2011 AACC Nursing and Allied Health Brochure
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2011 AACC Nursing and Allied Health Brochure
Community Colleges Keeping America Healthy & Safe 1 Meeting the Nation’s Health-Care and Emergency Preparedness Needs AACC The importance of community colleges in preparing nurses and allied health professionals to meet the nation’s need is strong and growing. The colleges already educate the majority of these essential health-care workers, and federal laws and policies are calling for new academic and career pathways. The goal? A diverse workforce that reflects the nation’s changing demographics and is prepared to deliver high-value care in an evolving health-care system. The Voice of America’s Community Colleges To help meet those needs, AACC and its member colleges have created the Health Professions Education Center (HPEC), which brings together health providers, businesses, and workforce leaders to leverage resources to address America’s health-care challenges. Through collaboration and partnerships, HPEC supports community colleges in achieving the following: Since 1920, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has been the voice of the nation’s community colleges. With a membership that includes 95% of all 2-year colleges, AACC represents 1,200 colleges serving more than 12 million students each year, making community colleges the largest and fastest-growing sector of higher education. Visit the AACC website at www.aacc.nche.edu. ◾◾ Expanding enrollments in and strengthening nursing and allied health programs, while securing for community colleges a proportionate share of federal funding appropriated for those purposes. ◾◾ Bolstering existing and building new pathways to support the career and academic progression necessary for a well-prepared 21st-century health-care workforce. ◾◾ Building the infrastructure to allow for redesigned and interdisciplinary curricula to support the nation’s health system shift to delivering quality, team-based care. ◾◾ Expanding the workforce educated at the graduate level to meet the nation’s need for faculty while also increasing access, emphasizing prevention and wellness, and decreasing cost. ◾◾ Increasing access to and satisfaction with health care across the nation by providing a health professions workforce that mirrors the nation’s diversity. ◾◾ Ensuring the inclusion of 2-year programs and their graduates in federal laws and policies created to support the nation’s health-care workforce. ◾◾ Strengthening federal advisory groups that examine and set workforce policy by ensuring that community colleges—the predominant suppliers of health-care workers—are represented. 2 3 Facts About… Registered Nurses (RNs) Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) ◾◾ Associate degree in nursing (ADN) programs educate nearly 57% of RNs. ◾◾ Two-year colleges educate more than 90% of LPNs. ◾◾ Both 2- and 4-year schools of nursing teach the competencies necessary for successful RN practice, as measured by RN licensure exam pass rates and shared workplace roles. ◾◾ Only graduate-level nursing programs provide RNs with the competencies required for specialty, advanced practice, and faculty roles. ◾◾ ADN-prepared RNs represent a solid economic and social investment, since they are more likely to work and reside in the states where they earn their degrees. ◾◾ Three quarters (74.8%) of RNs in rural settings received their initial nursing degrees through either an ADN or diploma program, at 57.2% and 17.6% respectively. ◾◾ Primarily due to shortages of faculty and clinical sites, in the 2009–2010 academic year ADN programs rejected 46% of qualified applications, compared with 37% of bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) programs and 21% of diploma programs. ◾◾ ADN schools of nursing provide the nation its greatest nursing workforce diversity, graduating about 71% of Black and Hispanic RNs. ◾◾ ADN schools have educated nearly 70% of RNs caring for geriatric and long-term care patients. ◾◾ LPNs held about 753,600 jobs in 2008 with about 25% employed in hospitals, 28% in nursing care facilities, and another 12% in physicians’ offices. Others worked for home health-care and employment services; residential care and community care facilities for the elderly; outpatient care centers; and federal, state, and local government agencies. ◾◾ The employment demand for LPNs is expected to grow by 21% between 2008 and 2018. ◾◾ Driven by an aging population with growing long-term care needs and a general increase in demand for health-care services, demand for LPNs will exceed growth in most other occupations. Allied Health Professionals ◾◾ The allied health professions constitute the majority of the health-care workforce and include both highly educated individuals and those with competencies developed through on-the-job training. ◾◾ Community colleges educate the majority of allied health professionals. ◾◾ ADN- and BSN-prepared RNs are equally competent to serve in leadership roles in management or administration positions at 33.6% and 34.8%, respectively. ◾◾ Allied health careers comprise more than 200 specialty fields including dental hygiene, dietetics or nutrition, emergency medical services, health information technology, clinical laboratory sciences and medical technology, cytotechnology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, radiologic technology, nuclear medical technology, rehabilitation counseling, respiratory therapy, speech-language pathology, and audiology. ◾◾ More than 1 million