Abstract
The purpose of this presentation is to highlight innovative teaching strategies for comprehensive whole health while enhancing the professional well-being, and self-care of our students and faculty. Our Advanced Practice RN students’ first clinical course is Advanced Health Assessment which includes a lab component. One learning objective is to use educational strategies and principles of health literacy, coaching, and counseling for SMART goal attainment and shared decision-making in evidence-based health promotion strategies.
While we teach the APRN students about health promotion, disease prevention, motivational interviewing, and SMART goal setting, along with strategies to achieve self-management support in primary care, we also focus on our student’s well-being. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) fourth objective of the Quadruple Aim recognizes the importance of provider/team well-being in achieving healthcare goals and joy in your work. Many of our first-semester graduate students are working full or part-time, attending graduate school full-time, and having difficulty balancing work, relationships, study, sleep, physical activity, and healthy eating. An activity they must do at the beginning of the semester and continue for 10 weeks in the lab is to set a Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound (SMART) Goal for wellness this semester. Each week when they come to the lab, they check in with their lab partner as to how they are doing in achieving their goal, practice motivational interviewing with each other, and discuss ways to overcome any barriers they have experienced for success. Lab faculty also participate in setting and sharing their goals with students.
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Presentation
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Text-based Document
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Keywords:
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Stress and Coping, Mentoring and Coaching
Recommended Citation
Davison, Jean Ann, "Providing Robust Education on Whole Health Assessment While Enhancing Professional Well-Being" (2025). Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE). 105.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/chwe/2025/presentations_2025/105
Conference Name
Creating Healthy Work Environments
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Sigma Theta Tau International
Conference Location
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Conference Year
2025
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Providing Robust Education on Whole Health Assessment While Enhancing Professional Well-Being
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
The purpose of this presentation is to highlight innovative teaching strategies for comprehensive whole health while enhancing the professional well-being, and self-care of our students and faculty. Our Advanced Practice RN students’ first clinical course is Advanced Health Assessment which includes a lab component. One learning objective is to use educational strategies and principles of health literacy, coaching, and counseling for SMART goal attainment and shared decision-making in evidence-based health promotion strategies.
While we teach the APRN students about health promotion, disease prevention, motivational interviewing, and SMART goal setting, along with strategies to achieve self-management support in primary care, we also focus on our student’s well-being. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) fourth objective of the Quadruple Aim recognizes the importance of provider/team well-being in achieving healthcare goals and joy in your work. Many of our first-semester graduate students are working full or part-time, attending graduate school full-time, and having difficulty balancing work, relationships, study, sleep, physical activity, and healthy eating. An activity they must do at the beginning of the semester and continue for 10 weeks in the lab is to set a Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound (SMART) Goal for wellness this semester. Each week when they come to the lab, they check in with their lab partner as to how they are doing in achieving their goal, practice motivational interviewing with each other, and discuss ways to overcome any barriers they have experienced for success. Lab faculty also participate in setting and sharing their goals with students.
Description
Teaching our students strategies for health promotion and wellness is best learned through self-care. Overall students’ reflections from this activity showed they achieved their personal goals for wellness and felt confident that they can help patients set SMART Goals for self-management support. This activity helps to meet the fourth objective of the IHI Quadruple Aim.