The Center for Allied Health Nursing Education
This center was established in 2003 in response to an emerging shortage of trained and experienced healthcare workers in New Jersey. This phenomenon is believed to have evolved from increasing health care demands inclusive of a steep growth in the population; diminishing interest of new students within ther health care industry and an aging workforce and baby boom bubble. As such, the focus was towards ‘developing and offering educational programs that (i) provide students with comprehensive instruction and training and (ii) reinforce the humanistic aspects of care in the area of healthcare’ (Strategic Plan, 2013).
Core values encompass a commitment towards providing a holistic learning environment, which embraces scholastic, one-on-one practice along with relevant community involvement. Precisely, the organization aims to ‘(i) inform, (ii) inspire and (iii) motivate students’ (Strategic Plan, 2013). These are the most precious virtues this Center for Allied Health Nursing Education expects to impart to its students. Besides, leaders envision the center as being ‘a dynamic, outward looking institution whose faculty, staff, students and community are actively engaged in addressing the needs of demand occupations. Our instructional techniques should promote excellence, lifelong learning and community responsibility and our learning environment should be innovative, challenging, and intellectual’ (Strategic, 2013).
Presently, there are five strategic priories, which support quality improvement in my organization. They are quality instruction; demand occupation education; faculty and staff; organizational and occupation structure; media equipment and facilities and completion, placement and licensure outcomes. Quality instruction encompasses, which objectives of which, continue to implement instructional programs that accomplish three objectives: (i) inform, (ii) inspire and (iii) motivate is a main feature. A measure of success includes establishing a curriculum file containing standard set of books, lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations and educational objectives and goals (Strategic, 2013).
A main objective of the Demand Occupation Education strategy is to continue to identifying ‘additional communities in states with a need for nurses and expand campuses. A measure of success include new programs and placement rates’ (Strategic, 2013).While maintaining ‘a diverse student population whose characteristics enrich the learning environment is a major objective of the Enrollment and Student Support Services strategy with admission referral rates a measure of success’ (Strategic, 2013) on the scorecard.
‘Ensuring demographic, geographic diversity among the faculty’ (Strategic, 2013) is one of the guiding objectives pertaining to strategic priority four faculty and staff. ‘Faculty and staff participation in Professional Development Activities’ (Strategic, 2013) is considered a measure of success. Finally, aligning ‘organizational and administrative structure in a manner that promotes the quality of program outcomes and ensures effective utilization of resources’ (Strategic, 2013) becomes a major objective pertaining to Organizational and Administration Structure strategic priority. Evidently, ‘meeting quantitative and qualitative programmatic outcomes’ (Strategic, 2013) is a measure of success.
Importantly, one of the overall goals of strategic planning of the Allied Health Nursing Education Center is to ‘maintain progress through evaluation of old assumptions and support for new innovation’ (Strategic, 2013), which is expected to keep the organization in alignment with credential requirements. According to the requirements of New Jersey credential agency for healthcare educational institutions there are biannual accreditation requirements pertaining to maintain high output standards for re-licensure to operate as an educational institution. These strategies are deliberately aligned to maintain these standards (The State of New Jersey, 2013).
Reference
Strategic Plan (2013). The Center for Allied Health Nursing Education. New Jersey.
The State of New Jersey (2013).Department of Law and Public Safety. Division of Consumer
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