Tri-Rivers receives $200,000 Nursing Education Grant

Tri-Rivers Center for Adult Education & Career Center was awarded a $200,000 Nursing Education Grant to be used to increase nursing student enrollment capacity. The plan the Nursing Department submitted for the grant includes implementation of a Success Center, expansion of Student Support Services, providing academic support to currently enrolled students and assistance to students applying to the program to be able to meet the admission requirements. This year the Practical Nursing program received 102 applicants with 40 students not meeting program requirements. The grant will help provide assistance to students not meeting requirements.

The vision of the Success Center is to foster a learner-centered experience for nursing students’ success by serving as a resource for academic and psychomotor skills support with a diverse environment that is respectful, nurturing and challenging. The Success Center will provide students the opportunities for success through progressive strategies and technology.

Available Services will include: Classroom+Plus Tutoring program; Gate Way Program for exam preparation/remediation; Back on Track Program (Academic Recovery); Reading Assessment and Assistance; Tech Time, Keep your PsychoMOTOR Running and U-Turn Program.

This grant is for two years beginning 2013-14 school year and continuing through 2014-15. Grand funding will be used to purchase skills lab training equipment, non-equipment educational and training resources, to fund faculty to provide staffing, tutoring and support of the Success Center. Funding is provided by the Ohio Board of Nursing’s Nurse Education Grant Program and is part of their effort to address the nursing shortage with the State of Ohio by supporting Nurse Education programs in their efforts to increase enrollment capacity of nursing students and nursing educators.