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Clemson University recently announced the opening of a four-story $31.5 million building on the Greenville Health System (GHS) Greenville Memorial Medical Campus that will triple the number of students in the university’s nursing pipeline.
The building will enable Clemson and GHS to address the critical shortage of nurses in the state, and has already allowed Clemson to increase the size of its freshman nursing class. Clemson’s School of Nursing usually admits a class of 64 freshman each fall, but started this year with a class of 173 freshman.
South Carolina has been one of the states most affected by the shortage of nurses. However, Clemson’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program has seen significant growth in applications over the last ten years. In anticipation of the new building, the university has been bumping up nursing class sizes for two years. Total enrollment in the nursing program will increase from 256 in the fall of 2015 to 704 students as it reaches maximum capacity (when all four classes max out at 176 students).
The 78,000-square-foot facility will house junior and senior nursing students who are guaranteed the opportunity to do their clinical rotations at a GHS facility. The building is also connected to the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville by a two-story connector to foster interprofessional education.
To learn more about Clemson University’s partnership with Greenville Health System to open a new $31.5 million nursing building to help alleviate the nursing shortage, visit here.
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