College of Nursing Distributed

To address the shortage of nurses in rural Saskatchewan and make the health care system more culturally competent, in 2012, the College of Nursing of the University of Saskatchewan initiated a distributed education model to deliver the Bachelor of Nursing program to remote communities in Saskatchewan, including La Ronge, Ile a La Crosse, Prince Albert, and Yorkton. [...] One of the goals of implementing this model is to address the shortage of teachers in the north, which is similar to the College of Nursing’s objectives to address challenges in health care services by focusing on the shortage in the nursing workforce in remote areas in the province. [...] The Nursing distributed education program is also a response to the “strengthen the First Nations health workforce” objective in the Cultural Responsiveness Framework or CRF, which emphasizes the importance of the availability of resources that assist First Nations to enroll in health professional training programs and in the recruitment, retention, and advancement of First Nations health professi. [...] The accuracy of the financial proxies derived from reliable sources is as important as the power of the qualitative data to articulating the value of the intervention as well as the credibility of the analysis. [...] “The program is adaptable, and they are willing to meet students where they are at and allowing them to stay closer to home.” A mother and health care professional highlighted the importance of education accessible in her local community to the students, family, and the health care system: 46 I’m also the mother of a daughter who's currently in the nursing program at the U of S....