Healthcare Workforce Challenges and Academic Partnerships

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1 Healthcare Workforce Challenges and Academic Partnerships New England Board of Higher Education November 7, 2011 Judith West, Vice President Human Resources MaineHealth and Maine Medical Center

2 Maine Healthcare Top Workforce Challenges over the next 10 years Physicians Mid-Levels Management Physical Therapist Occupational Therapist IT Specialist Nursing (Case Review)

3 A View of the Future of Our RN Workforce We will experience an escalating Nursing Workforce Shortage through 2025 This is a National Crisis Retirement will create the greatest number of vacancies

4 It is a Cliff

5 Contributing Factors Impacting the Nursing Shortage Nursing school traditional enrollment will not grow fast enough to meet the projected demand for RNs. A projected shortage of nursing school faculty has the potential to restrict nursing program enrollments. The average age of the RN is climbing. Changing demographics signal a need for more nurses to care for our aging population. Source: American Association of Colleges of Nursing 2010

6 Case Study MaineHealth Experience

7 Partnering with Education

8 % of Maine RN Graduates to meet One Maine Health Collaborative Needs (We are now in the process of revisiting the Hire Needs as a result of some shifts in the healthcare industry) Hire Needs # ME Graduates

9 OneMaine Health Academic Partnership The overall charge to the Nursing Education-Workforce Project Team is to define the structure of the best healthcare-academic partnership(s) needed to address the projected nursing shortage and identify the resources needed for implementation.

10 OneMaine Health Academic Partnership Mission: l To design a process and programmatic response to address the projected nursing shortage in the State of Maine Project Description: l OneMaine Health Collaborative and Maine Educational Leaders with nursing programs have created a private-public partnership to address the projected nursing shortages

11 OneMaine Health Academic Partnership Executive Level and Team Members University of New England Husson University Maine Community College System University of Maine System St Joseph College MaineHealth System Eastern Maine Healthcare System Central Maine System Maine General Healthcare

12 Maine Medical Center and the University of Southern Maine Accelerated BSN Program Pilot

13 Drivers for Collaborative of MMC/USM Pilot Project Improve coordination of classroom education and clinical experience. Expand Capacity

14 Maine Medical Center/University of Southern Maine Accelerated BSN Program Pilot Development of a collaborative pilot project to: l Increase capacity in the undergraduate nursing program l Support the acquisition, development, and retention of clinical faculty, and l Strengthen the link between clinical and classroom teaching

15 Maine Medical Center/University of Southern Maine Accelerated BSN Program Pilot Design Admission of 24 additional students January 2011 through May 2012 Establishment of a new Maine Certified Nursing Assistant prerequisite prior to acceptance Dedicated 200 hour, 10 week MMC CNA Course provide at no cost to prospective students Redesign of the curriculum by academic and practice partners to build upon CNA prerequisite with stronger integration of classroom, simulation and clinical immersion

16 Solution Create clinical teaching teams of three Ø Two (2) funded by practice site Ø One (1) from academic site to oversee clinical instruction for 24 students.

17 Benefits Practice site nurses up-to-date on clinical practice Financial burden shared by practice site Partnership of clinical & academic instructors strengthens experience for student

18 Summary Partnership with our Academic Colleagues is critical to not only the success of ensuring we have the number of competent staff we need for the future but also to be good stewards in meeting the new world of healthcare reform.

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