The grant will be used to fund the Elon University Clinical Site Development Project.
Cathy Quay, associate professor of nursing and department chair/program director for the Department of Nursing, received a grant from the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers for $14,285 to fund the Elon University Clinical Site Development project.
In this project, nursing students enrolled in “Population and Community Health” will be placed at several clinical sites. These students are in either the second semester of their third year in the traditional four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program or in the third semester of the four-semester accelerated BSN program.
The purpose of this project is to enhance nursing education by integrating experiential learning opportunities that prepare students to address health equity and disparities in underserved communities. Through strategic partnerships with community health clinics in Alamance and Caswell Counties, the initiative will provide nursing students with hands-on experience, support CHC staff through preceptor training and strengthen academic-practice collaboration to improve healthcare outcomes.