Publication of the article is the culmination of a collaboration that began when DeBrew and Lindsey met during a group activity in new faculty orientation hosted by CATL in the fall of 2021.
Elon Department of Nursing faculty member Jacqueline DeBrew and Department of Strategic Communications faculty member Karen Lindsey have been notified their article, “Innovations in learning: The professional nursing project,” has been accepted for publication in Nursing Educational Perspectives, the research journal of the National League for Nursing.
Publication of the article is the culmination of a collaboration that began when DeBrew and Lindsey met during a group activity in new faculty orientation hosted by CATL in the fall of 2021.
When faced with creating a new Foundations of Nursing course for new students in the Accelerated BSN program, DeBrew struggled with an innovative way to tie everything together and demonstrate the role of the professional nurse. While attending the new faculty orientation, Lindsey shared with DeBrew details of an assignment that she uses within public relations and strategic writing classes to have students track an organization’s public image across social media platforms and evaluate brand positioning on websites. DeBrew adapted the assignment to create a professional nursing project for nursing students to evaluate healthcare organizations.
The collaboration on the assignment and subsequently the manuscript, led Debrew and Lindsey both to ask, “why don’t we do this more often?”
They quickly recognized reaching out to colleagues who are experts in their respective fields proved valuable in the creation of this project and publication. Both colleagues say that plans are being made to work together on future assignments, and hopefully bring their students together for an interdisciplinary learning activity.