Bill Text: NY A06075 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the board of regents and the state education department to conduct a comprehensive study of nursing education programs across the state and develop a model for improved articulation of the education program for career mobility from one classification to another in the field of nursing; enacts the "Development of Model for Articulation and Career Mobility Act".

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-30 - print number 6075a [A06075 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06075-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6075--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 14, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, ROBERTS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
         A. BARCLAY, BRENNAN, COOK, JACOBS, McKEVITT, PERRY --  read  once  and
         referred  to  the  Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the
         Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
         2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended
         and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT directing the board of regents and the state education department
         to  investigate the scope of nursing education programs and develop  a
         model for improved articulation of the education  program  for  career
         mobility from one classification to another
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Short title.  This act shall be known and may be  cited  as
    2  the "development of model for articulation and career mobility act".
    3    S  2.  Legislative  findings and intent. The legislature hereby recog-
    4  nizes the need to increase the pool of available  nursing  resources  to
    5  meet  the increased demands on the health care delivery system. The more
    6  complex nature of illnesses, constraints  on  reimbursement,  pressuring
    7  accelerated  treatment  and  earlier patient discharge, the explosion of
    8  technology, and requirements for intense monitoring for  quality  assur-
    9  ance,  may  be  diverting  nurses  from  the bedside into early burnout,
   10  retirement  or  employment  elsewhere.  The  state's  nursing  education
   11  program,  encompassing nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses and
   12  licensed (registered) nurses should be  better  articulated  for  career
   13  mobility  in  order  to  make  the nursing profession more attractive to
   14  individuals and for recruiting and retaining  qualified  nurses  in  the
   15  health care delivery system.
   16    S  3.  The  board  of  regents  and the state education department, in
   17  consultation with   the department of  health  and  leaders  in  nursing
   18  education, shall:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    (1) investigate current education programs for nurses in all settings,
    2  such  as high schools, vocational-technical schools, community colleges,
    3  universities and hospital-based schools  of  nursing,  to  identify  the
    4  scope of nursing education programs in the state;
    5    (2)  ensure  that  the  investigation  of nursing programs be directed
    6  toward identifying  current  articulation  programs,  determining  which
    7  factors  contribute  to success or failure, and sharing such information
    8  with schools;
    9    (3) develop a model for articulation and  career  mobility  to  enable
   10  nurses at every level of the profession to progress to higher levels and
   11  advance their professional status by integrating into a recognized nurs-
   12  ing curriculum; and
   13    (4) develop models for innovative nursing education programs that will
   14  encourage flexibility in classroom hours, in education program schedules
   15  and  through  satellite  locations, and at clinical practice settings so
   16  that individuals throughout the state have greater access to  a  nursing
   17  education program.
   18    S  4.  The  board  of regents and the state education department shall
   19  present their final findings  and recommendations to the legislature  on
   20  January 1, 2016.
   21    S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.