Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 7, 1990 TAG: 9007070101
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B6 EDITION: STATE
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DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE LENGTH: Short
The $7,681 grant under the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges/Metropolitan Life Foundation Registered Nursing Shortage project will be used for a pilot high school and college nurse education program.
It will allow the college nursing faculty and their high school counterparts to design a curriculum for high school juniors and seniors graduating in practical nursing to move into the college's associate-degree nursing program. It will also give practical nurses a chance to upgrade their education and skills to associate-degree level and sit for the national Registered Nurse license exams.
The project is also aimed at increasing opportunities for minorities, males and other non-traditional students to get into the associate-degree nursing program. Smyth and Grayson counties have already expressed interest in participating.
It would be the first program of its kind in Southwest Virginia.
- Southwest bureau
by CNB