This year’s grant of the said nursing institution is reportedly doubled due to recorded increase in enrollees for nursing students taking adult course works. This program is designed by HRSA to encourage more health care professionals to be assigned in South Georgia. In this program, graduates at VSU are seen to become clinical leaders, health care educators and administrators in various program implementations. This kind of health care worker is also needed in North Florida, report said.
Dr. Anita Hufft, VSU dean for nursing said the funding is really helping them to produce more health care professionals in the future to meet the demand in South Georgia. She said the funding directly supported students taking advance degrees in nursing. She also said these future professionals are also seen to compose the clinical faculty for the undergraduate programs in the university.
One of the main missions of the university is really to improve the healthcare needs of the people in the region by way of multiplying the number of professionals. With the help the HRSA the dream of the institution to reach out to this goal is great. The school also wants to let the many schools world wide know that they are among the leaders in providing the health care needs of South Georgia and North Florida. The VSU right now has enough number of nursing students to start the worthy cause of multiplying their number in the near future the serve the health care and education needs of the people.