LAS VEGAS - A new medical school is coming to Las Vegas. Chamberlain College of Nursing is opening its first campus in Nevada. Staff and faculty are hosting an open house for prospective students on Tuesday.

The college is accepting applications for the spring semester. It has 30 spots open for nursing students and will admit 30 more students every admissions period. The school has three admissions periods per year.

Chamberlain offers a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. It also offers several online graduate programs.

Students have the opportunity to hone their skills at local hospitals. The school also offers a "simcare center, which is a lab that looks like a hospital in which students practice real-life scenarios on dummies.

The opening of this new nursing school comes at a time when demand for health care workers in Nevada is high. Nevada ranks among the worst states in the nation for doctors and nurses per capita.

Chamberlain College of Nursing Dean Judy Hightower says the school's small classes will better prepare students to enter the workforce.

We try to keep a one to twenty five ratio, she said. So, students can have a lot of one on one experiences with their clinical instructors and their faculty members.

Hightower says she is working to develop relationships with local hospitals, so students who graduate from the college stay in Nevada.

Some grade school students are also getting a head start on their nursing careers. Several Clark County School District magnet schools offer nursing programs.

Chamberlain College of Nursing representatives say these types of programs give students a leg up once they start college.

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