VA Announces Dissimilar Nursing Academy Sites

To dispense compassionate, highly-trained nurses to serve the health care needs of the nation's Veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is establishing new partnerships with five of the country's finest nursing schools. With these new partnerships, the VA Nursing Faculty testament expand the unit of collaborations between the branch and nursing schools from 10 to 15.
"The expanded role of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the education of nurses will make sure the department has the nurses needed to draw out our world-class health attention for Veterans," said Dr. Linda D. Johnson, employer of VA Nursing Academy. "The VA Nursing College expands the teaching faculty, improves recruitment and retention, and creates different educational and research opportunities."
The VA Nursing Academy is a virtual five-year flyer programme with central governance in Washington. It expands learning opportunities for nursing students at VA facilities, funds faculty development of VA staff for further institute positions to competitively selected school partners. The five-year, $59 million program began in 2007.
Five nursing schools will arrangement recent partnerships with five VA medical centers and agglutinate the VA Nursing Academy this year. They are:
-- Western Carolina University, Asheville, N.C.
-- University of Alabama, Birmingham, Ala.
-- University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
-- Gait University, Manhattan and Brooklyn, N.Y.
-- Waynesburg University, Pittsburgh.
VA Nursing Academy already includes 10 partnerships: the VA medical centre in Gainesville, Fla., with the University of Florida; the VA medical center in San Diego with San Diego Nation University; the VA medical center in Salt Lake City with the University of Utah; the VA medical center in West Haven, Conn., with Fairfield University in Connecticut; the VA medical center in Charleston, S.C., with the Medical University of South Carolina; the Hines, Ill., VA medical center with Loyola University of Chicago; the VA Michigan Consortia (Detroit and Saginaw) with the University of Detroit Mercy and Saginaw Valley Polity University; the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences; the VA medical center in Providence, R.I., and Rhode Island College; and the VA medical center in Tampa, Fla., and the University of South Florida.
The American Convention of Colleges of Nursing has reported that in 2007 more than 36,000 equipped applicants were turned out from entry-level baccalaureate measure programs in nursing schools because of insufficient numbers of faculty, clinical sites, classroom room and clinical mentors. VA currently provides clinical education for around 100,000 health professional trainees annually, including students from more than 600 schools of nursing.
VA Nursing School enables competitively-selected VA/nursing faculty partnerships to expand the figure of nursing faculty, enhance the professional and scholarly development of nurses, enlargement undergraduate enrolment by about 1,000 students and contribute innovations in nursing education.
Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

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