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SOURCE: TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
Dallas County’s average weekly variance of registered nursing vacancies has doubled this year compared to the second half of 2021.
Average weekly variance for the six-month period ending 1/1/2022: 538.2
Average weekly variance for the six-month period ending 6/18/2022: 1,163.4
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• For five years, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas has worked with Richardson ISD to offer internships to students with disabilities as part of Project Search, a national job training program. • In 2021, Texas Health created the Patient Care Technician Apprentice program through a partnership with Dallas College and with support from the U.S. Department of Labor.
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for their personal economic point of view,” he said. Educational efforts To keep employment high, hospi- tals across the state are using existing partnerships with colleges and uni- versities to help fill staffing shortages, according to Candy Baptist, director of the career transformation center for Texas Health Resources University. “Texas Health works with a variety of secondary schools to provide stu- dents opportunities to intern at our facilities,” Baptist said.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas has partnered with Richardson ISD since 2017 to offer internships to students with disabilities as part of Project Search, a national job train- ing program. Most of the students have found subsequent employment, including many within Texas Health Dallas, Baptist said. Texas Health Resources also has apprenticeship programs to guide graduates into health care careers. In 2021, Texas Health Resources created the Patient Care Techni- cian Apprentice program through a
partnership with Dallas College and with support from the U.S. Depart- ment of Labor. The program has two different “earn as you learn” tracks, allowing candidates to be hired and paid a wage while they are learning their job in the classroom. Love said a lack of nursing school faculty is also hurting the profession. “So many qualified applicants ... for baccalaureate and graduate programs can’t really get accepted in nursing school for lack of the faculty that’s needed [to teach them],” Love said. Now is a good time for young nurses
SOURCE: TEXAS HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL DALLAS/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
to enter the workforce as many hos- pitals are hiring new graduates, Zol- nierek said. “There are all kinds of opportuni- ties,” she said.
For more information, visit communityimpact.com .
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