Facility to meet expanded nursing program needs

Regina is a hub for nursing education in southern Saskatchewan as well as it continues to expand in more ways than one.On Thursday, a Wascana Parkway Centre was officially opened after a second phase of renovations as well as representatives from SIAST a University of Regina, Cypress Health Region as well as Great Plains College sealed a letter of intent to move a Saskatchewan Collaborative Bachelor of Science in Nursing module (SCBScN) to Swift Current.David Walls, provost as well as vicepresident academic at SIAST, pronounced a opening of a centre means SIAST can meet a expansions of a nursing module which has been happening."There's 195 students in a joint (registered nurse) module which we do with a U of R which use this office building as well as psychiatric nursing," he said. "So currently right away there have been 430 students which use this facility ... We have room to expand as we increase a numbers."He pronounced right away which a letter has been sealed work can begin on a subsequent phase of a nursing module which is to move it to other remote locations.Walls explained which once a module is up as well as running it will mean eight of a 195 seats in a joint RN module will be directed towards to Swift Current."So students can take their studies as well as not have to move to Regina," he said. "It will be a multiple of distance, a little will be online, a little of it will be streaming video as well as a little will be face to face (learning). More importantly a clinical setting will be in a Cypress Health Region."Walls anticipates a initial eight Swift-Current-based nursing students will occur in a fall of 2013.He pronounced two other locations have been identified as potential remote nursing locations. The criteria for a location to be considered is it contingency have an determined hospital so which a clinical requirements of a nursing module can be fulfilled.SIAST's Dean of Nursing Netha Dyck pronounced there have been many benefits to bringing a module to a communities."It's going to be a way for students to sojourn in their community where they have a support of their family as well as friends," she said.Dyck pronounced it's a wonderful time for nursing as well as nursing education."We have been unequivocally excited about a opportunities for nursing education as well as keeping pace with a best practices," she said. "We have been really advantageous to have great interest in a program."Each year there have been more applicants to a module than there have been seats, which Dyck sees as a positive sign for nursing in a province.David Gregory, U of R Dean of Nursing, pronounced Thursday's events show which a government's investment into nursing education have been coming to fruition.The U of R as well as SIAST sealed an connection agreement in Nov. 2010 to jointly offer a SCBScN which is a direct-entry, baccalaureate nursing program. The initial class was offering in Regina with 200 seats as well as Saskatoon with 150 seats last fall."Four years from now, we will be graduating our initial class as well as we're excited about that," he said. "We have been trying to be innovative as well as creative in our programming."He believes a partnership is good for nursing as well as a extra work which it takes to ensure success is worth it.The office building expansion was jointly funded by a range as well as federal government through a Knowledge Infrastructure Program.kbenjoe@leaderpost.comPowered By iWebRSS.co.cc

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