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The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

Preparing Youth for Success in Health OccupationsLeading Change Conference: Strategies for a Vital Health Professions WorkforceApril 14-15, 2005

Dr. Linda Baer, Senior Vice Chancellor

Health Education Programs Accessible to Students Throughout the State

Meeting students’ needs for healthcare education programming at all levels

• 7 state universities – baccalaureate and advanced degrees

• 8 technical colleges – programs leading to employment

• 5 community colleges – transfer, occupational programs

• 11 combined community and technical colleges – community and technical college programs

• 1 tribal and community college

Preparing Youth for Success in Health Occupations: Overview

• Minnesota State Colleges & Universities offers 52 healthcare education programs

• Every college and university in the system offers some kind of healthcare education program.

• Total programs offered: 353

MnSCU Program Grid - 2005

Minnesota Completers by Type of Institution and Career Path

Higher Education System

TOTAL, ALL HEALTH

PROGRAM AWARDS*

RN AND LPN

NURSESPRIMARY

CAREALLIED HEALTH

Technical College 1,247 477 461Community College 2,435 1,424 752State University 616 370 0 236Total MnSCU 4,298 2,271 0 1,449U of M 922 186 402 279Private College 1,583 686 224 603Private Proprietary 860 0 0 772TOTAL 7,663 3,143 626 3,103

Minnesota Completers by Type Career Path

TOTAL 7,663 100.0 NURSING 3,143 41.0 PRIMARY CARE 626 8.2 ALLIED HEALTH 3,103 40.5 ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES 760 9.9 NURSING SUPPORT 31 0.4

(All nurses including advanced practice included in nursing data; primary care includes medicine, dentistry, pharmacy; allied health includes over 100 occupations)

Growth in Number of Nursing Graduates

• The number of graduates from MN nursing programs preparing to take the RN exam* has been rising since 2000: increasing from 1,534 in 2000 to 1,848 in 2003.

• 87 percent of this growth occurred in MnSCU institutions.

• 11 percent growth in the number of AD/RNs graduating from Minnesota’s nursing programs from 2002 to 2003.

• Total number of nursing graduates has increased due to increase in admissions in established AD/RN programs. Existing programs have expanded enrollment in a variety of locations and on new schedules, such as twice yearly admission and evening/weekend classes

*Students taking the exam for the first time.Source: MN Board of Nursing

Preparing Youth for Success in Health Occupations: K-12 Partnerships

• Development of the Healthcare Youth Apprenticeship Program and Mentor Guidebook

• Partnership between MnSCU’s Healthcare Education-Industry Partnership and Minnesota Department of Health– To provide high school students 16 years of age or

older with a paid work experience aligned with their career interest, and an orientation and exploration of healthcare careers.

Preparing Youth for Success in Health Occupations: K-12 Partnerships

Healthcare Youth Apprenticeship Program

• Approximately ten high schools involved in the Youth Apprenticeship Program by partnering with their local health care providers (for example: HCMC, Mayo, North Memorial)

Preparing Youth for Success in Health Occupations: K-12 to College Transitions

Minnesota Healthcare Core Curriculum (HCCC)

• Developed by faculty from Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the Healthcare Education Industry Partnership

• The Healthcare Core Curriculum is a series of entry-level courses for the student with an interest in health care but little or no experience. The student will be introduced to entry-level concepts containing necessary information for all health care workers. Emphasis is on awareness of client needs and basic skill development.


Minnesota Healthcare Core Curriculum

• The courses are competency based and may be taken in any order. There are 8 modules worth a total 4 credits for 64 hours of class. Each module can easily be offered on-campus or off-campus. If you have a partnership with a healthcare system this would be a wonderful course to offer at their facility.

• Redesign of Nursing Education Pathway to include HCCC. Colleges include MCTC, Ridgewater, Mn West and others.

Partnerships with MN Department of EducationHealth Occupations Education Programs/HOSA

25 HOSA instructors teach the Health Care Core Curriculum in coordination with Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Other programs approved in: Allied Health; Nursing Services; Dental Assisting; EMS; Health Careers, etc.

Minnesota Department of Education: Health Occupations Education

Partnerships with colleges and some high schools for students to be granted credit or advanced standing


Health and Long Term Care Promotion Grants: Partnership with MN Department of Health, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care

• Began in 2002

• For consortia of school districts, health care employers, and post-secondary institutions

• Collaboration with Minnesota Department of Education

• Over 4 years, awarded $589,000 in 55 grants

Health and Long Term Care Career Promotion Grants: Purpose

• Develop middle and high school curriculum for health and long-term care career exploration and training

• Meet national skill standards for health care and long-term care

• Provide credits that articulate into post-secondary programs

• Provide technical support to the participating health care and long-term care employers

