Title: SREB Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing Making Nursing Education THE Public Agenda Exemplar
1SREB Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing
Making Nursing Education THE Public
AgendaExemplar from FloridaTogether We Are
StrongerKathleen Ann Long, PhD, RN, FAANDean
and ProfessorUniversity of FloridaCollege of
Nursing
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2Floridas Success Story Belongs toALL Deans of
Florida Nursing SchoolsPublic and Private
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
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3 BACKGROUND
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- Legislative and Board of Governors (Regents)
- Push for More New Nurses
- 2-3 years of education with policy makers
and legislators about how the nursing faculty
shortage related to the shortage of nurses - SREB, AACN and Florida Center for Nursing data
were important - Deans/Directors established relationships with
legislators and their staff persons helped -
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4 BACKGROUND
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- 2005 -- Florida Board of Governors identified
three critical need areas in Florida - education
- engineering/technology
- nursing
- Requested plans to increase number of
- graduates in these areas
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5BACKGROUND
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- Nursing Deans/Directors
- Being in the loop with their own Provosts,
Vice Presidents, and state lobbyists was very
important in getting nursing on the list
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6BACKGROUND
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- All Florida Nursing Deans/Directors
- needed to act quickly to prepare a plan
- Barriers
- large state Miami to Pensacola is 675 miles and
spans 2 time zones! - diverse interests large and small schools,
undergraduate and graduate, public and private
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7BACKGROUND
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- All Florida Nursing Deans/Directors
- needed to act quickly to prepare a plan
- Facilitators
- a history of working together, e.g., statewide
articulation agreement - a viable statewide organization with involved
leadership FACN (Florida Association of
Colleges of Nursing)
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8 PROCESS
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- Time-intensive work with committed leadership
- (University of South Florida and then
University of Florida) - Larger schools volunteered staff and resources
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9PROCESS
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- Established a Goal
- ONE plan that all schools (public and private)
could/would support - Many compromises (and within institutions
negotiations) were needed
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10PROCESS
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- Calculated and agreed upon ONE amount for all
state schools to increase graduates by X number - Generic BSNs
- RN-BSNs
- Accelerated BSNs
- MSNs
- PhDs
- Agreed to support alternate funding sources for
private schools (SUCCEED Grants)
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11PROCESS
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- Prepared legislative Talking Points
- Stuck to the script
- Lobbied (internally and externally)
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12OUTCOME
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- Almost 5M over two years in new base budget
(recurring) to the state nursing programs with
requests to expand graduate degree production (7
schools)
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13 OUTCOME
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- Only the nursing critical need area was
funded - Legislators cited the ONE clear plan developed
for funding all graduate programs (avoided
school vs. school and legislative district
issues)
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14OUTCOME
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- 10M plus over two years in grant funds to all
nursing programs, including privates, and for
increased undergraduate degree production
(SUCCEED Grants)
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15OUTCOME
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- More nursing graduates with
- BSNs, MSNs and PhDs !!
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16LESSONS LEARNED
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- Talk is good, but you have to do the work
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17LESSONS LEARNED
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- Building on established relationships is critical
when opportunities arise and require quick
response
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18LESSONS LEARNED
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- Reasonable compromise is essential, especially in
times of limited resources - It requires trust, communication and promises
kept
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19LESSONS LEARNED
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
- Collaboration is a better strategy than
competition - Together We Are Stronger !
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