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Goodbye toStudent Body President
By Jamison WagnerStaff Reporter
Smokers may be put out by the changes to CNM’s tobacco policies.
As of the start of the fall 2013 term CNM will no longer allow electronic cigarettes or any other tobacco prod-uct inside its’ buildings and all tobacco-related products will only be permitted in the designated smoking areas outside away from the buildings said Christine Burroughs, Communications Manager for CNM.
This is part of CNM’s effort to make its’ campuses smoke free and this will also include a commu-nications campaign, smoke-free signage and to help students and employees go smoke-free, she said.
Students expressed mixed feelings to the Chronicle about the changes being made to the tobacco policies.
Timothy Brito, Teaching major said that it does not bother him if e-cigs are banned since CNM will be a smoke-free campus now like UNM as it will show the freshmen coming into CNM that the school cares about them.
“The ban is going to bother me a lot at times as a smoker, but there really is not a lot you can do about it. I am sure if the student body came together the admin-istration might do something about it but it is hard to motivate people nowadays about things like this,” he said.
Brito said this may affect him as a smoker and contribute a bit to his stress levels when he is dealing with final exams.
If CNM does try to improve the designated smoking areas smokers may be more inclined to use them, he said.
“I know this is going to mess with student, as a lot of us smoke, so there is going to be a lot of irri-tation around here, but I do think this is a good thing,” he said.
James Scacco, Engineering major said that he has seen people smoking the e-cigs indoors and had wondered about the health effects but did not have a definite opinion about whether or not people should be smoking e-cigs
By Daniel MontañoStaff Reporter
The Cultural Studies depart-ment plans to expand its current offerings to include sophomore level courses that will delve deeper into issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability and dis-ability—in short, what it means to be human, Dr. Felecia Caton-Garcia, English and Cultural Studies instructor, said.
Although a strict timeline has not yet been set for when the classes will be offered, Dr Caton-Garcia said that the department’s faculty is motivated to offer the courses sooner rather than later.
In the meantime, the introduc-tory courses, such as Pop Culture, Women’s studies as well as Chicano and Native American studies, will continued to be offered at all cam-puses, and can be found in CNM’s course catalog.
“There’s a lot of energy to make this happen. There’s a lot of inter-est on the part of the faculty for expanding the department because so many of us have various areas of expertise that are being underuti-lized,” she said.
Department faculty have been discussing plans to include courses that are cur-rently offered at UNM, such as feminist studies, southwest studies and environment, sci-ence and technologies, Caton-Garcia said.
Faculty want to offer courses that are easy to transfer, which will be aided by aligning the courses offered at CNM to those at UNM, but also want to make sure that the courses are interesting, she said.
“For instance I would love to teach a class on Chicano film. I incor-porate film into my Chicano stud-ies class but I could teach easily 16 weeks on Latino representation in film,” she said.
But before the department offers classes like “Race and Gender in Hip-Hop Culture,” Caton-Garcia said the department needs to make sure that there are stu-dents who are willing to attend the
What it means to be humanCultural Studies looks to expand
CNM stubs out tobacco useSome students find new policy a drag
PHOTOS BY RENE THOMPSON
The designated Smoking area near the front of main campus
PHOTOS BY RENE THOMPSON
Tom Sparks thinks the policy had to change because of the new high school.
PHOTOS BY RENE THOMPSON
James Scacco wonders about the health implications on e-cigs.
PHOTOS BY RENE THOMPSON
Alexandra Fowler isn’t affected by the policy, but finds it strange that e-cigs could be banned.
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L e t t e r s To T h e E d i t o rIn Response To Volume 19, Issue 10
“Suprise! You’ve graduated”
Dear CNM Chronicle,As a faculty member and President of the CNM Employees Union I want to congratulate you on the fine story written
by Staff Reporter Jamison Wagner on the graduation issue in the July 23rd issue of the Chronicle. Once again the CNM Chronicle broke a story of great interest to the CNM community. As a faculty member I’m astonished that a student could be awarded two degrees and a certificate without her knowledge or consent. And that the college was able to award hundreds of degrees in this manner seems truly incredible. I look forward to hearing further information and explanation from our administration regarding this issue.
