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Texas agency launches online scheduling system

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, April 19, 2007

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To help connect nursing programs to clinical sites, a nonprofit Texas agency has launched an online scheduling system.

Officials at Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement in Brownsville, TX, hope the new scheduling method will end the "bottleneck" that has plagued the area's nursing programs. The centralized system is expected to assist nursing students in scheduling the extensive hours in a hospital or clinical setting that are often needed to complete their degrees.

A portion of a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor funded the development of the system. Nursing faculty and staff members received system training at a recent session at the University of Texas at Brownville.

Source: The Monitor (TX)



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