WEBVTT 00:01.800 --> 00:05.690 For. What's burger says are expected to enjoy greater employment 00:05.690 --> 00:08.980 opportunity in the coming decades. When members of any other profession. 00:09.710 --> 00:12.690 But projections also show that the number of train nurses available 00:12.690 --> 00:15.110 to fill these jobs is a very short supply. 00:15.710 --> 00:19.720 So back in 2007 be a founded to be a nursing academy are bana 00:19.750 --> 00:20.230 for sure. 00:20.870 --> 00:23.610 It's a network of academic partnerships working to the becoming 00:23.610 --> 00:26.680 need for nurses at the facilities as well as the to Kate all 00:26.680 --> 00:29.850 nursing students about the very unique needs a better in. Patients. 00:31.690 --> 00:35.920 Married lee is a registered nurse and a veteran of the iraq war. 00:36.260 --> 00:40.590 I joined it seven and a deployed iraq for year as a photojournalist 00:40.590 --> 00:45.750 in had a a A sometime vary in guy get at the hospital and that's 00:45.750 --> 00:48.990 when I decided to get back to nursing school. This pair spring. 00:48.990 --> 00:52.360 She graduated from the school of nursing at the university of 00:52.360 --> 00:55.920 Alabama birmingham. You know you as the for selling to wastes 00:56.130 --> 00:59.990 I just love the campus love the people here are and it's one 00:59.990 --> 01:03.080 of the most highly right that nursing schools in the country. 01:03.620 --> 01:07.790 It is also one of 15 accredited nursing schools across the us 01:07.870 --> 01:10.870 that afford academic partnerships with the department of actions 01:10.870 --> 01:14.700 affairs through the the a nursing academy but there's a caddy 01:14.700 --> 01:18.910 programmers you naked seven parade of and what it does is it 01:18.940 --> 01:24.310 struck or aiming a generation of nurses to provide veteran centric pair. 01:24.930 --> 01:28.420 Windy more is a registered nurse at the birmingham be a medical 01:28.420 --> 01:32.430 center and a veteran of the navy nurse core. Right. Now the maybe 01:32.430 --> 01:37.050 in 2008 in muppet calmed a birmingham. I heard that the bird 01:37.050 --> 01:40.040 can be a was considering a partnership with you at the school 01:40.040 --> 01:43.990 nursing more. Well today that partnership is up and running as 01:43.990 --> 01:47.430 part of the fee a nursing academy has so what that means for 01:47.430 --> 01:50.980 the student this state have all the regular education that the 01:50.980 --> 01:53.630 you have the school of nursing provides and then when it comes 01:53.630 --> 01:56.590 time for their clinical rotations they come to the brolin can 01:56.590 --> 01:59.680 be a medical center app conduct their clinical rotations of. 02:00.680 --> 02:04.070 One of those who rotated through the sheer was mary late think 02:04.070 --> 02:06.950 it would hadn't Randy as an instructor at UAV. 02:07.470 --> 02:11.510 His faculty position. There is funded entirely by the a okay. 02:12.020 --> 02:14.990 He's got a great way. Yeah just getting in should make you think 02:14.990 --> 02:18.370 outside the box. He's also better in said he's been deployed 02:18.370 --> 02:21.840 in he's working that had to her environment a what they're here 02:21.840 --> 02:25.090 is we'll talk about so brought a much ella just rolled more Randy 02:25.090 --> 02:28.560 help develop affection centric curriculum that you wait the to 02:28.560 --> 02:32.810 help these future nurses understand the unique needs any experiences 02:32.870 --> 02:37.780 of the veterans they will care for some like mary already know 02:37.820 --> 02:41.950 first painted as as result of mary laid and some of the other 02:41.980 --> 02:46.440 students already having sour they're able to column to the backside 02:46.440 --> 02:49.420 and deliberate care understanding. What some of those maids are 02:49.860 --> 02:52.620 when you come in as another better and they have something else 02:52.620 --> 02:55.650 to talk about something and they see that they see that you've 02:55.650 --> 02:58.230 maybe been through a lot of things they've been through in your 02:58.230 --> 03:01.190 work on the listen to them. So I think it makes them trustee 03:01.190 --> 03:03.700 just a little bit more you get good care. 03:04.980 --> 03:08.050 I've never Underwood this will you it would be. 03:09.560 --> 03:10.960 Well it is today. You know. 03:11.530 --> 03:15.630 And be a nurses like mary me and Randy more a scene to let the 03:15.630 --> 03:18.300 tamara was be any is even better than today. 03:19.620 --> 03:22.420 Later this month married we will be commissioned as a second 03:22.420 --> 03:24.110 lieutenant in the army nursing corps. 03:24.680 --> 03:27.170 If you like to learn more about training opportunities available 03:27.170 --> 03:30.120 through to be a nursing academy please visit the web address 03:30.120 --> 03:30.710 of on your screen..