Last spring, in the wake of the administrative confiscation and subsequent return of the Chronicle’s “Sex” issue, there
were calls for more editorial oversight for the CNM Chronicle. More ‘training’ was apparently needed for the reporters and staff, and the ‘independent’ status of the CNM Chronicle was called into question. I think Tuesday’s story and issue deci-sively settles the question of whether CNM needs an independent student newspaper or not. In any community that values freedom and transparency protecting the independence of the press is a crucial concern. I hope all faculty and staff at CNM will join me in supporting the journalistic efforts of the students at the CNM Chronicle so that we can preserve the valuable perspective that only an unfettered and spirited student newspaper can provide.
Viva la Chronicle!
Andy TibblePresidentCNM EMPLOYEES UNION
Dear CNM Chronicle,If you hang around long
enough at Central New Mexico Community College, the school’s carefully polished public image will wear thin and expose a core of half-truths and bombast.
The latest revelation surfaced earlier last week when the CNM Chronicle, the independent student newspaper, reported that a biology student, Emily Sarvis, was awarded two degrees and certificate that she knew nothing about. In fact, she only found out about her degrees and cer-tificate when she was asked to com-plete a post-graduation survey.
Sarvis, by the way, is president of the CNM Executive Council of Students. I’m sure she has heard the same admonition I have as part-time faculty member: Students have to apply to graduate. It’s not automatic.
Sarvis, a biology major, told the Chronicle she did not apply to grad-uate and wanted to take additional courses in her major before she transferred to the University of New Mexico. However, she is now being denied financial aid to complete her degree because school records indi-cate she already graduated, accord-ing to newspaper.
This does not appear to be an isolated incident. Another CNM student, James Roach, who claims he lacks one math course to
complete his degree, found out that he too graduated in May, reported the Albuquerque Journal last Friday.
Hold on because this gets stranger. It seems that the program that granted Sarvis her degrees and certificate is same one that “helped CNM more than double its gradu-ation rates in the past two years, which also helped the school win a prestigious award this year for improving student services,” accord-ing to the Journal.
Many long-time CNM students are unaware they have enough credit hours to earn an associate degree and consequently never apply to gradu-ate, so “the program uses software to find students with enough credit hours and automatically gives them degrees,” according to the Journal. A CNM administrator explained this was a “pilot project” that will improve over time, presumably to include students and inform them that the application to graduate may not be necessary.
What makes this revelation potentially more disturbing is that CNM is a lead partner in a collabora-tive effort called Mission: Graduate, which claims it will produce 60,000 additional two-year, four-year and graduate degrees above and beyond the norm by 2020. By boosting the skills and credentials of the local workforce, the reasoning
goes, employers will be more likely expand or relocate their operations to the Albuquerque area. This ini-tiative, which is scheduled to start in August, has the support or the active involvement of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, the United Way, the University of New Mexico, the City of Albuquerque, Albuquerque Public Schools, Rio Rancho Public Schools, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, Intel, Public Service Company of New Mexico, and the Journal.
There was, to my knowledge, no involvement by teaching faculty from any of the partnering institu-tions in the development of Mission: Graduate. That would be typical of the top-down changes in public edu-cation that are driven by the private-sector and masqueraded as reform. Perhaps no faculty members will be required to achieve 60,000 new degrees under this vision, maybe that lofty goal can be reached with-out any more students, classrooms, or courses. Maybe the results, or most of them, will be churned out by fine-tuned software that cranks out degrees for students without their knowledge or involvement. Now that’s reform.
Not amused,Seamus O’Sullivan, Ph.D.Part-time faculty
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By Jamison Wagner Staff Reporter
The bookstore at Main campus is now in a new loca-tion but it will continue to offer the best opportunity to students as far as book rentals in the form of cheaper digital and used book savings said Ann Heaton, Main Campus Bookstore Manager.
The bookstore is moving to the new Culinary Arts building
next to the Security building across from the Smith Brasher building, and has opened as of July 29, she said. The book-store will have less space than it did in the old location but will still offer buybacks, the same products and opportunities as it always has for students, she said.
