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Drive positive change in your community by providing the solution to your nursing shortage as a Experiential Learning Partner of Nightingale College.

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Experiential Learning (EL) Partnership Program

Nightingale College’s EL Partnership Program partners with like-minded, forward-thinking health care facilities to alleviate the nursing shortages in their own community. Experiential Learning Partners are known for their unwavering dedication to their community’s health care, ensuring that all residents receive quality patient care and safety – at all times. As nurses become the forefront of health care and the agents driving positive health outcomes, communities suffering from a nursing shortage are harmed by the lack of qualified RNs to staff units.

Becoming an Experiential Learning Partner signifies your commitment to improving your community’s health care for years to come while offering an additional educational avenue for residents to get their college degrees in nursing.

Nightingale College’s Experiential Learning (EL) Partnership Program is essential to delivering the College’s nursing degree programs. The foundation of the nursing programs requires partnerships with local health care facilities to deliver supervised on-ground field experiences (SOFEs). This component, blended with 100% online classroom instruction, creates the College’s innovative blended-distance delivery modality.

The College focuses on providing nursing degree programs to communities in need that experience either:

a lack of nurse graduates to fill open RN positions;
limited access to local nursing programs, or;
no access to a local nursing degree program, requiring facilities to implement short-term workarounds (sign-on bonuses, travel or agency nurses, etc.) to fill the nursing need.

EL Partners help ensure communities have access to a nursing degree program that can serve a group as small as five learners and as large as is needed to address the local nursing shortage.

Nightingale College’s innovative learning model combines the essential components of online instruction with experiential learning components. Together, these components form the College’s hybrid-distance pre-licensure nursing degree programs (bachelor’s degree programs – BSN). The College also offers fully online post-licensure RN-to-BSN and MSN Ed Programs for licensed RNs ready to advance their nursing knowledge and skills.

*Nightingale College only provides its pre-licensure and post-licensure programs in states where the College is permitted to enroll learners.

Tuition Reduction/Staff Retention Program

When EL Partners refer their employees to Nightingale’s pre-licensure programs, those employees receive a 5% tuition reduction for the duration of the Program, as long as they stay employed with the partner. This benefits the learner by reducing tuition costs, but it also benefits the EL Partner by providing an incentive to help retain employees, especially with high-turnover positions such as CNAs and Patient Care Technicians.

Note: In order for EL Partner employees to receive the 5% reduction, employees must be referred to Nightingale by their employer.

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The Nightingale Network

Nightingale College established the Nightingale Network to bring together not only EL Partners but other health care and non-health care facilities and organizations that are aligned with the goals and outcomes of the Network.

Collectively, the Nightingale Network forms the driving force of forward-thinking leaders throughout many communities nationwide, challenging the current norms of nursing education to improve the system for years to come.

The Nightingale Network is carefully designed to provide network members with a forum to discuss issues of importance, relying on the expertise and skills of other network members.

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learners

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graduates

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faculty facilitated SOFEs