{"id":29120,"date":"2020-10-06T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=29120"},"modified":"2020-10-06T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T14:49:36","slug":"apsu-school-of-nursing-forms-partnership-with-fisk-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/10\/06\/apsu-school-of-nursing-forms-partnership-with-fisk-university\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU School of Nursing forms partnership with Fisk University"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Last year, when Fisk University decided to provide a nursing pathway for its students, the Nashville-based school reached out to one of the top programs in the region \u2013 the Austin Peay State University (APSU) School of Nursing. Officials at Fisk liked that APSU\u2019s program consistently had a near 100% passing rate for the national licensure test, and Austin Peay State University officials were eager to take advantage of the diversity that Fisk \u2013 a historically Black university \u2013 offered.<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay State University School of Nursing interim director Dr. Eve Rice (Left) with APSU nursing students and faculty. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

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In July, APSU\u2019s School of Nursing and Fisk University signed a Memorandum of Understanding that paved the way for Fisk students to enroll in APSU\u2019s School of Nursing each semester. This new agreement will begin during the Spring 2021 semester.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very excited about this agreement,\u201d Dr. Tucker Brown, dean of the APSU College of Behavioral and Health Sciences, said. \u201cThese Fisk students are high-achieving. It is competitive to get into this program, and we\u2019re getting five of their top biology students, who will become our nursing students. It is a win-win for both universities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Austin Peay State University\u2019s competitive School of Nursing admits 65 students each year, typically at the beginning of a student\u2019s junior year. The school is now reserving five spots each year for Fisk students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve guaranteed them five spots,\u201d Dr. Eve Rice, interim director of the APSU School of Nursing, said. \u201cMost of them intend to be residential students, so they will live on campus at Austin Peay, and the program is five semesters until they graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the agreement, APSU nursing students will have access to Fisk\u2019s academic facilities in Nashville, where they will be participating in clinicals. And the two schools discussed having APSU\u2019s pre-nursing students be able to take some courses at the Fisk campus if needed.<\/p>\n

Rice also said the nursing profession has traditionally suffered from a lack of diversity, and in the last few years, Austin Peay State University\u2019s program has worked to address this problem. The new agreement with Fisk will help with this goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re often lacking in diverse nursing students,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had to think outside the box in how to incorporate diversity into our learning setting. We really struggle with that, and I\u2019m very excited about how this partnership will aid on building a more diverse student population.\u201d<\/p>\n

 For information on this new partnership between Fisk and Austin Peay State University, contact Rice at ricem@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Last year, when Fisk University decided to provide a nursing pathway for its students, the Nashville-based school reached out to one of the top programs in the region \u2013 the Austin Peay State University (APSU) School of Nursing. Officials at Fisk liked that APSU\u2019s program consistently had a near 100% passing rate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,4058,262,512,825,34473,5960,2475,4950,12620],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7zG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29121,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29120\/revisions\/29121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}