National Nursing Home Staffing Campaign - Project Title: Region 5 & National Nursing Home Staffing Campaign Applicant Organization Name: Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence Address: 7535 East Hampden Avenue, Suite 110; Denver, CO 80231 Project Director Name: Amanda Quintana DNP, MSN, FNP, FAAN Contact Phone Number: (720) 699-7843 Email Address: Amanda@ColoradoNursingCenter.org Website: www.ColoradoNursingCenter.org Project Budget: $62,506,467 The Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence (The Center) is the largest nursing workforce center in the country. This proposal is designed as a national initiative with a focus on Region 5. Drawing on The Center’s comprehensive experience across the nursing continuum, the project will include recruiting LPNs, ADNs and BSNs. The Center will provide in-depth coverage of the 10-state Region 5 nursing home staffing campaign with additional coverage across Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6 . This project also will establish a structure for the overall management of the project and begins with setting up the infrastructure needed to support this large endeavor by utilizing an existing system - REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture). REDCap is a secure, web-based software platform for managing online surveys/applications and databases, primarily designed to support data collection. The Center has extensive experience recruiting nurses and paying stipends and will capitalize on lessons learned to build an infrastructure taking advantage of proficiencies already in place. The estimated time to set-up the infrastructure is expected to be approximately 4 months. This will allow The Center to modify/customize processes to meet the needs for this project. Additionally, during the infrastructure set-up period, The Center will develop a supplementary in-house secure structure to store nurse application details, ongoing employment information, stipend and/or school loan eligibility requirements and will modify the tracking system for nurse payments. This will build on the processes already in place used for high volume HRSA, and other funders, stipend payments to nurses. Simultaneously, The Center will develop recruitment plans to support all regions and establish the required partnerships necessary for this project to ensure the recruiting is ready to launch once the infrastructure is in place. This includes creating marketing messaging, project website and other project support materials. Once the infrastructure is in place and has been tested, recruiting will begin for both new and experienced LPNs and RNs across all funded regions to enter into a new career as a long-term care nurse in an approved nursing home facility. In Region 5, The Center has established contractual relationships for organizations to support recruiting in each state. On a national basis, The Center will partner with the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers utilizing their connections with schools of nursing and other healthcare organizations. The goal of this project will be to recruit approximately 490 eligible nurses for Region 5 and an approximate total of 1,950 nurses across Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6.
