State Resources

Onboarding & Orientation Strategies

Kansas Health Care Preceptor Academy

  • Train your team to make the mentoring process the best possible experience. The KHA Health Care Preceptor Academy is a one-day, interactive program that provides information and practical tools to improve preceptor abilities in the orienting/onboarding of new staff or students to the profession. The KHA Health Care Preceptor Academy program better prepares and equips clinicians to serve as preceptors/mentors.
  • Four regional preceptor trainings are hosted throughout Kansas each year. Annual dates will be listed on the KHA website as they become available.

Serve as a Clinical Training Site

  • Students are 36% more likely to work at your hospital if they perform a clinical rotation at your facility with a positive experience.
  • Review clinical sites your organizations is currently serving or could host for various post-secondary health care programs.
  • Build a collaborative partnership to host students for clinical rotations for nursing, respiratory therapy, radiology technology, medical students, and other health care programs.
  • Contact Jaron Caffrey to discuss how you can maximize your opportunities to train the next generation of health care professionals while building your workforce.
WorkWell KS is a statewide worksite initiative that provides leadership and resources for businesses and organizations to support worksite health.
Access information about state and federal administered scholarships and loan repayment opportunities for those already in the workforce or seeking to pursue a health care career.
Information about Kansas adult education, GED, and career and technical education programs.
The Kansas Nursing Initiative was developed to address the growing nursing shortage in the state by providing needed resources to nursing education programs to enable them to increase their capacity to instruct additional nursing students.
Access a complete list of employer resources available through the public workforce investment system.

Workforce Toolkit to Support Rural Hospitals

Workforce Toolkit to Support Critical Access Hospitals and Rural Providers | Flex Monitoring Team -

  • The Flex Monitoring Team has created a toolkit that provides background on health care workforce challenges, describes common workforce challenges faced by Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), and provides examples and links to external resources that hospitals may use to address their own workforce needs and enhance recruitment and retention.