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We had morning, good morning,
good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome, and just like that,
it's time for part two of our community

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connection right here on K one,
the one you trust, and we are

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talking to our ladies here from a
Try County Tech. And by goodness sakes,

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what don't you do at Try County
Tech? Every time I get a

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guest in here, Cray County texts, Oh, we're doing something new,

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all right, Okay, So we're
kind of starting at the beginning here because

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one of the first things that Try
County Tech had was the nursing program,

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and now we're building on it.
So what we have going on here we

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have Kevy Allen and Militia low Rich
and they're from their practical nursing department,

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and goodness sakes, we've got a
lot to cover here. In just a

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little bit. Let's talk about the
pn August Cohort application. I take it

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that's practical nurse that is practical nursing. Yes, and if you are interested

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in starting in the fall, which
would be in August, start our application

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deadline is March fifteenth, so that's
coming up. It's an online application and

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there's quite a bit to it.
So if you're really interested, check it

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out and see what all their requirements
are and get started on that now.

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Because it's a ten month program and
we actually just celebrated our last group in

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December had one hundred percent pass rate
on their incleex boards. Nice. Yeah,

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so it's really great, very excited
about that. Yeah. I'm going

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to brag a little bit here because
I have one daughter who's a nurse and

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she's a hospice nurse. And then
I have another daughter who decided, well

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big says, I'm going to up
yet she's now going to be a physician's

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assistant. So I kind of live
in your world a little bit, at

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least I paid for your world atle
bit with those two. Can you tell

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us a little bit about the program
overview. Yes, as far as the

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program and our students, it is
a ten month program, as Melissa was

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saying, and the cost it's very
affordable. It's about forty five hundred dollars

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and we do have in house financial
assistants available for the students that qualify,

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and that's nearly all of our practical
nursing students. You do have to have

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your CNA as a prerequisite to get
into the program and we offer that at

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Tri County, so if you need
help getting that, we can hook you

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up on that. As far as
the coursework goes, we divide that program

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out into two semesters. The first
semester which is where Melissa teaches, and

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I can let her talk a little
bit about that. The curriculum there,

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yep. So you will go into
intro to Nursing Fundamentals and Nursing, which

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are the courses that I teach,
and then we also have pharmacology and ivy

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therapy, AMP and medical terminology,
and then of course there's clinical courses in

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the first semester as well. Oh
my goodness, tink, that's love to

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cover. Yeah, in just five
months. Yes, then the students will

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they'll move over into the second semester
of the program and we will cover medical,

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surgical, nursing, pediatrics, ob
obstetrics, maternial child We also cover

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mental health and then clinical. So
it's a rigorous program, but they get

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a lot of experience. You know, what everyone I've talked to is that's

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been into any sort of medical program, They're like, well, when you're

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going to take the gloves off,
let's get it off. Let's go and

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they they're they're not afraid. They're
they're not afraid. Some of the might

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be a bit hesitant at first.
Once they again, it's like, I

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gotta know more, I got to
learn more. How do I do this?

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How do I do this? It's
almost like you got to tug them

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on the back of the sugar home. So do else catch up? Yeah,

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but it just shows just that that
hunger for knowledge, that hunger getting

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it right, that so much of
an element of the personality of the people

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involved are going into this particular a
field. Now I understand that we've got

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a nice, a nice one point
six million dollars awarded to the school.

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WHOA, how's that working for you? We did, in response to the

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nursing shortage, Try County Tech applied
for an ARPA grant that we received and

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it's going to allow us to expand
our nursing program essentially, and we have

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been approved by the Board of Nursing
just last month to begin a new program

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that'll be called the Nursing Bridge Program. This is big, folks, So

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this one's pretty neat. It's going
to be a conduit for our high school

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students to be able to enter our
adult practical nursing program. So we're looking

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for applicants in the nursing program all
the time, but this will be a

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great way for those high school students
that are interested. The new program,

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the Nursing Bridge. The students they
will start their junior year, they're going

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to complete our Nursing Assistant program that
we've had for a long time at Tri

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County Tech. They'll get their CNA
and intro an introduction to the field.

