{"id":9766,"date":"2020-07-22T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T16:14:00","slug":"news-press-now-missouri-western-to-expand-nursing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/22\/news-press-now-missouri-western-to-expand-nursing-program\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Missouri Western to expand nursing program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/3\/33\/333cc770-cc31-11ea-bcb1-27a35aa94c14\/5e8fa45e7e2f3.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C798\" alt=\"missouri western nursing student\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" \/>The capacity of Missouri Western State University\u2019s nursing program will be expanded by 10, up from 50, the campus administration has announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>\u201cThere is a critical and growing need for registered nurses, with career opportunities growing faster than most other occupations,\u201d said Dr. Crystal Harris, interim dean of the College of Science &amp; Health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Harris said the program prepares students with hundreds of hours of hands-on training in regional clinics and in simulation labs. The expanded capacity is being funded by grants via the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development, stated to be worth just under $558,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/missouri-western-to-expand-nursing-program\/article_fc4f2720-cc31-11ea-8d95-7b0c128669c7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capacity of Missouri Western State University\u2019s nursing program will be expanded by 10, up from 50, the campus administration has announced. \u201cThere is a critical and growing need for registered nurses, with career opportunities growing faster than most other occupations,\u201d said Dr. Crystal Harris, interim dean of the College of Science &amp; Health. Harris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[970,53,82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9768,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions\/9768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}