health-care workers have chosen to become RNs through ADN programs, making ADN-prepared RNs the largest cohort of RNs with health occupation experience prior to becoming nurses. ◾◾ Many allied health professionals educated in 2- and 4-year programs (e.g., respiratory therapists and radiographers) pass the same licensure exam and share the same scope of practice. ◾◾ Nearly 25% (341,025) of ADN-prepared RNs held academic degrees prior to earning their nursing degrees. Of that percentage, 42% (142,789) held bachelor’s degrees. ◾◾ Key allied health professions are experiencing workforce shortages. By 2018, the nation will need additional radiographers (17%), occupational therapist assistants (30%), physical therapist assistants (33%), dental hygienists (36.1%), and home health aides (50.0%). ◾◾ The majority of medical military corps workers (61.1%) choosing to become RNs have become ADN-prepared RNs. ◾◾ Employers are equally likely to hire ADN- and BSN-prepared RNs, with 75% of all RNs working in nursing. ◾◾ Hospitals employ comparable numbers of BSN- and ADNprepared RNs at 646,695 and 626,119, respectively. ◾◾ About an equal percentage of ADN- and BSN-prepared RNs are employed in public or community settings, at 33.7% and 36.4%, respectively. ◾◾ ADN-prepared RNs are an excellent solution to the faculty shortage, because they are poised to achieve graduate degrees via approximately 173 RN to master of science in nursing (RN to MSN) programs. ◾◾ Community colleges in three states (FL, IN, and WA) directly confer the BSN. 4 ◾◾ Many community college LPN programs encourage graduates to earn the associate degree in nursing by completing a second year of nursing study—referred to as 1+1 programs. ◾◾ Moving to a technologically advanced health-care system is dramatically increasing the need for highly skilled health information technology (HIT) experts to support the nation’s transition to electronic health records (EHRs). The HIT profession is expected to grow 20% by 2018.The federal government has invested in community colleges to rapidly build a qualified workforce to ensure the adoption of EHRs, information exchange across health-care providers and public health authorities, and the redesign of workflows within healthcare settings. 5 Community Colleges Are… Key to protecting the nation’s health As the predominant educator of both the nation’s nursing and allied health professions workforces, community colleges are essential to ensuring the quality and availability of healthcare. The colleges provide accessible, affordable education to millions of health care professionals in every state. Without associate degree program graduates, our communities would face an immeasurable health-care crisis, making patient care and safety virtually impossible. Essential to the nation’s emergency preparedness Community colleges are central to the nation’s security and safety. They educate the majority of America’s first responders and have rapidly responded to policymakers’ directives about the education necessary to keep America healthy and secure—from agroterrorism or bioterrorism incident management to airport and rail security to casualty/ fatality management and disaster relief. Furthermore, community colleges have been a catalyst to invigorate community analysis of homeland security issues and are attuned to new and emerging security needs. Responding to calls for a larger and a moreeducated public health workforce The United States will experience a shortage of 250,000 public health workers (one third of the workforce needed) by 2020, and federal policymakers have called for an increased community college role to deliver a more educated and larger public health workforce. Healthy People 2020—the Department of Health and Human Services doctrine setting national health goals—calls for an increase in the proportion of 2-year colleges offering public health or related associate degrees and/or certificates. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (health-care reform) has emphasized the need for health-care professionals capable of providing wellness and preventive care and of caring for patients in community and public settings. Community colleges are working to build partnerships to leverage the community college infrastructure and experience to create new academic progression and career entry pathways in public health. 6 Challenged to meet the nation’s demand for nurses and allied health professionals Both 2- and 4-year health professions programs face many challenges. A common problem is shortages of faculty in classroom and clinical settings; clinical sites where students learn to care for patients; and classrooms, lab spaces, and equipment. Decreased state funding exacerbates these challenges as community colleges are more reliant on state funding and state-level budget reductions have disproportionately affected the colleges’ ability to overcome barriers to meeting community need. In 2007–2008, about 14% of community college budgets comprised federal funds, compared with 36% in state funds. In addition, most federal capacity-building funding is directed to bachelor’s-level programs. Increasing the diversity of the nation’s health professions workforce Tapping the talent of the diverse community college student enrollment can strengthen national goals targeted at increasing health-care workforce diversity. Community college students constitute the following percentages of all U.S. undergraduates: 43%, Native American: 55%, Asian/Pacific Islander: 45%, Black: 44%, and Hispanic: 52%. Community colleges