“I am disappointed about the size of the space but that is okay, we are going to make it work, so students are going to get the same service they always
do. As far as fixtures go, we are definitely upgrading to look more like your average retailer’s outlet,” she said.
With the bookstore moved, CNM will be renovat-ing the original space for CNM Connect, so that part of CNM has the space it needs to service students effectively said Luis Campos, Executive Director of CNM’s Physical Plant.
CNM relocated the book-store to the new Culinary Arts
building to take advantage of the restaurant in the new build-ing so students will get excited about the Culinary Arts pro-grams new services, he said.
“Years ago in the A building the culinary arts students used to sell their baked goods to people and now the students can sell their baked products to people coming in to buy their books which is excit-ing to us,” he said.
Another reason the book-store was moved is that people would have problems finding parking by the bookstore when it was in the Student Services Center and with it near the Security building it will be easier for students to park near the bookstore, Campos said.
For more information on the bookstores move or any other bookstore related ques-tions call 243-0457.
PHOTO BY RENE THOMPSON
The new Main campus bookstore located at University Boulevard and Basehart Southeast across from Smith Brasher Hall opened for buisness on July 29, 2013.
Main campus bookstore settles into a new home
By Nick SternStaff Reporter
CNM is offering for the first time a Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) program of study for stu-dents interested in becom-ing Physical Therapy Assistants according to the current myCNM course catalog.
The 2013 to2014 CNM catalog describes PTA as an Associate of Applied Science degree program that gives stu-dents the knowledge and expertise to attain and maintain a career as a Physical Therapy Assistant.
The program requires six terms of courses with proficiency in English 2, Math 2, Reading 2 and Biology, which can all be completed by placement exam, scores, or course work. The programs
description can be found in the current 2013-2014 CNM Catalog under Programs of Study.
Associate Dean of Health, Wellness and Public Safety, John Blewett said, “It is a long process to start a brand new program of this size at the college because they don’t want to launch something like this unless it is really something that will be a benefit to the stu-dents in the community.”
The PTA program has not been offered before and has been in the works for several years beginning with input received from the com-munity that the program would be beneficial to students in the commu-nity. A needs assessment survey in which CNM sends a questionnaire to local hospitals, clinics, rehabs and any business’ which employ physical
therapy assistants-was done in the local com-munity, Blewett said.
“The needs assess-ment is meant to get a sense of whether a pro-gram would be valuable to companies and if there is student interest. It was clear that there would be no trouble filling the seats,” Blewett said.
Following the needs assessment, the idea had to go through the dean’s council who looked at the information based on the assessment and from there the new program had to be approved by the governing board.
The PTA program also had to become accredited through an accrediting agency, in this case the Commission on accreditation of Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), Blewett said.
“I attended a CAPTE workshop for
administrators who antic-ipate starting a program and was soon very edu-cated on their accredita-tion process which is a very thorough and good one,” he said.
CAPTE has very specific standards that programs must be held to, where there must be a minimum of two full-time faculty, one of which has to be a physical thera-pist, while the other can be a physical therapy assis-tant, he said.
“Recruiting can be challenging, but the good side is that people who do apply and gravitate towards the community college environment tend to be people who are out in the industry and are subject matter experts who really want to teach,” Blewett said.
Before students would start the full-time PTA program,
they would have to take two terms of required courses which include PTA 1001-Introduction to Physical Therapy Assistant.
“PTA 1001 is an open-entry course which will be offered frequently so students who are inter-ested in starting into term three, which is a coordi-nated full-time program, will take that first to make sure it is something they are well suited to. It is a degree required course but does not mean stu-dents will be starting in to the full-time program,” said Blewett.
Term three in the catalog will most likely not start until the fall of 2014 so that students will have the opportunity to take the first two terms of required courses and so faculty will have time to develop the curriculum, he said.
“Physical therapy assistants are very highly skilled, highly knowledge-able, hands-on, patient care specialists who help patients that need physi-cal therapy. They cannot do everything a physical therapist does, but they have an impressive and vast scope of knowledge,” Blewett said.
