Working Adult Learners

White Paper

Guild + American Nursing Credentialing Center

Mitigate the Nursing Crisis by Designing for Working Adults

Pre-pandemic, the US was expected to need 1.2M nurses by 2030. The past two years have accelerated the shortage, and we are now at a point where we don't have the capacity to educate enough nurses through traditional methods fast enough to prevent this crisis from snowballing. The solution to this crisis necessitates collaboration from healthcare organizations, academic institutions, and accrediting bodies alike. 

More and more healthcare organizations are implementing education benefits to attract, develop and retain talent in the field. This removes barriers such as cost for aspiring nurses, and is opening opportunity for a large group of working adults. Academic nursing programs have an opportunity to evolve their education programs to serve working adult learners so they can successfully upskill and fill these desperately needed roles.

In this white paper, we explore three innovative learning strategies including:

• Competency-Based Education: An intentionally designed approach to teaching and learning that embeds the flexibility working adults need, and requires mastery of a topic in order to proceed - so nurses graduate ready to practice. 
  
• Credit for X: Acknowledging that learning can happen anywhere, and all high quality learning should count. 
  
• Stackability: An approach to lifelong learning that empowers working adults to break up their education without penalization, and ultimately stack all learning into a degree.
  

Download the full report for more insights and strategies.

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