Maine Partners in Nursing – Innovative Ideas Grant

“Home Healthcare Curricular Integration Initiative”

Purpose

• Describe the Maine Partners in Nursing – Innovative Ideas Grant: “Home Healthcare Curricular Integration

Initiative”• Grant goals• Implementation• Progress to date

Maine Partners in Nursing Education and Practice

Five priorities for Maine include:• Develop and implement nursing core competencies for

the Nurse of the Future • Create paths for innovation in nursing education • Re-imagine nursing education and practice as we reflect

on future patient needs • Involve a broad coalition of stakeholders • Build bridges and partnerships between education and

practice to develop models for entering and re-entering nursing practice.

Background

• Opportunity identified– Professional Advisory Committee

• Collaboration on proposal for Innovative Ideas proposal:– Development and Marketing– Clinical Education Coordinator

• HHVN awarded $1,000 grant

Grant Value

• Increasing population of elder residents in Maine

• Patients want to remain in their own homes

• Movement toward more cost-efficient healthcare

• Identified need for home health education in nursing curriculum

Grant Goals

• Introduce home health care into the nursing student curriculum

• Collaboration with Maine nursing school faculty• Innovative process : on-line education• Companion learning to clinical placements• Home health education to promote home

healthcare as a viable future professional choice

Collaboration

• HomeHealth Visiting Nurses nursing education program partnerships:– Southern Maine Community College– St. Joseph’s College – University of New England– University of Maine – University of Southern Maine

On-Line Modules

• Home Care Institute maintains a Core Library of computer-based training home health modules – Approved for nursing education by the American

Nurses Credentialing Center • Three modules for the grant:

– Home Care: Beyond the Basics– OASIS-C Basics– Home Health Covered Services

Pilot Spring Semester 2012

• University of Southern Maine students• Nursing Care of the Older Adult in the

Community– Instructor – Linda Samia– HHVN clinical educator guest lecturer

(3/22/12)• Nursing Summit (3/21/12)

Next Steps

• Communicate module availability at other partner institutions for fall semester 2012

• Explore sustainability