title: Returning enlisted veterans-upward (to) professional nursing: not all innovative ideas succeed.
abstract: Military licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) provide nursing care for the ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled persons. Those who have deployed both for humanitarian and wartime situations have a tremendous experiential base in stabilization of life-threatening frontline injuries and critical care intense facilities. An educational program was created called Returning Enlisted Veterans-Upward (to) Professional Nursing for retired/discharged U.S. Army LVNs to acknowledge their special military education and experiences. This educational model represented one step in the right direction to increase men and minorities in the professional nursing workforce, yet the program had to be dissolved. "Lessons learned" are presented so others might consider a similar project.
authors: Center for Innovation in Nursing Education, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA. patricia.allen@ttuhsc.edu
authors: Patricia
authors: P
authors: Allen
authors: Lynda
authors: L
authors: Billings
authors: Alexia
authors: A
authors: Green
authors: Josefina
authors: J
authors: Lujan
authors: Myrna L
authors: ML
authors: Armstrong
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004518:Education, Professional, Retraining / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008888:Military Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000193:education; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009743:Nursing, Practical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014728:Veterans / Q000193:education*