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Student & Career Services...
As part of the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program,
Wake AHEC provides a variety of student and career services in a nine-county
region: Durham, Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Lee, Person, Vance, Wake
and Warren.
Health Careers
and Workforce Diversity
The primary purpose of the Health Careers
and Workforce Diversity Program at Wake AHEC is to increase the supply
and distribution of healthcare providers with a special emphasis on
the recruitment and retention of minorities and disadvantaged populations
in all health professions.
Educational activities are provided to
increase the awareness and interest of students from elementary through
high school in partnership with academic institutions, secondary schools,
healthcare agencies, parents, and other organizations.
View our workshops and courses in
Health Careers.
Add your name to the
Health
Careers Mailing List to receive information about upcoming programs
and events. You may also use this form to update your current
information.
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Office of Regional Primary Care Education
(ORPCE)
The goal of ORPCE
is to facilitate quality, community-based primary care education for
health science students in medicine, physician assistant, nurse practitioner,
nurse midwife, and pharmacy.
The program recruits community practices as teaching sites, coordinates
the placement of students with preceptors, arranges student housing,
reimburses preceptors, and offers preceptor development opportunities.
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Regional Nursing
Initiatives
By 2020, the
United States will be faced with a convergence of an aging nurse
population – resulting in decreased supply – and an aging general
population – resulting in increased demand. Combined with the
unresolved existing shortage, the result will be a critical
deficiency of qualified, experienced nurse workforce. Continued
commitment and purposeful interventions on the part of key
stakeholders are essential to assure that the needs of all our
citizens are met.
Efforts initiated with the intent to address the nursing shortage in
North Carolina must be fiscally sound with predictable outcomes that
will achieve the desired goal(s). As a state, North Carolina is
highly diverse with variances in population demographics and needs
from the mountain regions to the eastern shore. The supply of and
demand for nurses is also varied throughout the regions of our
state. What is constant is the shortage of qualified nurses. How to
approach resolving this shortage must reflect the available
resources and identified needs of each region. Decisions must be
based on valid information regarding trends in the supply of nurses
and demand for nurses with consideration of nurse employing
industries. The goal is to have an adequate supply of qualified
nurses to meet the health and well-being needs of North Carolina's
residents.
Since 1990, the NC AHEC have addressed Statewide Nursing Initiatives
and created the Triangle Clinical Consortium with the purpose to
identify, prioritize and address clinical placement issues for
nursing students.
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RN Refresher
Program
Approved by the NC Board of Nursing, the RN Refresher
Program is for nurses who have an inactive license or have been out
of nursing for more than 5 years. It is a self-paced learning program,
consisting of a correspondence course and a clinical practicum. Medical-surgical
concepts as well as psychosocial aspects of nursing care are presented.
Depending on your needs, you may wish to take the complete program or
only the correspondence course. However, if the nurse’s license is inactive,
the precepted clinical practicum is mandatory for activating the nursing
license.
The correspondence course, “Medical-Surgical Review”, includes approximately
25 modules on topics in the field of nursing and offers 14 CEUs from
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The clinical practicum
(available only in North Carolina) consists of 160 hours in a medical-surgical
unit working one-on-one with a preceptor. A regional AHEC nurse refresher
coordinator in your area coordinates this portion of the program. The
clinical practicum offers 16 CEUs and can begin only after the correspondence
course has been completed. To be eligible to enroll in the Nurse Refresher
Program, the applicant must attend an orientation with their area Nurse
Refresher Coordinator. For more information, please contact Wake AHEC
at 919-350-8547.
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