Project Highlight: Radiation Emergency Medicine Course for University of Tennessee College of Nursing
Oak Ridge Associated Universities' (ORAU) radiation emergency medicine specialists and the University of Tennessee (UT) College of Nursing have entered into a unique and valuable partnership.
As part of the new graduate degree (M.S. and Ph.D) program in Homeland Security Nursing offered by the UT college, ORAU's experts are sharing their real-world experience in the medical management of radiation incident victims.
Students traveled to Oak Ridge, Tenn., for the first three-day course designed specifically for the program in May 2006. Participants benefited from the lectures and the chance to apply their new response skills in a simulated radiation incident.
ORAU, along with the UT/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center for Homeland Security and Counter Proliferation, is part of a regional partnership that is bringing the practical component to the curriculum. In addition to this dedicated course, ORAU personnel will also deliver guest lectures at the Knoxville campus.
The homeland security nursing degree offered by UT is the first of its kind in the nation. UT initiated the program to address a largely unmet need in public health to prepare nurse leaders, managers, and clinical nursing specialists to plan for, manage, and respond to mass casualty disasters.