Healthcare Workforce Summit

Overview and Opening Remarks

Monroe Community College brought together local, regional, and national professionals from healthcare and education, to discuss the lack of nurse educators at nursing schools across the nation, and exchange ideas on how to address this critical issue. The goal of the Healthcare Summit was to focus discussion on healthcare recruitment and pipeline shortages as it relates to the limited nursing faculty and clinical/instructional nurse educators available to educational institutions. Attendees were encouraged to participate in the conversation and to share ideas and inspiration for tackling this issue. Throughout the Summit, discussion centered on ideas for both short and long-term solutions, and ways to ensure they are sustainable. The Summit began with 3 stakeholder panels: 1 An Educator Perspective on Current Local Healthcare Workforce Challenges. 2 Healthcare Professional’s Perspective on Current Local Healthcare Workforce Challenges. 3 Successful Healthcare Workforce Strategies Used in Communities Outside the Finger Lakes Region of NY. The second half of the summit shifted to working sessions where small teams were all given the same assignment – to discuss and record opportunities for healthcare and education to address the shortage of nurse educators.

To conclude the Summit, teams reconvened to share ideas and final discussion.

OPENING REMARKS

Dr. Cole shared his vision of addressing the nurse educator situation by first understanding what the specific needs are, imaging what can be done about it, and then communicating and partnering with each other. The idea was to leave the Summit with an action plan for ad dressing the nurse educator shortage who can then build the pipeline with qualified healthcare workers. -

Dr. Robin Cole Jr. – Vice President Economic and Workforce Development and Career and Technical Education at MCC

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Monroe Community College State University of New York