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Texas' Paris Independent School District and Paris Junior College have jointly created a four-year, competency-based, articulated nursing curriculum designed to avoid repetition of students' learning experience. The 2 + 2 program is guided by agreements between secondary and postsecondary schools to recognize each other's curriculum. The project has been advantageous to students who intend to practice their profession following high school graduation due to its focus on present-day competencies.
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A comprehensive tech prep program for home economics students can create career choices through the teaching of necessary skills. For the program to be effective certain rules must be followed. Identification of the different businesses that would make up the program is the first step to take. After which committees must be organized, guidelines written down, marketing strategies developed, the curricula fixed, evaluation of the program made and an advisory committee established.
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Iowa's Marshalltown High School and Marshalltown Community College have created a joint tech prep program that could help boost the numberof high school graduates interested in pursuing a nursing career. The program allows students to do two years of technical coursework in high school followedby two years at the community college. At the community college level, studentsmay opt for a one-year program for practical nurses or a two-year preparatory course for registered nurses.
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