While the COVID pandemic may be in the rearview mirror, the need for nurses and other healthcare professionals remains and institutions of higher education throughout southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas have noticed.
KRPS’s Fred Fletcher-Fierro.
Earlier this week in Springfield, Missouri officials from CoxHealth, Springfield Public Schools, Missouri State, and Ozarks Technical Community College announced the Alliance for Healthcare Education.
The agreement allows that beginning in the fall of 2024, Springfield High School juniors and seniors will be able to earn their AA degree in Bioclinical Sciences while finishing their high school diplomas.
At Pittsburg State on Thursday PSU officials, students and donors officially cut the ribbon on the eight-million-dollar expansion of the Irene Ransom Bradley School of Nursing. Dr. Cheryl Giefer, director of Pitt State’s School of Nursing speaking Thursday.
“We are so excited for our students, faculty to be working in this new learning environment. Our charge with the current nursing shortage is to produce practice, ready, nurses.”
The 10,000-square-foot addition accompanies the original facility constructed in 1977 that included targeted renovations of approximately 14,000 square feet in the existing building.
The updated Irene Ransom Bradley School of Nursing can now accept 120 students.
