One Day per week Nursing Program
One Day per Week Nursing Program receives President's Award
On
October 19, 2006, Dr. Parvin Ahmadkhanlou, President
of the New Jersey Public Health Association (NJPHA)
gave the Ocean County College, One Day per Week Nursing
Program a President's Award for helping to alleviate
the nursing shortage though their initiative program
that "helps recruit an entire population of individuals
to nursing who would not have been able to attend a
nursing program because of limitations of time, distance,
work and/or family responsibilities."
The NJPHA Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony was held at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. The opening address was given by Commissioner Fred M. Jacobs, MD, JD, of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services and the keynote speaker was John R. Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The President's Award is presented to an individual or organization for outstanding work in the field of public health that help improve or protect the health of people in New Jersey. Dr. Ahmadkhanlou said:
"This program is a national model for helping to reduce the nursing shortage. It allows individuals who are currently employed in health care to complete the RN program in four semesters while still meeting family and work responsibilities. The one day face-to-face class is supplemented by online lessons that provide the classroom content in an innovative format. The initiative helps recruit an entire population of individuals to nursing who would not have been able to attend a nursing program because of limitations of time, distance, work and/or family responsibilities.
Adding more nurses to the workforce, especially in Ocean County with its large senior population, helps to meet a major public health need in our State."
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