Illinois State’s nursing program is demanding. It’s even harder for Michael Binder. The junior nursing major from Downers Grove doesn’t have a left hand.
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Illinois State’s nursing program is demanding. It’s even harder for Michael Binder. The junior nursing major from Downers Grove doesn’t have a left hand.
The Mennonite College of Nursing is the recipient of a federal Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship grant of nearly $700,000 to support the education of nurse practitioners.
More nurses are needed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the nurse shortage will reach 1.2 million by 2020.
Midwives and Doulas will be the subject of the McDowell Stafford Lectureship Series in Child and Family Health presented by Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University on Tuesday, March 29.