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Nursing Schools in AlabamaThe nursing schools listed below offer practical nursing programs approved by the Alabama Board of Nursing. The NCLEX ® percentage on this page reflects the percent of first time NCLEX - PN candidates who passed the exam between 2004 and 2005. Please note that some students may choose not to take the NCLEX examination and are not included in these statistics. If the NCLEX pass rate is an important factor in your decision to attend a nursing school please consult with a school representative. For more information about nursing select a topic of interest from the menu at the top of this page. Practical Nurse (LPN) ProgramsAlabama Southern Community College ( NCLEX : 86.2% ) Ayers State Technical College Lawson Community College - Bessemer Campus ( 76.6% ) Bevill State Community College ( 94.6% ) Bishop State Community College ( 91.7% ) Calhoun State Community College ( 82.9% ) Central Alabama Community College - Coosa Valley School of Nursing Chattahoochee Valley State Community College ( 80.4% ) Drake State Technical College ( 82.5% ) Faulkner State Community College ( 100% ) Gadsden State Community College ( 88.9% ) Herzing College Lurleen B. Wallace State Community College ( 96.8% ) Northeast Alabama Community College ( 100% ) Northwest Shoals Community College ( 97.1% ) Reid State Technical College ( 87.5% ) Shelton State Community College ( 90.6% ) Snead State Community College ( 100% ) Southern Union State Community College ( 100% ) Southern Community College ( 70.4% ) Trenholm State Technical College ( 93.3% ) George C. Wallace State Community College - Dothan ( 83% ) George C. Wallace State Community College - Hanceville ( 81.5% ) George C. Wallace State Community College - Selma ( 93.8 % ) |
University of South Alabama - College of Nursing GrantHealth care for the elderly in Alabama, Florida and Georgia will soon improve following a $432,540 grant that established the Live Oak Geriatric Education Center, a collaborative effort involving the University of South Alabama College of Nursing, Florida State University and Florida A&M University. Funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, the geriatric education center consortium provides training in geriatrics for health care providers in professions such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy, rehabilitation therapies and social work. Older patients are the most frequent users of health care services, medications, nursing home stays and hospitalizations, yet health care providers of all types have received inadequate training. Each of the three states involved in the new geriatric education center has fewer geriatricians per capita that the national average. And like the rest of the nation, the region faces severe shortages of nurse practitioners, pharmacists, social workers and other allied health professionals with special training in geriatrics. "Older adults are the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States, but there is a shortage of health care providers that focus primarily on this age group," said Dr. Lynn Chilton, project director for USA's participation in the center and professor and coordinator of the gerontological nurse practitioner program at USA's College of Nursing. According to Chilton, health care for elderly patients can differ substantially from other adult care. Physiological changes that occur when an individual ages can affect immunity, drug absorption and the presentation of illness, among other things. "Signs and symptoms for certain conditions are different in some cases than they are for younger adults," Chilton explained. "For instance, very rarely do elderly people present with crushing chest pains when they're having a heart attack, so health care providers need to be aware of the more subtle signs and symptoms in an older person." The Live Oak Geriatric Education Center is one of 35 centers in the nation, but it is the only one to focus on training health care providers who serve the elderly in underserved rural and urban areas in three states. Training will take place in southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and southern Georgia. Two immediate goals of the center consortium are to assess the geriatric education needs of multidisciplinary health care providers in the rural areas of Alabama and to make continuing education for these professionals more accessible. Read more about the University of South Alabama.
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