Senate Bill 1309 authored by Jack Scott

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Senate Bill 1309authored by Jack Scott

• Barbara Whitney, Vocational
• Education Specialist-Health
• California Community Colleges
• Chancellor's Office

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SB 1309-Legislation Intent

• Expanding capacity of health career programs at
  the Secondary level
• Increasing Nursing education enrollment in
  community colleges and the California State
  University
• Recruiting and retaining faculty
• Streamlining Clinical placement
• Enhancing financial aid for nursing students

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SB 1309-Legislation Intent

• Providing addition resources to community
  colleges to reduce attrition
• Creating a statewide health care workforce
  database to monitor pipeline supply and demand
  data for the health care workforce.

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SB 1309-Legislation Intent

• Address California Nursing Shortage
• Health Science Medial Technology Project
• Grants to K-12 under the Dept. of Education
• Establish/Enhance new or existing career pathway
  programs
• Establish Cal Grant N
• Under Student Aid Commission
• Supplemental Loans for nursing students

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SB 1309-Legislation Intent

• Amend Student Nursing Assumption of Loans Program
  (SNAPL Program)
• Amend to provide retroactive loan assumption for
  undergraduates pursuing nursing faculty status to
  include part-time teaching

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Legislation Intent

• California Community Colleges Nursing Faculty
  Recruitment and Retention Program
• Alter the ability of community colleges to employ
  long-term temporary faculty from 2 semesters over
  3 years to 4 semesters over 3 years
• Includes faculty salary augmentation for new
  faculty
• Sunsets June 30, 2014

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SB 1309-Legislation Intent

• Establish a California Community College Nursing
  Enrollment Growth and Retention Program
• Grants to address enrollment growth and attrition
• 12 attrition or agree to implement comprehensive
  retention program
• Community colleges identify diagnostic instrument
  to predict nursing success and adopt it statewide
  with a statewide standard for nursing program
  success
• Strengthen pre-nursing coursework
• Report outcomes to Chancellors office

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SB 1309-Legislation Intent

• Establish Five Regional Nursing resource Centers
  that develop appropriate stakeholder partnerships
  and
• Develop online Clinical placement systems
• Develop online Faculty Registry systems
• Provide training and technical assistance to users

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SB 1309-Legislation Intent

• Expand baccalaureate Nursing programs by 340
  slots
• Charge the office of Statewide Health Planning
  and Development (OSHPD) with gathering and
  compiling pipeline statistics on nursing and
  reporting annually to legislature
• California Community Colleges to develop a
  computerized, online clinical placement and
  clinical faculty registry