Sarah
Cohen
Student
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Sarah is an accelerated post-baccalaureate BSN student in the Career Alternative RN Education program in the School of Nursing at LSUHSC. Her current interest in interprofessional (IP) education is to develop a foundation for team-based approaches for her future patient care. She does so by relying on the pillars of the LSUHSC IP Scholars program, which fosters IP learning through different projects and modalities. Her education, clinical experiences, and extracurricular activities all provide opportunities to enhance and improve these skills.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Seminar Description: With rapid changing healthcare and the increase in need of collaborative practice, education needs to adapt to meet these new changes. While Self Directed learning is not a new model or concept, it has been shown to be very effective form of education. “Cultivating students’ self-direction in learning is an imperative result of education.” ( Du Toit-Brits 2015). This type of learning places students in an active role of their education and supports them in lifelong learning. Student-centric, self-directed learning creates a deeper level of learning by increasing the…