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First year General Nursing students at Northwest Community College are being conducted through a nursing

procedure by co-ordinator Joanne Thomson. December 1990 will mark the first Intake of students who can com-
plete their peneral Nursing course (two years) at NWCC. The students. presently enrolled will complete their sec-
ond year a

Nursing

program

offered —

, Terrace is getting a two-year

_ general nursing course.
‘- Commencing in December
1990, Northwest Community

College will offer. a‘ two-year

: ‘ ‘General ‘Nursing diploma pro-
“gram. Hospitals in the area are
very supportive and excited, says

nursing coordinator Joanne
Thomson.

Betty Barton

’ The nursing class presently at-
tending NWCC will transfer to
B.C.1.T. in Burnaby for their
second year. The new course at
NWCC will consist of. seven
12-week trimesters spread over
two and one third years. The
class beginning this December
will complete the course in
March of 1993. Upon gradua-
tion, each nurse will serve a
three-month - perceptorship
(working one-on-one with a

registered nurse). Joanne Thom- -

son says, ‘‘It’s where everything
comes together.”

Chris Andrews from the Col-
lege of New Caledonia has been
hired as a project worker to start
March. 4 researching the percep-
torship program. She will com-
pile statistics on patient admis-
sions in the hospitals in the

Northwest, do patient profiles,
and determine the number of
students who could be handled
for practicums and for the three-
month perceptorship i in each in-
stitution. _

First year students will prob-
ably do their practicums (two
days per week) in Mills
Memorial Hospital in Terrace
and Kitimat General Hospital.
Second year siudents will have

the broader experience of Prince

Rupert Regional Hospital, Bulk-
ley Valley Hospital in Smithers,
the nursing station in the Nass
Valley, Wrinch Memorial .in
Hazelton, occupational health
nursing in industrial settings
such as Alcan, and public health
nursing.

After the perceptorship, the
nurses are eligible to write the
exams for the RNABC (Regis-
tered Nurses’ Association of
B.C.). The trimester system pro-
vides greater flexibility to start
and stop if family responsibili-
ties or finances dictate the need
to quit. If a student takes a leave.

from the program, they would .-
have to wait the full year to con-.

tinue at NWCC, But, if they
were willing to felocate tem-

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