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“We are proud and honored to receive this funding, which we hope will be instrumental in retaining newly graduated nurses in areas with nursing and health care gaps,” the dean of UTHSC’s College of Nursing said.
Education about the sickle cell disease in nursing schools is limited, so the University of Tennessee Health Science Center launched Sickle Cell Nursing Boot Camp.
The nurse-midwifery program will graduate its first cohort of students in May 2024.
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will receive the Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
To address the nationwide nursing shortage and increase diversity in the nursing profession, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing has doubled its number of partner schools in the region.
“The opioid crisis affects every single person in Tennessee, even those who don’t have personal or family issues related to opioid misuse disorder.”
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that more than 275,000 additional nurses will be needed through 2030.
More than a third of Tennessee counties are maternity-care deserts, meaning there are no hospitals providing obstetric care, no birth centers, no OB-GYNs and no certified nurse midwives, putting pregnant women in a possibly risky situation.
Nurses who earn the Doctor of Nursing Practice work as nurse practitioners who can provide patient-centered health care and solutions to the nation’s primary care shortage.
The UTHSC College of Nursing hopes to open a midwifery program by 2021. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists reports 49% of U.S. counties do not have obstetric care providers and predicts that by 2030, there will be a 25% shortage of obstetricians/gynecologists.
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