Nurse Re-Entry Initiative
This project provides opportunities for training and refresher courses for non-practicing licensed nurses to return to the nursing profession and to learn the latest medical techniques and practices. This innovative measure seeks to attract those who have the aptitude and basic technical knowledge, but may require minimal training to prepare them to re-enter the workforce with new technology and in new work environments.
The aging workforce, the economy and other factors have resulted in non-practicing licensed nurses desiring to re-enter the health care workforce.
Changes in medical technology, new medications and advances in medicine represent a barrier for non-practicing licensed nurses to feel competent and comfortable to re-enter the profession.
Non-practicing nurses need to also strengthen their critical thinking skills, which is critical to today’s health care workplace.
Opportunity:
- Retool and expand the existing nurse re-entry program at Johnson County Community College
- JCCC currently conducts two programs annually
- JCCC currently has more applicants for the existing re-entry program than they can accommodate
- JCCC will double the number of training sessions and nurses who can receive specialized training prior to returning to the nursing profession
- Due to a lack of available space at JCCC, Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley and JCCC have agreed to coordinate the additional training sessions at the new facilities at Penn Valley
- Broader community support by all area hospitals for expanding the JCCC re-entry program
Overall Goal:
- To retool and expand the new nurse re-entry program at Johnson County Community College (JCCC program began in 2005), which will double the number of training sessions and nurses who can receive specialized training prior to returning to the nursing profession.