Preparing Volunteer Nurses for Public Health Emergencies

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Preparing Volunteer Nurses for Public Health
Emergencies

• Betsy Weiner, Ph.D., R.N., B.C., FAAN
• Senior Associate Dean for Educational Informatics
  and
• Professor in Nursing and Biomedical Informatics
• School of Nursing
• Vanderbilt University
• Nashville, TN

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Research Aims for AHRQ Grant

• For Medical Reserves Corps (MRC) volunteer
  nurses, face to face vs. online learning will be
  compared
• To determine effectiveness
• To determine efficiency
• To define user characteristics that predict
  selection and completion of learning programs
• To determine the adequacy of technology
  integration in learning emergency response content

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Volunteer and Inactive Nurses

• Not currently working for responding organization
• Desire to learn
• Responding through local response structure via
  Medical Reserve Corps

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Key Message to Nurses

• Theme of all modules is surge capacity
• Limitation of resources
• Planning is essential
• Be part of the plan!

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Value Shift Triage

• Most good for the greatest number of people
• Critically ill patients are not always first may
  be provided palliative care
• First module The Tipping Point

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Unique Aspects

• Competencies created by International Nursing
  Coalition for Mass Casualty Education (INCMCE)
• Based on national How People Learn framework in
  conjunction with Little Planet Learning, Inc.

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How People Learn

• Students come with preconceptions
• Must have factual knowledge, but know how to
  organize and retrieve
• Must take control of own learning
• Learning environments must be learner- centered,
  knowledge-centered, assessment- centered, and
  community-centered

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How People Learn Cycle
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