UTHSC, Baptist act to fill need for nurses in operating room
Nurses and staff exit Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville on March 29, 2020. Baptist Memorial Health Care and UTHSC are partnering to increase the number of nursing students heading to the operating room. (Greg Campbell/The Daily Memphian file)
The Operating Room Scholars program’s nursing students will receive some tuition support from Baptist Memorial Health Care and agree to work for Baptist for two years following graduation.
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UTHSC Baptist Memorial Health Care Operating Room Scholars nursing nursing shortageAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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