Nursing-Assistant Program May Be Stopped

The Glendale Union High School District has partnered with Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale for 10 years to bring students free medical care, give health lectures and provide healthy diet and weight programs to Greenway High School Students in Phoenix. The salary and benefits of a nurse who instructed the class and gave access for students to gain a close-up view at the profession were paid by the medical center, but the program will not be funded anymore in the autumn.

There is a requirement to restructure the program and find an instructor if the district has to pay the whole cost in order that the program serves greater than one high school. Nurses are in great demand in Arizona, and the program provides to students exposure to health field and information to be possible employees in the future.

Greenway High School student will be allowed to attend a similar program offered at Thunderbird High School if the Greenway program will be interrupted. The Thunderbird program partners with the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Phoenix.

As what it did in the past, Banner will still permit students to enter to fully accomplish clinical rotations in order that after graduation, they will be ready and several steps in front of students who do not have clinical rotation.

The nursing-assistant program must e continued because of its big help to persuade the high school students to pursue nursing course.

[Via The Arizona Republic]