Metro Alliance Project

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Metro Alliance Project

• Annette McBeth, Project Director
• Marilyn Loen, Executive Director, Metropolitan
  State University
• December 14, 2006

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History

• Who are we?
• Why and how did we begin?

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Partners in 2004-05

• Metropolitan State University
• Anoka Ramsey Community College
• North Hennepin Community College
• Century College
• Inver-Hills Community College
• Normandale Community College
• Minneapolis Community and Technical College

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Added Technical Colleges2006

• Hennepin Technical College
• Anoka Technical College
• Dakota Technical College
• Minneapolis Community and Technical College

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Current Partnership

• A Total of 11 educational programs and INDUSTRY
  working together in the metropolitan area

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Introduction of Metro Alliance

• A climate of need to expand the baccalaureate in
  nursing (BSN) was emerging discussions were
  beginning
• We (in the Metro Alliance) BELIEVED that we
  had/have a good plan!
• From the initiation of this project, we have
  believed in the importance of listening to
  INDUSTRY

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What Industry was/is saying

• AONE
• Boldly stating the need for a BSN
• Core of nursing is knowledge and caring
• Knowledge is access-based (knowing how to access)
• Care is user-based
• Critical synthesis is an essential skill
• Relationship-based care
• Technology will be significant
• Managing the journey i.e. partnering with
  client/patient

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Magnet Hospital Movement

• Shared governance model for decision making
• This supports autonomy and empowerment
• in order to accomplish the right outcomes in the
  health care system, the care and the outcomes
  must be studied at the bedside. Traditional
  hierarchies must be flattened to allow
  practitioners at the bedside access to resources
  and power to accomplish what needs to be done to
  provide a positive outcome.

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AACN

• Movement to doctorate of nursing practice (DNP)
  so that knowledge, skills, and abilities
  (credential) can be commensurate with what is
  needed in the workplace
• By 2015, advanced practice nurse credential will
  be the DNP

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• And we believe there are many stars aligning to
  support BSN and graduate nursing education

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Early history

• Initially, we began with a collaborative program
  to offer the post-baccalaureate BSN in
  partnership with ARCC and NHCC

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Expansion of project

• Intense discussions to expand BSN education
  began with AD Directors around RFP from MnSCU in
  late 2004
• Received 325,000. early 2005
• Additional funds of 400,000. granted 2006

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What was in place to support us?

• AD Directors came together to work
  collaboratively not only with Metropolitan State
  but with one another
• College presidents gave their official nod to the
  project asked that we include the PN programs

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Our Mission

• To meet the present and future twenty-first
  century needs of health care and education for
  baccalaureate and advanced preparation of nurses
  in the metropolitan area

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Original Metro Alliance Goals

• Expand BSN education opportunities for current
  and prospective students in the metropolitan area
• Begin to convert ratio of BSNADN graduates from
  60650 to 300550 by 2009-2010
• Continue to shift the ratio to 2/3 BSN 1/3 AD
  nurses
• Seek funding for ongoing sustainability

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How?

• 1. Expand cohorts of RN-BSN to community college
  campuses using a cost-effective, seamless pathway
  by fall, 2007
• This includes sharing of resources (faculty,
  libraries, lab space etc)

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• Implement additional cohorts of the post-bacc BSN
  programs
• Develop a generic (4-year) BSN program at
  Metropolitan State University

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Curriculum

• Work of the faculty on curriculum has been one of
  the most exciting and rewarding outcomes to date
• 2 faculty from each program
• Curriculum coordinator (Ellen Schultz) from
  Metropolitan

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What have they accomplished?

• Analysis and alignment of nursing content
  (overlap/redundancy/absence) at the AD and the
  BSN level
• Analysis of the general education requirements to
  check for alignment
• Development of processes for faculty to work in
  both AD and BSN programs

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The Future

• Hire an undergraduate program director
• Hire (beginning January) an academic advisor
• Hire support staff (beginning January)
• Develop generic baccalaureate program, in
  conjunction with industry partnership
• Develop and put in place all of the necessary
  consortium/partnership agreements
• Transformation of a culture
• Survive and Grow!!!

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Summary

• In summary, we envision our outcome will be a
  globally prepared nurse who will be equipped to
  practice in an ethnically diverse environment
  within our world community.
• This collaborative education-industry partnership
  is an opportunity to design and prepare the 21st
  century baccalaureate prepared nurse.