{"id":7871,"date":"2012-09-06T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2013-07-15T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:30:34","slug":"grant-will-help-educate-southern-colorado-nursing-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=7871","title":{"rendered":"Grant will help educate southern Colorado nursing professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/columnright_background.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7874\" title=\"columnright_background\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/columnright_background.gif\" width=\"227\" height=\"34\" \/><\/a>The Denver-based\u00a0Caring for Colorado Foundation recently awarded a $100,000 grant to the University of Colorado Foundation on behalf of the Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences Sept. 6.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will improve access to nursing education programs and expand the health care workforce in southern Colorado through the use of innovative, high fidelity patient simulation technology.<\/p>\n<p>The Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences has helped train southern Colorado\u2019s health care workforce for\u00a0about 110 years, and in 2011 initiated the Southern Colorado Rural Nursing Education and Practice Collaborative Program to transform nursing education in southern Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The program and the Caring for Colorado grant address a critical problem. The U.S. nursing shortage is projected to grow to 260,000 by\u00a0 2025, and Colorado\u2019s nursing vacancy rate is double the national average. Rural southern Colorado faces extreme challenges recruiting advanced practice nurses and nursing faculty. The associate nursing degrees the community colleges offer do not alone qualify graduates for teaching or nurse practitioner roles\u2014impeding these communities\u2019 ability to provide high-quality health care to their citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Central to the Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences program is the use of Cisco TelePresence technology which allows students to learn from electronically simulated patient encounters. Students at the community colleges take part in the classes being taught at UCCS and receive instruction through high-quality audio and the streaming of high-definition video.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Jeremy Simon, CU Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Caring for Colorado\u2019s grant will enable nurses and nurse faculty at University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Lamar Community College, and Otero Community College to be trained using the high fidelity patient simulation technology.<\/p>\n<p>Caring for Colorado is a health grantmaking foundation working to increase health and health care access statewide. \u00a0For more information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caringforcolorado.org\/\"><em>www.caringforcolorado.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Denver-based\u00a0Caring for Colorado Foundation recently awarded a $100,000 grant to the University of Colorado Foundation on behalf of the Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences Sept. 6. 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