A physical therapy assistant has to be able to make a good assessment of what a patient needs, make a decision whether or not therapy is working for a patient, make cor-rect recommendations based on assessments, and be highly skilled in psycho-motor procedures done on patients, he said.
Any student inter-ested in pursuing a career as a physical therapy assis-tant would benefit greatly from the new program, Blewett said.
Physical Therapy Assistant Program
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By Daniel MontañoStaff ReporterStephen Martos,
president of the Executive Council of Students and member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, can sum up his experience at CNM in two words: growth and change, he said.
Although Martos graduated in the spring 2013 semester with
degrees in Psychology, Criminal Justice and Liberal Arts, he is stay-ing on as president of ECOS until the begin-ning of the fall semes-ter when he will hand over the reins to Emily Sarvis, Biology major, as he moves on to UNM to earn his bachelor’s degree in psychology, he said.
“CNM is my life. I don’t work school
around my life. My life is all at CNM, my friends and everything. So I’m excited about going to UNM, but I’m nervous because it’s such a completely dif-ferent world,” he said.
Martos entered CNM unsure how to approach his future, which classes to choose and what career to go into, but grew up, gained responsibility
and found direction while at CNM, espe-cially through ECOS, which motivated him throughout his college career, he said.
“Being president of ECOS is something I never thought I would do when I graduated high school, and now the goal is to continue on and see what other trouble I can get myself into,” he said.
Martos plans to move on to Law school after finishing his bach-elor’s degree, but isn’t setting anything in stone just yet, because he wants to make sure he is able to put to good use the empathy and willingness to help that he has gained through ECOS, he said.
He plans to minor in political science while at UNM, and if he gets the opportunity, he hopes to get involved in local government to make a positive change in the political process, he said.
“Whenever I find out that there is something someone is struggling with, my first reaction is ‘How can I help’ and what can I do to make this better” he said.
Martos has always had an internal drive to help people, but ECOS refined that feeling, he said.
ECOS was also the motivation to actively pursue positive change in his future and gave him the drive to become the person who he is now, he said.
“I think that I’m a lot more responsible, and I feel like I’m a greater person over-all. Looking back I didn’t have an idea of the greater things hap-pening around me, but I don’t know if that’s just what happens when people get older — they look back and want to say, you have no clue what’s coming up,” he said.
Although he is now working towards a future where he can help people and make changes for everyone’s benefit, Martos had originally planned to become an aerospace engineer before coming to CNM, he said.
“I looked at New Mexico Tech, and real-ized that I hated math, which isn’t good for an engineer, so I switched over and came to CNM,” he said.
Martos said coming to CNM was the best choice he made in his
quest to find direction because from that point on things began to fall into place on their own and organically evolve.
After feeling his way through intro-ductory classes and remaining largely uninvolved, he was introduced to Phi Theta Kappa and ECOS through friends, he said.
“I kind of stumble right into it. Having people who drug me along to meetings gave me a lot more purpose and a lot more focus. So I became much more involved and from that point it made me grow up from being a high school kid,” he said.
Once involved with student organizations Martos began getting into volunteer work, and as president of ECOS he was directly involved with helping students overcome obstacles at school, he said.
“That’s one of the best feelings that I’ve had, standing up for student issues and stu-dent rights, just being there as a venue for the students,” he said.
As far as regrets go, Martos doesn’t have any besides wishing he could have been even more involved than he already was, but he is satisfied with the dif-ferences he did make, he said.
“There’s always room for improve-ment. I wish I could have done more some-how, made more of an impact,” he said.
As the outgoing President of ECOS, Martos wants to encourage as many stu-dents as possible to find direction in the same way he did, he said.
“Join ECOS!” Martos said.
To join ECOs stu-dents must be enrolled for at least three credit hours and have maintained a 2.5 GPA. For more infor-mation students can go to student activities in the SSC to pick-up and submit an application.
Martos’ MetamorphosisStudent body president leaves CNM life
PHOTOS BY DANIEL MONTAÑO
Stephen Martos in front of the Student Resource center.
