NEC Launches Online Clinical Schedule

Since August 2007 the nursing directors of the three Nursing Education Consortium (NEC) undergraduate nursing school partners collaborated on the design of an online calendar system to optimize the clinical experience of nursing students. The directors worked closely with Chief Nursing Officers to identify their healthcare scheduling priorities and revise the unit assignments. The pilot and transition from a paper-based schedule to a server-based, paperless schedule took two semesters.

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SAVE TUESDAY, AUGUST 26 AT 5:30 PM

Join the NEC Board to celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the Bilingual Nursing Scholars Initiative.

Join the NEC and BNSI alumni in the Jones Center Chapel. Learn about BNSI’s progress and impact on the Latino community. Celebrate awards to nursing, CNA and Summer Enrichment Program graduates.

Refreshments will be available.

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Northwest Click here to read about the following:

• The Mission Of The Consortium
  
• NEC Initiatives
  
• NEC Vision Statements
  
• NEC Grant Funders

Click the image at right for a PDF of our brochure.

Northwest Arkansas Nursing Education Consortium (NEC) is the collaboration of area nurse educators to enhance nursing education practices. It is an Arkansas charitable corporation managed by an eight-member board of nurse educators representing the four Northwest Arkansas nursing schools (University of Arkansas Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, NorthWest Arkansas Community College, AHEC Northwest/UAMS and Northwest Technical Institute).

The Nursing Education Consortium (NEC), a public charity operating under an IRS 509 (a) (1) permanent approval granted in March 2005, coordinates nursing school clinical schedules and student orientations, seeks program grants, coordinates nursing education and curriculum programs and sponsors fund raising projects to underwrite general nursing student scholarships. The NEC board works from a Strategic Plan that outlines seven initiatives. In seven years NEC provided $413,500 for 424 scholarships to students who now nurse in area hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and industrial settings.

The Bilingual Nursing Scholars Initiative (BNSI) is a pilot project chaired by Deb Moore of NTI. It is funded by grants from Care, Walton Family and Winthrop Rockefeller Foundations. It operates three cohorts (locations at Springdale and Har-Ber High in Springdale and Siloam Springs High) to identify, recruit and academically support 48 bilingual high school students each summer to further their interest in healthcare careers and help the qualify for nursing school admission.

BNSI provides academic assistance to bilingual high school students to qualify for nursing school admission and scholarship support to bilingual nursing students. In four years of operation a total of twenty-eight bilingual nursing students have graduated and entered into the nursing workforce in Northwest Arkansas. Fourteen additional BNSI scholars remain in the “pipeline” moving toward their nursing license.