have provided America its greatest nursing workforce diversity, educating the following percentages of minority RNs: Non-Hispanic, Black: 52.6%; Hispanic, all races: 55.3%; Non-Hispanic, American Indian/ Alaska Native: 65.9%; Non-Hispanic, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 46.3%; and Non-Hispanic, multiracial: 55.4%. Responding to critical need for faculty, nurse practitioners, specialists, and other graduateprepared nurses In response to Carnegie Foundation and Institute of Medicine recommendations and health-care reform goals calling for a more-educated nursing workforce, community colleges have made increasing the number of RNs who achieve graduate-level nursing degrees a high priority. Specifically, community colleges are working to bolster the academic progression of ADN-prepared RNs to the nation’s existing 173 RN to MSN programs that prepare RNs for faculty and primary care provider roles. Data underscore the importance of bolstering this pathway: After becoming RNs, nurses typically achieve a single additional nursing degree. The majority of ADN-prepared RNs who earn second nursing degrees attain BSNs, which do not expand the competencies of RNs. 7 Community Colleges Are… (continued) Solutions Providing nurses to care for the increasingly aged U.S. population to Rapidly and Cost-Effectively Reduce Shortages of Health-Care Workers, Ensure Patient Safety, and Meet Health System Change Projections ADN-prepared RNs have demonstrated their commitment to caring for geriatric and long-term care patients—more than twice as many ADN- than BSN-prepared RNs are employed in nursing home or extended-care facilities, at 52.7% (71,426) and 24.8% (33,576), respectively. As the U.S. population ages, the nation will grow to need an additional 260,000 RNs by 2025, and by 2018 will see employment increases for LPNs (21%) as well as many allied health professionals. Recruiting students to health professions programs and providing academic and career pathways to current workers. In July 2010, with a U.S. Department of Labor grant, AACC began working with its partners to build the nation’s Virtual Career Network-Healthcare to recruit people for the healthcare professions as well as to enable current health-care workers to progress academically and within their careers. In 2012, VCN-Healthcare will be accessible on the Internet, offering a step-by-step online process designed to assist with determining whether a health-care career is an appropriate choice and enabling those choosing a health-care career to map their futures. What can Congress do? Direct a proportionate share of federal support to nursing programs at community colleges. Community colleges educate the majority of RNs and do so more cost-effectively and efficiently. An ADN student at a public community college pays $6,120 in tuition and fees compared with costs of $10,528–$21,960 to earn a BSN at a public 4-year college. Generally, the BSN requires at least 120 credit hours and the ADN requires 71.5 credit hours. Despite their savings and efficiencies, community college schools of nursing receive only a fraction— just 2% in 2010—of the Public Health Service Act Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development program funding to support undergraduate nursing. In plain terms, in FY 2010 ADN programs received 1 out of every 40 nursing-related Title VIII grant investments. Make community colleges eligible for participation in federally funded programs targeted at increasing RN program enrollments to bolster the nursing workforce. While community colleges experience the greatest demand for RN program admissions, the federally funded Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention funding for the purpose of expanding enrollments exclusively supports expansion of BSN programs. 8 9 Solutions (continued) Make advancing ADN-prepared RNs to master’s level nursing programs a key strategy in proposals to strengthen and stabilize the nursing workforce, including to address the faculty shortage. What can state legislatures do? Ensure that state regulations and laws recognize the single scope of practice that exists for all RNs. Without additions to the nursing faculty and primary care workforces, the nation cannot meet the health-care needs of its citizenry. Approximately 173 graduate-level nursing programs enroll and educate ADN-prepared RNs to serve in faculty, primary care provider and other advanced nursing roles. Nearly 21% of ADN-prepared RNs continue their education to attain a second nursing degree but most only attain a BSN, which does not prepare nurses for responsibilities beyond the RN level. For more than 50 years, ADN-prepared RNs have demonstrated their competencies by passing the RN licensure exam, and they do so with pass rates comparable to those of their BSN-prepared counterparts. Federal data demonstrate that ADN- and BSN-prepared RNs serve at about the same percentage in leadership roles in management or administration positions and in public or community settings. Furthermore, employers are equally likely to hire ADN- and BSN-prepared RNs, and employment in hospitals does not vary significantly by the type of degrees RNs hold. Strengthen the efforts of federally funded national health-care workforce advisory groups through community college participation. Provide state funding to community colleges to increase the number of graduates by expanding health program capacity. Community colleges are the predominant resource ensuring the development of a diverse health-care workforce in all communities