WITH YOUR SUPPORT,
USASK NURSES WILL CHANGE OUR WORLD
NURSES THE WORLD NEEDS
Our world faces increasingly complex issues and we need nurses who can rise to these challenges.
The world needs YOU. With your help, the College of Nursing will continue to be what the world needs.
No matter what you are most passionate about, there are no shortage of options to maximize the impact of your gift.
Current Priorites
Rural and Remote Clinical Placements
Students who build connections with patients, communities, and other health professionals during rural and remote clinical placements are more likely to consider employment opportunities in these settings upon graduation.
There are a number of rural and remote clinical practice opportunities available to all undergraduate nursing students throughout their program, but accessing these placements is often a barrier for students. With your support, travel, food, and accommodation expenses for students will be minimized, increasing accessibility for urban students to do rural and remote placements.
Our hope is if more students complete these clinical placements, more graduates will work in rural and remote communities, helping address the nursing shortage in Saskatchewan.
Clinical Nursing Research Chair in Maternal and Pediatric Care
A Clinical Nursing Research Chair will move our knowledge forward in being present at the heart of health-care delivery and in producing clinical outcomes to benefit mothers, children, and families.
Our college is the ideal setting to house a Clinical Nursing Research Chair in Maternal and Pediatric Care. The area of maternal and pediatric care is a strength among our researchers, who explore topics affecting the health of Saskatchewan mothers and their children, such as Type 2 Diabetes, oral health among Indigenous children and youth, high-risk pregnancies, maternal mental health, and palliative care needs of children and families.
Donor funding will support the college in developing partnerships with the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital, with families, and communities to enhance clinical maternal outcomes.
Innovative Nursing Education Research Fund
Nursing education research is chronically unfunded, yet it is a fundamental area for bringing innovations to educate future nurses and ensure access to timely and competent nursing care.
With your support, the College of Nursing will carry out educational research and bring knowledge into action. The research on teaching and learning will focus on how nurse educators teach and interact with students to develop the best learning practices, address faculty development needs, and enhance the acquisition of clinical skills, including the use of innovations such as artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and big data.
PhD Excellence Fellowships
By supporting doctoral studies at the College of Nursing, you can contribute to the development of the next generation of nurse researchers and scholars.
As a member of the top medical/doctoral universities in Canada (U15), USask Nursing is working to help address the global shortage of nurse researchers/scholars through our distributed PhD program. PhD-educated nurses contribute to better care, health outcomes, and services by developing and implementing innovative approaches to provide nursing care and meet the health and social needs of individuals, families, and communities.
Supporting excellence and innovation among nursing PhD students will assist the college to leverage matching funds at the institutional level and support students with financial commitments such as tuition, data collection, analysis, and knowledge translation/transfer activities.
Student Technology and Enhanced Program Resources
Technology enhanced learning (TEL) is fundamental to modern nursing education. With donor support, nursing students will be able to access comprehensive learning resources through reputable third-party providers that expand the undergraduate curriculum and support the achievement of the entry level competencies for Registered Nurses.
TEL resources currently used by our students include:
- self-guided quizzing to test students’ knowledge and preparedness for clinical practice
- on-demand video series for learning and reinforcement of nursing procedures that support hands-on skill development with students in lab and clinical practice
- immersive virtual reality simulation that takes learning out of the textbook and into a 3D environment from basic anatomy to complex case studies in virtually simulated scenarios improving student confidence and increasing patient safety
- National Council Licensing Exam (NCLEX) prep exit exam and remediation package to build confidence and identify personal remediation plans to increase first time pass rate on the national licensing exam for RNs.
With your support, students’ financial strain to cover or subsidize practice tests, licensing and access to video, software and other technology could be minimized.
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