New Mexico Nursing Schools Receive a Welcome $30M Boost

Funding intends to create extra college positions and improve pupil commencement and placement charges.

Nursing faculties at 11 schools and universities in New Mexico acquired a portion of $30 million in college endowments from the New Mexico Greater Schooling Division to recruit and retain college and different helps.

The best share—$6.5 million—will go to the College of New Mexico’s Well being Sciences Heart to fund no less than three extra nursing college to conduct analysis and put together graduate college students to enter management and school roles in healthcare and nurse training.

The college’s Faculty of Nursing has the state’s solely nursing PhD program and produces nurse educators for New Mexico’s 18 different public nursing applications, in response to a press launch from the state’s Greater Schooling Division.

The nurse funding is an element of a bigger $110.5 million endowment unfold over 13 schools and universities. Educator preparation applications will obtain $50 million, and social work applications will obtain $30.5 million, additionally to recruit and retain college.

“This funding will improve our means to draw and preserve gifted college to develop and maintain the pipeline of licensed educators, nurses, and social employees that assist the lifelong success, well being and well-being of New Mexicans,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham stated. “These are essential fields which might be experiencing workforce shortages across the nation, and this administration is dedicated to doing no matter is important to construct up our in-state pipeline.” 

The tens of millions are invested to generate income yr after yr that fund college positions, assist internships and residencies, and finance different actions to extend commencement and placement charges of scholars in related profession fields.

Nursing faculties at these schools and universities acquired funding:

• The College of New Mexico’s Well being Sciences Heart—$6.5 million 
• Central New Mexico Group Faculty—$3 million 
• New Mexico Highlands College—$2.5 million 
• The College of New Mexico–Gallup—$2.5 million 
• New Mexico State College—$2.5 million 
• Doña Ana Group Faculty—$2.5 million 
• Northern New Mexico Faculty—$2.5 million 
• Mesalands Group Faculty—$2 million 
• Santa Fe Group Faculty—$2 million 
• Western New Mexico College—$2 million 
• San Juan Faculty—$2 million

“The $2 million endowment funds for nursing college stipends at Santa Fe Group Faculty is essential to satisfy the demand for increasing nursing training within the area,” stated Terri Tewart, the faculty’s dean of Sciences, Well being, and Engineering and Math.

“This endowment will make it doable to simply accept eight to 16 extra college students into our nursing program. Santa Fe Group Faculty is increasing our college with one full-time and one other part-time nurse educator,” she stated. “We’re extremely grateful to the New Mexico Greater Schooling Division and the New Mexico Nurses Affiliation for engaged on the pathway for this grant funding.”