Western Carolina University School of Nursing has been selected as one of five new partnerships with the Veteran’s Administration Enhancing Academic Partnership Programs (VANA). VA's world-class health care system partners with the country's finest nursing schools to provide compassionate, highly educated nurses to look after the health-care needs of the nation's veterans.

The initiative, the Enhancing Academic Partnerships Program enables stronger, mutually beneficial relationships between WCU and Charles George VA Medical Center by:

1. Expanding faculty and professional development
2. Increasing nursing student enrollment in the Accelerated BSN Track.
3. Providing opportunities for educational and practice innovations, and
4. Increasing recruitment and retention of VA nurses as a result of enhanced roles in nursing education.

For more information about the VA Nursing Adademy, visit http://www.va.gov/oaa/vana/.