Advancing a Competency-Based Approach: Threading Policy Through Nursing Curriculum and Practice

Webinar Details

As nurses are increasingly called to lead in advocacy, system change, and policy development, it is critical that nursing students graduate with strong policy competencies grounded in both academic and practice-based learning. This webinar features a panel of expert faculty and frontline practitioners who will share strategies for integrating policy across the nursing curriculum using a competency-based education (CBE) framework.

The discussion will highlight innovative approaches to connecting policy learning with real-world clinical experiences, demonstrate how academic-practice partnerships support policy skill development, and explore why policy literacy is essential to nursing identity and impact. Attendees will leave with concrete ideas for designing meaningful, competency-driven policy learning experiences that prepare students to lead and influence health outcomes.

Outcomes:

• Develop practice-based experiences where policy knowledge is applied in real-world context.
• Integrate policy-related experiential learning opportunities into the curriculum.
• Utilize forms of evidence to assess student engagement, growth, and mastery of policy-related competencies.
• Engage students in interdisciplinary or interprofessional policy experiences that build their competency in systems thinking and collaborative leadership.

Note: Recording of the webinar will be available soon after the webinar airs. Visit AACN’s On-Demand Webinars to watch.