THE KEY N2K CONCEPT
The N2K Nursing Education Program allows healthcare
employers to participate in a program that targets their own employees as nursing students, and ultimately, as members of their nursing staff.
N2K employers identify their own high-performing employees for an opportunity to obtain an associate degree in nursing. The participating employee, upon receiving a nursing license, agrees in return to work for their employer as a staff nurse for a specified period of time.
KEY COMPONENTS
There are several key components of the N2K Nurse Education Model that distinguish it from most traditional nurse education programs:
Contract Education – our programs are not mere add-ons to existing community college nursing programs. Instead, they are stand-alone cohorts composed entirely of employees from our participating healthcare partners. This enables us to design in efficiencies that traditional programs lack. For example – our cohorts are usually scheduled for six consecutive terms with no summer break. Our cohorts also often start at non-traditional times of the year.
Student Selection - employer involvement in student selection allows you to identify, screen, and select the high performing employees who are eligible to participate based on meeting criteria established by the organization as well as the academic and other requirements of the educational provider.
Student Support Services – we are very proud of our high student success rates. In part, this success is aided by an array of student support services from the educational provider, the partner employers and OHCC that can be deployed very quickly should a student struggle with academic, personal or work-related issues.
Cohort Clinical Instruction – to as great a degree as possible, N2K students receive their clinical instruction within the facilities of participating employers. Your qualified clinical staff are often actively involved in clinical education roles.
Professional Project Management – our skilled and experienced project management professionals are engaged and at work throughout the life of the cohort to ensure sound project design, address logistical challenges and inject effective problem solving, when needed.
Quality Nurses, Committed to You – upon successful completion of the 18 month Associate Degree in Nursing program, graduates are qualified to sit for their licensing exams. These new RN’s then return to join your nursing workforce. Though obligated to a pre-agreed term of employment in your educational loan-forgiveness program, loyal nurses typically make longer commitments to their sponsoring employers.