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Then their senior year they will start
the Nursing Bridge curriculum and they essentially they

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complete that first semester of the PM
program that we were talking about. They

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do that over the course of their
senior year. So when they graduate high

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school, they'll come back to us
that August, They'll have about six months

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of curriculum luck, and then they're
done in December, they graduate and they

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can have their LPN license. Wow, well that's just pretty darn good thinking,

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that's what that is, because how
many kids would have to wait maybe

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an extra semester or boo semesters otherwise
quite a few. And you know,

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and then Try County Tech is so
great at making sure that the average student

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walks out without any debt right they
are. I don't know how you do

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that, but good on you.
Now this a bridge thing is really something

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else. This is very exciting.
So I understand that. You know,

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there are high school students who have
probably been hitting on your email box,

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calling you on the phone, maybe
even trying to get some face to face

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time with both of you here kind
of think, you know, how do

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we how do we get this?
How do we get the wheels going?

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And really and for someone who's a
little bit younger maybe thinking that this is

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what they want to do, and
maybe the folks are listening right now,

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more likely, how do they get
the wheels going so that there's plenty of

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advanced time and the lead time for
their kids who are coming up in school.

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You want to start thinking about it
that sophomore year. And that's so

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right now we actually are working our
student services department. They are working with

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our partner schools on the applications with
those sophomore students just for every program a

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Try County, so their sophomore year
they want to be thinking about it.

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Apply. We put in applications to
Try County for the high school programs in

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the spring, and then they will
enter that Nursing Assistant program in August,

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and so that program has been very
popular. We usually have around eighty to

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ninety students apply and we only have
forty eight spots for that high school program.

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So this will expand that that's being
expanded as well, allowing a few

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more students this opportunity. Now,
we do plan to start the Bridge program

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this August, and so that will
basically be the students who are currently in

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their junior year in our Nursing assistant
program. So we're really talking to those

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students to see if they're wanting to
continue on this path and then stay with

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us. My goodness, akes think
of everything great campus that you have out

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there, and you know, it
seems like no matter who I meet from

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Craig County Tech, you know they're
from Craig County Tech. There's just you

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know, this positive about you guys, and it speaks volumes about the school

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because you guys get all kinds of
national recognition for just being like the cool

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school. If we could call it
the Malcolm Baldridge Award, that's true.

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I don't think mister Baldridge would appreciate
us calling it the cool school, but

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you've got a great team out there. We do. The culture is amazing

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and it's everybody just strives to be
excellent. And when you're taking care of

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the students, we all have that
at our main goal. It doesn't matter

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if you are in the classroom with
them or you're outside. That main goal

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is how are we going to take
care of our students? And it just

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plays out with employee satisfaction. But
our culture is amazing at Tri County Tech.

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We call it the Tri County Way. As far as taking care of

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each other and taking care of the
students, well you're king of it.

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Your teams are amazing because everything from
hey let's think about this too, Hey

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you're in let's get on this plan
together, to hey we're in the plan,

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to hey, you're graduating, where's
my job? Where do I look

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for a job? You even have
people that go out there and blaze the

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trail for the students so that nine
times out of ten, once they got

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that diploma, they got some place
to go. You have our place at

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rate, that's one of our key
performance measures and it's usually very high.

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So we have great community support as
well. Yeah you do. I mean,

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first of all, we've got our
hospital here that you guys have been

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working hand in hand with with more
years than I can count. And then

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with all of the other different industries
that we have in our community and the

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ones that are emerging, you know, with the aerospace and things like that.

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School's just crazy good. Now,
what's the what's the website? So

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folks can get a little bit more
information on this? Where can we go?

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So you can just go to tray
County Tech dot medio and you can

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click in there and find links to
apply for the program or find out any

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information on any of the programs that
we offer. Definitely get more information there.

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Well, I want to thank you
both for coming in here with such

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great news. All right, let's
let's turn out some healers. What do

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you think? All right? Thank
you folks, and you're listening to our community connection