6 | The CNM Chronicle July 30, 2013STUDENT LIFEChronicle Crossword: Grammar rules Dif ficulty: Hard
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14. A word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events and feelings15. Language at its most infor-mal, using expressions that many would consider to be grammati-cally imperfect and sometimes rude16. An adjective or noun used attributively, that restricts or adds to the sense of a head noun
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By Deborah CooperStaff Reporter
The state of New Mexico has two junior col-
leges that b e l o n g
to the N a t i o n a l J u n i o r C o l l e g e A t h l e t i c
A s soc iat ion (NJCAA), but
C N M is not one of them. The colleges that do have sports teams are New Mexico Junior College and the New Mexico Military Institute.
Communications and Media Manager, Chris Burroughs said, “there are no sports teams at CNM and there have never been any, even when it was TVI.”
Burroughs who has been in the communications and media office at CNM for the last four months said the reason why there is not a sports pro- g r a m is because sports teams are e x p e n s i v e , and that m o n e y w o u l d m o s t l i k e l y c o m e out of s t u d e n t p o c ke t s , she said.
“ T h e m o n e y would have to come from somewhere, the students’ fees, and the tuition would have to go up. The whole intent of CNM is to keep tuition low and make it afford-able for students in the community to attend,” she said.
Jessica Ortiz, Veterinary sciences major said, “Sports at CNM would be cool but in order to get programs started as well as facilities built would cost a lot of money. This would mean higher tuition costs for everyone.”
Business major Jesse Salazar said, “We have a mascot, where’s the teams? They developed a mascot at the request of the students.”
Salazar said people at the school just wanted something to rally around when it comes to having a mascot.
“It really had nothing to do with sports. Even grade schools and middle schools have mascots,” Salazar said.
Burroughs said that she recently had a conver-s a t i o n with the president of UNM, B o b Frank that e x p l a i n e d about the high costs of running athletic programs.
“He was talking about the high costs of running athletic programs and the high cost of paying the foot-ball coach. He’d recently gone to a meeting with other college presi-dents and they were all talking about the same thing,” she said.
Burroughs who is from Canton Oh., the home of the “Football
Hall of Fame,” has also worked at UNM for 8 years in Public Relations and has been a New Mexico resident since 1984, she said.
Burroughs said she is also aware of the positive side in having sports teams at a college.
“Sports are really important as they build
up community and spirit. It helps in fundraising
and helps in recruiting really good students, but
that’s for research institutions. Community colleges typically
don’t have athletic programs, some have intramural sports,” she said.
According to the National Junior College Athletic Association, benefits for a college and students while being members could consist of being accredited by the appro-priate state and/or regional accred-iting agency, and there could also be opportunities for student-ath-letes to participate in structured conferences, Regional tourna-ments and National Championships which provide increased exposure
and publicity. Burroughs agrees that sports
are important, but she said, “The goal is to keep costs down.”
There is a really good sur-vival rate of 2-year schools without sports that just focus on academics, but more
than likely CNM will never have sports teams because the
whole goal is to keep costs low, Burroughs said.
Sports too costly for school
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newcourses.Part of that battle
is getting students intothe introductory levelclasses,shesaid.
“Whatwefindisthatonce students take a cul-tural studies class, theyoftenwanttotakeanotherone.That’sverycommon,but getting students intotheclassesinthefirstplacecanbedifficult,”shesaid.
In the fall 2012semester,thedepartmentchangedthecoursenames,numbers and prefixes of
thoseintroductoryclassesinordertobringinmorestudents, and again, tohelp make the coursestransferable, which willhelpraisestudentinterest,Caton-Garciasaid.The change in
coursenumbersenabledthe department toexpandcourseofferings,andnowthedepartmenthopesthatstudentswillsee the courses, enrollin the introductoryclasses and see that cul-tural studies is the sortofprogramthatdirectlyinforms students about
issues that come up ineverydaylife,shesaid.“Social interactions,
economic interactions,political interactions,everything fromwhowedate and why, and whatourfamiliesthinkofthat,to how we determinewhat is equitable for useconomically moving for-ward, and is all part ofwhat we studywhenwestudyculture,”shesaid.While courses, such
as anthropology or soci-ology, touch on similarsubjects, cultural studiesisaneclecticprogramthat
draws from several aca-demicfieldstopresentanin-depthanddetailedviewof cultural issues, Caton-Garciasaid.
