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| Project Name: |
North Dakota Nursing Career Lattice Consortium Project |
| Foundation/Lead Agency: |
Dakota Medical Foundation |
| Project Partners: |
University of North Dakota College of Nursing; North Dakota State College of Science; Dakota Nursing Program; North Dakota State University; Altru Health Systems; Trinity Health; MedCenter One Health Systems; St. Alexius Medical Center; Quentin Burdick Memorial Healthcare Facility; Standing Rock Service Unit; North Dakota State Workforce Development Council; Job Service of North Dakota; Elsevier Publishing |
| Project Leaders: |
Pat Traynor, President, Dakota Medical Foundation
pattraynor@dakmed.org, (701) 271-0263
Chandice Covington, Dean and Project Director
chandicecovington@mail.und.edu, (701) 777-4553
Kris Stellon, Project Coordinator
krisstellon@mail.und.edu, (701) 777-2403 |
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Brief Project Synopsis: |
The nursing shortage being felt across the nation is also greatly influencing North Dakota, and of equal concern is the growing shortage of qualified nursing faculty. The health care industry in North Dakota serves a multi-state region that includes rural Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana. Nursing workforce needs in this region are driven by a rural, aging citizenry that includes a significant American Indian population, the largest minority group in North Dakota.
The Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future (PIN) goal of enabling local foundations to act as catalysts in developing strategies to ensure a stable, adequate nursing workforce, is consistent with Dakota Medical Foundation’s (DMF) current strategic platform to ensure an adequate supply of health care professionals throughout the region. The proposed project helps DMF further its mission of improving access to health care by working with the University of North Dakota College of Nursing to ensure sufficient nursing faculty are available to educate the growing number of nurses needed to address the region’s health care workforce needs.
This project aims to recruit new and advanced practice nurses through a “growing our own” type approach. Instead of taking nurses out of their current setting and depleting the workforce even further, this project works with the rural hospitals to “help them help themselves.” Nurses across the state will be offered the opportunity to further their degree in order to more effectively serve their communities. This targeted approach will help alleviate the lack of an advanced-degree workforce in the state by increasing enrollment in a degree ladder program (PN-AD-BSN-MS) thereby boosting the number of qualified individuals to help teach tomorrow’s nursing workforce. These future nursing faculty will also have the opportunity to be prepared as advanced practice nurses. Therefore, this project will help North Dakota continue to serve its rural and urban communities while strengthening the workforce at the same time. |
Project Goals and Objectives: |
The North Dakota Nursing Career Lattice Consortium Project has two main goals: 1) Expand the production and placement of highly qualified nurses and nursing faculty in a rural-frontier region through an integrated and long-term consortium and 2) Establish strategic partnerships with education institutions, health care providers, workforce and economic development entities, business partners, and health organizations to promote sustainability.
The goals of this project will be achieved through five main objectives: 1) Establish the articulation process between the college-to-university career lattice in North Dakota; 2) Mobilize the didactic curriculum in distance modalities; 3) Facilitate clinical education components in rural communities; 4) Increase student recruitment, improve retention and graduation rates, and serve new populations of disadvantaged students; and 5) Increase the number of qualified Master’s degree nursing faculty.
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