STRATEGIC GOAL 1
Promote congruent academic, practice, regulation, and accreditation expectations for new graduate nurse outcomes.
Initiative 1.1: Define and set standards for the profession on practice readiness, clinical reasoning and judgment, and competencies.
Initiative 1.2: Articulate the ideal relationships among the profession’s current competency standards and ICONEd’s standards for clinical reasoning and judgment, competencies, and practice readiness).
Initiative 1.3: Propose an expected practice readiness framework that incorporates competencies.
STRATEGIC GOAL 2
Serve as a center for learning andragogies that promote learner capacity to increase the health and wellness of nursing’s recipients of care.
Initiative 2.1: Elevate the reason for clinical education is to ensure nurses are equipped to improve health and wellbeing of recipients of care; markers of good nursing practice are reflected in outcomes.
Initiative 2.2: Establish standards for clinical education andragogies and structure to support learner outcomes.
Initiative 2.3: Determine standard outcome assessment strategies and measures for multisite, replicable research.
Initiative 2.4: Promote neuroscience-based andragogies for nursing practice formation.
STRATEGIC GOAL 3
Establish a clearinghouse of learning outcomes research demonstrating the advancement of the science of nursing education and practice.
Initiative 3.1: Create a research strategic plan.
Initiative 3.2: Gather a robust network of research scientists to collaborate on the research strategic plan.
Initiative 3.3: Leverage big data to explore opportunities and identify outcomes.
Initiative 3.4: Leverage ICONEd participants for multisite research and replication of studies.
Initiative 3.5: Conduct systematic reviews of key outcome studies.
STRATEGIC GOAL 4
Foster an international perspective on outcomes of nursing education.
Initiative 4.1: Define the scope of ICONEd’s promotion of nursing practice across the globe.
Initiative 4.2: Identify strategy for threading international perspectives through ICONEd strategic initiatives.
