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Mrs. Thelma Holms, Instructor
The Nurse’s Aide Program is an eight
week course that meets two nights per
week from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Classroom and
demonstration teaching is correlated with
practical hospital experience under
supervision. It includes nursing ethics,
bedside patient care, basic nursing
procedures and techniques, and body
structure and function (simplified).
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Night School Welding— (l-r) Terry Davis,l
David Bartley, Mr. John Miller,
instructor, Floyd Miller.
First National Bank Os Griffin
Practical Nursing
Practical Nursing to a one-year pre-employment training
program leading to a licensed practical nurse. The program
to so arranged that a student will receive approximately 600
hours of classroom instruction and 800 hours of hospital
practice during training. At the completion of the training,
students may take the State Board Test to become licensed
practical nurses. Licensed practical nurses usually perform
such duties as giving prescribed treatments and medi
cations, taking patients’ temperature, pulse, respiration,
blood pressure, and helping with personal hygiene tasks.
They may provide nursing care for new born babies,
mothers, the handicapped, the chronically ill, or with more
complicated diagnostic procedures or treatments.
Practical Nurses are employed in hospitals, doctors’ of
fices, industrial firms, nursing homes, public health depart
ments, for private duty, and home nursing. The demand for
licensed practical nurses far exceeds the supply.
A student is required to have at least two years of high
school, but a high school diploma to preferred. Courses in
math, English, and biology are helpful to a student enrolling
in nursing.
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Nurses Aid— (l-r) Iris I
Goodson, Shirley Scott, Mrs. Opal
McElroy, instructor.
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Welding— (l-r) Warren Henson, Willie I
Evans, Mr. John Miller, instructor, Jeff I
Askew, Kip Cummings.
Welding is a one year course designed to prepare the stu
dent for employment at the entry level in the field of welding,
as well as to upgrade the skills of persons presently employed
in the field. The course consists of specialized classroom and
shop learning experiences which are concerned with all types
of metal welding, brazing, and flame cutting. Instruction em
phasises properties of metals, blueprint reading, electrical
principles, welding symbols, and mechanical drawing. This
course provides the student with the opportunity to be certi
fied in MIG and ARC welding.