BOBW Dance & Step Competition Returns to PVCC
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BOBW Dance & Step Competition returns to PVCC Published Monday, Apr. 24, 2017, 9:17 am The second annual Youth Edition of the Best of Both Worlds Dance and Step Competition returns to the V. Earl Dickinson Building on the campus of Piedmont Virginia Community College on Saturday, May 6, at 7pm. The Youth Edition is a spin off of the popular competition, which visits the Paramount Theater annually in the fall. A cash prize and a trophy will go to the teams of each genre who can bring the best performance onto the stage to be judged by those in the field. Ten years ago, the founder of Lifeview Marketing created the Best of Both Worlds Dance and Step Competition, a competition of which highlights some of today’s top dance and step teams. As the competition became extremely competitive with college and professional teams, the chances of the younger age teams to be included and/ win had become very slim. In response, the Youth Edition was created in 2016. Teams are encouraged to contact the event organizer as soon as possible to join the competition. The line up is open to elementary school – high school age youths and teams can be community or official school teams. Both dance and step teams will compete separately. Contact [email protected] to request a registration form to enter your team into the competition. The Earl V. Dickinson Building is located at 501 College Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22902. Tickets are only $10 in advance and $13 at the door. Pick yours up now and save at Plan 9 Music (Seminole Shopping Plaza 29 North), Mel’s Barber Shop (Dice Street off of Ridge St.) and safely online at danceandstep.eventbrite.com Doors open at 6:30pm and show time is at 7pm. For more information call 434.825.0650. CBJ: Local businesses in the news Apr 24, 2017 » Piedmont Virginia Community College has created Network2Work, a mobile app to assist employers in finding qualified workers. The app, designed by the Charlottesville Works Initiative, is free to area employers. Registration for PVCC KidsCollege academies at CATEC open By News Staff | Posted: Mon 1:51 PM, Apr 24, 2017 ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (NEWSPLEX) -- Piedmont Virginia Community College says registration is now open for its KidsCollege Summer STEM and Technical Academies at the Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center. The summer science, technology, engineering and math, and technical academies will take place June 19 through 23 and June 26 through 30 at CATEC. They are week-long, half-day academies that provide an in-depth exploration of career areas in STEM and technical careers for students entering seventh, eighth, ninth or tenth grade. According to a release, some of the popular programs that will be offered this summer include engineering and design, culinary, cosmetology, firefighting, program coding and more. Scholarships are available based on financial need. To learn more, call (434) 961-5354, send an email to [email protected], or click on the link in the Related Links box. Back to Class A new program allows nurses to stay on the job as they pursue continuing education online April 24, 2017 Todd Campbell is a registered nurse at HCA Virginia’s Johnston-Willis Hospital, as well as a participant in the RN-to-B.S. degree program. (Photo by Chet Strange) By 2020, it is recommended that 80 percent of American nurses have a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to “The Future of Nursing” report released by the Institute of Medicine in 2010. That statistic has proved worrisome to many registered nurses without bachelor’s degrees. Todd Campbell was one. He is a registered nurse at HCA Virginia’s Johnston-Willis Hospital who had graduated in 2013 with an associate’s degree from Charlottesville’s Piedmont Virginia Community College, and he felt nervous about his future. “It was a bit scary hearing [the report’s] conclusion,” he says. “For nurses like me who can’t walk away from our employment and go to school full time, there was this feeling of ‘What’s going to happen to me?’ ” Campbell found a solution through a partnership between HCA Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing that groups HCA nurses in a cohort as they continue their education through VCU’s RN to B.S. program. The nursing school’s online degree program allows registered nurses with a diploma or associate’s degree to earn a bachelor’s degree while maintaining full-time employment. VCU, along with many other nursing schools in the nation, offers a cohort learning structure under the partnership. Students in each cohort take all of the same courses together at the same time, meaning they learn together, complete assignments together and graduate together. Though the program is online, professors set up at least one meeting a semester for the cohort to come together in person. The first cohort of 13 students, of which Campbell is a member, began classes in fall 2016 and is on track to graduate in summer 2018. The nurses will complete the program through part-time study, taking two courses each semester for five semesters and one course in the sixth semester, for a total of 11 courses with 32 academic credits. It’s a perfect program for Campbell. “I had wanted to go back to school for a long time, but I was looking for the right program,” he says. “When I heard about the partnership between VCU and HCA, I immediately became interested. It’s so refreshing to take part in a flexible, manageable program so I can continue to focus on my work.” VCU School of Nursing Dean Jean Giddens says the partnership provides benefits for all parties involved by helping HCA Virginia achieve a higher percentage of nurses with a bachelor’s degrees in their system. “At the VCU School of Nursing, it is critical that we provide the workforce for all employers across the state,” she says. “In turn, many employers are interested in making sure they provide academic progression for their nurses — having the highest-educated workforce … possible translates to the best patient care.” Donna Adams is a nurse manager at Parham Doctors' Hospital, and is taking classes through a learning cohort as part of a partnership between HCA Virginia and the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing. (Photo by Chet Strange) Donna Adams, a nurse manager at HCA Virginia’s Parham Doctors’ Hospital and a 1982 graduate of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, is also part of the first cohort. She says she loves learning in this structure because course discussions are tailored to the context of care within the HCA Virginia health system, which increases the relevance of course material and adds value to the education offered to nurses. In fact, she says the cohort is one of the best groups she’s ever participated in. “Nursing is all about connecting with patients, and I’m so pleased that we are using evidence-based practice in our cohort to improve our patient care,” she says. “Everything we’re doing is based around what’s best for our patients and how we can translate that into what we are doing at the bedside, which allows patients to get home more quickly and safely and see the best health outcomes.” Stephanie Neal, HCA Virginia’s vice president of human resources, says nurses within the cohort benefit from the connectedness and accountability of working with peers. “Having this partnership tied to VCU means that the curriculum is tailored to what we do at HCA,” she says. “It provides a more personal approach rather than nurses simply getting their degrees through a standard [bachelor’s] program. The content is more relatable to the work they’re actually doing on a daily basis.” HCA provides tuition for the program up front rather than reimbursing the cost later on. “The partnership represents our commitment [to] and investment in our employees,” Neal says. “We are able to financially support their desire for greater education, and our hope is that this translates to commitment and loyalty towards HCA. We see our employees as partners in furthering and growing themselves in the field of health care.” Giddens says VCU School of Nursing is using this initial cohort to observe and improve the partnership. The school is prepared to enroll as many as 30 HCA nurses each semester. “If we had three cohorts enrolled every year with 30 people in each, that’s 90 people a year,” she says. “In five years, that equals nearly 500 registered nurses earning their bachelor’s degrees. That can really transform the care our nurses are delivering to their patients.” Virginia Group Continuing to Raise Gerrymandering Awareness Posted: Apr 25, 2017 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The issue of redrawing legislative districts doesn't come up until 2021, but one group says its important the fight starts now. The nonpartisan group OneVirginia2021 is working towards what it believes would be fair redistricting across the commonwealth before legislators redraw those lines in 2021. The process of redrawing voting district lines happens every 10 years after the state census. Voting districts for the U.S. Congress, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the Virginia Senate have been redrawn into what looks like morphed districts - this is often called gerrymandering. Onevirginia2021 says this is not about political parties, it’s about power. “For the 40 years I've been in Charlottesville, greater Charlottesville has had one delegate in the house. Now greater Charlottesville has four delegates. That's because of breaking up a college town - usually voting progressive - into four delegates.