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South Carolina hospital hopes new center will help train, retain

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, August 18, 2006

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Roper St. Francis Healthcare, a healthcare delivery system based in Charleston, SC, is launching a Nursing Resource Center to help train and retain nurses. Thanks to a $275,000 Duke Endowment-a private foundation that supports programs of higher education, healthcare and child welfare in North and South Carolina-the center, the first of its kind in the area, is slated to open next month.

The center, which will be located at Trident Technical College, will seek to increase the number of nursing school graduates and the number of minorities that enter the healthcare work force. It will focus on providing extra support and stress management skills to students in an effort to cut down on nurse burnout.

Statewide, the nursing vacancy rate is 15-18%, a statistic the healthcare community hopes to see decline in the future.

Sources: The Charleston (SC) Post and Courier and Roper St. Francis Healthcare Web site

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