{"id":100021,"date":"2018-05-01T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T23:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pcc-opens-new-nursing-division-on-july-1\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T23:16:43","slug":"pcc-opens-new-nursing-division-on-july-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pcc-opens-new-nursing-division-on-july-1\/","title":{"rendered":"PCC opens new nursing division on July 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=96caf8b4-809a-4875-84aa-95519a0362a8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=96caf8b4-809a-4875-84aa-95519a0362a8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=96caf8b4-809a-4875-84aa-95519a0362a8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=96caf8b4-809a-4875-84aa-95519a0362a8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"700\" height=\"1000\" alt=\"Paula Kirchner, interim director of Pueblo Community College\u2019s nursing program.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Paula Kirchner, interim director of Pueblo Community College\u2019s nursing program.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Pueblo Community College has created a Division of Nursing to accommodate growing demand and the addition of a bachelor\u2019s degree in nursing, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The division will begin operations on July 1, under Paula Kirchner, interim director of the nursing program.<\/p>\n<p>The programs that will be included in the division are nursing, surgical technology, psychiatric technician, medical assistant, nurse aide and certified addiction counselor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are well positioned so that as we move forward with our Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, our dedicated team on all of our campuses can focus on filling the skills gap in this vital profession,\u201d PCC President Patty Erjavec said.<\/p>\n<p>Kirchner graduated from PCC\u2019s nursing program in 1994, and received a bachelor\u2019s degree in nursing from Colorado State University-Pueblo in 2006 and a master\u2019s from Regis University in 2011. After working as an registered nurse at Parkview Medical Center for 22 years, Kirchner returned to PCC as a faculty member in 2011. She has been interim director since October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited about this new appointment, and I look forward to leading our faculty and students into the next chapter of the PCC nursing program,\u201d Kirchner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program meant to meet demand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[156,21,155,13,83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-100021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-adult-education","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100021"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=100021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}