Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) nursing students recently supplied a national retirement community agency with dozens of ideas to improve nursing recruitment and retention policies as part of their real-world healthcare project titled the HEaRT Challenge.
The HEaRT – Healthcare Education and Real-World Training – Challenge paired students in SNHU’s nursing and health professions programs with leaders at Watermark Retirement Communities. The project was designed to give students hands-on experience working with industry professionals and challenged them to develop one recruitment and one retention strategy to help the organization address the nationwide nursing shortage.
Dr. Tony Clayton, associate dean of health professions at SNHU, tells SNHU.edu, “The HEaRT Challenge offers students a meaningful way to build confidence, apply soft skills and demonstrate workforce readiness.”
Students were organized into groups that researched the company’s environment and the broader impacts of the nursing shortage. The project was conducted online and representatives from Watermark provided company data and made themselves available to answer questions. At the end of the project, each group produced an executive summary for Watermark executives to explore new ideas for recruiting and retaining nurses to work for their organization.
To learn more about how Southern New Hampshire University nursing students are helping to address the nationwide nursing shortage with the HEaRT Challenge, visit here.
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