Mary Grace
Yousef,
RN, BS, MS, CNE, EBP-C
Associate Clinical Professor
Texas Woman's University
Mary Grace Yousef, an Associate Clinical Professor at Texas Woman's University (TWU) in Dallas, brings over two decades of diverse nursing experience to her role. Specializing in nursing education, medical-surgical, critical care, and palliative nursing, she's held positions as a clinical education specialist and critical care nurse. Since 2015, she has directed a clinical course for junior-level undergraduates. She co-chaired the curriculum development for TWU's Accelerated BS in Nursing (ABSN) program and co-chairs the TWU Interprofessional Education (IPE) committee in Dallas. Her research focuses on metacognitive awareness in junior nursing students and multimodal engagement strategies for enhanced learning.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Fall prevention is a multi-factorial challenge requiring a unified, interprofessional approach to develop and implement effective, individualized strategies. Pre-service students need training in collaborative assessment and intervention to work together in addressing the complexity of mitigating falls for community-dwelling older adults. This project aimed to guide students to create a fall prevention plan that reflected interprofessional collaboration for community-dwelling clients and their families.Design: Two-day interprofessional education boot camp, with 205 students from…