Background: Medical librarians and Nursing faculty have collaborated on leveled nursing and university core objectives for over ten years at a four-year institution offering the only baccalaureate nursing program in the State. In the last five years, medical librarians have also been included in the course design of Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice (NS 400) - and now in the design of a new nursing integrative capstone course (NS 475).
Description: In NS 400, students focus on the construction of an evidence-based nursing question, the evaluation of the quality of nursing research, and the synthesis of those findings into an end of the semester presentation. This successful partnership has resulted in students earning accolades and awards for their evidence-based projects in undergraduate research symposiums. With the release of the future of Nursing 2020-2030 (2021) and The Essentials: Core Competencies For Professional Nursing Education (2021); the Medical Librarian/Nursing faculty team expanded their collaboration on the NS 475 capstone. While continuing to focus upon a student's evidence-based practice (EBP) question skills, the capstone shifted the EBP lens toward models of nursing care, drawing specific attention toward assessment of diversity, equity, and inclusion gaps.
Conclusion: Creative approaches for selecting zero-cost course materials and rubric development examples will be the focus of this poster. As the course completes its initial semester this spring, feedback from student assignments and zero-cost course materials, in the form of survey data and rubric reports, will showcase specific collaboration strategies that medical librarians and nursing faculty can use to ensure student success at any institution.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2021). The essentials: Core competencies for professional nursing education. https://www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/42/AcademicNursing/pdf/Essentials-2021.pdf
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2021). The future of nursing 2020–2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity. The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25982
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