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Partnerships for Innovations in Nursing Education

By the year 2020 the U.S. will likely have a shortage of over 800,000 registered nurses. California alone is estimated to experience a shortage of between 77,000 and 120,000 RNs. The negative impacts of these projected shortages are exacerbated by the severe under-representation of African-American and Latinos in the nursing workforce.

Creating more efficient associate degree nursing (ADN) programs serving more diversified student populations is critical. About 60% of all registered nurses, in California and nationwide, enter the profession through a diploma or associate degree program. Seventy-one of California's 93 nursing degree programs are ADN programs, and 67 of these are in community colleges.

Designed as a catalyst for strategic change, the Partnerships for Innovations in Nursing Education (PINE) program will create innovative projects to improve, expand and diversify participating community college nursing programs. This will be achieved by (1) conducting an intensive two-day workshop for participating community colleges, potential reform partners, and funders to build proposals to improve nursing education in our community colleges; and (2) awarding start-up grants to the most promising collaborative project proposals.

Sponsored by the office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (California, 8th District), the Partnerships for Innovations in Nursing Education program is a reform effort funded through a U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Grant. The UCSF Center for the Health Professions is responsible for the design and implementation of this program.

For more information about this program please contact Mary Dickow at the USCF Center for the Health Professions.