Scholarships
The following are some of the scholarship opportunities available to those who qualify.
Otha Grimes Scholarship
Application and instructions for the Otha Grimes scholarship may be downloaded below:
- Otha Grimes Application Tips
- Otha Grimes Scholarship Application – Do NOT complete the application in the browser window!! Download the application, open it in Adobe Acrobat, rename the file, save it in your file folder on the hard drive and then complete the application. After completing the application and saving it, move the file to the Shared Folder I created for you on Google Drive.
Only adult students may apply for the Otha Grimes scholarship. Adult students will need to visit Mrs. Williams, Financial Aid Director, or Ms. Flynt, Central Office Secretary, to get some of the financial information required to complete the application.
Beginning January 1, 2021, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (van, pickup or panel truck) will be: 56 cents per mile ($0.56) for business miles driven. The address for NWTC Alva Campus is 1801 11th Street, Alva, OK. You may use mapquest.com to calculate your mileage to and from school each day.
A calendar for the NWTC Alva Campus for the 2020-2021 school is available at https://nwtech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Alva-Calendar-FY-20-21.pdf.
Information regarding NWTC Tuition and Fees is available at https://nwtech.edu/student-services/financial-aid-tuition/.
Information regarding each of the career options offered at the NWTC Alva Campus is available by selecting the desired program area at https://nwtech.edu/classes/career-programs/alva-campus-full-time-programs/ and then selecting the desired career option.
Otha Grimes Scholarship applications need to be submitted to Mrs. Williams by January 15!
I have financial information for the following PN students: Jennifer B., Lauren G., Harley H., Baylee M., Kayleigh S., and Jessica W.
Northwest Technology Center (NWTC) Foundation Scholarships
Each year a portion of the monies raised by the Foundation will go to support scholarships for deserving students. This financial assistance may include books, tuition, and other educational costs. The Foundation Scholarship committee assists in the establishment of scholarships and the selection of the recipients.
Adults, juniors and seniors may apply for the Spring NWTC Foundation Scholarships. Only adults may apply for the Fall NWTC Foundation Scholarships. To claim the scholarship, students will be required to show that they are incurring some type of educational expense for either the current semester or next summer or fall.
Students may download the NWTC Foundation Scholarship application – NWTC Foundation Scholarship Application 2020. Do NOT complete the application in the browser window!! Download the application, open it in Adobe Acrobat, rename the file, save it in your file folder on the hard drive and then complete the application. After completing the application and saving it, move the file to the Shared Folder I created for you on Google Drive. Scholarship applications should be submitted to the front office by January 15.
For more information about NWTC Foundation Scholarships, please contact Melinda Barton, Marketing and Foundation Director at 580-327-0344.
VirtualJobShadow.com Login Instructions
Staff and students of the Northwest Tech Campus – Alva may access their user accounts at https://www.virtualjobshadow.com/login/AC5760/users/?.
Students will use the same username and password as used for WorkKeys assessments (except for a few students). Your password will be a six digit number representing your birthdate such as 020503 if you were born on February 5, 2003.
If you need assistance with your username and password, please let Mrs. Frascht know.
Be sure to complete assignments in what appears to be reverse order… most recently assigned appears on top left… first assigned is bottom right.
VirtualJobShadow.com – Job Seeking Skills: Resumes – PN 2020 Assignment
Complete the Job Seeking Skills: Resumes 2020 Assignment in VirtualJobShadow.com.
More information about resumes can be found at http://nwtech.edu/alvacc/resumes/.
Upon completion of this assignment complete the following:
- Print a copy of the resume and give to your instructor to proofread.
- After Mrs. Frascht has approved your resume, print a copy of the resume and add it to your portfolio.
- Add the MS Word or Google Doc file to the folder your instructor created for you on the Shared Drive. Do NOT share your file with your instructor…. put a copy in the correct folder (your name AlvaCC2020).
- Complete and print the Job Seeking Skills: Resumes 2020 Assignment on VirtualJobShadow.com.
Additional Information
According to the ACT Job Profiles Database, the following are some tasks performed by Practical Nurses:
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients’ charts.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Answer patients’ calls and determine how to assist them.
- Measure and record patients’ vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
- Supervise nurses’ aides or assistants.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
- Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors’ offices or clinics.
- Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
- Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
- Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
- Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.