Sara E Levy, BSN, RN ~ ePortfolio

Touro College SHS Department of Nursing

•  ACEN Candidacy:  Assisted with writing, editing, and formatting the ACEN candidacy for the Touro College School of Health Sciences Associate Degreee in Nursing. (3/2014)

• Recruitment: In my new position as the Admissions Coordinator for the Touro College School of Health Sciences Department of Nursing, I created the following power point presentation to utilize for recruitment purposes. (11/ 2013)

Long Island University - School of Nursing

NUR 492: Community Nursing (Fall 2013)

•  Community Assessment:  As the elected team leader I headed our clinical group's community assessment of zip code 11219 - Borough Park:   I organized the project and delegated roles, lead the research efforts on the community, edited the paper, and presented an overview of the project to our lecture class.  12/2013

•  Teaching Project:  Our clinical group chose to teach about Anaphylaxis and EpiPen use in the NYC Department of Education.  As team leader I organized the project, edited the paper, and presented an overview of the project to our lecture class.  10/2013

 NUR395:  Nursing Leadership and Management (Summer 2013)

• Leadership Activity Inventory
• An overview of the activities that we observed and participated in during our 40 hour clinical rotation.
• Lobby Day
• I  lobbied Senator Parker to support the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act (A6571 and S3691) and the Nurse Practitioners Modernization Act A4846.
• Team Leadership:  As the elected team leader I was responsible for leading and managing my group, the VII Sharps, for the following assignments:
• Debate against the US healthcare system
• This was an assigned topic.  I orchestrated research among our group of 7 students, created the framework of the debate, and moderated the teams rebuttal during the debate.
• Debate against physician assisted suicide
• This was an assigned topic.  I orchestrated research among our group of 7 students, created the framework of the debate, and moderated the teams rebuttal during the debate.
• My opening and closing statements as team leader.
• Business Plan
• As a team we created a business plan including a prospective budget.
• Quality Improvement Project/Report
• As a team we created a quality improvement project with measurements of success.
• Role Play 1 - Delegation
• As a team we developed a role play depicting delegation.
• Role Play 2 - Conflict resolution
• We developed a role play depicting the five spheres of conflict and resolution - avoidance, accommodation, compromising, collaboration, and coercion/competition.
• Case Study 1 - Conflict resolution based on leadership style
• Case Study 2 - Delegation/Prioritizing Care
• Group Quiz
• We took a pop quiz of 20 questions in 5 minutes working as a group and scored 100%.

NUR 392: Pediatric Nursing (Summer 2013)

NUR393: Nursing Care at the End of Life (Spring 2013)

NUR 293: Research in Nursing (Fall 2012)

NUR 290:  Gender Specific Nursing (Summer 2012)

NUR 192: Gerontological Nursing (Spring 2012)

• For this project I was the group leader and editor.  Our goal was to create and then present a short module on the topic of our choice designed specifically for seniors.  We chose the topic of physical activity.
  

•  In clinical I was the group leader for the following presentation on infection control.  I organized and oversaw the project and then presented it to the manager of the hospital as the student representative of LIU.  The poster was then put on display in Lutheran Augustana Center for the benefit of the employees.

NUR 197: Pathophysiology (Spring 2012)