December 11, 2019 | NLN CEO Update on A Decade of Achievements

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December 11, 2019  |  XXIII, Issue Number 21
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December 2019 marks not only the end of a year, colleagues, but also the end of a decade – and what a decade it has been! For the past few years I have used my last Member Update of the year to reflect on NLN accomplishments of the previous 12 months and point briefly to what we can expect in the months ahead. With today’s Member Update I will do that again with enormous pride. The NLN remains the voice for nursing education and continues to provide strong leadership, with caring, diversity, integrity, and excellence and an unwavering commitment to promote a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of our nation and the global community.
A Decade of Achievements
 
But before diving in to the happenings of 2019, I thought it might be interesting to reflect on the 2010s, the tumultuous decade that will soon be history. To refresh my memory, I turned to the timeline published on pages 11-17 of Celebrating 125 Years of Leadership in Nursing Education, the commemorative book given to attendees at our Chicago Summit in 2018, now online for your reading pleasure. I found that 2010 was the year we expanded our mission statement to embrace the original mission of our founders, “to unite nursing education and practice in pursuit of safe patient care.”

And I was reminded that in 2012, we left our New York City headquarters with our view of the Statue of Liberty for the historic Watergate building on the lovely Potomac in Washington, DC. If you haven’t been to our beautiful headquarters for a meeting, workshop, or just a visit, make this one of your New Year’s resolutions for 2020 – our members and visitors are welcome any time! I will leave it to you to review the rest of the timeline (dating from 1893) and turn now to the NLN in 2019.

DATES & DEADLINES

NLN Summit 2020
Call for Abstracts
Submission Deadline: December 11

Call for Special Issue Manuscripts — Nursing Education Perspectives
Submission Deadline: January 1, 2020

NLN 2020 Nominations
Submission Deadline: January 17, 2020

2020 NLN Nursing Education Research Grants Proposals
Submission Deadline: February 6, 2020

More Upcoming Events »
Success in 2019
 
Here is some of what we accomplished during the last 12 months.
  • The NLN Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (CNEA), which promotes excellence and integrity in nursing education globally, earned a recommendation from the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) for recognition by the US Department of Education. 
  • The NLN Launched the Center for Innovation in Education Excellence in June with a greater focus on faculty development. Through the Center we enhanced our NLN Faculty Intensives summer series to address Next Gen Learning.
  • We expanded our ACE program – Advancing Care Excellence for Vulnerable Populations – with new ACE.P (pediatric) and ACE.C (caregiver) teaching strategies.
  • Simulation Innovation Resource Center (SIRC) courses went through content review and have been revised and updated.
  • Nine key faculty from four regional schools of nursing in China completed their faculty development and successfully delivered workshops through our NLN/Laerdal Simulation Education Solutions for Nursing in China.
  • We had three successful Institutes for Simulation Educators at the University of Tennessee Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation, the University of South Carolina, and George Washington University.
  • NLN Testing Services teamed up with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing to offer a comprehensive NLN NCLEX Live Review.
  • Experimental testing is underway for norming our new NACE exams (NLN Accelerated Challenge Exams). We will add online NACE Prep courses to our product line in 2020.
  • Our CNE program reached 7,500 total certificants, with continued growth in our new CNE®cl program for academic clinical nurse educators. CNE received renewed accreditation from the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCAA).
  • Forty-three educators took part in our LEAD and Simulation Leadership Development Program.
  • With thanks to Drs. Terry Valiga, Marsha Adams, and Elaine Tagliareni, we revised and updated our essential NLN Hallmarks of Excellence.
  • In partnership with Wolters Kluwer, we released three publications: Certified Nurse Educator Review Book: The Official Guide to the CNE® Exam, 2nd ed., edited by Dr. Linda Caputi; Academic Clinical Nurse Educator Review Book, The Official Guide to the CNE®cl Exam, edited by Dr. Teresa Shellenbarger; and a new edition of The Scope of Practice for Academic Nurse Educators.
  • At the NLN Education Summit in Washington, DC, Nursing Education Perspectives issued its first-ever Best Article Awards.
  • Also at the Summit, the NLN Foundation for Nursing Education awarded more than $100,000 to 15 scholarship winners and 14 research grant recipients.
  • The NLN Foundation Advisory Council increased its membership from seven to 14 individuals. The Foundation met its annual goal of $25,000 for the NLN Archives Matching Grant Project, funded by the Independence Foundation, and the NLN Archives Collection is now housed at the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Gradually parts of the collection are being made available online.

Looking Ahead to 2020

And colleagues, we are just beginning with the new decade. Here is some of what we are looking forward to in 2020.

  • Registration is open for NERC: Transforming Nursing Education Through Evidence Generation and Translation, March 26-28 in Washington, DC. NERC is an NLN Sigma event. Drs. Marilyn Oermann and Jean Giddens are featured speakers.
  • The Center for Innovation in Education Excellence programming will be more strategically tied to members achieving the NLN Nurse Educator Competencies, with special emphasis on new hybrid and online course offerings, the first to launch in January.

RECENT NLN NEWS
  • Our ACE programs will continue to expand, with the launch of new unfolding ACE.C (caregiving) cases early in the year.
  • A strategic action group is being formed to update the NLN fair testing guidelines. We will also update the 2012 living document, The Fair Testing Imperative in Nursing Education.
  • The NLN research journal Nursing Education Perspectives has a special issue scheduled for Summit 2020 on recommendations of the IOM Future of Nursing Report, 10 years later. The deadline for submissions is January 1.
  • We are planning another amazing Summit, this year in Orlando, Florida, September 23-25. With the theme Master of Teaching — Art of Leadership, this Summit will celebrate the globally recognized Year of the Nurse and help all nurse educators become master teachers while developing the art of leadership.
Yes, 2020 has been designated the Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Organization. The 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, 2020 is also the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women in the United States the right to vote. And, if that were not enough, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are working on a new consensus report on the Future of Nursing 2020–2030. I will talk more in the months ahead about the significance of all these happenings.
 
Now I just want to wish you a wonderful holiday season, with all best wishes for health and happiness. Sometimes, though, with celebration there is sorrow. Last week I lost a good friend and colleague, Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan. Dr. Janice Brewington and I served with Fitz on the Advisory Board of the Beyond Flexner Alliance. He was a public servant, author, advocate, and champion who spent a lifetime working for a more just approach to health care and he is dearly missed.
 
Here’s to good health, happiness, and a season of joy. We will meet again in January to begin a fruitful year and a new decade of transformation for nursing and nursing education.

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