The Potato Head family is rushed to the hospital

after a terrible bus accident and multiple critical injuries. Teams of responding clinicians are tasked with putting them back together again correctly under a variety of conditions . . . without speaking, with emergent complications, with fewer staff (the result of budget cuts), all in seven minutes or fewer.

For a lively lesson in collaboration and rapid cycling PDSA (“plan, do, study, act”), DNP students in professor Shelly Smith’s (BSN ’99, DNP ’12) Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems graduate class collected data, drove performance improvements, and recognized that repetition enhanced quality and safety. The creative activity also left them considering, laughing, connecting, leading, learning: precisely the DNP program’s aim.

Pathways, Faces, and Places

• Learning to Lead (CNL)
• When High-Level Learning is Fun (DNP)
• A Do-Able BSN for RNs (RN to BSN)
• Daring to Dream (recruiting from high school)
• An Accelerated BSN (2-year ABSN)
• Diving into Clinicals (traditional BSN)