The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium hosts intensive, multi-session trainings (learning collaboratives) designed to provide a small group with interactive activities, educational content, and peer-learning opportunities on topics related to healthcare access, equity, and clinical excellence. Learning collaboratives typically span four to six modules (each about an hour in length) that feature content experts and facilitated activities. Participants are encouraged to attend each session and engage in pre- and post-assessments and homework (when applicable). CME/CNE credits are offered for attendance at live sessions.
Learning collaboratives are small groups that allow discussion and peer-to-peer learning. The multiple modules allow our groups to dive deep on topics. Learning collaboratives differ from our selection of webinars, which are lectures and presentations by some of the leading experts in the field of medicine and nursing.
*Denotes involvement with Project ECHO. Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is an innovative telementoring program designed to create virtual communities of learners by bringing together healthcare providers and subject matter experts using videoconference technology, brief lecture presentations, and case-based learning, fostering an “all learn, all teach” approach. Participants are engaged in the bi-directional virtual knowledge network by sharing clinical challenges and learning from experts and peers.
As the only professional nursing organization involved in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) we were part of a collective of 10 professional associations charged to assist over 140,000 clinicians in improving how care is delivered by providing technical assistance support for integrating quality and process improvements, and by building on and spreading existing change methodologies, practice transformation tools, published literature, and technical assistance programs.
In collaboration with other SANs we developed a number of Power Packs to spread the transformational work undertaken by clinicians and practices nationally.
Each Power Pack presents a specific service delivery challenge and the steps taken by the spotlighted practice to address the challenge. Power Packs provide a set of change tactics and resources from the SANs and other professional associations that clinicians can use to address a similar challenge within their own practices.