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Title: Strategies to Address Oregons Nursing Shortage: Funding Sustainable Solutions


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Strategies to Address Oregons Nursing Shortage
Funding Sustainable Solutions
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  • Our Mission To advance, support and promote
    the health of the people of Oregon and Southwest
    Washington

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  • Who We Are A private independent foundation
    serving the Oregon and Southwest Washington
    region.
  • What We Do
  • Responsive grantmaking.
  • Focused funding initiatives.
  • Engage the community to share information and
    build collaboration.
  • Provide training and technical assistance to the
    community.

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Northwest Health Foundation Addresses Oregons
Nursing Shortage
  • In 2001, NWHF issued Oregons Nursing Shortage
    A Public Health Crisis in the Making,
    highlighting the severity of the shortage for the
    region, predicted to be 20-25 by 2010.

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Targeting Nursing
  • In 2001, NWHF also invested in first targeted
    initiative, Excellence in Community-Based
    Nursing, to support innovative curriculum and
    faculty development for nursing programs. Total
    spent 180,494.
  • Designed to prepare nursing students for practice
    in community health settings.
  • Five projects funded including three ADN programs
    specifically addressing curriculum development.
  • See NLN Symposium Strategies to Promote
    Community-Based Nursing Lessons from a Targeted
    Initiative, Saturday 1045 1200

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The Meeting of the Minds Oregons Nursing
Leadership Develops a Strategic Plan
  • Also in 2001, NWHF was instrumental in convening
    a summit of the Oregon Nursing Leadership Council
    (ONLC), to develop a strategic plan for
    addressing the shortage.
  • ONLC brought together
  • Oregon Nurses Association
  • Northwest Organization of Nurse Executives
  • Oregon Council of Associate Degree Programs
  • Oregon Council of Deans
  • Oregon State Board of Nursing

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ONLC Plan Proposed Collaborative Efforts Directed
Toward Five Major Goals
  • Double the enrollment in Oregon nursing programs.
  • Redesign nursing education to meet more directly
    the changing health care needs of Oregonians.
  • Recruit and retain nurses into the profession.
  • Development, implement and evaluation staffing
    models that make the best use of the available
    nursing workforce.
  • Create the Oregon Center for Nursing (OCN) to
    coordinate implementation and ongoing evaluation
    of this plan. www.oregoncenterfornursing.org

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Investing in a Healthy Future Strategies to
Address the Nursing Shortage
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Investing in a Healthy Future Strategies to
Address the Nursing Shortage
  • To invest in a healthy future for the region by
    cultivating a stable, skilled workforce.
  • Five years, 5 million
  • Provide core funding for the Oregon Center for
    Nursing (OCN).
  • Support the development of advocacy among the
    nursing community.
  • Create funding programs for collaborative and
    sustainable solutions to the shortage.

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Funding Opportunities of the NWHF Initiative
will include
  • The preparation of nursing faculty.
  • Increasing the ethnic and racial diversity of the
    nursing workforce.
  • Curriculum redesign to increase the breadth,
    depth and quality of the preparation of nurses.
  • Developing specialty practice areas such as
    long-term care, public health and mental health.
  • Providing educational assistance to students
    through mentoring or other support programs.
  • The retention of nurses in the workplace.

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Expanding Capacity to Prepare Entry-Level Nurses
  • First grant program, designed to increase the
    ability of educational institutions to prepare
    more new nurses.
  • Funds were provided to develop strategic plans or
    implement strategies to increase capacity.
  • Five grants awarded in August 2003, for total of
    653,216.

