Category: Health Programs
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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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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…