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HIGH S TAKE S L E A RNING < < < which has been very generous in the three community colleges will share We took a major step in that direction supplying us with clinical placements a facility in Mount Airy, thanks to a this June when we held our first major for our programs. Other institutions federal grant. The Center will offer fundraising event for nursing – a dinner have also been wonderful to our school, classes in respiratory care, anatomy, hosted by Jill and Pat McCuan featuring including hospitals, independent physiology and microbiology, and courses renowned neurosurgeon and author providers such as Advanced Radiology for medical lab technicians and EMT/Ps, Dr. Ben Carson as the keynote speaker for radiologic technology students, and as well as continuing education noncredit – and raised $146,000 to endow nursing the Howard County and Baltimore City nursing and allied health courses. scholarships. Q. What is coming next for health sciences education at HCC? state-of-the-art health sciences building a. Our goals are to expand what we space to expand the size and number of our Education Consortium is another of our currently offer to meet community needs programs and to add many new simulation partnerships. To maximize resources and and, first and foremost, to provide the options. At orientation, I tell the students provide additional programs for students, support students need to graduate and join that it's an exciting time to be entering a we have an agreement with Carroll and the workforce. We also want to increase health sciences career, with great prospects Frederick Community Colleges. Soon the financial assistance options available. for a promising future! fire departments, which allow our EMT/P students to participate in a ride-along program. The Mid-Maryland Allied Healthcare Last spring, we broke ground on a new that will provide much needed additional MakinG a diFFerence to Patients and FaMilies Danica lyon has wanted to be a nurse for a long time. Why a nurse? "i am a handson person. i like knowing that i can make a difference in a patient's day and serve as an advocate for both patients and their families," she says. lyon was an lPN working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for eight years, when she started looking for a bridge program to become an RN. "HCC has an excellent reputation. The school has an amazingly high pass rate on the licensure exams, and when you are finished going to school here – you are ready to work." "one of the ingredients that makes our nursing program so strong is the support we provide our students," says Donna Minor, associate division chair and director of nursing. "We offer mentoring, tutoring, and study groups. And we provide flexibility in scheduling that our working students really appreciate." As a student in the lPN to RN pathway program, lyon says she found the faculty to be readily available and very responsive. "They prepared me well for every clinical cycle and specialty," says Lyon. "I value the confidence I gained by practicing with the simulation patients available at HCC. They are so real, they even say 'ouch.'" lyon hopes to transfer to a four-year baccalaureate program and eventually get a master of science in nursing degree – all while she is working as an RN. "My goal is to be a certified registered nurse anesthetist," she says. "After observing in the intensive care unit at Howard County General Hospital, i realize this would be an awesome way to use critical thinking skills and make decisions that can really help people and impact their lives." 6 8 Pathways || Howard Community College Fall 2011 Pathways Howard Community College Fall 2011