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Jacksonville Offers Program for Nursing Instructors

Jacksonville State University plans to offer a discounted educator program to community college nursing instructors this fall to help improve their teaching skills. The one-year, postgraduate program focuses on nursing instruction and is part of a larger effort by the university to offer higher levels of education to nurses. Some JSU officials and nursing experts […]

Alabama Project Aims to Increase Number of Hispanic Nurses

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama is launching a program to increase the number of Hispanic nurses involved in health care. The Capstone College of Nursing has received a $1.7 million grant for the Bama-Latino Project, which aims to recruit Hispanics into baccalaureate nursing programs. Alabama nursing professor Normal Cuellar says in a statement […]

Bluefield State Signs Deal to Fill Medical Jobs

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Bluefield State College has signed an agreement with the state Department of Education to offer health sciences pathways to more quickly launch careers in medicine. The Health Science Education Pathway and the Associate of Nursing Pathway outline exact courses students need to fulfill requirements for in nursing and radiologic technician associate’s degrees […]

Idaho Faces Severe Nursing Shortage

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho continues to experience pockets of severe nursing shortages while better paying jobs in surrounding states are attracting Idaho’s nursing graduates, according to a recently released report from the Idaho Department of Labor. The report, issued late last month, found that southwestern Idaho faces the biggest challenge of finding enough nurses because […]

4 Mississippi Schools Must Improve Nursing Programs

JACKSON, Miss. — Four Mississippi universities and community colleges have been told to make improvements to their nursing programs. The College Board earlier this month granted accreditation renewals in nursing instruction at 23 universities and community colleges. Alcorn State University was placed on warning, with board documents stating the school’s three-year passing rate on the […]

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Arkansas University Restores Nursing Program

PINE BLUFF, Ark. — The Arkansas State Board of Nursing has approved the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff’s request to bring back its pre-licensure nursing program. The university’s approval for the program, which extends through 2020, is the final step before accreditation, the Pine Bluff Commercial reported. “The action of the Arkansas State Board […]

Center Convenes Global Summit on Indigenous Care

Indigenous peoples across America and around the globe often struggle with diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and substance abuse. Finding solutions for those health care issues requires closer interaction between those affected communities and health care professionals like nurses, who work on the frontlines daily. Five months after it was established, Florida State University’s Center for […]

Nursing School Provides Care on Wheels

JACKSON, Miss. — For almost 20 years, the University of Mississippi School of Nursing has been running the UNACARE Health Clinic in Jackson’s Midtown. Now, it has a new tool to bring medical care to even more patients. Starting this summer, the clinic will take health care directly to patients in the Midtown area two […]

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Board Bars New Enrollments for Nursing Program

Low examination pass rates from Houston Community College’s vocational nursing graduates provoked state accreditors to block the school from enrolling new students to the program until scores improve. The Texas Board of Nursing placed the vocational nursing program, which grants certificates, on “conditional” status at its April meeting because less than 80 percent of graduates […]

Nurse Trainees Talk Patients’ Language

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota nursing program is running simulations in Spanish to increase cultural competency of nursing students. The Dakota Nursing Program at Bismarck State College began its collaboration with a Spanish professor’s class to run scenarios in Spanish, with the help of a student-translator, The Bismarck Tribune reported. “They’re seeing more and […]

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N.D. Nursing School Gets Reprieve

BISMARCK, N.D. — Dakotas-based Sanford Health has renegotiated a contract with state and higher education officials to keep a nursing program open in Bismarck. The action comes after legislators introduced an amendment in the higher education budget that would not allow any state money or private funds to be spent on the program. North Dakota […]

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Minnesota to Expand Mental Health Services

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing is using a $2.1 million grant to expand mental health services to underserved parts of the state. The nursing school will partner with the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Touchstone Mental Health and Northern Pines Mental Health Center to train students, as well as provide mental health […]

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