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Fil-Am Nevada nurses train to become educators

Fil-Am nurses in Nevada receive training to become nurse-educators as the silver state seeks to address a shortage of healthcare workers.

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<div><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/17PE0RDIvVc?&amp;ab_channel=ABS-CBNNews&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe> </div>Several critical factors are deemed to fuel the nursing staff crisis in Nevada. They include an aging population in the workforce, increased burnout, and a shortage of nursing facilities.To help ease the strain, the College of Southern Nevada hosted a seminar on helping train registered nurses to become nurse educators.Filipino-Americans were among those who joined the event, which they said was a good experience.“Nursing is so versatile,&quot; said Nicky Velasco. &quot;You can have experience wherever you go. You can go to medical surgery, you can teach [and] be a nurse practitioner. That&#x27;s one thing we love about nursing, it&#x27;s so flexible.”Fil-Am nurses in Clark County also shared that they were thrilled to learn the teaching method.“I want to give back to the community as a nurse,&quot; said Harvey del Rosario. &quot;I want to teach future nurses the good etiquette that we Filipinos have.”The nursing dean of the College of Southern Nevada said the shortage of nurses affects the quality of healthcare services in the Silver State.&quot;We need nurse educators to contribute to having more nurses in the workforce,&quot; said Dr. Elizabeth Solomon. &quot;We can&#x27;t just have nurses. We have to train them, educate [and] to nurture them.”Solomon said there is an urgent need for stakeholders to respond to this problem. She believes this would help the system cope with the increasing demand for healthcare amid the growing population in Nevada.Nevada ranks second to last among states for the number of registered nurses per 1,000 jobs. The shortage is especially severe in rural areas, which heavily depend on traveling nurses.However, many of these traveling nurses have been working more frequently in urban areas, further exacerbating the rural nursing shortage.In 2021, nursing schools turned away thousands of qualified applicants to their programs – which the American Association of Colleges of Nursing said was due to the lack of clinical sites, classrooms, and faculty.Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo signed in April an executive order empowering the state’s Patient Protection Commission to review the situation and make recommendations on addressing the healthcare workforce shortage.Organizers of the nurse educator program are optimistic that teaching beyond hospital walls and sharing their real-world experiences outside the classroom will help mitigate Nevada&#x27;s nursing shortage.

Fil-Am nurses in Nevada receive training to become nurse-educators as the silver state seeks to address a shortage of healthcare workers.

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Fil-Am Nevada nurses train to become educators amid healthcare workers shortage

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Bev Llorente | TFC News Nevada

Published Jul 31, 2024 12:51 AM PHT

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Updated Jul 31, 2024 12:53 AM PHT

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