Health & Long Term Care Career Promotion Grants: Examples

Detroit Lakes - $16,160Consortium Members:• Detroit Lakes Schools• NW Technical College• Dakota Clinic• MeritCare Clinic• Emmanuel Community• St. Mary’s Regional

Health Center

Program Highlights:

Core Curriculum

“E.Y.E. on Healthcare” workshop for K-12 teachers

Certificate of Advanced Standing with MSCTC

HOSA Career Day – 8th grade


Bemidji - $10,000Consortium Members:• North Country

Cooperative Center (6 school districts)

• Northwest Tech College

• North Country Regional Hospital

• 5 Long Term Care facilities

Program highlights

500 7,8, & 9 grade students exposed to health careers

50 toured 8 health care providers

148% increase in H.S. health careers program enrollment


Red Lake Falls $18,000

Consortium Members• Pine to Prairie

Cooperative Center (14 districts)

• Roseau Area Hospital and Homes

• Riverview Healthcare, Crookston

• Northland Community and Technical College

Program highlights

New health care occupations classes in 6 districts

Advanced standing agreements with NCTC and MSCTC

Presentations to counselors and teachers

Reaching Out to Future Students: Nursing Shortage Campaign 2004

Minnesota State Colleges & Universities Works to Meet the Demand• The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, which produces 78 percent of the state’ s

new nursing graduates, is responding rapidly to the shortage. The system’s 32 institutions are working together to expand training programs, add online degrees and create innovative partnerships to train new nurses and help working nurses upgrade their skills. Some examples:

• An English-as-a-Second-Language class to teach culturally-diverse nursing students to read and write in English to communicate effectively with patients/coworkers.

• A “fast track” LPN program to employ displaced workers. • A college-business partnership to train, recruit and retain nurses in south central Minnesota.

System Enrolls, Graduates Significantly More Nursing Students• The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System nursing program administrators this fall

reported the number of students enrolled in nursing increased 16 percent over fall 2002. A system survey showed more than 7,100 students this fall were enrolled in licensed practical nursing and registered nursing, including bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, an increase of about 980 students.

• Preliminary reports show 2,712 nursing degrees and diplomas were awarded in Fiscal Year 2003, a 19 percent increase over the Fiscal Year 2002 actual figure of 2,275. The figures include practical nursing diplomas and associate degrees, registered nursing associate and bachelor’s degrees and nursing master’s degrees.


WMNN Radio and WMNN.com – January 2004 story on culturally diverse nursing program at Anoka Technical College.

DL-Online (Detroit Lakes) – Jan.15, 2004 “Health care professionals in high demand.”West Central Tribune Online – Jan. 30, 2004 “Simulation center helps nursing students

gain skills.”Pipestone County Star – Feb. 11, 2004 “Minnesota West Working to Meet Needs of

Medical Community” on front page and Feb. 12, 2004 on Pipestone County Star Online.

Timberjay News (Tower, Ely, Orr) – Feb. 16, 2004 “Vermilion Community College participates to help curb Minnesota’s nurse shortage.”

WCCO-AM – Feb. 18, 2004 Story on Minnesota’s nursing shortage featuring Mary Rothchild, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.

Owatonna People’s Press Interactive – March 11, 2004 “Colleges vital to health care needs.”

Rochester Post-Bulletin – March 19, 2004 “Hospitals give Riverland a financial boost” (Four area newspapers carried similar stories.)

BusinessNorth – March 29, 2004“Community colleges use fast track to tackle nursing shortage” by Don Jacobson.

The Business Journal – May 6, 2004 “New Shortage: Nursing Faculty” by Scott Smith in the Education section.

Monster.com – May 6-12, 2004 Contributed to Special National Nurses Week Report by John Rossheim.

Star Tribune – June 27, 2004 Nursing education Jobs section story by Nancy Giguere


Star Tribune – July 19, 2004 “Pulse Strong for Nursing Programs” by Mary Jane Smetanka, about high demand among nursing applicants at colleges that have expanded their programs such as Anoka-Ramsey Community College, where lines formed over the weekend.USA Today – July 19, 2004 Brief about Anoka-Ramsey Community College’s nursing applicants lining up over the weekend to get a future spot in the program.Star Tribune, JOBS – July 21, 2004 “Pathway to Nursing Success,” a story about the Nursing Pathway Program at Minneapolis Community & Technical College. St. Paul Pioneer Press – July 26, 2004 “Nursing schools try to keep up” by Cynthia Boyd about the high demand among applicants for nursing programs at colleges including Anoka-Ramsey.NurseZone.com – August 2004 “Don’t be fooled by Minnesota’s relatively low job vacancy rate” by Kelly Phillips about the nursing shortage, featuring quotes from Kris Juliar.Asian Pages – Aug. 24, 2004 “Minnesota State Colleges & Universities Offer Innovative Education to Help Meet Demand,” a piece about how Minnesota is on the verge of a critical shortage of nurses. Star Tribune – Dec. 3, 2004 “Nursing Shortage: It’s No Myth,” a jobs section story by Nancy Giguere on the need for nurses, including 97 percent job placement of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities graduates.Star Tribune – Jan. 14, 2005 “Healthy Choices,” a Jobs section story by Nancy Giguereabout career 4possibilities in health care, including the Nursing Pathway Program at Minneapolis Community and Technical College.

