{"id":173692,"date":"2023-01-30T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/?p=173692"},"modified":"2023-01-30T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:45:03","slug":"5-5m-grant-from-arizona-department-of-health-services-to-help-asu-fill-nursing-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/?p=173692","title":{"rendered":"$5.5M Grant from Arizona Department of Health Services to Help ASU Fill Nursing Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Automation-Nursing.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14987\" src=\"http:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Automation-Nursing-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Judith Karshmer doesn\u2019t mince words when it comes to the nursing shortage in Arizona and the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a dire nursing need,\u201d said Karshmer, dean of Arizona State University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nursingandhealth.asu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The average national vacancy rate for registered nurses in hospitals in 2022 was approximately 10%, and a study from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services projected that the demand for registered nurses\u00a0nationwide will be more than 3.6 million by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why a $5.5 million grant ASU recently received from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdhs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Department of Health Services<\/a> is significant.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will result in a new cohort of 104 nurses starting this summer and graduating in summer 2024.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cStepping up to care for the communities we serve is part of the bedrock of who we are as a university,\u201d ASU President Michael Crow said. \u201cWe appreciate the state\u2019s confidence and investment in our ability to simultaneously support the success of our students while tackling Arizona\u2019s urgent nursing shortage.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>ASU\u2019s grant has three specific and important criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As required, 80% of the money will be used for scholarships that will pay tuition and fees for the 104 students.<\/li>\n<li>Twenty percent of the money will be used to hire two new full-time faculty members and part-time faculty. Faculty help is needed because according to an American Association of Critical-Care Nurses report on 2021\u201322 Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, U.S. nursing schools turned away 91,938 qualified applications in 2020 due to an insufficient number of faculty, clinical sites and classroom space, as well as budget constraints.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the grant stipulates that students awarded the scholarship must commit to staying and practicing in Arizona for four years, thus having a direct impact on Arizona families.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to have the students getting experience there to stay there,\u201d Karshmer said. \u201cHopefully, it will give them a chance to think about moving to or working in, say, Wickenburg or one of those other small towns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karshmer said diversity will be important in selecting the 104 students.<\/p>\n<p>A National Institute of Health Studies report showed residents of underserved and rural areas are more likely to identify with and seek health care from individuals who are representative of their own communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s quite a robust finding, whether it\u2019s language, culture or just proximity,\u201d Karshmer said. \u201cWe are trying to be really thoughtful about this. Our goal as a college is to have our graduates and our faculty look like the state of Arizona, and we need to do more work in that area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scholarship money will go a long way toward satisfying the diversity component, Karshmer said.<\/p>\n<p>Edson College has the infrastructure to handle the additional 104 students. In addition to its presence on the Downtown Phoenix campus, it has a location in Lake Havasu that opened two years ago, it expanded to the West campus last fall and it will have a presence at the Polytechnic campus this fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the mechanism to secure these additional placements,\u201d Karshmer said.<\/p>\n<p>Although the grant will expire after the cohort graduates in 2024, it\u2019s Karshmer\u2019s hope that the impact of the grant will last for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is successful and these graduates stay in Arizona, maybe the collective will in the state is that we really need to put this kind of support into the preparation of nurses,\u201d she said. \u201cWho knows? It might happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what, though. It will help Arizona State University. It will help establish further infrastructure for students. Even though we won\u2019t have this scholarship money for them, we will have access to and for them. That\u2019s good for ASU and good for the state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Karshmer doesn\u2019t mince words when it comes to the nursing shortage in Arizona and the rest of the country. \u201cThis is a dire nursing need,\u201d said Karshmer, dean of Arizona State University\u2019s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation. 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