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Apr 07, 2024

Levi donates $50K to NPC in support of nursing program

Levi Hospital recently donated $50,000 to National Park College in support of the nursing and health science program. "Our community is fortunate to have National Park College and its excellent

Levi Hospital recently donated $50,000 to National Park College in support of the nursing and health science program.

"Our community is fortunate to have National Park College and its excellent nursing program," Levi Hospital President and CEO Zane Jeffers said in a news release.

"NPC produces hardworking nurses that are dedicated to their patients and its passionate educators and staff promote a rigorous learning environment that fosters growth. Levi Hospital is happy to support NPC's Nursing and Health Science Programs and its continued excellence in health care education."

While the college has recently purchased a few pieces of equipment for its programs, including a new ventilator for the respiratory care program and a new pediatric X-ray manikin for the radiology program, NPC is always looking to improve the program, said the dean of Nursing and Health Sciences, Janice Ivers.

"My goal is that we won't stop looking to the future," Ivers said.

"We will always stay moving forward.

"Currently, this fall, (we're) looking at a product that we had a free version of. This isn't necessarily in the labs, but this is a teaching modality. It's called Nearpod, and that's gonna cost us several thousand dollars. It can be utilized across these programs, and it allows for the students to use their cellphone within the classroom. The faculty will implant questions and case studies within their content that they present in class," she said.

"It allows the faculty to see what the students are understanding and maybe even what the students didn't quite understand based on answers."

With programs including nursing, radiologic technology, respiratory therapy, medical laboratory technology, EMT paramedics and health information technology, the latter is the only program which can be completed 100% online, Ivers said.

"So, their equipment is more virtual type stuff, but all of the other programs within the division do require some tools to utilize in order to teach these different disciplines how to care for patients," she said.

"Obviously, we want them practicing on a manikin or a virtual IV arm or whether it's a microscope, a teaching scope to look at the blood or the body fluids or whatever we might need to look at. That requires equipment, and it's pretty high tech and it's expensive."

It's important for students in NPC's nursing and health science programs to be trained on updated equipment, as well, to make sure they are prepared for the workforce, she said.

"We couldn't do it without our partners like Levi and the other facilities that either give us a check and say, 'use it where you need it' or they actually donate equipment. ... We depend on them, we collaborate with them, and we invite all of our partners like Levi to our advisory meeting because we need to know what they're seeing currently in their facilities, and we need to make sure that we're teaching current evidence-based practices within each of these programs."

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