TY - JOUR
T1 - The New Jersey nursing initiative
T2 - Building sustainable collaboration
AU - Bakewell-Sachs, Susan
AU - Mertz, Lynn M.
AU - Egreczky, Dana
AU - Ladden, Maryjoan
N1 - Funding Information:
The NJ Healthcare Workforce Advisory Council is a statewide council that resulted from a partnership effort among the NJCCF, NJNI, and the State Employment Training Commission (SETC), in which NJNI assisted the SETC in writing a grant proposal for funding from the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) in June 2010. The grant provided funds to establish the interdisciplinary council with representatives from labor, health care, higher education, policy, and professional organizations, chaired by a hospital CEO who is a NJ Chamber board member and an NJNI Leadership Council member, and produce a strategic plan for the state. The plan will be a first for the state. Commitment has been strong, as demonstrated by attendance at monthly meetings and accomplishments to date, including the ability to engage in discerning dialogue about challenging topics, a prioritized list of disciplines to address in the strategic plan, consensus regarding building the plan around new models of care, and the need for a minimum data set across disciplines. This work has helped frame the nursing workforce issues within the broader health care workforce concerns rather than isolating them and will also directly support the goals of NJNI and the NJ Action Coalition.
Funding Information:
Nine nursing programs and seven New Jersey funders partnered to apply for the 2-year PIN grant, led by the Horizon Foundation for New Jersey. This was a first for such a funding partnership in the state. The Academic Resource Center, based at the NJNI program office, is working with the nursing programs and, to date, more than 500 students to test and conduct an independent evaluation of a customized proprietary package of online diagnostic/assessment and remediation and enhancement tools that tie assessment and instruction to support students and faculty. An ESL component is embedded in the software for students. If the project and evaluation show that such a virtual center can support student success, the Nursing Academic Resource Center of New Jersey has the potential to be a state and national model for nurse graduate study reading, writing, and research remediation.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - The New Jersey Nursing Initiative was publically launched in 2009 as a 5-year, $22 million program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation based at the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation. It was reauthorized in 2011 through 2016 for an additional $8.5 million. The initiative includes a faculty preparation program and strategic tracks of work focusing on building education capacity, increasing current faculty capacity, making nurse faculty a preferred career, leading policy initiatives, creating sustainable funding in support of nursing education, and ultimately, building local, regional, and statewide collaborative networks. The tagline, "So a Nurse will be there for You," emphasizes both the reality of an aging nursing workforce needing replacement and the expected health care transformation that will result in the need for new knowledge and skills in the future nursing workforce. The purpose of this article was to describe the New Jersey Nursing Initiative, emphasizing the partnerships that have resulted from the project to date.
AB - The New Jersey Nursing Initiative was publically launched in 2009 as a 5-year, $22 million program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation based at the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation. It was reauthorized in 2011 through 2016 for an additional $8.5 million. The initiative includes a faculty preparation program and strategic tracks of work focusing on building education capacity, increasing current faculty capacity, making nurse faculty a preferred career, leading policy initiatives, creating sustainable funding in support of nursing education, and ultimately, building local, regional, and statewide collaborative networks. The tagline, "So a Nurse will be there for You," emphasizes both the reality of an aging nursing workforce needing replacement and the expected health care transformation that will result in the need for new knowledge and skills in the future nursing workforce. The purpose of this article was to describe the New Jersey Nursing Initiative, emphasizing the partnerships that have resulted from the project to date.
KW - Academic-practice partnerships
KW - Collaboration
KW - Faculty
KW - Funding
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U2 - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2011.09.004
DO - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2011.09.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 22142935
AN - SCOPUS:83055196750
SN - 8755-7223
VL - 27
SP - e96-e102
JO - Journal of Professional Nursing
JF - Journal of Professional Nursing
IS - 6
ER -