Healthcare Workforce Summit

1 Craft a Plan of Action

Tactics highlighted by attendees include: >> Get the right people at the table – education, employers, and healthcare. ◆ Identify who the key stakeholders are. >> Establish round tables where all parties get together to plan. ◆ What is the willingness to invest in education and support academia? >> Real, intentional conversations are needed on an overall plan. >> Determine local best practices and use them to inform an overall plan. >> Survey nurses to find out what they need and what the barriers are. Conduct traditional, AI and roundtable discussions with nurses. Apply the social determinants of health to the role of nurse educators to understand the barriers. >> Share the list of contacts for today’s summit. >> Do a community assessment of all facilities and the current gaps at all levels and projections. ◆ Need a true assessment of what experiences are needed and where that level of care is being delivered in the community. >> Publicize where training facilities are. >> Expand quarterly URMC RGH facility educators Nursing Forum. ◆ Begin the conversation with regional nursing schools and meet with facilities. >> Explore what it will take to create working agreements with community partners. Design who will need what by

First and foremost, a plan is needed for continuing the conversation. Attendees want the opportunity to be included in a group distribution list so there is a single communi cation chain for future planning. The right people must be included at the table so that all parties have buy-in on plans moving forward. Individuals with passion around this initiative will need to commit their time and participation. - A prudent first step in crafting an effective plan is to understand the current state of the situation. Discussion centered around the fact that various educator and healthcare professionals have proprietary data as well as access to other data that, if shared with constituents, would help provide an accurate picture of the nurse educator situation, and serve as a baseline for measuring change as new programs and initiatives are put into place.

when. Coordinate and organize. >> Set expectations for all levels.

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