Sam Houston State University’s School of Nursing has received a grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board as part of the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief fund. The program will utilize the funds by hosting three major events this summer in an effort to address shortages in the state’s nursing pipeline, particularly the shortage of nursing faculty and simulation simulators heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The School of Nursing will hold the Simulation Educator Summer Institute as its first major event.
The second event will be the Preceptor Training Summer Institute, a two-day workshop. Preceptors are licensed clinicians that help students learn the nursing role.
Director of the School of Nursing Devon Berry said, “For the third major opportunity, we will be working with a design firm to create models for what we refer to as shared-employment between academic and practice settings.”
