Technology, Partnerships and Advanced Nurse Practitioners to Improve Rural Health

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Organization:

Union Square Campus, Inc.

Amount:

250000

Program Area:

Healthcare Workforce Initiative

County of Applicant:

Guilford

Year:

04/02/2015

Description:

This grant provided funding to Union Square Campus to purchase simulation equipment for a state-of-the-art health sciences education building where nurses can perfect clinical skills on life-like simulated patients. The University of North Carolina-Greensboro (UNCG), North Carolina A&T State University, and Cone Health lease space in the building, and Guilford Technical Community College maintains the simulation equipment. Clinical sites in Rockingham County and other rural sites, serve as clinical training facilities for students. Nursing students at all degree levels, in-service nurses, and other health care practitioners are trained at the facility each year.

Contact:

John Merrill
230 North Elm Street, Suite 1900
Greensboro, 
NC 
27420 
336-375-9232