Fresno State and Valley Children's Hospital partner for ASN to BSN Pathway Program

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A caller concern betwixt Fresno State and Valley Children's Hospital is enhancing nonrecreational improvement for nurses.

Andrea Carr has ever known her calling.

"I ever wanted to spell into surgery. My ma and I utilized to enactment up connected Thursdays and ticker 'ER' unneurotic aft my sisters had gone to bed, truthful country and medicine person ever been 1 of those things that I've ever had an involvement in," Carr said.

She's held galore occupation titles successful her life, including pharmacy tech, CNA, surgical tech and present Perioperative Coordinator of General Surgery astatine Valley Children's Hospital.

Her latest rubric is 1 she's had before- arsenic a student.

She's 1 of 14 enrolled successful Fresno State and Valley Children's caller pathway programme helping nurses gain a Bachelor's Degree.

Fresno State Dean of Health and Human Sciences Kara Zografos says this narration with VCH helps service the community.

"As a university, we truly wanted to respond to the needs successful the Valley for nursing and the shortage related to nursing, and this is 1 of the ways successful which we've been capable to bash that," Zografos said.

While having students enactment locally increases retention rates, Zografos says probe besides shows that bachelor's prepared nurses nutrient amended outcomes.

"We spot reduced infirmary admissions, we spot reduced stays successful the infirmary and overall, these candidates are amended equipped to grip the emerging healthcare needs successful our Valley," Zografos said.

The 18-month committedness is each online and allows licensed nurses to gain their bachelor's grade and implicit their required objective hours astatine their spot of work.

Valley Children's provides backing for each of the coursework, survey clip and interior nonrecreational guidance. That's thing Carr says is highly helpful.

"We get clip to enactment connected our homework. We get a time during the wage play that's allotted to education, truthful I'm not trying to accent astir taking a time disconnected erstwhile I've got a trial coming up. I get that time built in," Carr said.

Zografos says they person cohorts successful Visalia and Fresno, but this is the university's archetypal hospital-based cohort and they're already making improvements and looking guardant to the future.

"Just ironing retired each those things that you spot erstwhile you archetypal instrumentality something, but we anticipation this goes connected for many, galore years to come," Zografos said.

Potential RN-BSN applicants tin email fsnursingadmissions@mail.fresnostate.edu for much information.

Future applicants volition beryllium capable to use for adjacent year's cohort starting successful July.

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