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Barry University's School of Nursing and Partners Awarded SUCCEED Grant

Posted on: Thursday, 5 January 2006, 06:00 CST

By Anonymous

Barry University's School of Nursing is pleased to announce it was awarded a $1.2 million Department of Education SUCCEED grant in partnership with Nova Southeastern University and Broward Community College to create nursing faculty for Florida. With the funding Barry University's School of Nursing has expanded its nursing PhD program in Miami Shores and already established a new cohort based in Orlando. Nova Southeastern University is offering an on-line master's program for BSN-prepared adjunct faculty at Broward Community College and other area community colleges.

By 2011 Florida will need over 40,000 additional RNs. However while applications to nursing schools are increasing, they can do little to remedy the nursing shortage if they don't have an adequate number of qualified faculty. According to recent reports by several universities and colleges, of nearly 11,000 qualified applicants who applied to Florida's schools of nursing, including Barry University, only 4,630 were accepted due to faculty shortages.

The SUCEED Grant will be utilized to upgrade the educational preparation of existing nursing faculty so that they are not lost from the faculty ranks and can meet accreditation standards, and to create a pipeline of nursing students into graduate programs that will prepare them to be future faculty.

Dr Pegge Bell, PhD, RN, APN, dean of Barry's School of Nursing sees the need for funding of this type as critical to the future of the nursing profession and she comments as follows: "Faculty shortages in this state make it impossible for us to effectively respond to the over, 1,000 qualified nursing applicants Barry University received this past year. Our only alternative is to grow our own faculty."

In photo standing from left to right is: Dr. Jean Davis (NSU), Dr. Claudette Spalding (BU), Bonnie Dones (B.C.C.), Kathleen casey (B.C.C.), Abby Dermott (B.C.G.) and Jennifer Lunny (B.C.G.). Sitting from left to right: Dr. Diane Whitehead (NSU), Dr. Pegge Bell (BU) and Dr. Deborah Papa (B.C.C.).

Barry University's School of Nursing admitted its first class in 1953. The school has a history of providing quality education and fostering career advancement for nurses. Its undergraduate program supports traditional and accelerated baccalaureate programs, an RN to BSN program for registered nurses who were prepared without the baccalaureate degree. For more information on Barry University's School of Nursing and its Nurse Educators for Florida project, contact the dean's office at (305) 899-3800. Barry's master's program offers specialization in Nurse Administrator, Nurse Educator, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner. It also offers a full-time and part-time PhD program.

Copyright Florida Nurses Association Dec 2005

Source: Florida Nurse, The

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