{"id":91,"date":"2019-03-28T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/two-for-one-nctc-twu-partner-up\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T21:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:00:43","slug":"two-for-one-nctc-twu-partner-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/two-for-one-nctc-twu-partner-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Two for One: NCTC &#038; TWU Partner Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Besides NCTC\u2019s popular Associate\u00a0Degree in Nursing (ADN) program, NCTC has a 12-month LVN to RN Transition program to prepare students to take the NCLEX-RN licensure exam to become a registered nurse.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">But, the most novel development to come down the pike in NCTC\u2019s Nursing department is a brand new \u201cblended program\u201d the college has forged with Texas Woman\u2019s University. Almost unbelievably, this unique NCTC-TWU partnership gives nursing students an opportunity to earn an ADN and a Bachelor\u2019s of Science in Nursing (BSN) concurrently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">NCTC nursing student Kristina Fortenberry, age 23, says she was thrilled when she was invited to participate in the blended program by Diane Neu, one of her instructors. A 2013 graduate of Billy Ryan High School in Denton, she had previously completed NCTC\u2019s Certified Surgical Technology program, then returned to school this semester for nursing classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cI thought about a business degree, but my heart wasn\u2019t in it,\u201d Fortenberry says. \u201cNursing was something I always wanted to do \u2014 probably because my mom was in and out of hospitals a lot with multiple sclerosis when I was young, and I had appendicitis and some other medical problems. It was always the nurses who were there on the front lines, holding our hands and explaining things to us. \u2026They do important work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Plans for the NCTC-TWU partnership were finalized in January,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">and the two-year program launched this semester with Fortenberry<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">and less than a dozen others enrolled in online TWU classes in addition to their NCTC studies. The program\u2019s first graduating class walks the stage in December 2020, having earned both associate and bachelor\u2019s degrees through an intensive combination of the NCTC and TWU coursework, plus clinical labs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">With this program, all the TWU classes are online, Fortenberry explains, so her class routine this semester involves two NCTC classroom courses, plus clinicals, and two TWU courses.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides NCTC\u2019s popular Associate\u00a0Degree in Nursing (ADN) program, NCTC has a 12-month LVN to RN Transition program to prepare students to take the NCLEX-RN licensure exam to become a registered nurse.\u00a0 But, the most novel development to come down the pike in NCTC\u2019s Nursing department is a brand new \u201cblended program\u201d the college has forged&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/two-for-one-nctc-twu-partner-up\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,1],"tags":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare-and-medical","category-student-success-story","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-4-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}