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An Academic-Practice Partnership Model to Grow and Sustain Advanced Practice Nursing
Tracy E Williams1, Patricia B Howard
1Author Affiliations: Senior Vice President and System Chief Nursing Officer (Dr Williams), Norton Healthcare, Louisville, Kentucky; and Executive Vice Dean (Dr Howard), College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Objective:
The aims of this article were to describe the implementation of an academic-practice partnership for healthcare system workforce development and provide preliminary outcomes of the associated pilot study.
Background:
The demand for cross-continuum healthcare delivery models necessitates creation of workforce development structures for advanced practice nursing.
Methods:
An academic-practice partnership specified enrollment of 5 cohorts of BSN staff nurses in a 3-year DNP program. Qualitative methods were used to explore pilot data at midpoint of cohort 1 student progression to determine learning outcomes and DNP projects with potential for impact on organization goals.
Results:
Partnership implementation experiences indicate that contractual agreements and an established evaluation plan are keys to academic-practice partnership success. Pilot study findings suggest that curriculum core courses provide a foundation for designing DNP projects congruent with acute and primary care health system goals. Implementing an academic-practice partnership is a strategy for workforce development to increase retention of advanced practice nurses.
Conclusion:
Academic-practice partnerships can serve as a catalyst for a paradigm shift for changing models of care, thus enhancing workforce development succession planning for sustainable growth in healthcare systems.
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