PVAMU Celebrates First M.S. Nursing Graduates

Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing recently celebrated its' first graduates from the Master of Science Family Nurse Practitioner Program. The five graduates, Joyce Franklin of Missouri City, Keith Jackson of Houston, Sherria Owens and Marilyn Perry of Hempstead, and Audrey Sanders of La Marque will return to the health care arena as family nurse practitioners with tools to serve culturally diverse clients from urban and rural communities.

A HELPING HAND -Physical and Occupational Therapy Assistant students at HCC-Southeast learn the skills needed to treat patients requiring rehabilitation.

Prompted by the small number of minority advanced-practice nurses, a change in the nation's demographics and the limited access to health care services in underserved urban and rural areas, the College of Nursing started the Family Nurse Practitioner Program in June 1999.

With funding from WK Kellogg Foundation, the Houston Endowment for grant support and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Nursing, the PVAMU College of Nursing is able to provide a unique collaboration which includes leadership and faculty mentoring during the first year of the program.

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