Workshops
Donna's workshops help educators in BSN, ADN, diploma, and LPN/LVN programs learn how to use best practices in nursing education, and are customized for each client.
Contact Donna to discuss how she can help meet the needs of your faculty.
Examples of Faculty Development Workshops
Redesigning Your Nursing Curriculum to Ensure Patient Safety and Quality Care
- Call for curricular innovation and transformation
- Implications of national healthcare initiatives on curriculum
- Implications of emerging curricular trends
Developing NCLEX®-Style Test Items: It's Easier Than You Think
- Implications of NCLEX® test plan for curriculum revision and testing
- Developing test blueprints to establish content validity
- Writing high-level multiple choice NCLEX®-style items
- Using test analysis to determine item revisions
- KR20
- point biserial
Online Testing and Assessment: Enhancements that Save Time and Improve Effectiveness
- Opportunities and threats of online testing
- Testing technology options
- Strategies for assuring security of testing
- Time-saving techniques
Best Practices for Improving Student Success and Retention
- Factors influencing student success
- Faculty strategies to improve student success and retention
- active learning
- assessing learning preference
- Program strategies to improve student success and retention
- achievement coach
- remediation pathways
Developing an Evidence-Based Clinical Evaluation Process
- Current approaches to clinical evaluation
- Components of the evaluation process
- Designing the clinical evaluation tool
- Establishing content validity
- Establishing inter-rater reliability
Engaging Students in Active Learning and Thinking
- Critical thinking, nursing process, and clinical decision-making
- Teaching vs. learning paradigms
- Principles of active learning and thinking
- Specific cooperative learning strategies
- audience response systems (i>Clicker)
- think-pair-share
- structured controversy
- case study
Using Hybrid and Online Courses to Ensure Student Success
- Developing and implementing course conversion plans
- Designing budget-sensitive instructional interventions
- Improving quality with technology using cost-effective approaches
- Developing evaluation tools and feedback plans
State, Regional, and National Presentations
In addition to local workshops, Donna or an associate is available for keynote, all-day, or multi-day presentations for state, regional, and national educational conferences.