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currently here in united states healthcare is at a critical stage
nursing in particular, we're facing one of the largest nursing shortage
that we've had in recent history
and given the amount of nursing shortages
the federal government has asked that nursing schools increase their capacity by
ninety percent
this is something that's really almost impossible to do given the fact that we
don't have any nursing faculty and we have an aging workforce, the average
age of nurses right now it's about forty five
so we have a group that's also going to retire
Brandman Univeristy, to meet those challenges, decided to start school of
nursing
Our goal really was to create the transformative nursing curriculum this
was to meet
the directives by the institute of medicine in two thousand and four to
really change healthcare curriculum
to focus on increasing the use of technology in education so that we could
improved
patient safety outcomes
Brandman University has a unique approach to adult education
in this program we allow our students to help direct their programs and we give them
the opportunity to search for
and find the answers to their burning critical questions and work through, in
their own practice areas, the that things that speak to them
we're not teaching concepts as much as we are teaching practice change
the ability to search the information, bring it currently into your practice,
is something that's very exciting and very dynamic for the students what you
learn today you use tomorrow
We want to prepare our students to
face what will always been a changing health-care environment
and what that means now and what we see down in the future is understanding that
it's a much more complex industry than it's been in the past that success comes
from having a broad perspective on everything that's going on
it's understanding
not just where you as an individual are working or
what sector your in but where that fits with everything else
and how to draw on knowledge and skills and experience
from other organizations other countries delivery models
and to work within that environment successfully
I think an important thing
as far as the future of health care is that
in the very near future your going to have people with
a lot more access to health care providers
by increased
availability of insurance
i think its going be a very different change in terms of the way that care is
delivered
much more focus on team based care
uh... care that requires
communication, cooperation, collaboration
among all the team players
I think it's really important for us to
work with are students to create
uh... graduates who are comfortable with change. The support systems at Brandman
University are
absolutely phenomenal
we are using new technology starting with the faculty and with the
students
to help bring technology to the bedside including things like iPads
iPhones
smartphones so that we can use the applications available to have the
latest information for patients right away, right at our fingertips
one of the benefits of Brandman University students is their not locked down to a
specific time and place for the classes
their able to access the information online what suits them
and that is the benefit for them because they become enthusiastic about the projects
they're able to go out and connect with real places and real people sometimes in
their work places and sometimes the places that they want to be.
Brandman University actually
plateaus itself on meeting your individual needs, so its actually able to
take your clinical focus
find out a tool and an instrument that you can apply with your
project that you apply to your day to day life and you can stare that with the community
and hopefully spread it to other hospitals or other schools to use. I choose Brandman,
first of all the website was awesome, they had a plethora of information
that was precise and then when I inquired I actually was able to talk to
someone, they were very inviting and welcoming and
I was very impressed
The vision for Brandman University school of nursing and health professions
was really to create the leader the nursing or health care professional of
the future
who is willing to
and comfortable with using technology
to create innovation
to do more with less
and still have fantastic patient outcomes which is really the challenge
that we've been given today for health care reform