The JHS Scholars Program is a collaborative partnership between Miami Dade College (MDC) and Jackson Health System (JHS) that provides a stable source of new nurses for our community by focusing on the following goals:

• Increasing the MDC nursing program capacity by providing scholarships for students, funding faculty positions, and providing classroom space and administrative support.
• Decreasing new graduate orientation time by creating programs that provide clinical experiences that more closely resemble actual practice conditions, thereby easing the transition from student to competent staff nurse.
• Recruiting more new nurse graduates to Jackson Health System by providing exceptional clinical rotation experiences.

The Jackson Health System is committed to supporting this partnership scholarship program by providing classrooms, faculty, and clinical rotation sites for medical-surgical, obstetrics, behavioral health, community health, pediatrics, and nursing leadership experiences, in addition to, funds for tuition, fees and books to students fulfilling the MDC and JHS admission requirements.

The JHS Scholars Program is a scholarship for students committed to pursuing nursing as a career.  Forty students will be accepted in the Fall and Spring semesters 2007-08.  The JHS Scholars will attend all lectures at the Jackson Memorial Hospital campus and clinical rotations throughout the Jackson Health System.  The Skills Lab courses will remain at the Miami Dade College, Medical Campus in their state-of-the-art simulation lab and success center.  The obligations of the student include working with a nursing mentor as a Patient Care Intern on an inpatient unit for twelve hours a pay period starting in the second semester and working as a RN at a JHS facility for two years following an internship.

For more information, contact Marc Etkins at 305-585-7740.