Amid a growing national shortage of nurses, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $1.5 million donation from the Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation to create an endowed directorship for the School of Nursing’s Center for Simulation Innovation (CSI). This generous gift will provide additional resources to support nursing education and help strengthen the pipeline of skilled healthcare professionals in Arkansas.
The Center for Simulation Innovation delivers immersive healthcare simulation training to approximately 500 undergraduate nursing students each year and was recognized with the 2023 Frontline Simulation Champion Excellence Award by the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, making it the only lab in Arkansas to have this recognition. Collectively, UA Little Rock nursing students spend about 30,000 hours in the lab each year.
Learn more about the nursing program at ualr.edu/nursing.