For Immediate Release
June 25, 2002
Contact: John Hammond, Director of Public Relations, 210/733-2147, jhammond@accd.edu
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SAC Summer Prep Program |
| Twenty-seven high school juniors from seven San Antonio Independent School
District high schools are completing a three-week Summer Prep Program at
San Antonio College designed to lead to careers in nursing. The summer training
is part of the Nursing Innovations Program, funded by a $48,500 Coordinating
Board grant, intended to respond to the nursing shortage. The program targets “at-risk,” economically disadvantaged students and pays their tuition and books for two summers of study at San Antonio College taught by Counseling and Nursing Education faculty, in partnership with University Health Systems (UHS), which provides clinical facilities. This summer students are taking a course in “Personal and Academic Success” for three days a week, six hours a day. Next summer, after completing their senior year in high school, students will take an Anatomy and Physiology course and a Nurse Prep Program. In January, SAC and UHS announced another partnership that also addresses the nursing shortage by providing additional faculty and clinical rotation facilities to train students, which led to an additional 40 nursing students enrolled in the spring 2002 semester. UHS has been nationally recognized for excellence by U.S. News and World Report, and SAC has been honored by NurseWeek magazine and the American Association of Community Colleges for its faculty and programs. For more information about the Nursing Innovations Grant Program, call Project Director Bessie Prado, MSN, RN, at 733-2387 or Project Assistant Russell Zaiontz, MSN, RN, CS at 733-2385. |
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