What's happening
This bill directs state education officials to study and improve nursing education programs to enhance career mobility and access.
Why it matters
Aims to address the statewide nursing shortage. by analyzing why current education and career pathways may not be attracting or retaining enough nurses, which could directly impact healthcare quality and availability.
Focuses on career advancement and mobility for nurses at all levels. , potentially making it easier for nursing assistants, LPNs, and RNs to further their education and move up professionally, helping individuals achieve better job security and wages.
Seeks to modernize and make nursing education more accessible. by encouraging flexible class schedules, use of satellite locations, and innovative program models—measures that could benefit working adults, parents, and people in rural or underserved communities.
Findings and recommendations from this study could shape future policy and funding. , influencing how New York invests in healthcare workforce development and possibly setting an example for other states facing similar nursing workforce challenges.
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Improve Nursing Career Pathways
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
3 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to higher education
- Referred to higher education
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2840
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, COOK, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT directing the board of regents and the state education department to investigate the scope of nursing education programs and develop a model for improved articulation of the education program for career mobility from one classification to another
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "development of model for articulation and career mobility act".
§ 2. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby recognizes the need to increase the pool of available nursing resources to meet the increased demands on the health care delivery system. The more complex nature of illnesses, constraints on reimbursement, pressuring accelerated treatment and earlier patient discharge, the explosion of technology, and requirements for intense monitoring for quality assurance, may be diverting nurses from the bedside into early burnout, retirement or employment elsewhere. The state's nursing education program, encompassing nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses and licensed (registered) nurses should be better articulated for career mobility in order to make the nursing profession more attractive to individuals and for recruiting and retaining qualified nurses in the health care delivery system.
§ 3. The board of regents and the state education department, in consultation with the department of health and leaders in nursing education, shall:
(1) investigate current education programs for nurses in all settings, such as high schools, vocational-technical schools, community colleges, universities and hospital-based schools of nursing, to identify the scope of nursing education programs in the state;
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(2) ensure that the investigation of nursing programs be directed toward identifying current articulation programs, determining which factors contribute to success or failure, and sharing such information with schools;
(3) develop a model for articulation and career mobility to enable nurses at every level of the profession to progress to higher levels and advance their professional status by integrating into a recognized nursing curriculum; and
(4) develop models for innovative nursing education programs that will encourage flexibility in classroom hours, in education program schedules and through satellite locations, and at clinical practice settings so that individuals throughout the state have greater access to a nursing education program.
§ 4. The board of regents and the state education department shall present their final findings and recommendations to the legislature on January 1, 2021.
§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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