{"id":2063,"date":"2019-10-31T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2019-10-31T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T02:28:11","slug":"practical-nursing-11-01-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/practical-nursing-11-01-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Nursing ~ 11.01.19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><h3>Welcome to Career Center!<\/h3>\n<p>Please complete the survey linked survey &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/FK5552XJge8AEMhP9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/FK5552XJge8AEMhP9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please sit at the same computer each time you attend Career Center.\u00a0 If you do not like where you are sitting please change seats now.\u00a0 I will help you create a folder with your name in the Documents folder on the computer hard drive.\u00a0 You will be saving information to your folder as well as uploading it to a folder I create on Google Drive and share with you.<\/p>\n<h3>WorkKeys Assessments<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p class=\" \"><strong>About the Certificate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\" \">The ACT National Career Readiness Certificate is an industry-recognized, portable, research-based credential that certifies essential skills needed for workplace success.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">This credential is used across all sectors of the economy and documents the following cognitive skills:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Problem-solving.<\/li>\n<li>Critical thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Reading and using work-related text.<\/li>\n<li>Applying information from workplace documents to solve problems.<\/li>\n<li>Applying mathematical reasoning to work-related problems.<\/li>\n<li>Setting up and performing work-related mathematical calculations.<\/li>\n<li>Locating, synthesizing, and applying information that is presented graphically.<\/li>\n<li>Comparing, summarizing, and analyzing information presented in multiple related graphics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Assessments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Individuals can earn the ACT NCRC by taking three WorkKeys\u00ae assessments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applied Math \u2013 For more information about the Applied Math assessment \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.act.org\/content\/act\/en\/products-and-services\/workkeys-for-educators\/assessments\/applied-math.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Graphic Literacy \u2013 For more information about the Graphic Literacy assessment \u2013\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.act.org\/content\/act\/en\/products-and-services\/workkeys-for-educators\/assessments\/graphic-literacy.html#scrollNav-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Workplace Documents \u2013 For more information about the Workplace Documents assessment \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.act.org\/content\/act\/en\/products-and-services\/workkeys-for-educators\/assessments\/workplace-documents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each of the assessments listed above has a maximum time limit of 55 minutes. Additional time may be required prior to and after the assessments for registration, an examinee tutorial, and\/or printing a score report.<\/p>\n<p>WorkKeys assessments measure real-world skills that employers believe are critical to job success. Test questions are based on situations in the everyday work world.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about specific careers and their skills requirements, check out the ACT\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keytrain.com\/link\/profile-search.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">job\u00a0profiles\u00a0database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Certificate Levels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Individuals can earn four levels of certifications by taking the three WorkKeys\u00ae assessments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronze Level \u2013 Signifies an individual has scored at least a Level 3 on each of the three assessments and has the necessary skills for 16% of the jobs in the WorkKeys Job Pro database.<\/li>\n<li>Silver Level \u2013 Signifies an individual has scored at least a Level 4 on each of the three assessments and has the necessary skills for 67% of the jobs on the WorkKeys Job Pro database.<\/li>\n<li>Gold Level \u2013 Signifies an individual has scored at least a Level 5 on each of the three assessments and has the necessary skills for 93% of the jobs on the WorkKeys Job Pro database.<\/li>\n<li>Platinum Level \u2013 Signifies an individual has scored at least a Level 6 on each of the three assessments and has the necessary skills for 99% of the jobs on the WorkKeys Job Pro database.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Career Center! Please complete the survey linked survey &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/forms.gle\/FK5552XJge8AEMhP9 Please sit at the same computer each time you attend Career Center.\u00a0 If you do not like where you are sitting please change seats now.\u00a0 I will help you create a folder with your name in the Documents folder on the computer hard drive.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-nursing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.edu\/alvacc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}