Funding Proposal

Fiscal Year 2014-2015

Title of Project:North Dakota Action Coalition

Overall Project Goal: Provide continued support for leadership development programming developed by the North Dakota Action Coalition.

Overall Outcome Measures: # of participants in summit, online leadership programming, evaluations of utilization of learned leadership skills through follow-up surveys

Brief Summary of Need for Project:The infrastructure of the many organizations that compose the ND Center for Nursing Leadership Team as well as leadership within the Center for Nursing depends on the availability of a large pool of inspired nursing leaders. Many organizations experience difficulty recruiting new leaders to provide for effective succession planning. In addition, increased leadership skills will provide nurses with the necessary tools to impact change in the health care climate.The North Dakota Action Coalition (NDAC) is a part of the Campaign for Action and is tasked with implementing IOM Future of Nursing Report recommendations. The NDAC is co-led by the ND Center for Nursing and the University of Mary, Harold Schafer Leadership Academy. The NDAC is focused on developing leadership skills for “Every nurse, in every setting”.

Current Status and Outcomes from Year One of Project: The grant to the Center to Champion Nursing that we submitted for funding of our activities was not approved. The group held a statewide leadership summit in Fargo on October 4th which included 133 registered and 117 attending participants. The total revenue from the summit was $10,400 including registration and four sponsorships and the net profit was $5,158.72. The coalition is working on the development of targeted leadership programming in four areas 1) communication, 2) change/innovation, 3) health policy/advocacy and 4) systems thinking. A timeline for completion of modules has been developed. Three consultants have been hired utilizing $12,000 in personnel expenses approved by the ND Center for Nursing Board of Directors. These consultants are working with the coalition groups to develop the four leadership development programs by June.

Plans for Year Two of Project: The plan for year two of the project includes the recording of webinars that were developed by the coalition groups and consultants. A platform will also be developed to host the webinars online and the program will be piloted. Contact hour applications will be submitted to the NDBON for each of the four programs. The full program launch is targeted for November, 2014.

Each of the modules will be composed of an online webinar course that participants will register and pay a fee to obtain. Fees will be on a sliding scale for nursing students, ND licensed nurses, and out of state nurses/other individuals. Completion of the online course and a standardized evaluation will result in NDBON contact hours and possibly AACN contact hours. Participants will then be given the option of one or more targeted learning activities or projects for each leadership module which are designed to apply what they have learned. Additional links to resources will also be available. Upon completion of the project they will earn a module completion certificate. If a participant goes through all four modules and completes them, they will be awarded a leadership program completion certificate and will be added to a leadership mentor pool.

The leadership modules will be monitored for needed changes in content and process. The group will also start to discuss future directions for the action coalition including the possibility of merging future work with the ND Center for Nursing Leadership Team, aligning with national goals, examining future leadership development summits and sustainability of online modules including providing mentors to participants.

Proposed Budget

Year / Annual Goal / Annual Estimated
Personnel Expenses / Annual Estimated
Operating Expenses / Annual Estimated Revenue and Source / Annual
Estimated In-Kind Contributions
2014-2015 / Complete development of targeted leadership modules on communication,
change/innovation, health policy/advocacy and systems thinking. Monitor Leadership development program and continued marketing. Discuss the future structure of the action coalition. / ED- 5% FTE
CC- 10%
Videotaping Consultant $5,000 / CE Credits $500 / CE fees $4,000 / In-kind time
2015-2016 / TBD by action coalition in 2014-2015. Continue online leadership programming. / ED- 2% FTE
CC- 2% FTE / TBD? / CE fees $4,000 / In-kind time

2014-2015 Budget Summary

Annual Estimated
Personnel Expenses / Annual Estimated
Operating Expenses / Total Program Expenses / Estimated Revenue / Net Program Cost
$16,414.60 / $500 / $16,915 / $4,000 / $12,914.60

2014-2015 Proposed Workplan

Strategies / Activities / Month/
Person(s) / Activity Completion Status
Complete development of targeted leadership modules on communication,
change/innovation, health policy/advocacy and systems thinking / Coordinate monthly meetings of coalition groups. / April-June
Consultants and Group chairs / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Finish compiling powerpoint slides for modules. Decide who to videotape for webinars. Determine authorship of module. / April-June / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Finish development of materials for modules including supplementary documents, resource lists and project materials as needed. / April-June
Consultants and groups / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Finish drafting of evaluation tool for each module. / April-June
Consultants and groups / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Determine needed platform for modules, fee structures, standardized materials.
Develop standardized introduction to webinars. / April-May
Consultants, group chairs, Patricia, Cheryl, Kyle / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Draft contact hour application for NDBON, workgroup approve draft. / April-June
Consultants, workgroup. / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Videotaping of webinars and preview videos. / July- 1st two weeks
Kyle, Consultants, groups / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Editing of Webinars and preview videos. / July-August
Kyle / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Pilot test modules with action coalition members and determine number of contact hours for each webinar. Revise modules as needed in workgroups. / September
Coalition groups / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Submit Contact hour applications and fees. / October
Patricia / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Develop online platform for modules. / July-October
Kyle / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Develop marketing materials for leadership program and start marketing. / July- November
Kyle / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Launch leadership modules. / November
Coalition / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Monitor Leadership development program and continued marketing. / Ongoing monitoring of participants and evaluation of program completion, award of CE certificates. / November-June
Patricia, Kyle / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Review status of leadership modules and assist in marketing program / November-June
Coalition / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Initial evaluation of leadership program and any needed changes. / March-April 2015
Patricia, Cheryl, Coalition / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Discuss the future structure of the action coalition. / Examine participation in coalition and discuss future structure of coalition. Does the coalition groups become a planning group for a statewide summit and serve as mentors/custodians/resources of online modules? Alignment with nurses on board goal? Do we merge with the ND Center for Nursing Leadership Team? / November-March
Coalition, Cheryl, Patricia / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
Develop proposal for future work. / March-April
Coalition, Cheryl, Patricia / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%