Randolph Community College Receives $5,000 Grant from Greensboro AHEC

Randolph Community College's Associate Degree Nursing program has received a grant of $5,000 from the Greensboro Area Health Education Center (AHEC) to support clinical training for its nursing students.

The money will be used for additional nursing faculty salaries to support 19 students who will rotate hours in clinical training in the maternity unit at the Women's Hospital in Greensboro during the fall 2010 semester, according to Cieanna Hairston, division chair for the Health Sciences and Public Service Division and program head for Associate Degree Nursing at RCC. "The clinical hours at the Women's Hospital will allow our students to participate in more complex nursing situations and to see and participate in the types of care they would not be able to experience at local hospitals," said Hairston.

The Greensboro AHEC serves healthcare professionals in Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Guilford, Montgomery, Orange, Randolph, and Rockingham counties. The grant funding is designed to support the development of clinical training sites and the number of students who study at these sites. The ultimate goal, based on a report from the North Carolina Institute of Medicine Task Force on the North Carolina Nursing Workforce, is to help North Carolina schools of nursing significantly increase their enrollments.