About Us
The UTA College of Nursing and Health Innovation’s Center for Rural Health and Nursing was established in October 2021 to improve access to needed health care professionals and to partner with communities in improving outcomes of care.
As a newly founded Center, we hope to make good leeway for the goals below in a 2-year time span. We want to have a strong base to ensure that this program is sustainable for many years to come. The most important part of the Center is ensuring that the rural communities are heard and growing in health care knowledge and education.
Goals
- Identify rural communities with current healthcare provider shortages and develop strategies and implementation plans to provide local clinical education for pre-licensure BSN students
- Provide nursing education for rural residents to become Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners while residing in their home communities
- Enhance rural nursing didactic content in:
- Develop a Continuing Education Certificate in Rural Nursing
- Develop an Academic Credit Certificate in Rural Nursing
- Explore developing a Rural Nursing Track in RN-BSN program
- Partner with the rural communities in Texas to improve access to rural health by enhancing local health professional workforce:
- Increasing high quality healthcare Continuing Education and Formal Academic Credit
- Conduct quality improvement and patient and health outcomes studies and evaluations to improving healthcare delivery, supported by video technology
