University of Phoenix Opens Immersive Nurse Teaching Center
Across the street from its flagship campus, University of Phoenix is opening an “immersive learning center for nursing students. The facility is meant to provide quasi-clinical training through the use of wireless high-fidelity 3G “patient” mannequins that cry, talk, sweat, cough and breathe; and a high-fidelity baby that reacts to stimuli in the [...]
School Helps Grads Earn a Quick BS in Nursing
A pledge of $200,000 in scholarship funds will help Marymount University in Arlington, VA address a critical, and growing, shortage of nursing professionals, according to a story in the Sun Gazette.
Twenty scholarships of $10,000 each will be provided to students enrolled in Marymount’s accelerated (four-semester) bachelor of science in nursing program, which is designed for [...]
Federal Grant for Rural Nursing Ed in Virginia
The University of Virginia Nursing School has received a $1.2 million grant for the purpose of preparing local and commuter graduate students to specialize in rural health care. The program will use both classroom teaching and online courses open to both full-time and part-time students of the University’s Graduate Nursing program.
Catherine Kane, the Nursing [...]
Desperately Seeking Nurses
It seems lately like the news can’t be stressed enough: there is a shortage of nurses in the United States, making health care among the most recession-proof career choices in the nation. From adding new programs to broadening their class sizes, Nurse schools everywhere are working hard to bring in more students to fill the [...]
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