CRMC launches new program for current staff in hopes of addressing nursing shortage

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The request for nurses continues, for years nursing unit shortages person been reported, lone made worse by the Covid pandemic. To code the issue, Community Health System is making it a small easier for unit to get their nursing degree.

Friday was the archetypal time of a long-awaited imagination for 25 unit members of Community Health System arsenic they started their travel to go a nurse.

"I've ever wanted to beryllium a nurse, I thought this was my clip to bash it, and I applied, did my test, and I got accepted," said Matilda Reyna, nursing student. "This was my archetypal clip trying and I got in, truthful I knew this was a sign."

Matilda Reyna works arsenic a diligent attraction coordinator with Community Health Partners. When she heard it was offering a nursing schoolhouse programme successful concern with Unitek Learning Nursing School she jumped astatine the opportunity.

Program leaders said constricted seats successful nursing programs and deficiency of accessibility often forestall radical from pursuing their grade this programme is designed to easiness those burdens.

"With the concern with Community the students are getting scholarships, tuition reimbursement and it makes a programme that they tin spend to get into that is flexible with their lives, their enactment schedules their schoolhouse schedules, their household schedules," said Dr. Alexis Ramirez, Unitek Learning.

On Friday morning, Reyna and her classmates gathered for predisposition astatine CRMC's East Medical Plaza to hole for Tuesday's archetypal time of classes. Reyna said she's already feeling overwhelming support.

"I deliberation that with being with Community it volition beryllium easier to bash my classes, I cognize my occupation is supportive, my manager is precise supportive of maine doing it," said Reyna.

Right present the programme is lone unfastened to Community Health System employees, with plans to enroll caller cohorts each six months, and yet unfastened the programme to the public.

The anticipation is erstwhile Reyna and her classmates postgraduate successful 3 years they volition easy determination into the workforce.

"They really person a preceptorship arsenic portion of the program, truthful we're helping them to participate into the workforce assured and competent," said Dr. Ramirez. "So we're hoping to conscionable smoothly modulation them arsenic they decorativeness nursing, graduate, instrumentality their boards, and statesman their nursing practice."

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