Category: Health, Wellness & Public Safety
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Can Apprenticeships Mitigate Nursing Shortages?
“It’s not Grey’s Anatomy. It is very real,” said Casey Castrianni, graduate of the inaugural nursing apprenticeship cohort at Davidson-Davie Community College (Davidson-Davie). A partnership between Davidson-Davie and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, the program is the first registered nursing apprenticeship program in North Carolina.
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Central Sterile Processing: Who cleans those instruments?
July 25, 2022 – We don’t usually think about who prepares the instruments a surgeon uses – but they’re very important people. And situated as it is between major health providers in North Carolina, Davidson-Davie Community offers a nine-month program in Central Sterile Processing that’s designed to meet the considerable demand for those technicians.
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Ignite Davie Student Works Full-time While Studying to Become a Surgical Technologist
Original story by Davie County Blog August 30, 2021 – Logan Ballou-Tomel works full-time at Lowe’s Home Improvement in Mocksville while studying to become a surgical technologist. He spent this summer studying and learning as much as possible about the procedures, tools, conduct, and other aspects of surgical technology before beginning the program at Davidson-Davie Community…
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Davidson-Davie Pharmacy Tech Graduates Certified to Give Immunizations
Davidson-Davie Pharmacy Tech Graduates Certified to Give Immunizations May 19, 2021 – Eleven graduates of the Davidson-Davie Community College pharmacy technology program are among the first community college students in the state to be certified as immunizing technicians. Through a partnership with the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), those certified at Davidson-Davie are helping improve the…
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Wake Forest Baptist Health and Davidson-Davie Community College Partner to Provide Nursing Apprenticeships
Article By Wake Forest Baptist Health March 4, 2021 – Wake Forest Baptist Health and the newly rebranded Davidson-Davie Community College have partnered to help improve the nursing shortage affecting health care systems in our region. The new program is the first Registered Nurse Apprenticeship program in North Carolina to be approved by the Department of Labor. The…
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New EMT certification course available for Davie High students
November 25, 2019 – Nine Davie High School seniors will soon enter a new classroom with the same basic objective. They want to learn how to save lives. A new Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course will begin this spring through Davie High School and Davidson County Community College. It will allow students to simultaneously earn…
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DCCC faculty, students publish research in their fields
August 5, 2019 – Across the nation, the winds have shifted for universities and colleges. Four-year universities used to be powerhouses for research and breakthrough innovation in nearly every academic discipline imaginable. And yet, community college faculty have begun to enter the formerly exclusive camps of their colleagues at these large, four-year institutions. Over the…
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DCCC to Host Free Health Fair Open to the Public
March 25, 2018 – Davidson County Community College will host a community health fair on March 21 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Rittling Conference Center located on the Davidson Campus. The event features over 30 health and wellness vendors and is free and open to the public. Vendors like the YMCA, Smart Start, Thomasville Medical…
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DCCC Online Paramedic Programs Rank Second in the Nation
In a recent ranking by bestcolleges.com, Davidson County Community College’s online paramedic programs are second in the entire nation. The bestcolleges.com website states that its ranking methodology evaluates schools “on the merits of academic strengths, positive student outcomes, course offerings, and virtual classroom experience for online students.” The ranking highlights DCCC’s various paramedic programs, including EMT certifications and an Associate…