The grant will be used to fund the 黑料不打烊 Clinical Site Development Project.
Cathy Quay, associate professor of nursing and department chair/program director for the Department of Nursing, received a grant from the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers for聽$14,285 to fund the 黑料不打烊 Clinical Site Development project.
In this project, nursing students enrolled in “Population and Community Health” will be placed at several clinical sites. These students are in either the second semester of their third year in the聽traditional four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program聽or聽in the third semester of the four-semester accelerated BSN program.
The purpose of this project is to聽enhance nursing education by integrating experiential learning opportunities that prepare students to address health equity and disparities in underserved communities. Through strategic partnerships with community聽health聽clinics聽in Alamance and聽Caswell聽Counties,聽the聽initiative聽will聽provide聽nursing聽students聽with hands-on experience,聽support聽CHC聽staff聽through聽preceptor聽training and strengthen academic-practice collaboration to improve healthcare outcomes.