of our nation, including those in rural and urban areas that traditionally are underserved. Moreover, these professionals are the engines of the nation’s largest industrial complex, the health-care industry, generating the leading share of the U.S. gross domestic product at 17.3% in 2009. Absent community college experts serving on national healthcare workforce groups, a bias in a group’s expertise could be created. Such a void diminishes each commission’s potential in assessing whether the demand for health-care workers is being met. State support constitutes a significantly higher percentage of community college budgets than it does for the budgets of 4-year institutions. Community colleges are turning qualified students away from health professions programs, a trend likely to continue as tuitions increase at 4-year institutions, shortages of faculty grow, and the nation’s demand increases. Include ADN-prepared RNs—poised and eligible for direct enrollment in graduate nursing programs—in efforts to expand the nursing faculty and nurse practitioner workforces. The nation’s need for nursing faculty and nurse practitioners (primary care providers) could be met if just a fraction of the 21% of ADN-prepared RNs who opt to attain a second nursing degree graduated from the nation’s existing 173 RN to MSN programs. Make community colleges eligible for participation in all state-funded programs enabling nursing and allied health program expansions. Community colleges provide the most efficient and costeffective means of educating high-quality nurses and allied health professionals. 10 11 Solutions (continued) What can hospitals and other healthcare providers do? Facilitate nurses and allied health professionals serving as faculty in classroom and clinical settings and provide clinical sites and other resources to support community college nursing and allied health programs. Partnerships focused on removing barriers, including lack of clinical education facilities and preceptors (clinical faculty) and faculty for classroom teaching, are key to community colleges’ ability to increase nursing and allied health program enrollments and graduations. Ensure that RNs graduating from all program types are equally valued. While different types of institutions educate RNs, all RNs share a single scope of practice and preparation. Encourage RNs to adopt lifelong learning to advance academically in graduate-level programs that provide skills beyond the RN-level. Nursing programs must have nursing faculty to ensure the availability of RNs to meet each community’s health-care needs. RNs must be encouraged to and supported in achieving graduate-level education through RN to MSN programs where competencies are expanding beyond the RN level. 12 Partner with community colleges to secure funding to grow the nation’s health professions workforce. Congress has provided federal programs to allow hospitals to partner with colleges to address health-care workforce challenges. Similar investments from state and foundation entities are supporting partnerships to address local and state health-care workforce needs. Share board representation: Serve on community college boards and ensure that community college representatives serve on hospital boards. By working together, community colleges, hospitals and health-care organizations can develop and implement community solutions. Recruit high school students and others into health-care careers. Collaborate with community colleges to increase awareness in secondary schools of the nursing and allied health professions. Share your data about current employees and projected need. Community colleges are poised to meet local workforce needs, which require data to support program planning. 13 Community College Nursing and CNA — Certified Nurse Assistant (for-credit) LPN — Licensed Practical Nurse Alabama Alabama Southern Community College Bevill State Community College Bishop State Community College Central Alabama Community College Chattahoochee Valley Community College Community College of the Air Force Enterprise-Ozark Community College Gadsden State Community College George C. Wallace Community College—Dothan George C. Wallace State Community College—Hanceville George C. Wallace State Community College—Selma J. F. Drake State Technical College James H. Faulkner State Community College Jefferson Davis Community College Jefferson State Community College John C. Calhoun State Community College Lawson State Community College—Birmingham Campus Lurleen B. Wallace Community College Northeast Alabama Community College Northwest Shoals Community College—Muscle Shoals Shelton State Community College Snead State Community College Southern Union State Community College CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH LPN RN AH AH AH CNA LPN RN AH LPN RN AH LPN RN AH CNA LPN RN CNA LPN LPN RN AH CNA RN AH LPN RN AH CNA LPN RN AH LPN RN AH LPN RN AH LPN RN AH LPN RN AH CNA LPN RN AH LPN RN AH LPN RN AH AH American Samoa American Samoa Community College CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN AH Arizona Arizona Western College Central Arizona College Chandler/Gilbert Community College Cochise College Coconino County Community College Dine College Eastern Arizona College Estrella Mountain Community College GateWay Community College Glendale Community College Mesa Community College Mohave Community College Northland Pioneer College Paradise Valley Community College Phoenix College Pima Community College Rio Salado College Scottsdale Community College Yavapai College 14 Arkansas