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The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board announced the Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing is No. 1 in the state for 2008 graduation performance with 96.43% of the BSN students graduating. Also, 86.86% of these graduates passed the NCLEX on the first try.

Also, the Perry SON is on the list of programs eligible for recognition by the Advisory Committee on RN Nursing Education under the Nursing Education Performance Initiative.

In other news,the school received a $250,000 gift from the RGK Foundation to establish a mobile simulation education program in conjunction with the F. Marie Hall SimLife Center to deliver simulation technology and expert faculty to nursing students, nurses, clinics and hospitals throughout Texas despite geographic distance and budgetary restrictions.

The mobile simulation program will allow rural interdisciplinary health care professionals to receive competency evaluations and continuing education and training opportunities to which they otherwise would not have access.

In addition, counties in the Texas Hill Country and West Texas are experiencing a rapid population growth. But despite expansion, the majority of these rural areas remain isolated and medically underserved.

“Given these challenging demographic factors, improving patient outcomes and patient safety must be a priority for Texas nursing and health care institutions,” said Alexia Green, RN, PhD, dean of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing, in a news release.

The program also will help decrease overcrowding in clinical sites and increase nursing student enrollment by supplementing clinical training with clinical simulation. The three-year grant will unfold in three phases, beginning with faculty simulation experts from the Perry School of Nursing, Austin/Hill Country, and West Texas rural communities conducting “train the Trainer/Super/User” workshops.