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Chemeketa Community College Partnerships in
Clinical Mentoring
  • To develop and pilot a project that creates
    adequate clinical faculty through intensive
    orientation and mentoring from experienced
    full-time academic faculty members to ensure a
    high degree of knowledge transfer.
  • Elaine Mohn-Brown, EdD, MA, BSN
  • mohe_at_chemeketa.edu

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Clackamas Community College Workforce
Improvement with Immigrant Nurses (WIN)
  • To prepare 30-36 entry level RNs by targeting
    nurses who have been credentialed in other
    countries but who are living in Oregon and SW
    Washington, providing English-language support
    and internships in acute care, long-term care and
    community health settings.
  • Judith Anderson, MSN, CNS, RN
  • JUDYA_at_clackamas.edu

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Multnomah County Health Department Public Health
Resident Faculty and Recruitment Project
  • To recruit, train and retain a culturally
    diverse and appropriately educated public health
    nursing workforce by increasing the number of
    public health employees entering the nursing
    profession and by providing opportunities for
    nursing students to train in several public
    health practice environments.
  • Bonnie Kostelecky, MSN, MPA, RN
    bonnie.j.kostelecky_at_co.multnomah.or.us

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Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education
Increasing Capacity to Both Educate and Better
Prepare Nurses
  • To develop, implement and evaluate a new model
    of nursing education by
  • Developing competency-based education in all
    nursing programs
  • Increasing educational capacity for basic RNs by
    establishing a consortium of nursing programs
  • Increasing the number and quality of LPNs, CNAs
    and community-based caregivers.
  • Louise Shores, EdD, RN
  • Shores_at_ohsu.edu

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Peace Harbor Hospital Foundation Peace Harbor
Nursing Workforce Development Planning
  • To support the planning activities necessary for
    developing a collaborative system to provide
    clinical training and online didactic instruction
    for nursing students in Oregons remote central
    and southwest coastal regions.
  • Cathleen Coontz, BSN, RN
  • CCoontz_at_peacehealth.org

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Strengthening Capacity to Prepare Entry-Level
Nurses
  • Second grant program of the Initiative.
  • To develop and implement strategies to affect the
    shortage in the region by
  • Increasing the number of new nursing
    faculty, with advanced skills and interest in
    teaching and
  • Increasing the opportunities for clinical
    practicum of nursing students outside of hospital
    settings.
  • Three grants awarded in July 2004, for a total of
    450,000.

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College of NursingWashington State
UniversityEnhanced Expanded Nurse Educator
  • To expand access to coursework through
    web-based/distance offerings to increase the
    number of masters prepared nurse educators.
  • Renee Hoeksel
  • hoeksel_at_vancouver.wsu.edu
  •  

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School of Nursing, Oregon Health and Science
University, Southern Campus Increasing Cultural
Competence for Entry-Level Nurses
  • To provide learning experiences for nursing
    students highlighting the health care needs of
    culturally diverse vulnerable populations in the
    Rogue Valley, Oregon.
  • Wendy Neander
  • neandewe_at_ohsu.edu

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Susannah Maria Gurule Foundation Strengthening
the Capacity of Nursing through Innovative
Service-Learning Partnership with the Latino
Community
  • To provide community practicum experience to
    nursing students while promoting the health and
    wellness of Latino families.
  • Marie Dahlstrom
  • Mdahlstrom_at_smg-foundation.org

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Key Feature of Initiative Commitment to
Evaluation
  • Purpose of evaluation is internal learning, as
    well as external accountability.
  • Evaluation is collaborative among key
    stakeholders and is ongoing.
  • Foundation supports evaluation of nursing
    shortage initiative at 10 of total funding.
  • There is a strong collaboration between NWHF and
    the evaluation team.
  • Contact Sherril Gelmon at gelmons_at_pdx.edu

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Conclusions
  • NWHF has made a significant investment in the
    future of Oregon and Southwest Washington.
  • No other regional funders have committed to such
    a large-scale effort.
  • The funded projects are innovative approaches to
    address nursing education and workforce issues.
  • The input of nursing leaders will continue to
    shape the elements of the Initiative.
  • Weve only gotten started!

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Contact
  • Judith L. Woodruff, JDDirector of Grant
    ProgramsNorthwest Health Foundation503-220-1955
  • judith_at_nwhf.org
  • www.nwhf.org
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