March 2011 Spring Meeting – Task Force Focus Group
Private Schools
Avila: Collaboration between CNE’s and Deans – Numerous initiatives
 Standardized
o Clinical orientation
o Clinical faculty academy
o Background checks
o Simulation shared
 KC Metro H.C. Council (MO Hospital Association) letters of agreement on background checks,
bylaws for educators and executives
Clinical Faculty Academy: One of 5 funded by Department of Labor and KC HC Council
15 Million Funding
Preceptor Academy
Stipends for MSN Students
Goal: Use expert clinical staff as adjunct
408 have gone through
Mission, philosophies, FERPA, managing diff students – certificate
Post follow up – authorize to teach and progression on a master’s degree
VA: fell apart when key players left
 VA Academy grant, 5-year project
 10 faculty totally paid for by the VA, focuses on 2nd degree students
 Veteran-centric care across the curriculum
 Originally VA to hire but pulled back due to the economy
 Key to sustainability: find a way to become embedded in clinical sites and the work that is going
on there
 2nd phase: centers for clinical excellence educated interprofessionally and have residency post
grad for NP’s
Research College of Nursing: doing research – school and hospital work together
 Core measures projects – present to Research Council
 Sustainable between UG students and hospital
Dream partnerships:
Avila University: Mutual needs, solution driven, mutual trust and communication, meet regularly
Barriers:
Avila University: time, money, ongoing commitment
Fairfield University: students participate ex. EBP with staff, show that having students embedded will
save on cost, cost out will be driven by economics, mutually open doors to each other “core measures:
to look at schools impact on hospital (cost and care.) Have to understand each other’s prospective and
impact on each other, consequences and benefits,” in it for the long haul” committed to bumps in the
road, executive committees set agendas, proactive vs. reactive, if no jobs, help each other and
understand impact
Research College of Nursing: EBP, potential job interviews
Xavier University: CNL engaged in (CNO’s) centered on CNL, Mercy Health BOT, nurture relationship and
not be competitive with local schools, HRSA grant (transform hospital culture) funding hospital
employees to work with schools, formalized process, have to move quickly
Ideal: grads practice the way we prepare them, higher level of practice throughout hospitals. Hospitals
transform to EBP Population? 65+
St Vincent’s in Bridgeport
Gerontology curriculum - job in CCU, gerontology certification exam (faculty taught 30 nurses and all 30
joined the national organization) not formed but moving to embeddedness, change the climate, climate
change in school of nursing, EBP mentality, CNO’s who are going migrate (certification of nurse
executives) 3 credits towards MSN: apply for and pay for course, get grade, goes on transcript, open
communication both ways to meet needs of hospital and schools, partner with the city, embed and link
to economic outcomes, look at medical school model, VA, weave into structure, have to each get
enough out of it to sustain relationship
March 2011 Spring Meeting – Task Force Focus Group
Public Schools
Arrangements:
Oakland University: Anesthesia partnership: main clinical site with hospital very close bond for 25 years.
Their director sits on University committees, hospital pays school and others with a second degree
program. System sponsors cohort, then hire. No written goals, meet as needed
SUNY Brooklyn:
1. Academic Health Center: joint appointments. Formal, written. Clinical instruction to full
professors ex. Mentors, preceptors, lectures,
University pays their salaries
2. CEU: Free CEU’s to nurses in University hospital clinical resource committee – jointly plan
nursing research council with research day
3. Community outreach – for community courses (Brooklyn)
4. Written Goals
University of Texas Medical Branch: 5 magnets, 15 SON’s everyone partners with everyone. Council of
CNO and Deans, Houston and Galveston plus 13 county groups send students to hospitals and individual
arrangements with hospital supporting percentage of the program they ask for
University of Texas - Houston: Executive nurse leadership program, hospital supports faculty, written
agreement, share some vision, missions and goals. Try to promote seamless relationship between
hospital and school for academic progress. Dean is VP for Education at the hospital
Dreams partnerships:
Oakland University: committed clinical faculty preceptors, ownership of faculty, and all hospitals commit
staff. Doesn’t care who pays for it. Integration with faculty? Depends on credentials. Goal: clinical
opportunities for students.
SUNY: Full partnerships on both sides sustaining a challenge. Start from the top, then delegate. Ongoing
evaluation of the partnership with specific outcomes.
University of Texas Medical Branch: Faculty in didactic and simulation. Agency: clinical. Aligned and in
sync regarding mission and values, varying times to graduate – some may take longer. Pilot now with
last semester FT clinical CNO onboard. Staff dedicated to the students. Students help!
University of Texas –Houston: bring lives together – come to meetings, increase participation. Truly
inter-professional education programs (follows residents, nursing students) create approach that
inspires, more research collaboration, faculty appointments for clinical staff. Trying to have faculty have
appointments in hospital, faculty partnership with unit nurse manager, together work on goals for unit.
Barriers:
Oakland University:
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Money. Spending cuts by Gov. starting private medical schools (with public universities)
Professional competition (MD to nursing)
Not enough jobs for grads, not hiring
Survival mode
SUNY Brooklyn: State University offered retirement incentive to faculty, 2 schools are paying preceptors
($500 a student)
University of Texas Medical Branch: Any barrier can be solved with money, include in eval: how much it
costs both
Think differently – move out of old thinking
Talk different language
Work with accreditors on how we conceptualize what we’re doing
Look at essential outcomes
Time it takes Ed to make decisions
Different cultures, different governance
Hierarch vs. shared governance
Need to be nimble and responsive!
What are we giving practice side?
Articulation agreement