Nursing Resource Centers Module

Since 1997, AIHA has worked with many partners worldwide, helping them strengthen their institutions by improving the resources available to nurses. By establishing Nursing Resource Centers (NRCs), partners are better able to support nurses by providing them information through books and via the computer, as well as provide a training center where they can learn more about clinical and technical topics.

The first Nursing Resource Center opened on September 9, 1997 at Odessa Oblast Hospital, in Odessa, Ukraine. Other centers opened in Kyiv, L'viv, Vladivostok, Almaty, Yerevan, Bishkek, Semipalatinsk, St. Petersburg, Tashkent, and Tbilisi. In Central Europe, the first NRC opened in Riga, Latvia in September 1997. Since then, new NRCs opened in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Zagreb and Zadar, Croatia; Olomouc, Czech Republic; Trnava, Slovakia; Vac, Hungary; Cluj, Romania; Moscow, Russia; and Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

The NRCs are equipped with computers with Internet access, textbooks, videotapes and anatomical models that are used by nursing faculty, students, and practitioners to guide and support them in their efforts. Many of these NRCs have now become self-sustaining training centers and resource repositories.

Because funding for new NRCs is no longer available through AIHA, we have developed this module of the toolkit to assist healthcare institutions that want to develop an NRC of their own. By following the guidelines set forth here, we hope to provide you with the basic framework necessary to set up, maintain, evaluate, and sustain your own NRC.

• To get started implementing an NRC at your institution, click here.
• To read archived news articles about NRC openings, click here.
• To read more about our partners and established NRC programs, click here (external link).