DOBSON – High demand usually means high pay – and depending on their skills and experience, some nurses enjoy very comfortable wages. A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) with a one-year degree might start at $15 to $18 an hour, Nursing Instructor Lory Puckett says in the accompanying video. With a two-year associate degree, Registered Nurses… READ MORE
Community colleges ‘take students wherever they are’
DOBSON – Many of us don’t realize how many ways community colleges touch our lives. “We truly reflect the citizenship of our region,” President David Shockley of Surry Community College says in the accompanying video. “We are the most diverse higher education entity in the world.” The students and their needs are so varied, Shockley… READ MORE
“I began at Surry”
DOBSON – Lory Puckett knows that if she could do it, so can others. Puckett, a nursing instructor at Surry Community College, is very literally a master of her craft. She has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree as a family nurse practitioner. But it all started with an associate degree at Surry Community… READ MORE
North Carolina’s professional pipeline
Even if you never enroll as a student, higher education touches your life. Think about it: Physicians, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, law enforcement, firefighters, EMTs – and of course, teachers – all make a difference in our lives. And they all need varying degrees of training. In many cases, that training comes from our public colleges… READ MORE
WCU/Community Colleges: Nursing degrees under $20K
CULLOWHEE – North Carolina faces a nursing shortage, but the need is particularly pronounced in Western North Carolina. So Western Carolina University’s School of Nursing came up with what Chancellor David Belcher describes in the accompanying video as an “ingenious” effort to educate nurses quickly – and affordably. Under RIBN, which stands for Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate… READ MORE
UNCW health professionals in demand as NC grows
WILMINGTON – The number of students at UNC Wilmington’s College of Health and Human Services has more than doubled since 2010, and the University expects even greater expansion in the years ahead. 1 That’s why the Connect NC bonds on the ballot March 15 would bring a much‐needed, $66 million upgrade to the University’s health… READ MORE