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TWU’s Stark College of Nursing receives more than $480,000
in grants
12/04/09
HOUSTON — Texas Woman’s University’s Nelda
C. Stark College of Nursing in Houston recently received $483,301
in grants for its Education Center for Clinical Innovations
and Advanced Technologies.
The
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation awarded TWU a $278,308 grant to
continue a collaboration with the Baylor College of Medicine
to train both medical and nursing students at the TWU Nursing
Education Center. The partnership is known as the Interdisciplinary
Clinical Collaborative Practice Project (ICCP) and will use
targeted TeamSTEPPS™ communication strategies in a simulated
clinical environment.
“This
is a significant project because it allows us to bring medical
and nursing students together to learn effective communication
skills,” said Dr. Ann Coleman, director of the TWU Education
Center for Clinical Innovations and Advanced Technologies.
“Both medical and nursing students can practice these
skills during a simulated patient care scenarios using high-fidelity
patient mannequins, where the outcome of their teamwork impacts
the condition of the ‘patient.’”
The
Texas Workforce Commission also awarded TWU $204,993 for the
Texas Gulf Coast Regional Faculty Development project. The
project will increase the use of patient simulation in nursing
education in the Gulf Coast region to help address the nursing
shortage.
“Many
faculty in the region need more instruction and practice in
using new technological teaching tools such as high-fidelity
patient mannequins,” Dr. Coleman said. “This project
will build an infrastructure for future sharing of knowledge
and resources among the nursing programs and service partners
in our region.”
The
TWU Education Center for Clinical Innovations and Advanced
Technologies is a program funded by the Memorial Hermann Healthcare
System to assist faculty with integrating technologies —
simulation, clinical technology and informatics — seamlessly
into nursing education. For more information, visit www.twu.edu/nursing.
The
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation is a private foundation based
out of New York City that supports programs designed to improve
the education of health professionals in the interest of the
health of the public. For more information, visit www.josiahmacyfoundation.org.
The
Texas Gulf Coast Regional Faculty Development grant proposal
was developed in cooperation with the Gulf Coast Health Services
Steering Committee, an informal association of business leaders,
hospital executives and nursing school deans and directors
dedicated to solving the nurse shortage in Houston and the
surrounding 13-county Gulf Coast region of Texas. For more
information, visit www.gchssc.com. For more information on
the Texas Workforce Commission, visit www.twc.state.tx.us.
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