For subscribers: 'Huge for the state': Arizona takes rare step of spending big to address nursing shortage crisis
Short-term efforts during the pandemic sought to bring in more nurses, but the clear long-term solution was to educate more nurses. A key element of that is not just expanding program capacities, but growing clinical training opportunities for students.Doctors and nurses tend to patients in multiple COVID-19 units and an ER at Valleywise Medical Center in Phoenix. The hospital is at full capacity.Gov.
Students who get scholarships have to practice nursing in Arizona for at least four years after graduating.Northern Arizona University plans to take advantage of the scholarship dollars to grow enrollment. Currently the accelerated program is only on the Flagstaff campus, but NAU will expand the 12-month program to the Phoenix north Valley, Tucson and another location.
Pugliesi said NAU’s nursing programs emphasize preparing graduates to work in underserved communities, like in rural areas or with diverse populations, to help address inequities in health care access and outcomes. She said it’s fantastic that the scholarships include a requirement of service in Arizona.
A key challenge in graduating more nurses is the lack of clinical space and staff at health care institutions that are able to train students. Lawmakers added money to focus on that issue. “This is an all hands on deck situation and the successful impacts should be felt for years to come,” she said in a text message.Ducey’s budget proposal initially included money just for Creighton for capital build out and scholarships.
Todero said she was not disappointed by the change from Ducey’s proposal because Creighton still plans to ask for that same amount of scholarship money. The $6 million will add classroom space for a third cohort so Creighton can graduate 60 more nursing students a year, she said.“I don’t know why we would allow so many millions of our tax dollars to go to this private university when we have public universities and community college systems that are also providing this education,” said Rep.
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