Title: Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The Nursing Shortage
1Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- HEALTHCARE SHARESpring Conference April 7, 2006
2Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
3Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- Lake Land College
- Allied Health Philosophy
GROW YOUR OWN
4Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- In the last three years 12 plant closings
- 2,034 workers lost jobs
- Few new jobs available without retraining
5Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- Critical shortage of practicing nurses
6Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
7Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- Nursing profession offers the opportunity for
these dislocated workers and for other adults and
young people seeking careers in a high-growth,
high demand field, as jobs in nursing are
projected to grow at a rate that is faster than
average for all occupations
8Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- LLC nursing programs are operating at capacity
- Student to Instructor ratio
- Facilities
- LLC nursing program graduate
- 35 Practical Nursing (PN) students per year
- 40 Associate Degree Nursing (AD) students each
year.
9Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- These 75 nursing graduates account for less than
40 of the projected 200 new nurses needed
annually in the district.
10Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- Challenges facing LLC
- Local nursing shortage
- Scarcity of qualified nursing faculty
- Lack of career awareness
- Insufficient funding to expand the program
11Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- Three-year project (CBJTG)
- Increase capacity of LLCs Practical Nursing
- Increase capacity of LLCs Associate Degree
Nursing (AD) - Increase capacity to produce nurses to meet the
growing needs of health care organizations.
12Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage Partners
- K-12 Partners
- Eastern Illinois Education for Employment System
- Tech Prep
- Local Workforce Investment Board
- Dislocated Worker Services
- Youth Services
- Local Business and Industry
- Carle Foundation Physicians
- Pana Community Hospital
- Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Systems
- Shelby Memorial Hospital
- St. Anthonys Memorial Hospital
- Paris Community Hospital
13Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- To Address These Challenges
- LLC and our partners developed a multi-faceted
project aimed at achieving five objectives
14Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- OBJECTIVE 1
- CONTINUE TO ATTRACT QUALIFIED STUDENTS INTO THE
FIELD OF NURSING
15Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- Expand the Health Occupations program through
EIEFES to include additional high schools and
hospitals - Develop and implement a Tech Prep program to
target non-traditional students for nursing
careers - Increase participation in the Allied Health
Institute by offering scholarships for K-12
teachers.
16Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- Identify adults and dislocated workers for
potential enrollment in nursing programs.
17- OBJECTIVE 2
- INCREASE ENROLLMENT IN THE PN PROGRAM BY 50 AND
THE ADN PROGRAM BY 50 BY THE END OF THE
THREE-YEAR PROJECT PERIOD.
18Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- Hire a full time nursing instructor with a
bachelors degree. (Spring 2006). - Provide release time to work on MSN degree
- Pay tuition
- Hire full time instructor with Masters Degree
(Fall 2006) - .
19Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- OBJECTIVE 3
- IMPROVE THE COMPLETION RATE FOR NEW ADMITS FROM
62 TO 80 BY THE END OF THE PROJECT PERIOD
20Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- Hire a part time Allied Heath Career Coordinator
(75) - Promote Career Development
- Career Awareness
- Tutoring and Mentoring
- Job Readiness
21Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- OBJECTIVE 4
- ACHIEVE 100 PLACEMENT OF NURSING GRADUATES IN
RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF
GRADUATION
22Expanding Instructional Capacity to Address The
Nursing Shortage
- OBJECTIVE 5
- DEVELOP AND DISSEMINATE A REPLICABLE MODEL OF
EDUCATIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING IN THE FIELD OF
NURSING
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28ANTICIPATED PROJECT RESULTS
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33Contact Information
- Linda Von Behren
- Associate Vice President
- For
- Workforce Development
- (217) 234-5211
- lvonbehr_at_lakeland.cc.il.us
- Ron Sanderson
- Special Projects Director
- (217) 234-5558
- rsanders_at_lakeland.cc.il.us