Budget Briefing: College of Nursing

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Budget Briefing College of Nursing

• J. Shaver, Dean CEO
• J. Sagun, Director Resources Management - COO

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The UIC College of Nursing

• Who we are
• Nearly 750 students BS (350), MS (305) PHD
  (83) in nursing science
• 99 instated over 300 adjunct faculty leaders
• Over 80 staff associates
• Over 8500 alumni
• 16 faculty American Academy of Nursing members

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UIC CON Undergraduate Options

• Upper division professional education
• UIC pre-nursing
• Transfer from other schools
• RN-BSN completion
• Cohorts from health systems
• Individuals
• Planning graduate entry program (GEP)
• For students with degree in another field (400 on
  waiting list)
• complete professional education for RN licensure
  eligibility in 15 mo. enter MS(N) program.

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• UIC CON Departments Advanced Practice Nursing
  (Masters of Science) Options
• Department of Women, Children Family Health
  (Maternal-Child Nsg)
• Nurse Midwifery (Certified Nurse Midwife)
• Womens Health Care or Pediatric Nurse
  Practitioner (NP)
• Pediatric or Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist
  (CNS)
• Department of Biobehavioral Sciences
  (Medical-Surgical Nsg)
• Acute Care (adult) or Geriatric NP
• Acute care CNS (specialty concentrations in
  Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, General Acute
  Care, Neuro-cognitive)
• Department of Health Systems Behavior Sciences
  (PMA Nsg)
• Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
• Occupational Health Nursing (may be combined
  with FNP)
• School Nursing (may be combined with FNP)
• Administrative Nursing (may be combined with
  MBA)
• Community Nurse Specialist (may be combined with
  MPH)
• Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist

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Doctoral Study

• PhD program
• Designed to prepare next generation of faculty
  research-intensive
• Planning Practice Doctorate
• Migrate advanced specialty practice masters to
  doctoral degree DNP or DrNP
• Designed to prepare next generation of primary
  and acute care clinician leaders practice
  systems evaluation intensive

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The UIC CON What we stand for

• Teaching/Learning Leadership Excellence
• Top 10 college of nursing national ranking by
  reputation
• Largest top-ranked College of Nursing in
  Illinois
• Research Leadership Excellence
• 3rd ranked in NIH nursing research funding (FY
  2002/03)
• Professional Practice/Service Leadership
  Excellence (Outreach)
• UIC Institute for Healthcare Innovations
  (professional continuing education, health care
  consulting, policy practice initiatives)
• Global Health Leadership Excellence
• WHO Collaborating Center (1st in USA) - for
  Nursing
• Midwifery

Advancing Nursing Leadership for Health in
Illinois and Beyond
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CON Faculty Resources 2003 (FTE) Total 99
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Top Nursing Research Schools - student/faculty
ratio
Message UIC CON is top ranked in research among
nursing schools in spite of challenging
student/faculty ratio
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Environmental Scan UIC CON

• Largest highest national, reputation ranked CON
  in Illinois
• 3 academic health center (AHC) nursing programs
  (UIC, Loyola, Rush)
• About 100 AHC nursing programs in U.S.
• 34 programs in Illinois that grant BN/BSN or
  higher
• About 645 programs in U.S. that grant BN/BSN or
  higher
• Message UIC CON has risen to the top ranking in
  a field with an extraordinarily HIGH level of
  competition!

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NIH Research Funding - Nursing

• UIC CON 3rd ranked for nursing in NIH research
  funding for second consecutive year

Message UIC CON ranked with schools at very top
tier universities in producing new knowledge
through research
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NIH Research Funding - Nursing
Message UIC CON ranked with schools at very top
tier universities in producing new knowledge
through research
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Trend - Sponsored Projects (in 000s) (OVCR)
(Award - 2002 12,501,456 - 2001
8,170,622)
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Trend expenditures (in 000s) (OBFS)
? 00-01 35 01-02 30 02-03 33
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Five-year trend State Appropriation
(in 000s)
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Trend State Award
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Last Year - Sources of Funding (total 16
million)
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This year - Sources of Funding (total 18.7
million)
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Budget Strategies for Impending Shortfall

• Increasing outside income
• Shifting to less costly activities or innovating
  to create niche
• Increasing efficiencies to reduce costs
• Staying flexible
• Creating Visibility

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Increasing outside income

• Increase in sponsored research
• up 33 in past year
• Higher salary replacement amounts
• more F A (ICR)
• Federal grants to support education student
  scholarships
• acquisition of 1,046,94 in non-research grants
  this year (mostly from HRSA)

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Increasing outside income

• Reinforce standard faculty goal to generate 40
  of income practice or research
• Strengthen NIH-type research supports office of
  research facilitation, guide faculty salary
  support written into grants, think tanks, mock
  reviews, mentoring teams, grant information broker

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Increasing outside income

• Market cohort educational degree programs
• RN-BSN program on-site U of Chicago
• Administrative Nursing leadership certificate
  Advocate Good Samaritan, U. of Chicago,
• School nurse certificate program
• Post-masters NP certificate
• Market professional development education
  consulting products through the CON Institute for
  Healthcare Innovation
• E.g. Academy for frontline nursing manager

