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Expanding Program Capacity and Efficiency Initiatives
Expanding Program Capacity
- Advocate
Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove
Leases two
master’s prepared registered nurses to the College of DuPage (COD) as adjunct
faculty. Has clinical affiliation agreements with nine colleges; hosts
hundreds of undergraduates each year. Offers evening and weekend clinical
rotations to all nine area schools. Partners with Elmhurst College for a graduate
nurse clinical practicum. Participates in a Universal (Standardized) Orientation with COD. Participates in
planning of DuPage County pilot project for centralized online clinical site
scheduling.
- Edward Hospital, Naperville
- Provides masters-prepared nursing staff as part-time faculty for clinical
rotations to six area nursing programs, including College of DuPage,
University of Illinois, Lewis University, Rush School of Nursing, University
of St. Francis, and Northern Illinois University.
- Provides hospital space and MSN staff for nursing schools to conduct onsite
classes to qualified hospital employees to earn nursing degrees at the
workplace.
- Offers a 10-week paid Summer Student Nurse Clinical Advancement Program. To
qualify for the program, candidates must be enrolled in an accredited nursing
program and must have completed at least one year of clinical nursing
education. Nursing students spend four hours each week in a classroom setting
and in addition are paired with a preceptor to plan, organize, and deliver
care.
- Greenville Regional Hospital, Greenville
- Participates in clinical affiliation agreements for RNs, LPNs, and
radiological technicians with Kaskaskia Community College.
- Partners with Kaskaskia College to offer First Responder and EMT classes.
- Partners with Washington University and St. Louis University for students
interested in Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy.
- Offers Nurse Assistant Training classes seven times each year for the Long
Term Care Facility.
- Hamilton Memorial Hospital District, McLeansboro
Partners with Rend Lake College to offer a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
class at the hospital, with 20 to 25 residents usually enrolled.
- Hillsboro Area Hospital, Hillsboro
- A partnership with the Hillsboro School system offers an onsite high school
certified nurses aid program. A previous program offered high school health
occupations class orienting students to each department emphasizing health
care career opportunities.
- A partnership with Lincoln Land Community College offers an onsite EMT, LPN,
and adult certified nurses aid class.
- Beginning Fall 2008, a new health care occupations classroom will be
constructed onsite for LLCC health care programs.
- In partnership with Lincoln Land Community College, clinical affiliation is
offered to radiology students.
- In partnership with Kaskaskia College, onsite nursing student clinicals are
offered.
- Memorial Medical Center, Springfield; and Passavant Area Hospital,
Jacksonville
Collaborates with Lincoln Land Community College to expand the
nursing program. Currently, discussing and exploring options to include evening and weekend
classes, use of simulators, and loaned faculty.
- Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago
- Partners with Olivet Nazarene University in an RN to BSN program - 10 RNs
will complete the program in 2006.
- Partners with Robert Morris College in an Associate Degree RN program at the
Chicago main campus. The first class will start in February 2007 and graduate
30 RNs in Spring 2009.
- Provides onsite training for nurses.
- Northwest
Community Hospital, Arlington Heights; and St. Alexius Medical Center,
Hoffman Estates
Partners
with Harper College to conduct onsite part-time evening and weekend nursing program
for incumbent workers.
- Pekin Hospital, Pekin
Participates in the
centralized scheduling program with nursing schools. Two hospitals
and three colleges offer hospital clinical rotations at hospitals at various
times. Respiratory students, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist students, pharmacy students, and radiology
students spend time at clinical rotation sites. The medical staff participates
in the Rural Medical Education Student program during the summer, and often have residents working with
them at their offices.
- Pinckneyville Community Hospital, Pinckneyville
Participates in clinical affiliation agreements with Rend Lake Community College
for RNs, LPNs, CNAs, and laboratory technicians. Partners with Kaskaskia
Community College with students seeking radiological technology degrees.
- St. John's Hospital, Springfield
- Formed an Advisory Group to identify retention and recruitment strategies
that include weekend options, admission process improvement, retention bonus
programs, support for professional development, and certification with levels
of competence.
- Invested in three patient simulation mannequins that provide real-life
scenarios and challenges for staff. A Simulation Learning Center is a work in
progress.
- Southern
Illinois Healthcare (Hamilton Memorial Hospital District, McLeansboro; Harrisburg Medical Center,
Harrisburg; Herrin Hospital, Herrin; Memorial Hospital of Carbondale,
Carbondale; St. Joseph Memorial Hospital, Murphysboro; and St.
Mary’s Good Samaritan Inc., Centralia)
The Center
for Nursing Excellence offers a 32-week comprehensive competency based
orientation program that focuses on critical care nursing. The program fosters
nurse’s participation in decision making at all levels through a Circle Team.
The Circle Team eases transition from student to novice critical care nurse and
provides networking opportunities.
Expanding Program Efficiency
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Adjunct Faculty Program - College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn
A shortage of registered professional nurses
has been well documented both nationally and in the State of Illinois. Colleges
have experienced a shortage of qualified registered nurses to serve as faculty
to a college. The faculty lease agreement empowers hospitals to lease employees
with an MSN or higher with a major in nursing to serve as faculty at the
college. The services shall be provided at the request of the college and shall
be under the direction of the college’s Director of School of Nursing.
The hospital and college enter into a
contractual relationship temporarily where hospital masters-prepared nursing
staff serve as faculty.
The leased faculty shall abide by the policies,
procedures, rules, and regulations of the college while performing services for
the college.
The College of DuPage and the Leadership Council are sharing their faculty
lease agreement with other schools. The faculty lease agreement has existed
for 18 months with plans to disseminate the program statewide. For more
information, please contact Jeri Lynn Else at
elsejeri@cod.edu or (630) 942-2855.
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Online Standardized Student Orientation -
North and Northwest Suburban Health Care Workforce, Harper College,
Palatine
Students spend one to two days of each
clinical rotation in orientation. The North and Northwest Suburban Health Care
Workforce Task Force concluded that the clinical setting is a crucial component of the
clinical experience. The number of different rotations that each student
experiences during their total nursing program averages 9 to 12, consuming
faculty, hospital staff and students’ time. In addition, most hospitals host
more than one school program and typically address orientation separately with
each school.
In an effort to maximize both hospital and
academic center efficiencies so that students can spend more of their actual
clinical time caring for patients, rather than hearing repeated information
unnecessarily, the schools and hospitals are working to identify a universal
preparation that focuses on core topics common to all clinical sites.
The benefits of an online standardized orientation
include: reduced time and resources committed by the agency to orientation;
consistency in orientation content, materials and presentation; online provider
updates material in an ongoing fashion to reflect current regulations; ability
to verify training received in each topic by each student/faculty; ability to
verify student learning; more hands-on clinical time for students; students and
faculty have access to training; the majority of orientation is provided by the
college rather than the clinical agency; less redundancy for students and
faculty; and ability to customize material for each agency as needed. Kick-off
for the Standardized Online Student Orientation project will begin Fall 2006.
For more information, please contact Vickie Gukenberger, Ph.D.,
vgkenbe@harpercollege.edu or
(847) 925-6682.
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