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Title: SREB Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing Making Nursing Education THE Public Agenda Exemplar


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SREB 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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Floridas Success Story Belongs toALL Deans of
Florida Nursing SchoolsPublic and Private
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger

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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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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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BACKGROUND
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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BACKGROUND
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
  • 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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BACKGROUND
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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PROCESS
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
  • 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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PROCESS
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
  • 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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PROCESS
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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PROCESS
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
  • Prepared legislative Talking Points
  • Stuck to the script
  • Lobbied (internally and externally)

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OUTCOME
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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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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OUTCOME
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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OUTCOME
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
  • More nursing graduates with
  • BSNs, MSNs and PhDs !!

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LESSONS LEARNED
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
  • Talk is good, but you have to do the work

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LESSONS 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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LESSONS 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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LESSONS LEARNED
Exemplar from Florida Together We Are Stronger
  • Collaboration is a better strategy than
    competition
  • Together We Are Stronger !

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