Some of the top nursing schools in Miami-Dade County expect to graduate more students in coming semesters as enrollments have increased in the last couple of years.
Although graduate numbers for Miami Dade College’s Benjamin Leon School of Nursing have stayed steady, the school expects an increase in future graduates, as enrollment has risen in the past years, said Tommie Norris, dean of the Benjamin Leon School of Nursing. “We’re now getting to the point where [the augmented number of students enrolling previously] are going to graduate soon in December and in May.”
In spring last year, 1,177 nursing students enrolled seeking associate’s degrees and 366 enrolled in quest of bachelor’s degrees. The number of graduating nursing students was 174. In fall 2021, the school saw 236 more students apply than usual, Dr. Norris added.
In spring 2022, the nursing school had 1,089 enrollments for associate degrees and 368 seeking bachelor’s degrees, she said.
“We are in the process of growing our nursing programs to meet the demands of our practice partners,” she said.
The Benjamin Leon School is in the beginning of development stages to bring back the licensed practical nurse (LNP) program. “We’re going to admit 50 in the fall and 50 in the spring. And we are ready; our practice partners are really excited.”
At the College of Nursing and Health Sciences of Barry University, enrollment also rose in the past two years. The school intends to graduate over 100 entry-level nursing professionals each fall and around 50 in the spring. “Last year, we graduated 125 new nursing students and 186 advanced practice nurses, nurse practitioners and nurses with Ph.D.s.,” said John McFadden, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Barry.
The school expects 180 to 200 new students graduating from NP degrees, nurse anesthetists and Ph.D.s in nursing programs.
“The crisis around the pandemic really made us think to abandon our traditional ways of teaching because the students couldn’t be in front of us,” said Mr. McFadden. “We had to really focus on competency-based learning, the quality of the limited clinical experiences we had, and combine them with controlled simulation experiences, and that became the foundation for clinical learning.”
The Benjamin Leon School of Nursing’s curriculum also changed in the wake of the pandemic, said Dr. Norris. The school introduced an opportunity for students to virtually assist patients, interact with virtual patients via iHuman, a virtual reality simulation where students can treat and learn on virtual patients.
“But as soon as we could, we got them back into the clinical setting,” she added. “One of the things it taught us is the value of integrating with these experiences, and adding them more into the curriculum, as an opportunity for the students with different learning styles, but also to support the really rigorous nursing curriculum.”
The social aspect of learning, said Mr. McFadden, was really important to the modified nursing curriculum at Barry. “We really had to think about all the experiences that could have interfered with our learning, whether it was a lack of funding or social isolation.”
“Trying to help all of our graduates deal with the unexpected occurrences, whether it’s Covid-19 or Zika virus outbreaks or some type of weather catastrophe like a hurricane, we’re trying to insure that in all of our various healthcare programs we’re reinforcing the skills to manage unordinary situations,” Mr. McFadden said, “because we all agree this was a wake-up call, and it may not be the last pandemic that we have to deal with.”
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