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Federal program trains health care workers as RNs and LPNs

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, February 6, 2004

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A new program in Rockland County, NY, aims to relieve the state's nursing shortage by training people who are currently in health care positions to become nurses. According to the Journal News, the county Department of Hospitals and a union representing municipal workers run the program. The distance-learning program provides the necessary skills that participants need in order to obtain degrees as licensed practical nurses (LPNs) or registered nurses (RNs). The program is funded by a federal grant from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Health Care Initiative. Under the grant, the county receives funds to hire replacements for the workers enrolled in the free program. Most of the students in the program are single mothers, and those who meet the income guidelines receive grants to pay for the cost of classes and books. Rockland County shares the $6 million dollar grant with five other NY counties.

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