The University of West Georgia in Carrollton has been granted approval by the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents to offer a doctoral program in nursing education.
The doctoral program, UWG’s fourth, will enable students to earn a doctorate degree that will prepare them to train future nurses, helping address a critical shortage in the state, region and nation.
Last year nursing schools in Georgia turned away 2,000 qualified candidates, said Kathryn Grams, dean of UWG’s School of Nursing. Restrictions on the number of students per faculty member prevent colleges from enrolling more students, Grams said.
The program will be entirely online, and is one of just four in the nation that combine the efforts of a nursing school and an education college. It is projected to be operational by the 2012 fall semester.
International award: Lynn Sibley, the architect of a revolutionary health care program, has been selected as the 2011 recipient of an award presented each year by Emory's Office of International Affairs. Sibley was recognized during International Awards Night on Nov. 14 at the Emory Conference Center Hotel.
Sibley received the Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization, given to an Emory faculty member who advances understanding of international and global issues through teaching, scholarship or other work for the university. She is an associate professor and director of academic programs for the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, and director of the Center for Research on Maternal and Newborn Survival of Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.
CSU nursing education grant: Clayton State University's School of Nursing recently received a $750,409 advanced nursing education grant from the Health Resources Services Administration's Division of Nursing.
“This grant will support a significant increase in enrollment in the RN-to-MSN program and includes strategies, such as faculty/student mentoring to support student retention. Faculty and students will be paired based upon common practice and scholarship interests,” said Jennell Charles, associate professor and project director.
The grant, which runs through 2014, will create an accelerated program, allowing students to move through the RN-to-MSN program in six semesters. There will also be strategies to increase service-learning opportunities with an emphasis on reducing health disparities.
Each year, the grant will support students with a nurse and a non-nurse faculty scholar, providing students with face-to-face and web meetings. There will be an effort to focus on nursing education as well as on leadership and management.
The first-year faculty scholars are Jo Ann Dalton, professor emeritus at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and Robert Thomas, professor of leadership at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Management, Institute of Leadership and Entrepreneurship.
Core clinical center: The Blood and Marrow Transplant program at Northside Hospital has received the designation of Core Clinical Center for the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network. This designation is accompanied by a research grant, awarded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Cancer Institute. Northside is one of only 20 blood marrow transplant programs in the United States to be awarded this status.
The blood marrow transplant program at Northside ranks in the top 10 percent in the country in annual volume and performs the entire range of available hematopoietic transplants. Recently, data released by the National Marrow Donor Program indicate that Northside has the best survival rate for patients undergoing related and unrelated allogeneic transplants of any program in the nation.
Pediatric trauma care: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston has been designated the state's only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center. That's the highest level of service for trauma care and is a designation awarded by a state committee that verifies the presence of medical resources needed to provide the most advanced emergency care.
Children’s at Scottish Rite is the state’s only Level 2 Pediatric Trauma Center.
Trauma care network: WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta has joined the state's trauma care network as a Level 2 trauma center — after a nearly two-year planning process.
Its emergency department of three trauma rooms and 63 exam rooms is one of the busiest in the state. Level 2 trauma centers are required to have 24-hour-a-day access to certain medical specialists. The hospital already has an accredited chest pain and stroke center.
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