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Published on: 10/17/2005
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The program is called Pathways Into Nursing, an initiative of Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida . Diane Reed, a retention specialist at Valencia and a PhD student in Capella University's School of Business, developed the program with Dr. Linda Speranza in 2001.
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With the shortage of nurses, we need everyone who is interested in becoming a registered nurse as early as we can get them," Reed explains.
Reed says her experience pursuing an online degree at Capella University provided the freedom and flexibility she needed to craft an educational experience that would benefit her work with the Pathways Into Nursing program.Her PhD is in organization and management.
"Capella allowed me to have a tremendous amount of freedom.It was almost overwhelming the different avenues you could take.That's what I needed and that's what I got," she says.