In the summer season of 2022, Kaweah Health met with Unitek and the Board of Registered Nurses, the place they agreed to increase the pool of potential nurses by permitting Unitek to collaborate with Kaweah Health. The collaboration comes within the type of their very personal nursing program. However, this system is barely provided to Kaweah Health workers who haven’t but attained their nursing levels and 80 to 100 workers have already expressed curiosity in this system.

The program is not going to be free for college kids, as they are going to be accountable for a portion of tuition. However Kaweah Health is engaged on a subsidy program that can assist pay for this system if the scholar works for Kaweah Health for 3 years following their commencement. If they don’t fulfill the three 12 months obligation, they must repay the subsidy. Unitek has additionally decreased the quantity for this system as a result of partnership with Kaweah Health.

“One of the ways to increase educational capacity, you need two things, you need faculty, and you need clinical experience. You need a clinical facility and rotations,” Abdel Raheem Yosef, the Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Unitek Learning mentioned. “This partnership actually provides both, because the nurses are working on a career. And the senior nurses could participate in teaching and preparing their colleagues who’s going to become nurses working for them.”