On March 8, 2019, the Nurse
Support Program II (NSPII) hosted a Project Director Meeting at Chesapeake
College in Wye Mills, Maryland. Each NSP II grant funded project is required to
report on mandatory dissemination activities which include opportunities at
the Maryland Nurses
Association or Maryland
Action Coalition Annual Conferences, NSP II meetings as well as national
venues. In attendance were 34 nurse faculty from 12 nursing programs,
along with NSP II staff, Kim Ford and Peg Daw from MHEC's Office of Outreach
and Grants Management. Nurse faculty representing Chesapeake College, Cecil
College, Harford Community College, Anne Arundel Community College, Community
College of Baltimore County, Wor-Wic Community College, Hood College, Johns
Hopkins University, University of Maryland, Notre Dame of Maryland University,
Towson University and Salisbury University attended to make presentations or learn
more about NSP II from their colleagues.Nurse faculty presented information on 20 NSP II projects with
PPTs and handouts. Associate to Bachelor's (ATB) and academic progression in
nursing (APIN) between community colleges and universities were projects
discussed by faculty at six schools. In recent reports by the Campaign
for Action, the percentage of registered nurses who hold a BSN or higher
is up from 49% in 2010 to 56% in 2017 at the national level. Maryland is doing
better at 60.2%, up from 55.4% in 2010. Overall, Maryland is ranked in the top
20% of the nation for percentages of bachelor's prepared nurses.
The call for nominations is open for the Nurse Leadership
Institute and
an invitation was issued to nurse faculty to be filmed and highlighted in
the Nurse
Educator Career Portal . The Eastern
Shore Faculty Academy and Mentoring Initiative (ES-FAMI) has expanded
to central and western Maryland with a 30 contact hour program that prepares
experienced BSN and MS-prepared registered nurses for new roles as part-time
clinical nursing faculty. Clinical faculty will be prepared at Towson
University, Hood College, Frostburg State University and Allegany College of
Maryland through this ES-FAMI collaborative.
The Maryland Nursing Workforce Center (MNWC) is pending final
approval by the National
Forum on State Nursing Workforce Centers. The MNWC is developing a centralized
data website to support the nursing workforce with supply and demand figures,
along with resources for nursing programs, educators, employers, students,
hospitals and nurses. The center will be collecting, analyzing and reporting
state level data in standardized minimum data sets to assist in policy
development and nursing workforce planning.
