Casey Blumenthal, RN, MHSA, CAE Vice President MHA An Association of MT Health Care Providers October 7, 2011 Cynthia Gustafson, PhD, RN Executive Director Montana State Board of Nursing
Review one year of progress! Hear about Montana s Action Coalition Learn how you can stay in tune with this initiative
In 2010, the Institute of Medicine and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation issued a report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health The report offered 8 recommendations to transform the practice of nursing The implementation phase of the report = Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health is the most viewed online report in IOM history! Participation in nearly every state Thirty-six campaign-designated state Action Coalitions
AARP s Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA) National Council of State Boards of Nursing Champion Nursing Coalition and Council: 48 national non-nursing organizations and 27 national nursing organizations Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, WHO
1. Remove scope of practice barriers 2. Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts 3. Implement nurse residency programs 4. Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020. 5. Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020
6. Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning 7. Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health 8. Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional healthcare workforce data
Initial meeting November 30, 2010 First statewide videoconference March 30, 2011 over 100 participants in 16 sites! Reviewed the report recommendations Created workgroups based on top three Selected two co-leads for each workgroup Applied to become a RWJF Action Coalition Connect trip to DC
Next videoconference June 29, 2011 Reported on trip to DC, shared Montana s onepager, workgroups reported on progress Workgroups organized and holding their own conference calls LEAD(ership) Education Transition to Practice
Strategic planning retreat August 15, 2011 Involved Initiative co-leads, workgroup co-leads, facilitator supported by Montana Office of Rural Health Created new name, mission, tagline, workplan for
Montana Center to Advance Health through Nursing (CAHN) Better Health. Best Practice. Exceptional Leaders Mission: Leading nursing practice through collaboration to advance the health of Montanans
The Center is essentially virtual, and revolving around it are the Councils (aka workgroups): Council for Nursing Leadership Development Council for Nursing Education Council for Nursing Transition to Practice Council for Nursing Workforce Data
October 12, 2011 A Montana Conversation to Accelerate Educational Advancement: Getting to 80% Baccalaureate Preparation by 2020 Mary Sue Gorski, RN, PhD, tenured faculty in nursing at Gonzaga (& Fellow with CCNA), will present the Initiative s perspective on this recommendation to the Board of Nursing at its October meeting. Educators and others will join her for dinner at Carroll College.
April 14, 2012 - Official launch of the MT Campaign for Action and CAHN in Bozeman at the Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society conference with a focus on leadership Sue Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Senior Adviser for Nursing. She is tasked with leading the Foundation s strategies to address the nurse and nurse faculty shortages to create a higher quality of patient care in the US. She is also the Director of the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the IOM.
Application in process for Montana to become a member in the Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers This work in Montana is being led by the Montana Office of Rural Health s Healthcare Workforce Advisory Committee; rather than re-create the wheel, Campaign for Action members joined forces with MORH to strategize solutions for consistent collection and analysis of nursing workforce data.
Join one of our Councils! Leadership formation of strategies and activities to develop nurse leaders from the bedside to the boardroom. Education create statewide master plan, innovative models, degree recognition in practice. Transition to Practice education to improve quality and retention, specific to rural practice.
Leadership - Dawn Lynch, RN, MSN, CNO Clark Fork Valley Hospital, dlynch@cfvh.org; Christina Sieloff, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, MSU-Billings, csieloff@montana.edu. Education - Heather O Hara, RN, MSN, Clinical Nurse Educator, St. Peter s Hospital, hohara@stpetes.org; Lu Byrd, RN, MSN, CNO Billings Clinic, lbyrd@billingsclinic.org. Transition to Practice - Lori Chovanak, RN, BAN, Executive Director, MNA, loric@mtnurses.org; Karla Lund, RN, MSN, Director Miles Community College Nursing Program, lundk@milescc.edu.
Join the email list for the Initiative (contact casey@mtha.org) Attend one or more events on April 12, 2012 in Bozeman for the Campaign launch! Bookmark and explore the website at www.thefutureofnursing.org Tune in to the (free) webinars offered by RWJF and CCNA (http://championnursing.org/events/type/149) Talk to future employers about how they support leadership development and learning in their nursing staff!
Montana CAHN Steering Committee Casey Blumenthal* Lu Byrd Lori Chovanak Cynthia Gustafson* Kristin Juliar Karla Lund Dawn Lynch Helen Melland Heather O Hara Christina Sieloff MHA An Association of MT Health Care Providers Billings Clinic Montana Nurses Association Montana Board of Nursing MSU Office of Rural Health/AHEC Miles Community College Clark Fork Valley Hospital MSU Bozeman, College of Nursing St. Peter s Hospital MSU Bozeman, College of Nursing * = Co-leads
Primary Contacts Casey Blumenthal, MHSA, RN, CAE, VP at MHA, casey@mtha.org Cynthia Gustafson, PhD, RN, Executive Director Board of Nursing, cgustafson@mt.gov.