Join your peers from across the country to learn from a national leader in faculty practice programming about the specifics to getting your institution’s faculty practice program up and running.
The Rush Faculty Practice Learning Institute is the ideal learning environment for department leaders, administrators, business directors and clinical faculty who are ready to start a faculty practice program at their school of nursing. Breakout sessions will give you the opportunity to network with other attendees and at Rush. We will go in-depth to help you answer your specific questions and problem-solve for your unique situation.
We welcome attendees with an active nursing faculty practice already, but the program is designed to best support nursing schools that are just getting started. If your institution is planning to start its own nursing faculty practice program within the next 3 years, you will benefit from hearing from our experts and building a network of others looking to get their programs up and running.
- Fostering community partnerships
- The finances of faculty practice
- Engaging faculty
- Promoting scholarship
- Supporting students
- Marketing your program
- And much more
During our three days together, we will split time between lectures from our faculty and leadership, breakout sessions in peer groups to do individualized problem solving, and an outing to one of our longtime partner sites.
Complete agenda coming soon
Established in the 1970s by inaugural dean Luther Christman, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Rush faculty practice program has evolved to serve the healthcare needs of Chicago residents and the educational and scholarship needs of nursing students and faculty. From our first partnership with Chicago Public Schools through today, Rush has had more than 60 community partnerships located in Chicago’s Near West and South Sides. Nurses provide more than 50,000 hours of direct patient care to historically underserved communities and nearly 10,000 hours of clinical learning experiences to prelicensure and DNP students. In September 2022, the faculty practice program became the Department of Academic Practice Nursing in the College of Nursing.
“This was so incredibly well done. Great work to you and your team!”
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The cost to participate is $600 and includes food during conference hours and outings.
There are a number of hotels and accommodations near our campus.
Speakers
Clinical Manager RN, RUSH MD Anderson Cancer Center
Director of Finance, RUSH College of Nursing
The Summer Institute planning team invites you to attend a one-hour pre-conference Zoom session on Tuesday, April 8 from 11:30 - 12:30 pm CST (12:30 - 1:30 pm EST) two weeks before coming to Chicago.
This session will:
- Serve as a meet & greet between participants and the event planning team
- Understand of the goals of the conference attendees
- Share themes discussed with the speakers to support preparing meaningful content
- Answer questions
Please reach out to our team at Faculty_Practice_Summer_Institute@rush.edu with any questions.