Becker's Healthcare April 25, 2024
When Jonna Jenkins, DNP, arrived at Hutchinson (Kan.) Regional Hospital in 2022, she was shocked to learn that the facility did not have a strong relationship with the town’s community college.
Dr. Jenkins — the hospital’s chief nursing officer — told Becker’s she sought to change that. “How can we get nursing students to stop driving 50 miles to go to clinicals and come to my hospital for clinicals?”
She got to know the director of the community college’s nursing program, and they began to formulate a plan. The hospital hosted an orientation for all 150 of the college’s nursing students to begin clinicals there. Then, the two organizations worked to develop a full-ride scholarship program for nursing students. Those...
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