The Integrated Learning Encounter: Competency-Based Learning for Direct Entry Master’s Nursing Education

Presenters: Lori Glenn, Ashlee Barnes

Session Description:

This session will introduce participants to the Integrated Learning Encounter (ILE). The ILE is a method used to prepare entry-level nurses at the graduate level for the nursing profession while following a competency-based approach.  Students and faculty from all courses and levels in the Master’s Entry Advanced Generalist Nursing program come together for a daylong event to explore the nursing care of a single patient.  Perspectives include fundamental, medical surgical, mental health, and community health nursing, along with the theoretical and Mercy and Jesuit foundations.  Activities integrate knowledge from each class into seminar with discussion, team assignments, skills practice, group and self-reflections, and simulation.  Simulations are created using the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Model and unfold throughout the encounter.  Students work in teams within and across program levels, which enhances teambuilding and communication skills. This innovative approach to competency-based education bridges the classroom-clinical gap and is well received by students and faculty.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how the components of the ILE are used to develop and measure nursing students’ clinical judgment, communication, and teamwork.
2. Utilize the framework for the ILE to create learning activities that contribute to advancing student development.
3. Understand how faculty benefit by collaborating to develop the ILE.
4. Disucss the impact of student-faculty collaboration during the ILE.

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