Success Stories

	Title	School
	University of Wyoming's BRAND Gets a Boost Five $10,000 nursing scholarships may seem like a drop in the bucket to some, but for University of Wyoming’s Associate Lecturer Carrie Deselms, coordinator of Bachelors Reach for Accelerated Nursing Degree (BRAND), it “is significant...”	University of Wyoming
	University of Tennessee Students Successfuly Move Into the Workforce The most recent cohort of New Careers in Nursing (NCIN) Scholars to graduate from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center (UTHSC) either have jobs lined up or will be entering doctoral programs in the fall.	University of Tennessee Health Science Center
	Student by Day, Midwifery Advocate and Mother by Night For most of us, our first recollection of the birthing process comes from family stories, a video in health class, or a sitcom scene. For Eiko Cusick, however...	University of Hawaii at Manoa
	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
	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
	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
	NCIN Scholars Around the Country Meet with RWJF’s Sue Hassmiller In her role as director of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Senior Adviser for Nursing Susan B. Hassmiller, RN, PhD, FAAN, travels across the country to meet with leaders who are working to transform nursing in their states.	Oregon Health & Science University
	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
	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
	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