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Nursing Education Access: Expanding Healthcare Workforce

Dakota Medical Foundation is a healthcare conversion foundation based in Fargo, ND. With assets of $90 million, they provide annual grants of $3-$4 million to nearly 400 nonprofits. One of their initiatives is the Nursing Education Access program, which aims to address the shortage of healthcare professionals in rural areas. The program focuses on increasing the number of nursing education slots, building the nurse faculty workforce, and providing education access in rural areas. Through partnerships and investments, the program has successfully expanded nursing education opportunities and trained new CNAs, LPNs, and BSN nurses. The initiative has also provided health career scholarships and improved the overall healthcare workforce in North Dakota.

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Nursing Education Access: Expanding Healthcare Workforce

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  1. 8/16/2012 www.dakmed.org

  2. Dakota Medical FoundationFargo, ND • Health conversion foundation – 1996 • $90 million – assets • Annual grants: $3 – $4 million • $48 million to nearly 400 nonprofits • 11 staff Deb Watne Grants Director

  3. Service area

  4. Healthcare Workforce Initiative • $4.2 million invested since 2001 • 22% of ND and 5.3% of MN designated as a health professional shortage area • 26 of 53 ND counties designated as nurse shortage areas • Aging population; aging workforce; rural recruitment

  5. Service area issues – Nursing • Education program waiting lists • Nurse faculty • Limited clinical sites • Rural recruitment

  6. Strategy:Nursing Education Access • Increase number of nursing education slots • Build nurse faculty workforce • Simulation equipment – clinical demand • Education access – rural areas • “Grow Your Own” – distance education • Scholarships targeting rural students • CNA training • Health careers programs

  7. Nursing Education Expansion • Tri-College(two Moorhead, MN colleges, one Fargo, ND college) • $376,556/3yrs (start up costs, faculty salary, simulation equipment) • 54 new slots by end of 3 yrs • New freshman track that starts nursing curriculum in freshman year • LPN to BSN program (6 semesters including summers) • Second degree program for those with existing degrees (12 month program) • Jamestown College – $96,000, 12 new nursing education slots

  8. “Grow Your Own” Programs • Lake Region State College, Devils Lake, ND • CNA to LPN rural distance education programs • Valley City State College, Valley City, ND • New LPN/RN program in partnership with long term care facility • Northland Community College, Thief River Falls, MN • Partnership with White Earth Tribal and Community College (CNA, LPN, RN) • Mayville State University, Mayville, ND • Pre-Nursing Program-LPN, Assoc. Degree Nurse (in partnership with Lake Region State College)

  9. Nurse Faculty Initiative • Non-Master’s clinical supervisors – LPN programs • BSN nurses • Tuition assistance – Master’s education to become nurse faculty

  10. Outcomes – North Dakota 2004: 2007: 2011: • LPNs: 3,434 • RNs: 8,618 • LPNs: 3,634 • RNs: 9,634 • LPNs: 3,667 • RNs: 12,219

  11. 18 BSN nurses obtained Master’s Degrees and are serving as nurse faculty • 80 new nursing education slots • 50 new CNAs trained • 14 LPNs trained through distance education • 600 health careers scholarships

  12. Lessons Learned • Know the landscape • Program sustainability

  13. www.dakmed.org 701-271-0263

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