Cultural Competency in Nursing: Train-the-Trainer
Monday October 19, 2009

Components of Session Include:
•  History of Transcultural Nursing
•  Leininger’s Cultural Care Theories and Ethnonursing Method
•  Cultural Competence – Assessment tools and addition culture care theories for practice
•  Evidence Based & Best Practices for Transcultural Nursing

Mental Health Competency in Nursing: The What, Why, and How of Integration into the DNP Curriculum
Friday March 26, 2010

Components of Session Include:
•  Biological Theories and Innovations in Mental Health
•  Evidence Based Practice in Mental Health
•  History of Mental Health in Michigan
•  Healthcare Reform and Mental Health Parity
•  Role of DNP in Mental Health
•  Essentials and Mental Health Competencies (examples of integration into DNP coursework)

Community Engagement and Service Learning Competency in Nursing
Thursday May 5, 2011

Components of Session Include:
•  Overview of Population Health / Healthy People 2020
•  How service learning can be applied to a graduate (DNP) context
•  Overview of CBPR / Action Research along with an Exemplar
•  Application of Community Engagement
•  Nurse Managed Center as an Exemplar for Community Engagement and Service Learning
•  Application of Service Learning / Community Engagement to an Administrative Context