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Whether you represent a school or a clinical facility, the benefits of working in a collaborative to solve the issues we face in healthcare are powerful. The driving forces behind the TCPP partnership are:
Benefits of Partnership
During the pilot phase and subsequent implementation throughout Tennessee, several outcomes have been identified for both types of partners:
- The partners themselves, representing the various regions of our state,
- Collaboration to tear down the silos of academia and practice, and
- Building a supply of nursing and healthcare professionals to meet the shortage that impacts all Tennesseans.
- Increased capacity for schools of nursing and other healthcare programs and more bedside patient care time for students.
- Time and associated cost savings for clinical facilities and schools of nursing through the streamlining of documentation, placement requests and orientation.
- Positive marketing opportunities for clinical facilities seeking to improve the orientation and matriculation of students to the bedside and adding to the employment pipeline.
- Quality student placements - the right student, in the right place at the right time in their program to assure an optimal educational experience
- Growing return on investment (ROI) through quantitative and qualitative measures once initial data is identified and orientation materials are developed.
- Ready-access to partner collaboration for problem-solving and brainstorming based for regional, state, and national input and discussion.
Looking at the data ...
When the TCPS℠ was first piloted in the fall of 2006 in Middle Tennessee with 3 schools and 4 clinical facilities, we found that:
Additional data is being collected through the evaluation solution to identify and report additional outcomes and usage statistics.
- During the pilot phase of implementation in Middle Tennessee, 43 new placements were identified in only 4 clinical facilities. In January 2010, there were 6880 open placements across Tennessee that went unused by schools of nursing.
- Prior to implementing TCPS℠, the average time spent in both facilities and schools to initiate and confirm a clinical placement was 16 days. With TCPS℠, clinical placements are requested online and usually confirmed within 5 working days.
- Orientation for students prior to implementing the TCPS℠ required Facility Educators to spend an average of 14 hours per clinical group per semester. Students were spending an average of 3-4 clinical days in orientation each semester. Using TCPS℠, students complete online GENERAL orientation content in an average of 3 hours.
- Using facility-specific online orientation through TCPS℠, clinical educators only present content that must be done face-to-face! Less time spent presenting orientation content to multiple groups of students frees educators to work on other education initiatives!
Structure of TCPS℠
