THE NATIONAL NURSING SHORTAGE FACTS
- Michigan projects shortage of 7,000 by 2010 and 18,000 by 2015. (COMON, 2006)
- The shortage of registered nurses in the United States could reach as high as 500,000 by 2025. (AACN, 2008)
- In 2007, nursing schools turned away 40,286 qualified applicants from baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs due to insufficient number of faculty, clinical sites, classroom space, clinical preceptors and budget constraints. (AACN, 2008)
PROJECT SCOPE
The Nursing Addition will bring together the college's education, research, faculty and students in one central location on campus for the first time in 20 years and expand our capacity for nursing excellence. Specifically, the infrastructure of the new facility will:
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Improve and accelerate access to innovative educational programs to educate a generation of students who can expertly begin filling some of the thousands of nursing roles available locally and nationally.
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Be designed to further the translation of nursing research into nursing practice.
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Expand off-site access to the college's distance learning and professional development programs and learning opportunities.
The Nursing Addition will be designed to address the future of nursing education, research and practice with advanced technological solutions, while maintaining the college's focus on care. Internet, satellite and superior multimedia enhancements will bring world-wide accessibility to the college's academic and continuing educational programs and, help shape new healthcare outcomes with innovative nursing research that uses technology to improve the continuity of safe, patient-centered care and the quality of patient and family outcomes.
The Nursing Addition will be highly visible on the university's Health Science Campus and will be a nucleus for where the Nursing community—students, faculty, staff, alumni, partners and stakeholders— can come together and influence the future of healthcare. It will be a magnet for new nursing researchers, scholars, practitioners and teachers.
FUNDING
The College of Nursing at Michigan State University is in the midst of a $16 million fundraising initiative for a Nursing Addition Project to the Life Sciences Building. With funding for higher education from the State of Michigan decreasing it is imperative that the College raise the additional funds needed from private philanthropic sources.
NAMING OPPORTUNITIES
Naming opportunities for the Nursing Addition are available and commensurable with the size of the philanthropic gift supporting this effort. Current naming opportunities have ranged from $10,000 to $7 million and are subject to pricing changes. Commitments made prior to any pricing change will be honored. The University is accepting five-year pledge commitments for all naming opportunities.
FOR MORE INFORMATIONClick here to download a pledge form for the Nursing Addition Project. For more information, please contact Monique M. Dozier, director of development and external relations, at (888) 771-3637 or by
email.
To the left is an
architectural rendering
of the Nursing Building
Addition to Life Sciences
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