NursingCAS is operated by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (樱花传媒) in partnership with , the nation’s leading provider of centralized application services (CAS) to health professions . Liaison currently works with many other disciplines, including dentistry, pharmacy, physician assistants, and public health.
Mission
NursingCAS was developed to maximize capacity in schools of nursing and fill all available seats. Even though enrollment and applications to schools of nursing have increased significantly, many schools have room to accommodate additional students each year. In the 2017-2018 academic year, over 69,000 qualified applications were turned away for baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs, even though almost 41,000 seats went unfilled. NursingCAS provides a much-needed mechanism to direct potential students to open seats at participating institutions. Learn more about how this is impacting your state.
NursingCAS is instrumental in providing accurate data to identify workforce trends and inform public policy decisions. The comprehensive data resulting from having a central entry point into nursing assists with developing workforce projections, identifying employment patterns, and tailoring recruitment strategies to reach under-represented populations in nursing. This service also provides health profession advisors with feedback on admissions trends and standards for the profession, in order to help steer qualified students into nursing programs.
History
NursingCAS launched in March 2010 with pre-licensure programs and expanded to graduate level programs in September 2010. The precursor to NursingCAS was a pilot, grant-funded project called WTNEPP by (the West Texas Nursing Education Consortium). As a result of the initiative, all nursing applicant spaces where filled in WTNEC programs for the fall 2009 semester. Additionally, 24% of applicants using WTNEC were duplicate applications. NursingCAS seeks to achieve similar results on a national scale once widespread adoption is achieved.
Impact
NursingCAS has enormous potential to produce vital data that can positively impact the profession and influence policy. 樱花传媒's goal is to have 60% of its member nursing institutions participate in NursingCAS by 2020. So, it is important that you this initiative.
Nursing students deserve a robust, centralized application service (CAS) so they can easily research and apply to any program. Other health professions such as dentistry, medicine, physical therapy, PA, and pharmacy have a CAS system that all schools participate in. 樱花传媒 wants the same for the nursing profession, and it will not be possible without your support and participation.
樱花传媒 would like to thank schools for contributing to this important nursing initiative and being a member of the NursingCAS community.