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Nursing Education at the Wake AHEC
Wake AHEC collaborates with area schools
and agencies to support the recruitment, retention, distribution
and career satisfaction of nurses with an evolving set of initiatives
as well as on-going continuing education.
Workforce issues:
Nursing Education at Wake AHEC,
in association with the other NC AHECs, the North Carolina Center
for
Nursing, the NC Nurses Association and the NC Board of Nursing
collaborates to address a variety of
workforce issues. Current projects
include:
1. A toolkit for recruiting elementary
through high school students
into nursing.
Details or print the
Order Form and phone, fax or mail us.
2. Magnet hospital workforce characteristics
3.
Nursing
Management Institute - online training
RN Refresher Program:
Approved
by the NC Board of Nursing, the RN Refresher Program is for nurses
who have an inactive license or have been out of nursing for more
than 5 years. It is a self-paced learning program, consisting of
a correspondence course and a clinical practicum. Medical-surgical
concepts as well as psychosocial aspects of nursing care are presented.
Depending on your needs, you may wish to take the complete program
or only the correspondence course. However, if the nurse’s license
is inactive, the precepted clinical practicum is mandatory for activating
the nursing license.
The correspondence course, “Medical-Surgical Review”, includes approximately
25 modules on topics in the
field of nursing and offers 14 CEUs
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The clinical
practicum (available only in North Carolina) consists of 160 hours
in a medical-surgical unit working one-on-one with a preceptor.
A regional AHEC nurse refresher coordinator in your area coordinates
this portion of the program.
The clinical practicum offers 16 CEUs
and can begin only after the correspondence course has been
completed.
To be eligible to enroll in the Nurse Refresher Program, the applicant
must attend an orientation
with their area Nurse Refresher Coordinator.
For more information, please contact Wake AHEC at
919-350-8547.
Going to school for BSN or MSN in
the Wake AHEC:
Wake AHEC, as a part of the North
Carolina AHEC state-legislated educational mobility effort, facilitates
RN to BSN and MSN programs in the region from local schools of nursing.
If you are interested in your BSN or MSN,
click
here to access these organizations.
The School of Nursing at the UNC at
Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) offers a RN/BSN program online,
click here to access their site. UNC-CH also offers an
on-campus RN to MSN program,
click
here for details.
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