Baldwin County High School for mounting up their students with skills they tin usage extracurricular the schoolroom each portion addressing the shortage for healthcare workers.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — School of the week is here!
This week we're celebrating Baldwin County High School for mounting up their students with skills they tin usage extracurricular the schoolroom each portion addressing the shortage for healthcare workers.
“My ma and my dada didn't spell to college, truthful I wanted to beryllium the archetypal to spell to assemblage successful my family” pupil Kierston Warren said.
Warren isn't aiming lone for a assemblage diploma for her aboriginal but she has aspirations of being a nurse.
“I truly similar to assistance people, truthful seeing the request of nurses truly makes maine privation to bash it," Warren said.
She and different dual enrollment diligent attraction students astatine the schoolhouse passed their authorities certification.
“They larn to beryllium precise proficient with humor pressures temperatures respirations,” programme seat for nursing assistance astatine CGTC Frances Hewell said.
Hewell says the programme prepares students for taking their authorities tests.
“It's a written exam. 70 questions, past they person the 21 skills they indispensable complete. They usually take not each of them conscionable five. They person to bash that wrong 25 minutes," she said.
Since Warren passed the trial she is present a certified nursing assistant.
Now, she's 1 measurement person to her extremity becoming a nurse
“When I bash participate assemblage I volition beryllium precise grateful. I'll beryllium up of students that's successful my people due to the fact that I'll person the CNA, acquisition with patients, and aesculapian terminology. I americium precise grateful for that," Warren said.
The US Bureau of Labor statistic projects that the federation volition request much than 275,000 further nurses are needed from 2020 to 2030.
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