New Hillman Scholars Program offers UNC undergraduates accelerated path to nursing Ph.D.

Public release date: 2-Apr-2012[ | E-mail | Share]Contact: Patric Lanepatric_lane@unc.edu919-962-8596University of North Carolina during Chapel HillThe University of North Carolina during Chapel Hill School of Nursing has been awarded $3 million over five years from a Rita as good as Alex Hillman Foundation to design as good as implement a Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation. The module is written to produce a next generation of nurse innovators who have a knowledge as good as investigate skills to solve complex illness problems as good as urge patient care. Undergraduate nursing students selected as UNC Hillman Scholars will enter a rigorous curriculum of inquiry as good as investigate which places them on an took off path to earning a doctorate in nursing. The curriculum is written to take five years from entrance in to a nursing module to completion of a doctoral degree. "The Hillman Foundation grant launches a new era for Ph.D. education in nursing," pronounced Kristen M. Swanson, Ph.D, vanguard as good as Alumni Distinguished Professor. "By completing a Ph.D. progressing in their career, a Hillman Scholars will have a longer time to impact patient caring through leadership, innovation as good as investigate in educational as good as clinical settings." The Hillman Scholars Program grant supports a Innovate@Carolina Campaign, a $125 million expostulate to help make Carolina a universe leader in launching university-born ideas for a good of society. Merle Mishel, Ph.D., Kenan Distinguished Professor of Nursing, as good as Carol Durham, Ed.D., clinical professor, will lead a module with a unique multiple of scientific inquiry, investigate as good as clinical expertise. "Nurses are key to improving illness care," Durham said. "This module provides an opportunity to coach six nursing students per year to inspect a issues around patient caring through a different lens as good as to design as good as implement nursing investigate which can address those issues to urge a caring of a patient." The module will incorporate innovative educational approaches as good as clinical experiences to launch Hillman Scholars in to nursing science. The scholars will be immersed in seminars which shape their thinking as good as beam a integration of what they learn. They also will take tailored clinical as good as investigate courses during a post-baccalaureate bridge summer. "Hillman Scholars will be matched with mentors from within a School of Nursing as good as throughout UNC who will beam a scholars from their undergraduate honors investigate project through their dissertation," Mishel said. "We will use a rich interdisciplinary resources of this university by directing a Hillman Scholars to researchers, clinics, lectures as good as activities which will enrich their education as good as influence their module of research." UNC joins a universities of Pennsylvania as good as Michigan as one of only 3 schools of nursing nationally which have been awarded a Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation grant. The first six scholars will proceed a module in spring 2013. They will be selected from students admitted in to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing choice in May 2012 as good as a Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing choice in Jan 2013. The bachelor's choice is a six-semester curriculum open to students who are getting their first or second undergraduate degree, as good as a took off bachelor's choice is a four-semester curriculum for applicants who have already earned a baccalaureate or higher grade in another field of study. The Rita as good as Alex Hillman Foundation is a New York-based philanthropy dedicated to improving a lives of patients as good as their families through nurse-led innovation. School of Nursing contact: Nancy Lamontagne, nlamont@email.unc.edu News Services contact: Patric Lane, (919) 962-8596, patric_lane@unc.edu [ | E-mail | Share]AAAS as good as EurekAlert! are not responsible for a accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for a use of any information through a EurekAlert! system.Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc

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