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The roles of health care professionals are changing as the health care industry moves from an acute care model to a community care model. Nurses will be working 'at the top of their degree' and taking on new roles with the possible development of new supporting occupations.

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"Employer 1: That medicine technician mandate—who's managing that? What I think is happening—but I don't know because I'm not in that industry—is that your acute care stay is getting shorter, so there's more community care. And then the follow-up with the medications. So that whatever was achieved in the acute care setting can follow through when the person moves back into the community setting. And what do we need to do as educators to facilitate that process in our graduates? We're finding more and more difficulty in finding that next place. There's a huge need there. What can education do to help with that? Are you needing different skills? Are you looking at a site that might be formed to do that?

Employer 2: More and more education on psychiatric care is definitely needed."
Northwest
"I think there needs to be some fundamental changes in the educational preparation. It's built on a medical model, and it needs to be built on a nursing model because that's what it is." Northwest
"Education. But I think you're looking at more—and we keep saying there's going to be more in clinics—but I think you're finally seeing that with home care and changes in the medical model that we're going to be focusing more on RNs going into clinics. Because they're going to have a more advanced role in the clinics. More focus on chronic disease management and the elderly. In the next 15 years, one out of five are going to over 65. And when we all start retiring, we're going to really need a big influx. I also think that we're building more hospital beds again now, which is a change from what we had a few years ago with everybody merging and closing beds. And those that are in the hospital now are so costly that we're going to have to have a very strong workforce. If you look at the Institute for Medicine, the recommendation is that by the year 2020, 80 percent of the nurses need to be baccalaureate prepared. So, that goes back to how are our schools going to be partnering our associate degree nursing programs? How are they partnering the baccalaureate programs?" Northwest