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Undergraduate Nursing Education in Georgia

A nursing university in Valdosta is recently named recipient for an education grant from a very reputable funding agency – Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The said agency has been noted to be helping schools to improve their nursing education by way of providing school grants. The college of nursing of Valdosta State University is the recipient of a grant amounting to $24,000 from HRSA according to reports reaching this site. The said grant would be used to fund in aiding graduates students taking advanced practice in nursing. Beneficiaries of the grant would be specializing on nursing adults, child nursing, maternal care, mental health nursing and psychiatry.

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.

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