Make Me Laugh!
17.    An Overview of Instructional Design Theory and How to Use it to Plan Your Classes
18.    Writing Critical Thinking Multiple Choice Test Questions: The Basics
19.    Item Writing and Test Construction: Making it Happen
20.    Active Learning – Meaningful Learning: Getting them Thinking
21.    Teaching in the Clinical Setting and Evaluating Student Performance in the Clinical
22.    Teaching Nursing Using Concept Maps