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The demand for CVCC's associate degree nursing program is hard to deny. On average around 700 students apply for one of the 120 coveted slots available each year in the full-time day program.
In order to help meet that demand, CVCC launched a pilot program in 2004 for students who want to enroll in a part-time evening nursing program. This program is designed especially for those students who can't go to college full time and must work a regular job during the day. Instead of the two years required to complete the day program, the evening program will take students three years.
Twenty students were accepted into the program, and according to Colleen Burgess, CVCC's nursing department head, the part time program is progressing very well. “The evening program schedule is different than the
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day program,” explains Burgess. “The classes run a little behind the day class, but, by the time the evening students graduate in 2007, they will have had all the classroom, lab work and clinical work that the day students have. In fact, because they are attending clinical work on the weekends, they are often getting experiences the day time students don't have access to.”
Burgess says that both Catawba Valley Medical Center and Frye Regional Medical Center are working with CVCC to provide all clinical education experience the state mandates for nursing students.
Unlike the day program, which admits new students every fall, CVCC will not accept more students to the evening program until the pilot class graduates in 2007. Future plans are to eventually admit students yearly to the evening program. CF
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