A FRAMEWORK FOR PROFESSIONAL NURSE DEVELOPMENT: The Power of One  PI - Margaret M. Calarco, PhD, RN
NURSING CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Nurse Education, Practice and Retention (NEPR) - Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
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It's All in Nursing!

Career Center

Nursing - One Profession, So Many Careers!
University of Michigan Health System - Nursing at Michigan
PRACTITIONER'S GUIDE
How to build a Center for Professional Development & Mentoring for Nursing Career Development
In 2005, Nursing Administration within the University of Michigan Health System was awarded a three-year HRSA funded grant with the principal purpose of impacting nurse retention within the profession.  The main premise was to have an impact on professional development and the facilitation of educational attainment as it applied to an individual's nursing profession and subsequent career plan.  Many components and programs comprised the funded initiative, including the following:
  • On-site BSN program, (collaborative project with the School of Nursing and the U-M Health System)
  • Expansion of a BSN internship, (externship), program to include ADN's
  • The development and opening of a Center for Professional Development & Mentoring, (including a web portal)
  • A formal mentoring program

Interwoven in all projects was a component of cultural competency and diversity education, especially as it pertained to the development of mentors and subsequent cultural competencies within the patient-care environment. 

Dissemination of a "how-to" guide along with 'lessons learned' to the greater nursing community and profession is a component of the funding provided by HRSA.  Through this web site, we provide a manual as to how we designed, developed and implemented various components, primarily the career center and our mentoring program, along with relevant supporting documents and tools.

Our intent is to offer a blue-print should others wish to duplicate our program, as well as insight as to what worked and what did not. 

Our hope is that our findings as a result of being funded by HRSA will benefit all within the Nursing Profession wishing to develop programs aimed at retention within nursing. 

Our belief is that you don't need to leave nursing to change careers and that development is not just for a position, rather one's profession.  
 


 

Developed by: Marietta Van Buhler, Program Manager - UMHS Nursing Administration for HRSA grant #:D65HP05254 – Principal Investigator: Margaret Calarco, PhD, RN (2005-08)

 

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Looking for the old site? You have reached this page via a link that previously housed the web site of our Center for Professional Development & Mentoring -   Please CLICK HERE if you are a nurse seeking information provided on the old site.

This web site was supported in part through a federal grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), DHHS. Grant #:D65HP05254

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