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Shifting to less costly initiatives

• Higher cost generic UG program (downsize)
  expand to graduate entry (waiting list 400
  students)
• Lower cost RN-BSN program (revitalize)
• Higher cost advanced practice nurse (NP, CNS,
  CNM) masters program (right-size)
• Lower cost systems specialists masters program
  (health informatics, administrative leadership)
  (up-size)
• Shift to clinical practice doctorate (cost
  neutral)

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Increasing efficiencies to reduce costs

• Partnering for cost sharing
• Practice UI Nursing Healthcare Associates
  deliver primary care at site where members come
  to receive rehab care for persistent mental
  illness (do not have overhead)
• Teaching Negotiate with health systems to
  provide practicum supervision
• Creating core e.g., across masters emphases
  to reduce redundancies
• with other colleges schools

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Staying flexible

• Diversifying - mix of tenured/able, research
  and clinical professorial ranks
• Avoid lock-ins - Hire assistant professors or
  faculty outside of tenure rank
• Integrating teaching, research practice e.g.,
  hire part-time on state find opportunities for
  position supplement practice, research, or
  professional development activities through the
  IHI (consulting, CE, direct practice
  contracting)

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Creating Local Visibility

• Future Nurses of America club recruiting - UHP
• Power e-mail recruiting (2x increase in
  applicants)
• Team recruitment at key scientific meetings
• CON Institute for Healthcare Innovation
• Power of Nursing Leadership Annual Event 800
  attendees in 2003
• Consulting HIPPA, back pain health, pain
  management, accreditation readiness, curriculum
  design, etc.

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Environmental Scan 2/12/04

• Washington, DC U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  (BLS) announced yesterday that RNs top the list
  of the 10 occupations with the largest projected
  job growth in the years 2002-2012.
• Will be more than 2.9 million RNs employed in the
  year 2012, up 623,000 from the nearly 2.3 million
  RNs employed in 2002
• Total job growth net replacement of nurses will
  be gt than 1.1 million

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Environmental Scan 2/12/04

• Earlier this month, President Bushs fiscal year
  2005 budget proposal was 147 million for nursing
  workforce development programs including the
  Nurse Reinvestment Act
• increase of more than 5 million over the 2004
  funding level
• includes 32 million for student loan repayments
  and scholarships,
• 21 million for nursing diversity programs
• 8 million for geriatric nurse education and
  nurse faculty loan-repayment programs.

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Creating Local Visibility

• Strategic Partnerships
• Strengthening workforce
• Nurse retention Advocate Health Care HRSA
  (1.5 mil)
• PH nursing workforce improvement HRSA (868K)
• Comprehensive Geriatric Education HRSA (637K)
• Mental health workforce improvement IDHS
  (110K)
• National nsg. edn. ventures group asking to
  partner
• Health Care Innovations
• Integrated Health Care integrating primary
  mental health care
• Nominated for Baselon Center for Mental Health
  Law award
• Raised 2.4 mil for this project from 300 to
  27 projects in Round 2 - (16-18 to be funded) by
  RWJ Foundation

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Creating Global Visibility

• Global Health Leadership WHO Collaborating
  Center for Nursing Midwifery helping
  communities build capacity for reducing HIV/AIDS
• Completed Swaziland project (Bristol-Meyer-Squibb,
  Cabrini Foundation)
• Continuing NIH/Fogarty Malawi project
• Beginning China educational project (Chinese
  govt.)

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Goals

• Continue Nursing Workforce Development Plan
• Expand generic UG applications and improve
  student caliber
• Create and market graduate entry program (GEP)
• Plan and implement a clinical practice doctorate
• Revitalize RN-BSN program
• Expand UI OnLine course development
• Advance Center for Clinical Learning Excellence
• Build faculty capacity - balance faculty
  resources to demands
• Build Research Infrastructure and Capacity
• Expand Development Activities

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Goals Budget Requests (2005/06)

• Continue Nursing Workforce Development Plan
• increase UG enrollment (N 16)
• request 2 faculty positions to (this represents 2
  practicum sections) 150K
• implement GEP program (N 32)
• request 1 faculty position as coordinator 75K
• revitalize RN-BSN program (online)
• request instructional design technologist 70K
• Build Faculty Capacity
• Informatics faculty (to connect with AHS UIMC
  (advance virtual reality/telehealth initiatives
  write federal grants)
• request Senior Faculty Seed package in
  90K
• Total 385K

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2006/07

• Continue Nursing Workforce Development Plan
• Request funding for 2 faculty positions
  (170,000)
• increase enrollment in GEP to 48 or 64 (from 32)
• Implement practice doctorate transition from
  M.S (nursing) to DNP (Dr. of Nursing Practice)
  cost neutral
• Advance Center for Clinical Learning Excellence
• Request Director Salary and Venture Capital
  (340K)
• Director salary - 90K
• Venture Capital 250K - Partner with AHC
  biovisualization to do virtual learning modules

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Capital Requests