Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Update on the College of Nursing

Happy February or Happy Snow Day!

Life has been very busy here at the College of Nursing since the spring semester began. Today has been a snowy day and has allowed me to catch up. The biggest thing that has happened in the College of Nursing is the tremendous effort by the graduate faculty and the faculty of the Curriculum Committee who have put in countless hours to put together our DNP Curriculum. Dr. Kathleen Rayman, Director of the Graduate Programs and Dr. Sally Blowers, Chair of the Curriculum Committee have seen their offices more than their homes in the past several weeks as they shepherded this effort. I am very proud of the resulting curriculum and the effort and dedication put forth by our faculty. We hope to begin the post-master's phase of this program next spring semester 2011 and the post-BSN phase in spring 2012.

Our clinics continue to see a number of new patients. We were very fortunate that the Governor agreed to keep the funding programs that support many of these clinics for at least two more years. We did not receive funding for the grant we sent in to build a new Johnson City Downtown Clinic, but we have good architectural drawings of what we want to have and will design a fundraising campaign to try to accomplish this.

We are grateful to all of our community health care agencies who always work with us to provide quality clinical experiences for all of our students. In the coming years, we hope to initiate some new endeavors to enhance our partnerships.

As always, please keep us informed of what you are doing and visit our Facebook page.

Dr. Nehring

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