Success Stories

	Title	School
	Expanding Professional Development at the Medical College of Georgia After a successful first year with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Careers in Nursing (NCIN) program, MCG was recently re-awarded ten scholarships to help aid nursing students for the fall 2009 semester...	Georgia Health Sciences University
	California State University, Fullerton Leverages Leadership Institute to Certify Emerging Nurse Leaders NCIN scholars choose from eight different leadership tracks and follow a curriculum plan throughout the academic year, during which they learn about topics like social justice, public service, and peer tutoring.	California State University Fullerton
	Caring About Men Who Care Enough to Pursue Nursing “If we want to take better care of our nation, we need to reflect our nation.” It’s a powerful statement expressed by Aara Amidi-Nouri, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor at the school of nursing at Samuel Merritt University. Read more here!	Samuel Merritt University
	Diverse Backgrounds at Cleveland State University Come Together for Nursing They come from industry, business and teaching professions. They hail from both small and large communities around the country. But, however diverse their backgrounds, they share similar, defining attributes...	Cleveland State University
	Duke University School of Nursing Transitions to 21st Century Health Care Practices Understanding that health care practices need to cater to a 21st century environment, the Duke University School of Nursing is seven years into the mission...	Duke University
	From Rural Practice to International Settings, College of St. Scholastica Prepares Students for Competent Care across Borders In a city isolated by the rolling roads and lingering cold of the Minnesota, the College of St. Scholastica (CSS) sits atop Lake Superior, mentoring, preparing and challenging more than three-thousand students for life outside of school walls.	College of St. Scholastica
	Making a Difference in Diversity: Successful Minority Recruiting Efforts in Nebraska, Kentucky and West Virginia Increasing diversity is a top priority of the New Careers in Nursing (NCIN) program. We believe a diverse nursing workforce is better able to provide culturally competent care.	Creighton University
	Passing It On: NCIN Scholars Community Service in Action With all of the demands students face in an accelerated degree program—classes, clinicals, meetings with mentors and more, all in a compressed time frame—a community service component may seem like too much of an extraneous burden to throw into the mix.	Fairleigh Dickinson University
	Shenandoah University Prepares for Growing Spring Cohort History, community, charity- the Division of Nursing at Shenandoah University embraces these principles and more as it prepares second degree accelerated students for an array of health care needs in a shifting society...	Shenandoah University
	State-of-the-Art Simulation: How Two NCIN Grantees Are Implementing and Improving Their Simulation Programs In the last decade, simulation labs and simulators have become increasingly high tech. Several NCIN grantee institutions have invested in high-fidelity labs and are seeing great returns on these investments.	New York University