Membership

It is the goal of the Northern Illinois Healthcare Education Network to continue to provide high quality programs to its founding members while increasing the membership. By expanding its membership, the network can pool more resources to reach more area workers and provide a greater variety of programs for all.

Benefits of Membership

  • Reduced registration fees for employees
  • Variety of quality educational offerings
  • Networking opportunities
  • Reduced cost of providing education to employees
  • Practical skill building opportunities for managers and staff
  • Additional benefit to offer employees as part of retention and recruitment strategy
  • Opportunity to participate in NIHEN Advisory Board, providing direction for programming
  • Frees up educators to attend to organization-specific needs
  • Supports Magnet Status initiative
  • Education that provides practical, applicable skills to improve work performance

If your organization is a member, thank you! We encourage you to continue to support this opportunity by urging your employees to take advantage of our many career-enhancing education offerings and by being actively involved in the design of NIHEN curricula. If you are not currently a member, come join us!

Rosemary MacLean Homer, President, RN, MBA

Network FAQ's

What is the Northern Illinois Healthcare Education Network?

An organization which provides a variety of cost effective, quality education programs for healthcare organizations and their employees.

Who can participate?

Any healthcare organization in the Chicago Metropolitan Region can participate.

What are the benefits of membership?

•Education that provides practical, applicable skills to improve work performance
•Variety of quality educational offerings
•Reduced registration fees for employees
•Reduced cost of providing education to employees
•Networking opportunities
•Additional benefit to offer employees, as part of retention and recruitment strategy
•Opportunity to participate in NIHEN Advisory Board, providing direction for programming
•Frees up educators to attend to organization-specific needs
•Supports Magnet Status initiative.

What is the membership fee?

There is no fee if organizations agree to host a minimum of 4 education offerings per year. If organizations are unable to do so, the fee is $1500 annually.

What are the requirements of member organizations?

•Provide adequate classroom space with AV equipment for scheduled classes
•Host a minimum of 4 classes per year
•Schedule classes far enough in advance for catalog publishing
•Actively support the network through employee participation in classes

How do we know these education programs will be high quality?

•Only healthcare professionals with the appropriate credentials and expertise will be teaching.
•NIHEN is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses
  Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s
  Commission on Accreditation.
•Ongoing quality monitoring will be in place to ensure the programs provided are of the highest
  quality.
•Advisory Board members will be part of the QI process and receive feedback at meetings with
  an opportunity to provide recommendations for improvement.

How does my organization join?

Contact: Rosemary MacLean Homer, President, RN MBA
Northern Illinois Healthcare Education Network
630-468-2162