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North Dakota Offers Distance Learning for Nurses Spread Across the Rural State
Ladders in Nursing Careers (L.I.N.C.) Program
North Dakota L.I.N.C. enrolled a total of 101 students in the program, who were spread across 47,000 square miles. To bring students and schools closer together, North Dakota L.I.N.C. used a variety of distance learning tools, including satellite, interactive video, correspondence courses, e-mail and itinerant professors.
Ladders in Nursing Careers (L.I.N.C.), a national grant program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), was a career advancement and health care work force education national program.
Key Results:
- Enrolled 22 Native American students; Native Americans represented just 1.7 percent of the state's nurses.
- Became a state leader in distance learning.
- Partnered with the University of North Dakota's Medstar program (a satellite system that delivers educational programming to the state's hospitals) and North Dakota Blue Cross/Blue Shield to provide students with access to the Internet and the University's library resources.
- Collaborated with the University of North Dakota RAIN (Recruitment\Retention of Native Americans into Nursing) program, Northwest Technical College, and Little Hoop Community College (a tribal college) to bring a Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) program to northeastern North Dakota via laptop computer.
Ladders in Nursing Careers Program Project Results
Individual project results from the RWJF national program, Ladders in Nursing Careers Program
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