Improving medication safety with educational, competency management and quality/performance improvement strategies.
Program Titles
- First nursing job should start during clinicals, when students are getting
- Future of Nursing Education
- Critical Thinking Key to Preventing Medication Errors
- Critical Thinking: Challenging Assumptions and Imagining Alternatives
- Health Care Management
- Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgement
- Bette Case Di Leonardi, Ph.D., expertise lie in critical thinking, test construction, competency management, preceptor development, medication safety, career development / professional development for educators.
Bette Case Di Leonardi, Ph.D., RN-BC., has been adventuring in nursing, education, and healthcare administration.
She will help you to achieve your goals using educational, competency management, and quality improvement strategies.
Her clients include a variety of healthcare organizations: professional schools, professional organizations, a travel nurse company, disease management companies, managed care organizations, a public health department, and providers of continuing nursing education.
She was responsible for the revised Getting Started in Clinical and Nursing Staff Development: National Nursing Staff Development Organization).
She presents programs drawn upon her experiences when she created a program on the topic. The program, now in its fourth year at a National Nursing Staff Development Organization.
Bette specializes in outcome-oriented education. When invited to work with an organization, the first step she takes is to identify the specific competencies and outcomes that the organization desires as a result of an educational process. She believes that staff development is effective only when participants can relate learning sessions directly to the work environment. Therefore, she strives for practical, realistic learning situations.
She has developed and presented numerous educational sessions nationwide — at professional conferences and for hospitals, professional schools, and other healthcare agencies.
Her learners have included students in all types of basic
nursing programs, graduate nursing programs, and students of education, as well as practicing professionals.
She has written numerous continuing education courses, articles, book chapters, and three books—on subjects including precepting, teaching and learning, critical thinking, test construction, medication safety, delegation, career development, advocacy, and assertiveness.
She serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing.
She has written competency tests for hospitals, a professional nursing specialty organization, a travel nurse company, and a commercial testing company.
She has held leadership positions in the nursing department at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center (MRHMC).
At MRHMC she served on the faculty and administrative staff
of the Michael Reese School of Nursing, directed the departments of Nursing Education, Evaluation and Research, Critical Care Nursing, and Emergency Department Nursing.
She developed a hospital-wide education department to serve 3,500 staff members.
In addition to mandated educational programming, specific initiatives during her tenure in the education leadership role.
Bette earned her BSN, MSN and Ph.D., in Educational Psychology
Areas of special expertise and experience include critical thinking, test
construction, patient safety and medication safety, and a variety of topics related to professional and career development.
Books by Bette Case Di Leonardi, Ph.D., RN-BC
- Career Planning for Nurses
- Conversations in Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgement
- Advanced Practice Nurse Preceptor Workbook
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