Nursing an Education

摘要

A new health sciencesurse's classroom building at the Charleston campus of the Community Colleges of Southern Nevada will help fill the increasing need for nurses and other medical specialists throughout the Southwest. The four-story, 79,000-sq-ft. steel-framed building at CCSN will enable the college to increase its nursing enrollment from 150 to 300 students, plus double its other heath-related programs, which range from biotechnology and cardiorespiratory to sonography and ophthalmology. The 35 million dollars project will be complet-ed in time for the fall semester. It comes at a time when the Nevada Hospital Association expects the need for registered nurses to grow by 3,324, or 41 percent, through 2010 in southern Nevada. The need for nursing assistants is also growing, with an estimated 2,000 new positions during the same time frame.