Arkansas Northeastern College Arkansas State University—Beebe Arkansas State University—Mountain Home Arkansas State University—Newport Black River Technical College Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas East Arkansas Community College Mid-South Community College National Park Community College North Arkansas College NorthWest Arkansas Community College Ouachita Technical College Ozarka College Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College Rich Mountain Community College South Arkansas Community College Southeast Arkansas College Southern Arkansas University Tech University of Arkansas Community College—Batesville University of Arkansas Community College—Hope University of Arkansas Community College—Morrilton University of Arkansas—Fort Smith CNA LPN RN AH CNA LPN AH CNA LPN AH CNA LPN RN AH CNA LPN RN AH CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN RN AH LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH CNA LPN RN AH CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH CNA LPN RN AH CNA LPN AH CNA LPN RN AH LPN RN AH California Alaska Ilisagvik College RN — Registered Nurse AH — Allied Health Profession RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH CNA LPN RN AH RN AH Allan Hancock College American River College Antelope Valley College Bakersfield College Barstow Community College Berkeley City College Butte College Cabrillo College Canada College Cerritos College Cerro Coso Community College Chabot College Chaffey College Citrus College City College of San Francisco Coastline Community College College of Alameda College of Marin College of San Mateo College of the Canyons College of the Desert College of the Redwoods College of the Sequoias College of the Siskiyous Columbia College CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH Allied Health Programs Contra Costa College Copper Mountain Community College Cosumnes River College Crafton Hills College Cuesta College Cypress College De Anza College Diablo Valley College East Los Angeles College El Camino College—Compton Center El Camino Community College District Evergreen Valley College Feather River Community College District Foothill College Fresno City College Gavilan College Glendale Community College Golden West College Grossmont College Hartnell College Imperial Valley College Lake Tahoe Community College Las Positas College Lassen Community College Long Beach City College Los Angeles City College Los Angeles County College of Nursing and Allied Health Los Angeles Harbor College Los Angeles Pierce College Los Angeles Southwest College Los Angeles Trade Technical College Los Angeles Valley College Los Medanos College Mendocino College Merced College Merritt College MiraCosta College Mission College Modesto Junior College Monterey Peninsula College Moorpark College Mt San Antonio College Mt. San Jacinto Community College District Napa Valley College Ohlone College Orange Coast College Oxnard College Palo Verde College Palomar College Pasadena City College Porterville College Reedley College Rio Hondo College Riverside Community College Sacramento City College Saddleback College San Bernardino Valley College San Diego City College San Diego Mesa College CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH LPN CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH CNA LPN RN AH CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH San Joaquin Delta College San Jose City College Santa Ana College Santa Barbara City College Santa Monica College Santa Rosa Junior College Shasta College Sierra College Skyline College Solano Community College Southwestern College Taft College Ventura College Victor Valley College West Hills College—Lemoore West Los Angeles College West Valley College Yuba College CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH Colorado Aims Community College Arapahoe Community College Colorado Mountain College Colorado Northwestern Community College Community College of Aurora Community College of Denver Front Range Community College Lamar Community College Morgan Community College Northeastern Junior College Otero Junior College Pikes Peak Community College Pueblo Community College Red Rocks Community College Trinidad State Junior College CNA CNA CNA RN AH RN AH RN AH CNA LPN RN AH CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH RN RN Connecticut Asnuntuck Community College Capital Community College Gateway Community College Housatonic Community College Manchester Community College Middlesex Community College Naugatuck Valley Community College Northwestern Connecticut Community College Norwalk Community College Quinebaug Valley Community College Three Rivers Community College Tunxis Community College AH AH AH AH Delaware Delaware Technical and Community College—Owens Delaware Technical and Community College—Stanton-Wilmington Delaware Technical and Community College—Terry LPN RN AH CNA RN AH CNA LPN RN AH 15 CNA — Certified Nurse Assistant (for-credit) LPN — Licensed Practical Nurse Florida Brevard Community College Broward College Central Florida Community College Chipola College Daytona State College Edison State College Florida Keys Community College Florida State College at Jacksonville Gulf Coast Community College Hillsborough Community College Indian River State College Lake City Community College Lake-Sumter Community College Miami Dade College North Florida Community College Northwest Florida State College Palm Beach Community College Pasco-Hernando Community College Pensacola Junior College Polk State College Saint Johns River