Chamberlain College Makes use of $1.2M Grant for House Well being Pilot Course

Chamberlain University has not too long ago launched a house well being specialty initiative to deal with staffing points in residence well being and persevering with care. The[ER1]  initiative is funded by a $1.2 million grant awarded to the college by the American Nurses Basis’s Reimagining Nursing Initiative.

Because the nation continues to face a nursing scarcity, Chamberlain College is providing nursing college students an outline of residence well being nursing care by a digital course, “Introduction to Persevering with Well being (ICH),” developed with the college’s companion BrightStar Care, the house care and medical staffing franchise.

College students who full and move the course can spend 96 hours of medical time at BrightStar Care and different residence well being companions. The college’s partnership with BrightStar Care will proceed because the course is piloted by the college’s totally different campuses.

“Nurses are very important contributors to the well being and well-being of our communities and offering nursing college students broader entry to publicity to residence well being and different specialties will strengthen the pipeline of ready nurses in crucial want areas that they get pleasure from,” Chamberlain College President Karen Cox, PhD, RN, FACHE, FAAN, mentioned in an announcement.

“With our give attention to residence well being, we’re delighted to work with Chamberlain on this new nursing schooling program so we are able to enhance the variety of certified residence well being care nurses who follow evidence-based care,” Shelly Solar, founder and CEO of BrightStar Care mentioned in an announcement. “We imagine strongly in Chamberlain’s pilot to create a profitable pathway for nursing college students to study this specialty and make an affect on the way forward for nursing.”

The college plans to guage this system in 2025 as soon as the pilot ends, growing a playbook to doc the mannequin for public availability. It’s going to then be shared with the American Nurses Basis and different nursing colleges to assist them replicate the method.