In an effort to help combat one employment shortage in the state, the Department of Economic Development is awarding an $800,000 grant to train 300 University of Missouri students as nurse assistants for MU Health Care.
Robin Harris is with the Sinclair School of Nursing and is behind the grant, which focuses on a team-based model of nursing. She says that rather than having one nurse who takes care of a patient independently, there's a group of people there to help support and care for them.
The model is meant to help with the acute nursing shortage.
"We have hundreds of nurses, hundreds of health professions students at the University of Missouri who are in their freshman and sophomore [years] who, if they were trained appropriately, could be working in our hospitals," Harris said.
When the students head home from MU, they'll be able to take that certification with them.
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