Forest-Scott County, ECCC Create Health Care WBL Partnership

Health Care and Clinical Services (HCCS) II

East Central Community College (ECCC)Associate Degree

The Forest-Scott County Career and Technology Center’s Health Science Core (HSC) and Health Care and Clinical Services (HCCS) programs have partnered with the East Central Community College Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) program for work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.

The programs require students to have 100 clinical hours combined for the two-year program. Beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, HCCS II students are required to have 35 hours of WBL — seven separate field experiences or field-related experiences with a minimum of five hours in each experience.

ADN students’ clinical hours will include teaching and modeling skills to the HCCS II students and evaluating the students.

This collaboration teaches health care and communication skills and introduces HCCS II students to college health care curriculum.

HSC students will receive an early introduction to WBL and learn skills from the ADN students, preparing the first-year students for the clinical experiences required in the HCCS program.

Nursing (ADN) students Hunt (back row, l-r in black scrubs) pose with Forest-Scott County CTC HCCS II students after presenting to the students as part of a work-based learning collaboration between the schools. HCCS students II (blue scrubs) include: (front row, l-r) J’Ciana Lacey and Austin Gilmore; (middle row, l-r) Macy McMillian, Kaylee Barton and Chloe Shoemaker; and (back row, l-r) Kiara Parrott, Brooklyn Harris and Marcie McMillan.

Forest-Scott County CTC HCCS II students Martavious students

Martavious Reed (l-r in blue scrubs), Madison Trest, Jaterrah Nickson and Hannah Hillhouse pose with ECCC ADN students Cayley Cayley Hunt (l-r in black scrubs), Sjonea Hines, Shelby Sellers and Hunter Beason. The ADN students use clinical hours teaching and modeling skills to the HCCS II students.