Healthcare Workforce Summit

5 Get Creative with New Programs and Out-of-the-Box Approaches

Tactics highlighted by attendees include: >> Create bridges from schools to facilities and vice versa. >> Need a Nurse Educator career path (3+2) BSNI. Demonstrate professional, lifetime career paths as educators for part of the nursing track. >> Create Nurse Educators from all levels of care e.g., LPN, MA, HHA, PCA, PCT, etc. >> Offer faculty appointments – tenure – committee placements as benefits that may appeal to individuals on the fence about becoming an educator. >> Create a literal ‘How To’ guide/visual for becoming a nurse educator. >> Establish career ladders and mentoring for that next level. Include Long TermCare, Rehab, HHAs, PCA-PCTs, etc.

There were ideas for creating programs that make it easier for interested nurses to become educators. And the need for strong marketing of any new program was also highlighted.

>> New York State DoH – rethink competency requirements. >> Provide coaching support to new educators where there may be generational gaps in how content is taught and how content is learned. >> Schools of Nursing need a learning platform that includes incorporating IT – perhaps using Google platform. >> Need new teaching models, screen of candidate- generation gap, socio-economic gap e.g., incorporate pre-lesson prior to formal classroom. >> DoH must redesign the education program to enlist ‘experience’ camp out testing, didactic/skills. ◆ Preceptor RNs can oversee - but can utilize CAN/HHA PCA. >> There should be an infrastructure redesign communication – state ‘buy in’. >> Draw on partnership PCTs grants – fall classes, reduce the need for travel. >> Professional associations can lead interactions with state departments/state regulations. >> Employer targets for any programs should give priority to current employees. >> New programs must be attainable, equitable, measurable. >> For long-term sustainability, offer K-12 exposure for both traditional and exploratory nursing career paths. >> Incorporate career shadowing experiences to provide exposure to other options such as educating – for students all the way to experienced nurses. >> Embed essential teaching skills into coursework. >> Design a program to transfer existing credits and get credit for prior learning.

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