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Other program improvement suggestions include having more hands-on training at the beginning of the program; providing the option of a financial track; standardizing CNA requirements; and working with non-traditional students on career development.

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"I don't know if all programs have the same curriculum as far as nursing goes, but I do know that the local technical colleges require that nurses be CNAs. I've heard from other schools like [MnSCU college] and bigger ones that you don't have to be a CNA. Maybe they could be streamlined so that everybody has the same requirements? That would be good, so that they have the CNA experience when they come in." Southeast
"Relative to the degree piece of it, I think a lot of that is about career development, too. So, wherever you start, we have to look at how we help people develop over the course of their career and what's their next step. And so, if you start with an aide, and then you move from LPN to RN, what might be that trajectory? Some of it's traditional, and some of it's non-traditional kinds of things—and I think some of that might play in there a little bit more. So, I think, as we stratify more of that to where some of that fits in with people—typically professionals are still looking for both career and personal growth." Southeast
"Employer 1: We've talked about three important abilities—verbal communication; intergenerational communication, whether that's within the workforce or whether that's a 20-something nursing staff who is working with a 70-year-old patient or family members; and the critical conversations. Somebody's very ill, a baby is very ill, the anxiety level is high, and the family energy is high. Those are different kinds of dynamics, but they're all about communication. Would you put equal importance on those three areas of training? Do you think they have to be implemented separately? Or could they be embedded in one training component in a curriculum setting?

Employer 2: Not at the same time. They're not done that way in the real world so you may as well separate them."		 Southeast