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The Health Care Education Association (HCEA) has created the “Healthcare Educators Spotlight” to recognize and celebrate significant achievement in the field of healthcare education. Awards have been established in the following categories:
• Jean W. Raines Distinguished Service Award
• Outstanding Research Award
• Excellence in Practice Award – Patient/Community Education
• Excellence in Practice Award – Staff Development
Members are encouraged to participate in the awards program. A candidate may be nominated by any HCEA member. Members may also nominate themselves for an award. With the exception of the Outstanding Research Award, candidates must be current members of HCEA.
2009 HCEA Award Winners
Congratulations to these outstanding HCEA members for winning the 2009 awards!
Jean W. Raines Distinguished Service Award
The Jean Raines Distinguished Service Award is awarded to a member of HCEA who has demonstrated outstanding service and support of the organization.
Winner: Kim Hume, RN, MSN. Manager, Resource Center Organization: St. Louis Children's Hospital
Kim has dedicated many years of service to HCEA. She has served on our Board as a Member-at-Large, President Elect, President, and Past President. Even while in the most intense of the leadership roles, Kim was an active member of the Conference Planning Committee. When the HCEA conference was in St. Louis in 2005, Kim was very busy preparing to assume the HCEA Presidency, yet she offered to be the local host of the conference. Kim secured substantial funding from her place of employment, St. Louis Children's Hospital, to offset some of the expenses of the conference. Kim had a great passion for the development of the Academy of Health Care Education Professionals. She participated on this committee since its inception, was accepted as a Fellow, and continues to serve as a reviewer on the Fellowship Committee. It was Kim's desire to establish for HCEA a defined place in the marketing world. She worked with attorneys for approximately 2 years to gather the data necessary to trademark the HCEA name and logo. HCEA was successfully trademarked in 2009. In July of this year, Kim's father became acutely ill. Kim was at his bedside continuously for his last days. During that time, one of the nurses caring for Kim's father mentioned to Kim that she had developed computer software to teach children about nutrition. She was new to the business world and was trying to think of affordable ways to market her product. As Kim's father lay dying, Kim still managed to rally for HCEA. She bragged to the nurse about our wonderful organization and convinced her to become a vendor. Unbelievable dedication.
Outstanding Research Award
This award honors someone who advances the practice of healthcare education and has major implications for healthcare educators.
Winner: Jamie Barker RN, BSN, CPON, CPN. Clinical Educator, Pediatric Oncology, Phoenix Children's Hospital.
Ms. Barker's study was designed to determine and improve the attitudes and practice behaviors of oncology care providers (physicians, registered nurses, and social workers) on fertility preservation. The secondary purpose is to increase staff awareness regarding fertility preservation options for patients with a pediatric oncology diagnosis. The study was cross-sectional design using a convenience sample of inpatient and outpatient oncology care providers at Phoenix Children's who were asked to complete a survey of their attitudes and practice behaviors toward the discussion of fertility preservation. Following the baseline data collection, a one-day educational workshop on fertility preservation options, the ethics of fertility preservation, and strategies for educating patients and families regarding preservation was conducted. The workshop was videotaped for those providers unable to attend. A second survey is in the process of being distributed. The survey will also be distributed one year from the second completion date. The results to date were published this year at the Evidence-Based Practice Conference.
Ms. Barker's study is important because patients cannot make an informed decision when they are not educated about the options available to them. Health care providers who are not educated in the significance of fertility to patients at a later date may choose not to discuss reproduction with pedairic patients and their families. This study demonstrates the importance of clinical education to enhance patient education. It is also a study designed and conducted by a nurse who is working within the clincal setting and not in academia.
Excellence in Practice Award - Staff Development
This award recognizes a member of HCEA who has initiated innovation and effective practices, intervention or programs in staff development.
Winner: Sandy Cornett, RN, Ph.D. Director AHEC Clear Health Communication. Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Sandy has done an outstanding job creating and developing a long-distance, interactive, online health literacy tutorial/CE program for physicians and health care professionals. The program can be viewed at this link - http://healthliteracy.osu.edu/
The program consists of 7 "live" modules with 2 modules still in production. Each module provides CE credit and contains learning objectives that focus on a different aspect of health literacy such as assessment, culture, communication skills, writing and researching your audience.
The modules are interactive and follow adult learning principles for maximal impact. Each module also contains a list of references for further reading and study and each section within the module contains "quiz questions" to make sure that important points are understood. The end of each module has a 10-question test to help ensure completion and retention.
Excellence in Practice Award - Patient/Community Education
This award recognizes a member of HCEA who has initiated innovative and effective practices, or programs in patient/community education.
Winner: The Artificial Airway Advisory Committee of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Leaders: Linda S. Kocent, RN, MSN, Linda Bevington, Dee Huber.
This committee combined multi-disciplinary resources to advocate for safe care and discharge of children with an artificial airway. Their ultimate goal was to standardize the care of patients with and artificial airway throughout the CHOP Network. The group realized that various inpatient units had different criteria for discharge of children with artificial airways. They learned that parents were often not aware of how complex the discharge education process is going to be when they consent to a tracheostomy for their child. They noticed that the 24 hour independent stay guidelines were not consistent among units. They decided to start from scratch and create the ultimate care program for these children and families. The committee did an extremely thorough assessment of everything involved in safely discharging a child with an artificial airway and made changes accordingly. The process took nearly two years.
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