NURSING THE REGION

Program meets
‘critical shortage’
in Southcentral Ky.
Responding to “a critical shortage” of
nurses in Southcentral Kentucky,
Lindsey Wilson College has started a
bachelor’s degree in nursing.
The college was approved in April by
the Kentucky Board of Nursing to offer a
bachelor of science degree in nursing.
The program is the 21st undergraduate
program offered at LWC.
The program was started in response
to “a critical shortage of nurses in our
region,” said Lindsey Wilson President
William T. Luckey Jr.
“Since its founding in 1903, Lindsey
Wilson has a history of meeting the
needs of Southcentral Kentucky,”
Luckey said. “A nursing program will
allow citizens of Southcentral Kentucky
who want to earn a four-year nursing Associate Professor of Nursing Jo Ann Wever (third row, left) and Nursing Instructor Emiley
degree to remain in this region while Button (second row, right) are joined by pre-nursing students in the Jim & Helen Lee Fugitte
Science Center. Students apply to the nursing program during their freshman year.
serving in one of society’s most impor-
tant professions.” their final three years at the college, “Students who graduate from
Students who wish to be nursing nursing majors will take mix of classes this program will be well-round-
majors will enroll their freshman year as at Lindsey Wilson and also several
pre-nursing majors and be part of a spe-
ed individuals who will be pre-
practicums at regional health-care cen-
cial learning community in which they ters and hospitals. pared to make a significant con-
work closely with their professors and “This will not be an easy major,” tribution in the nursing profes-
academic advisers. Students who meet Luckey said. “It will require a great deal sion.”
the program’s rigorous academic criteria of commitment from the student. But the – William T. Luckey Jr.,
will be admitted to the nursing program students who graduate from this program President
at the end of their freshmen year. During will be well-rounded individuals who
will be prepared to Kentucky’s private colleges and univer-
sities,” Luckey said. “Our biology major
More about the Program make a significant
contribution in the also has an incredible track record in
For more information about nursing profession.” terms of getting students into profession-
the bachelor of science program Several factors al schools such as pharmacy, dentistry,
in nursing, contact Associate contributed to medicine and allied health.
Professor of Nursing Jo Ann M. Lindsey Wilson’s “Students have also consistently
Wever weverj@lindsey.edu or decision to add a expressed an interest in a nursing major.
(270) 384- 7351 or visit the LWC Web site: www.lind- four-year nursing So we know the demand is there among
sey.edu. Click on “Undergraduate Programs” in the program, Luckey our students as well as among prospec-
“Majors and Programs” section of the “Academics” said. tive students.”
pages of the Web site. “In the Jim and By starting a baccalaureate program
Watch a Three-Minute Thursday episode in which Helen Lee Fugitte in nursing, Lindsey Wilson will also help
Instructor of Nursing Emiley Button discusses the nurs- Science Center, we meet a critical need in Kentucky for
ing program on the Lindsey Wilson YouTube Channel: already have one of more nurses with four-year degrees,
www.youtube.com/lwcpublicrelations. Search the premier science Luckey said.
“Nursing.” buildings among
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