How ACE Works
ACE's Goals
- Improve nursing student education with a realistic, immersive, experiential learning where they are embedded in UMMS' hospital culture
- Fortify UMMS' hospital workforces
- Recruit nursing students to join UMMS as new graduate nurses
- Decrease orientation time and costs over time
- Diversify UMMS nurses' roles to increase job engagement, satisfaction, and professional development
Benefits of ACE
The UMMS Academy of Clinical Essentials (ACE) is a mutually beneficial model for schools of nursing, nursing students, University of Maryland Medical System workforce, and the profession of nursing.
How Nursing Students Will Benefit
Students will:
- Receive a vibrant, realistic, experiential, competency-based education in the clinical setting
- Learn from instructors who are knowledgeable about team members and the policies, practices and protocols of the hospital and specific units
- Learn from instructors who are already acclimated to the unit and integrated in the care delivery team
- Develop deeper insight into hospital-based nursing by caring for patients for an entire 12.5-hour shift
- Be in a small cohort of students paired with an instructor
- Be embedded into the culture and fabric of care delivery on the unit
How Nursing Schools Will Benefit
Schools will:
- Have more clinical instructors
- Have clinical instructors found and funded by UMMS
- Receive more clinical sites for student rotations
- Increase their ability to admit more qualified applicants
How UMMS Will Benefit
UMMS and its nurses will:
- Fortify the current workforce
- Create a strong nurse recruitment pipeline
- Diversify the role of the bedside nurse
- Improve nurse engagement and job satisfaction
- Enable nurses to advance more quickly through the Professional Advancement Model (PAM)
- Decrease the time and cost of nurse graduate onboarding
How the Nursing Profession Will Benefit
- As more qualified applicants are accepted into nursing programs, more nurses will be educated
- Additional nurse graduates will add to the supply of nurses in hospitals and other settings