Journey to a new era: An innovative academic-practice partnership
Successful academic-clinical partnerships are mutually beneficial for academic nursing and clinical organizations, supporting the long-term success of nursing programs while simultaneously improving patient outcomes. Advocated by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in their 2016 report,...
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| Published in: | Journal of professional nursing Vol. 40; pp. 84 - 88 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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United States
Elsevier Inc
01-05-2022
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| Summary: | Successful academic-clinical partnerships are mutually beneficial for academic nursing and clinical organizations, supporting the long-term success of nursing programs while simultaneously improving patient outcomes. Advocated by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in their 2016 report, Advancing Healthcare Transformation: New Era for Academic Nursing, this position paper provides six actions for transforming academic nursing. However, developing sustainable academic-practice models has proven challenging despite this roadmap, as research has not substantiated their benefits.
This article describes an innovative academic-practice model that transitioned advanced practice registered nurses practicing at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital to full-time faculty, with a continued primary clinical practice role, in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. We present the origin, development, and implementation of this academic-practice partnership model, offering recommendations for its replication by other universities and clinical agencies on this journey.
Creating a sustainable model requires a shared vision, buy-in at all levels, frequent and transparent communication, planning that considers the individual policies of the partnering agencies, and persistence despite leadership changes. Two years into the partnership and remaining intact despite critical leadership changes within the clinical agency, the next phase of the relationship will permit us to document the model's impact on academic and clinical outcomes.
•The New Era Report served as a philosophical guide to creating an academic-practice partnership.•Academic-practice partnerships provide mutual benefits for clinical and academic institutions.•Communication is essential for challenges that may arise that could threaten the success of an academic-practice partnership. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 8755-7223 1532-8481 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.profnurs.2022.03.006 |