{"id":45640,"date":"2018-08-06T21:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T21:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=45640"},"modified":"2018-08-06T21:42:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T21:42:37","slug":"vote-now-accs-nursing-program-named-finalist-for-best-of-the-best-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/08\/06\/vote-now-accs-nursing-program-named-finalist-for-best-of-the-best-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Now! ACC\u2019s Nursing Program named finalist for Best of the Best Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Austin Community College\u2019s Nursing Program is a finalist in the 2018 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/statesman.secondstreetapp.com\/2018-Best-of-the-Best-in-Austin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Austin American-Statesman Best of the Best Awards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for nursing schools. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voting is now open and lasts through August 10. Follow these steps to vote for ACC\u2019s Nursing Program. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/statesman.secondstreetapp.com\/2018-Best-of-the-Best-in-Austin\/gallery\/119997440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Best of the Best Awards website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Choose the \u201cKids &amp; Education\u201d category.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select Nursing Program.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find ACC.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click the green \u201cVote\u201d button in the ACC box.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enter your email address.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Complete the brief registration form.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click submit.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After voting you\u2019ll receive a confirmation email with a link that allows you to easily log in each day to vote again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Winners will be recognized in a special print and online section once voting has completed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACC\u2019s Nursing Program provides a path into nursing as either a registered nurse (RN) or licensed vocational nurse (LVN). The college also launches its first bachelor\u2019s degree program this fall for registered nurses wanting a bachelor\u2019s degree. The full-time, 12-month RN-to-BSN bridge program begins fall 2018. A part-time, 18 -month option begins fall 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACC is the No. 1 source of registered nurses in Central Texas. Pass rates for students taking national licensure exams average over 95 percent and consistently exceed state and national averages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nursing Program is offered through the college\u2019s Health Sciences Area of Study. For more information, visit the<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/degrees-and-certificates\/areas-of-study\/health-sciences\/nursing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nursing Program webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College\u2019s Nursing Program is a finalist in the 2018 Austin American-Statesman Best of the Best Awards for nursing schools. Voting is now open and lasts through August 10. Follow these steps to vote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/08\/06\/vote-now-accs-nursing-program-named-finalist-for-best-of-the-best-awards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,17,19],"tags":[1974,388,157,1972,743,1976,434,1040,376,1947,1975,1949,1401,1973,494],"class_list":["post-45640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-adn","tag-austin-american-statesman","tag-award","tag-best-of-the-best","tag-health-sciences","tag-lvn","tag-nursing","tag-nursing-program","tag-program","tag-registered-nurse","tag-registered-nurses","tag-rn","tag-rn-to-bsn","tag-statesman","tag-vote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}