IOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE RECEIVES GRANT FOR NURSING INSTRUCTORS

Iowa Lakes Community College has been awarded a grant to encourage nursing instructors to stay in education.

Nearly $50,000 in grant funds was received from the Iowa Department of Public Health to coordinate nursing faculty orientation and retention plans for community colleges across the state of Iowa. This partnership grant will provide the seed money to pilot nursing faculty orientations for Iowa Lakes clinical and classroom adjunct faculty in January and then expand the program to a two-day Nurse Educator 101 training new nursing faculty across the state next summer. Stipends will be provided for up to two nursing faculty per community college to attend the summer workshop.

In addition, grant funds will sponsor institutional registrations for four ‘National League for Nursing’ Web-seminars. This project is to assist novice nursing faculty during the transition from a nurse clinician to a nurse instructor.