Wisconsin Nurse - March 2021

Page 12 The Wisconsin Nurse March 2021
Wisconsin Center for Nursing
Priority Training Receives Innovation Award,
Expands to Nurses Across the State
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to
expand throughout the State, the negative health
consequences experienced by disparate and
vulnerable populations continues to be magnified and
the need to have a nursing workforce better prepared
to respond to these needs remains the central focus
of the Wisconsin Nurses Respond Now (WNRN)
Priority Training Project. This training provided by the
Wisconsin Center for Nursing (WCN) in partnership
with the National RN Case Manager Training
Center, is designed to contribute positively towards
addressing social determinants, improving potential
health outcomes and ensuring more equitable care is
provided to all Wisconsinites. Focused on ensuring
public health initiatives are supported, vulnerable
populations are identified and strategies to reduce risk
are offered, this workforce development education
initiative received an Innovation Award from the Future
of Nursing Campaign for Action at the Center for
Championing Nursing in America (CCNA), an initiative
of the AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation.
“Initial funding provided by Bader Philanthropies,
allowed us to accomplish Phase 1 of the project which
was to pilot the training with nurses in Milwaukee
as this was the State’s highest need area” said WCN
Executive Director, Barbara Nichols PhD, (Hon) MSN,
RN. Through this Innovation Award, WCN will be able
to move into Phase 2 of this 3 Phase training which
includes a limited number of tuition scholarships for
nurses throughout the State. “It’s exciting to see this
training have value for nurses from across the State
whether they are working in Milwaukee, a rural critical
access hospital or community clinic,” says Kelly Kruse
Nelles RN, APRN-BC, MS, National RNCM Director.
Designed for busy nurses in practice, this 6 hour
Priority Training is available as an online independent
study and can easily be completed in 30 days.
For more information or to reserve your seat for the
April 4 – May 4 class, please contact, Kelly Kruse Nelles
at (608) 437-6035 or email Kelly.kruse@nationalrncm.
com. Visit the Wisconsin Center for Nursing website
at https://wicenterfornursing.org/ to download the
WNRN Fact Sheet or register online for the training.
ABOUT:
The Wisconsin Center for Nursing (WCN) is a 501c3
non-profit organization that was created in 2006 to
engage nurse and healthcare organizations, public
and private academic programs, government agencies
and related service providers to work together as
collaborative partners in an effort to ensure an
adequate, competent and diverse nursing workforce
for the people of Wisconsin. Through partnership
with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce
Development, it strives to accurately and continually
collect, analyze and disseminate nursing workforce
data to assist health care organizations and academic
institutions to fully assess both nursing resources
and nursing education so they are utilized effectively
now, and in the future. As Director of WCN, Barbara
Nichols PhD, (Hon) MS, RN, FAAN provides leadership
focused on assuring a well-prepared and diverse
nurse workforce to meet the needs of the citizens of
Wisconsin. Learn more at: www.wcn.org
The National RN Case Manager Training Center
LLC also known as National RNCM, is a Wisconsin
based, nurse led organization developed in 2010
by Kelly Kruse Nelles RN, APRN-BC, MS and Mary
Jo Borden RN, APRN-BC, MSN in response to the
passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act and the release of The Future of Nursing Report in
which the critical need to reduce care fragmentation
through improved care coordination and case/care
management by RNs was identified. The workforce
development initiatives of the Training Center
focus on delivery of high quality role development
education designed to support rapid translation of
new knowledge back into practice with an emphasis
on full scope nursing practice. National RNCM faculty
is proud to have prepared more than 1000 RNs for RN
Case Manager, Care Manager and Care Coordination
roles. These nurses are now practicing throughout the
U.S. Healthcare system in acute, primary, public health
and long term care settings and working every day to
improve health outcomes that include addressing the
social determinants of health in the patient populations
that they are partnered with. Learn more at: www.
nationalrncm.com