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Learning Objective 1: Identify key elements of a successful regional academic service partnership council including membership, missions, and operational components.
Learning Objective 2: Describe essential assessments, programs and replication opportunities to improve the student experience in community, regional and academic medical center settings.
With approximately 2500 students using UPMC facilities per semester, the ASPC has implemented a 360 student experience evaluation process to create transparency critical to ensuring ongoing robust clinical learning environments that will assist our future nurses become ready for today’s healthcare environment. Students, faculty and UPMC staff nurses provide feedback on such topics as the clinical sites learning environment, collaboration between students, faculty and staff, student reception on a unit, and student preparation for clinical. The surveys provide service and academic partner leaders with feedback to enhance the clinical experiences.
Based upon survey feedback, academic and service partner challenges and national trends, the ASPC develops an annual work plan. The ASPC, chaired by a chief nursing officer and director of academic service partnerships, has implemented a variety of process improvement programs and evidence-based practice endeavors. Examples include creative clinical partnership programs that utilize specialty trained staff mentors to assist in clinical education; a documentation process improvement program to streamline the student account process; a documentation capability expansion project; and electronic health record training.
The ASPC has recently embarked on a mid-level provider collaborative program with UPMC’s physician services division, a universal clinical placement agreement and a proactive capacity planning program.
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