Nursing program has been a huge success
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The Coconino Community College Nursing program will be growing to add more students to each yearly class beginning this fall.
CCC will now be accepting 30 students each fall to fill out a class — up 50 percent from 20 students the year prior.
“We need nurses in the community, and there’s a shortage of nurses in the rural areas,” said CCC Provost Dudley Gardner, Ph.D. “It’s a positive step in the college’s evolution.”
Since taking over in 2015, Lori Edwards, CCC’s director of nursing and allied health, has increased the pass rates for nursing students taking the state board of nursing licensure exams, called NCLEX. In 2016, the first-time pass rate was 84 percent, and in 2017, the pass rate was 88 percent.