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NURSING LIFE AT BARRY UNIVERSITY

Life at Barry University in Miami work with community needs. You plan
offers exciting learning opportunities a health fair that provides basic care to
and so much more. You chat with a vis- low-income communities. You work
iting scientist; you intern at a major city with at-risk teens and help them see the
hospital; you make a difference. As a world through a different lens. You help
student in our Nursing program, you’ll migrant farmworkers advocate for fair
quickly realize that Barry offers far treatment. You give the gift of shelter to
more than classrooms and tests; learn- a deserving family with Habitat for
ing comes from everything around you. Humanity.
You live Barry University’s commit-
Prepare for your future ment to social justice and collaborative
At Barry, you work with professors service. Express yourself As a Barry stu-
who are experienced professionals in dent, you express yourself — after all,
the field. Not only do they know your there are more than 60 student organi-
name but will also help you explore zations to choose from. Best of all, you
your field of interest, whether it’s a develop leadership skills and make life-
Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctorate of long friendships at the same time. You
Nursing, or any of the more than 20 run for student office and become a
health-related majors on campus. At voice for your peers. You lead an intra-
Barry, you have many opportunities to mural sports team to a tournament win.
deepen your education, especially since You also support — or compete on —
our nursing program has been educat- one of Barry’s 12 varsity teams. A mem-
ing future nurses for 65 years. No mat- ber of NCAA Division II and the
ter what path you choose, you gain Sunshine State Conference, the Barry
hands-on experience before you gradu- Buccaneers have won 18 NCAA nation-
ate. You prepare tissue samples that al championships.
help a doctor make a correct diagnosis
and save a life; you analyze public Afford your education
health in Haiti and share your insights With all that it has to offer, Barry
with government officials; you learn strives to provide the resources to make
how to operate a heart and lung your education — and college experi-
machine, which keeps patients alive ence — affordable for you and your
during open heart surgery; and you family. Through scholarships, grants,
apply what you’ve learned in the class- work-study programs, and low-interest
room to a rapidly changing world of loans, more than 90 percent of all
health sciences. undergraduates receive some form of
financial aid. Ready to live a Barry life?
Make a difference Contact us to schedule a campus visit
At Barry, you do more than advance or speak to an admissions counselor.
your career — you learn to make the
world a better place. Barry’s Center for For more information, please contact
Community Service Initiatives fosters Denise Deen, Director, Graduate
partnerships with community organiza- Admissions, College of Nursing and
tions, so some of your classes use serv- Health Sciences, (305) 899-3541, or
ice learning to integrate your course www.barry.edu/healthcare

Cover Story: Nursing Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

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According to the American Nurses care and the amount of experience these dle school level. Capture the minds of
all stakeholders. Everyone, including the Association (ANA), by 2022 there will caregivers have can directly impact young, promising kids about the myriad
physician, family members and support be far more registered nurse jobs avail- patient outcomes. We must always opportunities available within the nurs-
staff, depends on the nurse to administer able than any other profession, at more remember our mission as caregivers, ing profession. Nurse leaders must build
meds, care for the patient, answer ques- than 100,000 per year. With more than tying everything we do back to the stronger relationships with our commu-
tions and coordinate care - but who is 500,000 seasoned RNs anticipated to patient in the bed. Bedside nurses are nity’s schools by joining their boards and
there for the nurse? For these reasons retire by 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor critical to that mission. being a part of their strategic plans.
and more, a growing number of highly Statistics projects the need for 1.1 mil- Second, we must involve nurses in the Let’s invest in our nurses, show them
skilled, experienced nurses are leaving lion new RNs for expansion and replace- decision-making process. Front-line staff how much we value them and encourage
the bedside. ment of retirees, and to avoid a nursing has valuable insight regarding the chal- them to stay within our organizations.
To compound the problem, we also shortage. lenges nurses face, as well as operational After all, nurses are a critical part of the
have an aging workforce; nurses who Despite these challenges, there are processes and care delivery. We must patient experience.
have been working at the bedside for 30 ways that healthcare organizations can give nurses a voice when it comes to
years or more are getting ready to retire ensure nurses are empowered, engaged making decisions that impact their role Carolyn Carter, Chief Nursing Officer at
and when they leave, they will take and motivated to stay. First, we must and responsibilities. Broward Health Coral Springs, can be
decades of knowledge and expertise with make bedside nursing attractive. How? Finally, we must strengthen the reached at clcarter@BrowardHealth.org or
them. We also don’t have enough people We must value these caregivers for they pipeline of nurses entering the profes- (954) 344-3122.
going into the nursing field and, with a are truly our front-line staff. Bedside sion and that means recruiting students
growing patient population, the nursing nursing is at the very heart of patient when they’re young, starting at the mid-
shortage continues to be a concern.

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