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Partnership aims to address nursing shortage

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, January 28, 2004

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Partnership aims to address nursing shortage A multi-million dollar partnership between Long Beach Memorial Medical Center/Miller Children's Hospital and California State University has been launched to help reduce the state's nursing shortage. According to PR Newswire, the collaboration will increase the availability of nursing education to university students through a satellite campus at the hospital. The satellite campus incorporates students into clinical courses instructed by faculty from the university and Long Beach Memorial. The hospital's training facility, a skills/simulator lab, has nine beds which provide a pragmatic patient care environment in a non-threatening clinical setting. Before and during nurses' applied experiences with actual patients, they will train using the sophisticated Human Patient Simulator, a computerized life-size mannequin that presents realistic scenarios selected by the teacher. The training lab also includes practice areas for training nurses on fundamentals, neonatal intensive care, pediatric intensive care and adult critical care.

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