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Community Colleges Filling State’s Rx For Quick, Affordable Nursing Degrees

Posted: August 29, 2012

By EMILY SHARRER

First-year Blue Ridge Community College nursing students (left to right) Heather Hassler of Mount Crawford, Carla Meyerhoeffer of Harrisonburg and Kay Ickes of Waynesboro check vital signs in lab Tuesday morning. (Photos by Nikki Fox / DN-R)
Evan Showalter of Verona, a first-year nursing student at BRCC, practices taking a classmate’s blood pressure.
Drew Strong, Blue Ridge Community College assistant professor of nursing (center), instructs first-year nursing students Emily Knopp (left) of Staunton and Michelle Brown of Harrisonburg how to take vital signs on a manikin during their lab Tuesday.

HARRISONBURG — A new program offered through the Virginia Community College System will offer an affordable and quick way for nursing students to earn bachelor’s degrees starting this year.

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