![]() “It’s important to maintain an on-ground experience for our learners inside hospitals and long term care centers,” said Tanner. ![]() However, it also requires in-person training, rotations, and skill pass offs at at its 35 regional healthcare partner institutions, or “hubs,” that offer a critical training ground for nursing students and a means for students to enjoy tuition waivers and payments. The college has developed virtual simulations via its online platform. It took me a second to remember that I was inside of a virtual environment.” “While I was in the SIM, somebody grabbed my arm, and it startled me. “Our virtual reality simulations make you believe you are involved the styles, the noises, the way you're looking around… it feels so natural and realistic,” said Tanner. The college offers virtual simulation as part of its learning platform and is piloting virtual reality simulations in hopes to enhance the student’s experience. Providing hands-on experiences and training required for nursing online touches on Nightingale’s key strength. Nightingale emphasizes teaching nurses online so nurses will stay close to home and serve their own communities. “Evidence indicates that if the nursing staff actually look like their patients, from a demographic standpoint, they will see better outcomes,” says Tanner. ![]() The company encourages rural graduates to stay where they are and contribute to their communities. Nightingale uses its proprietary instructional content combined with it’s online platform (that is compatible with Instructure’s Canvas and other popular Learning Management Systems) to train nurses efficiently, wherever they’re located. “Having a one nurse shortage in Salt Lake City is not the same as having one nurse shortage in Roosevelt, Utah,” said Tanner. While the impact of this shortage is felt in some of the urban centers, it is our rural communities that will feel it the most. That attrition combined with increasing demand, means over a million new nurses need to come online next year to keep up with demand. Post impact of COVID, on top of what we were already experiencing in a nursing shortage for over a decade, we are dealing with a serious shortage and we are going to go through another pretty dramatic loss of the nursing workforce.” Labor statistics suggest that by 2022, half a million nurses are projected to retire. ![]() ![]() It's unfortunate because the country needs nurses now. “It’s so difficult to get into nursing school these days. These programs are not graduating enough nurses to meet demand, says Jonathan Tanner, EVP and Chief Opportunity and Access Officer at Nightingale College. State programs subsidized by taxpayers adhere to traditional admissions policies and instructional methods. Nightingale was founded in 2010 by Wade Foster, and in 2012, was acquired by Palm Ventures based in Connecticut with office in Greenwich and London, UK.īy Jonathan Tanner’s point of view, the traditional method of educating nurses is, at a minimum, overtaxed. The college has 28 regional partner locations in 12 states. Jonathan Tanner realized that his institution, Nightingale College, had an effective solution for two aspects of that shortage - the need for effective remote training and a way to place nurses in rural as well as urban centers.īased in Salt Lake City, Nightingale College offers four nursing programs: the Associate of Science in Nursing, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing, the Registered nurse-to-BSN Program, and the Master of Science in Nursing Education Program. Last year the pandemic put into focus the decades-long nursing shortage in America. ![]()
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