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San Jac manages health science grant
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| From left, San Jacinto College students Linda Matteson and Donna James receive helpful tips from nursing skills lab coordinator April Cleveland as they learn medical procedures using a human patient simulator. San Jacinto College received a FIPSE grant that will fund advanced educational equipment for the College. |
A group of San Jacinto College allied health faculty and staff members are working together to coordinate and manage a grant that will fund resources to help keep the College’s health science programs in step with current trends and developments.
The U.S. Department of Education recently awarded the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant of $238,755 to the College, which will pay for two human patient simulators to be placed in the new simulation learning laboratories located on the College’s Central and North campuses. Each lab will feature new equipment, such as state-of-the-art human patient simulators, which will enable health science students to receive training on the most advanced and life-like device available. The new labs at Central and North will be similar to a lab currently in place at the South campus.
Barbara Taplin, San Jacinto College’s dean of health sciences, notes that receiving the federal grant is both timely and significant. “Funds from the grant will enable the College to usher in the development of clinical simulation for each campus,” she commented. “Simulation is a tool that is proven to be beneficial to the clinical education of health science students because it provides a safe environment to practice skills without running the risk of harming actual patients.”
Taplin said it is vital for the College to keep up with current trends and developments in health science, particularly in the area of nursing because the demand is high for well-trained nurses. She noted that recent studies have shown that the Gulf Coast region will be in need of approximately 14,000 registered nurses by the year 2020.
“Our health science programs market to the community and to health care agencies that our students are educated clinically on state-of-the-art equipment,” added Taplin. “Our students work closely with patients, and now will have experience with patient simulation to prepare them for any medical situation.”
Taplin expressed gratitude to those who helped to secure the grant for San Jacinto College. “We appreciate Congressman Nick Lampson for his part in helping San Jacinto College to receive the grant, Susan Arscott (San Jacinto College’s vice president of resource development) for processing the request for the congressionally-directed funds on behalf of the allied health science division, and Kelly Simons (the College’s assistant vice president of resource development) for working tirelessly to assist the allied health science grant committee in writing the grant.”
In addition to Taplin, Arscott, and Simons, other San Jacinto College faculty and staff members involved in developing, coordinating and implementing the FIPSE grant includes Veronica Jammer, associate degree nursing department chair; Amanda Warren, retention specialist; Tilly Slaten, health science division operations manager; Joe Hamilton, Central and North campus emergency medical services department chair; Karen Malloy, Central campus allied health department chair; Michael Moore, director of grants management; Alana Curry, North campus nursing department chair; and Becky Shuttlesworth, South campus simulation lab coordinator.
San Jacinto College offers a wide range of nursing degree options as well as many health occupational program and study plans at all three campuses. For more information about San Jacinto College, call 281-998-6150, or visit www.sanjac.edu.
The U.S. Department of Education recently awarded the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant of $238,755 to the College, which will pay for two human patient simulators to be placed in the new simulation learning laboratories located on the College’s Central and North campuses. Each lab will feature new equipment, such as state-of-the-art human patient simulators, which will enable health science students to receive training on the most advanced and life-like device available. The new labs at Central and North will be similar to a lab currently in place at the South campus.
Barbara Taplin, San Jacinto College’s dean of health sciences, notes that receiving the federal grant is both timely and significant. “Funds from the grant will enable the College to usher in the development of clinical simulation for each campus,” she commented. “Simulation is a tool that is proven to be beneficial to the clinical education of health science students because it provides a safe environment to practice skills without running the risk of harming actual patients.”
Taplin said it is vital for the College to keep up with current trends and developments in health science, particularly in the area of nursing because the demand is high for well-trained nurses. She noted that recent studies have shown that the Gulf Coast region will be in need of approximately 14,000 registered nurses by the year 2020.
“Our health science programs market to the community and to health care agencies that our students are educated clinically on state-of-the-art equipment,” added Taplin. “Our students work closely with patients, and now will have experience with patient simulation to prepare them for any medical situation.”
Taplin expressed gratitude to those who helped to secure the grant for San Jacinto College. “We appreciate Congressman Nick Lampson for his part in helping San Jacinto College to receive the grant, Susan Arscott (San Jacinto College’s vice president of resource development) for processing the request for the congressionally-directed funds on behalf of the allied health science division, and Kelly Simons (the College’s assistant vice president of resource development) for working tirelessly to assist the allied health science grant committee in writing the grant.”
In addition to Taplin, Arscott, and Simons, other San Jacinto College faculty and staff members involved in developing, coordinating and implementing the FIPSE grant includes Veronica Jammer, associate degree nursing department chair; Amanda Warren, retention specialist; Tilly Slaten, health science division operations manager; Joe Hamilton, Central and North campus emergency medical services department chair; Karen Malloy, Central campus allied health department chair; Michael Moore, director of grants management; Alana Curry, North campus nursing department chair; and Becky Shuttlesworth, South campus simulation lab coordinator.
San Jacinto College offers a wide range of nursing degree options as well as many health occupational program and study plans at all three campuses. For more information about San Jacinto College, call 281-998-6150, or visit www.sanjac.edu.
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