Dentist advises: 'Invest in your education and future'

As a goldsmith in Vietnam, TuyenNguyen's dream was to go abroad. In 1993, an immigration program offered by the American government gave him that chance. Nguyen settled in with an aunt in Minnesota. "I had no clue what I wanted to become...but I knew I had to have an education to make it in this country," Nguyen recalls. Now he is a dentist practicing in Deerwood, Minn. The road to his dental degree began with English-as-a-Second-Language classes on the Normandale Community College campus, where he enrolled in SHAPE, the South Hennepin Adult Education Program in Education.

Determination was the key to gaining nursing degree

Ebele "Eby" Mazeli's car needed new tires. As she drove to the tire store on a wintry day in 1999, she didn't suspect that her life was about to change. Mazeli had completed nursing assistant training at Minneapolis Community and Technical College in 1998 and was working as a home health aide. But money was tight, and now, needing new tires, Mazeli was worried about how to pay for her dream of nursing school. "My friend and I went to Tires Plus, and there was a drawing for a $1,000 scholarship," Mazeli said. "It couldn't hurt to put my name in. So I sent it in the next day and forgot about it."

As a technical school student in her native Nigeria, she had studied marketing and business for two years. Her vision was "being a successful person, having knowledge that would help me in life...and going to college for better opportunities for me to excel." But it was her application to a diversity visa lottery sponsored by the U.S. State Department for countries with low immigration rates to the United States, and her subsequent selection, that set into motion coming to America to become a nurse.

Fast forward to March 1999 and the drawing she had entered at the tire store. Anoka-Ramsey Community College told her she had won a Metro Alliance $1,000 scholarship. She enrolled in fall 2000.

"I was scared and wondered about fitting in ... and people understanding my Queen's English," she said. But she made strong connections with faculty, staff and students, as she had in her previous college program in Minneapolis. "Teachers were responsive to me," she said. "I didn't feel intimidated." From the support and encouragement, Mazeli gained some valuable insights: "It doesn't matter if your parents didn't go to college. Have a vision of what you want to be in the next five years. Keep away from those that discourage you. You're in college to learn. Find one that fits you. Then, go for it."

Mazeli needed financial assistance and advises students to "apply, apply, apply" for scholarships. “

Graduating in spring 2000 and earning her nurse's pin was Mazeli's dream come true. Next, she passed the State Board of Nursing exams. In August, Mazeli was hired as a registered nurse at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. "I worked hard and proved that I'm 'somebody,' she said. "It's a wonderful feeling."

The Future – Healthcare Education

• MnSCU legislative request $10,000,000 for investment in Nursing and Allied Health Education

• Bonding for Science Facilities• Simulation Education• Online Educucation


Nursing – Strategic Investment Request – 2005 Legislature

• The objective is to increase the number of nursing graduates in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System by 40 percent by 2008:

• Increase enrollment to produce 440 more registered nurses by 2008.

• Expand practical nursing programs where shortages exist.

• Recruit 40 nursing faculty to seek advanced degrees in nursing education by offering a $10,000 tuition forgiveness program for those willing to teach at a state college or university.

• Use new technology to expand distance learning in nursing and health care.


• MnSCU Bonding Bill - Science Facilities

• 11 colleges with new science projects plus system-wide projects

• $73 mm in funding for new science facilities (some funded projects include other facilities, as well)

Simulation center at Ridgewater College aids expansion of nursing training

FYE enrollment has increased every year since 1998-1999.


Online Education

Complete Programs• Nursing Science, MSN. Minnesota State University, Mankato (CNS, FNP)• Post Nursing Masters Certificate. Winona State University (Clinical Nurse, Nurse Educator)• Certificate in Would Care Nurse; Ostomy. Metropolitan State University• Practical Nursing, Diploma or AAS. Northwest Technical College, Bemidji

A search of nursing courses on Minnesota Online identified 184 nursing courses, using the key word “nursing”, asking for any current or future term and any campus resulted in the following (Results reflected courses offered in Spring, Summer and Fall 2005):

• Hibbing Community and Technical College: 11 courses• Minnesota State University, Moorhead: 21 courses• Mankato State University, Mankato: 3 courses• Metropolitan State University: 38 courses• Minnesota State Community and Technical College: 26 courses• Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 7 courses• Minneapolis Community and Technical College: 1 course• Northwest Technical College, Bemidji: 36 courses• Northland Community College: 46 courses• Winona State University: 1 course

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