Community College Santa Fe College Seminole Community College South Florida Community College St. Petersburg College State College of Florida—Manatee-Sarasota Tallahassee Community College Valencia Community College CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH RN AH RN AH RN AH CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN Georgia Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Albany Technical College Altamaha Technical College Athens Technical College Atlanta Technical College Augusta Technical College Bainbridge College Central Georgia Technical College Chattahoochee Technical College College of Coastal Georgia Columbus Technical College Dalton State College Darton College Dekalb Technical College East Georgia College Gainesville State College Georgia Highlands College Georgia Northwestern Technical College Georgia Perimeter College Gordon College Griffin Technical College Gwinnett Technical College Macon State College Middle Georgia College Middle Georgia Technical College North Georgia Technical College Okefenokee Technical College Savannah Technical College 16 RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH RN — Registered Nurse AH — Allied Health Profession South Georgia College Southeastern Technical College Southwest Georgia Technical College Valdosta Technical College West Georgia Technical College Guam Community College CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH 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Lancaster Community College Danville Community College Eastern Shore Community College Germanna Community College J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College John Tyler Community College Lord Fairfax Community College Mountain Empire Community College New River Community College Northern Virginia Community College Patrick Henry Community College Paul D. Camp Community College Piedmont Virginia Community College Rappahannock Community College Southside Virginia Community College Southwest Virginia Community College Thomas Nelson Community College Tidewater Community College Virginia Highlands Community College Virginia Western Community College Wytheville Community College RN AH AH LPN RN AH LPN RN AH LPN AH LPN RN LPN RN AH LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH RN AH AH AH RN AH AH AH CNA AH West Virginia Blue Ridge Community and Technical College Bridgemont Community and Technical College Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College Kanawha Valley Community and Technical College Marshall Community and Technical College New River Community and Technical College Pierpont Community and Technical College Potomac State College of West Virginia University Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College West Virginia Northern Community College West Virginia University at Parkersburg RN RN AH RN AH RN AH CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH CNA LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH Wisconsin Washington Bates Technical College Bellevue College Bellingham Technical College Big Bend Community College Cascadia Community College Centralia College Clark College Clover Park Technical College Columbia Basin College Edmonds Community College Everett Community College Grays Harbor College Green River Community College Highline Community College Lake Washington Technical College Lower Columbia College Olympic College Peninsula College Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom Pierce College at Puyallup Renton Technical College Seattle Community College—Central Campus Seattle Community College—North Campus Seattle Community College—South Campus Shoreline Community College Skagit Valley College South Puget Sound Community College Spokane Community College Spokane Falls Community College Tacoma Community College Walla Walla Community College Wenatchee Valley College Whatcom Community College Yakima Valley Community College CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA CNA LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN LPN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH RN AH CNA LPN RN AH CNA LPN RN AH Blackhawk Technical College Chippewa Valley Technical College Fox Valley Technical College Gateway Technical College Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College Lakeshore Technical College Madison Area Technical College Mid-State Technical College Milwaukee Area Technical College Moraine Park Technical College Nicolet Area Technical College Northcentral Technical College Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Waukesha County Technical College Western Technical College Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College RN RN RN RN AH AH AH AH RN AH Wyoming Casper College Central Wyoming College Eastern Wyoming College Laramie County Community College Northwest College Sheridan College Western Wyoming Community College CNA RN AH LPN RN AH 23 In addition to AACC, the following organizations call for implementation of the recommendations offered in this brochure: American Health Care Association www.ahca.org National Network of Health Career Programs in Two-Year Colleges www.nn2.org National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing www.noadn.org For more information about HPEC and community college nursing and allied health programs, visit www.aacc.nche.edu/Health or contact Roxanne Fulcher Director, Health Professions Education Center American Association of Community Colleges One Dupont Circle NW, Suite 410 Washington, DC 20036 [email protected] 202-728-0200, ext. 274 24