Interdisciplinary Peer Mentorship: An Innovative Strategy to Enhance Writing Competency. 2020

Annie Rohan, and Judith Fullerton

BACKGROUND Writing competency is imperative for Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)-prepared advanced practice nurses (APNs), who serve as clinical leaders and educators of the nursing workforce. METHODS As part of a writing quality improvement project, a Writing Tutor Round Table program was developed. Interdisciplinary tutors from the campus writing center worked with groups of three to four DNP students to enhance the quality of their written assignments. At an open table in a quiet room, tutors critiqued the writing of one student while the other students listened. Financial records were used to determine the direct cost of the intervention, and participant survey data provided evidence for acceptability. RESULTS This intervention was a cost effective and highly acceptable experience for both tutors and students. CONCLUSIONS A Writing Tutor Round Table intervention is an acceptable, low-cost, low-faculty burden intervention for improving the quality of writing among APNs. [J Nurs Educ. 2020;59(3):173-175.].

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008611 Mentors Senior professionals who provide guidance, direction and support to those persons desirous of improvement in academic positions, administrative positions or other career development situations. Mentorships,Mentor,Mentorship
D010379 Peer Group Group composed of associates of same species, approximately the same age, and usually of similar rank or social status. Group, Peer,Groups, Peer,Peer Groups
D014956 Writing The act or practice of literary composition, the occupation of writer, or producing or engaging in literary work as a profession.
D057179 Advanced Practice Nursing Evidence-based nursing, midwifery and healthcare grounded in research and scholarship. Practitioners include nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, and nurse midwives. Nursing, Advanced Practice,Practice Nursing, Advanced
D033183 Interdisciplinary Communication Communication, in the sense of cross-fertilization of ideas, involving two or more academic disciplines (such as the disciplines that comprise the cross-disciplinary field of bioethics, including the health and biological sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences and law). Also includes differences in patterns of language usage in different academic or medical disciplines. Communication Research,Cross-Disciplinary Communication,Multidisciplinary Communication,Communication, Cross-Disciplinary,Communication, Interdisciplinary,Communication, Multidisciplinary,Communications, Cross-Disciplinary,Communications, Interdisciplinary,Communications, Multidisciplinary,Cross Disciplinary Communication,Cross-Disciplinary Communications,Interdisciplinary Communications,Multidisciplinary Communications,Research, Communication

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