Cultural stud-ies courses pull litera-ture, psychology, his-tory,filmandmanyotherapproaches together tocreate a multifaceted pic-tureofasocialorculturalissue,Caton-Garciasaid.“In my Chicano
Studies class for instance,Iusetheworkofsociolo-gistsandIusefictionwrit-tenbyChicanoauthors.Iplacethosetwoinradical
proximitytoeachothersowecanspeakaboutthem,find out how they inter-act,”shesaid.Approaching a sub-
jectfromdifferentanglesallows students to gaina true appreciation forthe subject, and helpsmove students beyondthe classroom in orderto participate in socialchange,shesaid.“There’s an active
thread running throughcultural studies that edu-cation should not onlyoffer knowledge, butshouldbeatransformative
experiencethroughwhichwe can findways to pro-mote equity and justice,”shesaid.Caton-garciabelieves
thatifmorestudentsreal-ized what the impact ofan education in culturalstudies could do, theclasseswouldstartfillingup,shesaid.“I would really,
encouragepeopletochecktheseout.Iftheyhaveanyroom in their schedulesatallforthefall,theyareofferedatallthecampusesandwewouldlovetoseethem,”shesaid.
indoors.“Idonotreallyseethe
point in a policy that isnotdrivenbypurposeordata so it does notmakesensetomeunlessCNMdoeshaveareasonforthischange,”hesaid.Tom Sparks,
Architectural Designmajor said that hethinksthepolicychangehad to happen becauseof the high school pro-gram being put intoplace.Howeverhesaidhedoesnotcareforthe
smoking areas beingcompletelyopentotheelements and dislikedthe ban on electroniccigarettesinside.“I think the e-cigs
being banned inside isstupid. I used to have acompany where e-cigswere sold and it is notsmoke,ithasbeenproventhattheliquidvaporfromane-cigcannotharmair-planeelectronics, sohowcould it harm other elec-tronics,”hesaid.
It seems like a wayfor teachers who havebeencomplainingaboute-cigs to get the e-cigsremoved completely
becausetheteachersdonot like having themaround,hesaid.
Sparkssaidhehashadplenty of teachers whocomplained about hisusing an e-cig while hewas in class and he feelsthat this change in thepolicyismorefortheben-efitofthoseteachers.Alexandra Fowler,
Chemistry major saidthat since she is nota smoker the policydoesnotaffecther,butit does seem strangethat e-cigs are beingbanned if the byprod-ucts are not knownto be harmful as
second-handsmoke.“I do not know too
much about e-cigs but ifthey only expel vapor, Idonotseeittobeahugeissue,”shesaid.As of now the
campushaslimitedareasthat are labeled as des-ignated smoking zonesoutsidetheSSC,andareexposedtotheelementswith no coverage fromsun,rainorsnow,whichcanmake it difficult forsmokerstoutilize.
Students don’t knowwhere it is acceptable tosmoke,assomespotsarelabeledandothersarenotwhereashtraysarelocated
atoncampus,Fowlersaid.Electronic cigarettes
were introduced into theU.S. market in 2007 asan alternative to tradi-tional tobacco products,offering a variety of dif-ferent levels of nicotineliquids,andbecausee-cigscontain no tobacco theseproducts have not beensubject to U.S. tobaccolaws, according tohealth.discovery.com.The conclusion of a
studyonnicotinee-liquidswas that “For all byprod-uctsmeasured,electroniccigarettes produce verysmall exposures relativetotobaccocigarettes.The
study indicates no appar-ent risk to human healthfrom e-cigarette emis-sions based on the com-pounds analyzed, accord-ingtopubmed.gov.The smoking ban
willbegininthe2013fallsemester, and will firststart off with a smoke-freecampaignoncampuswithresources,suchasatcnm.edu/about/smoke-free-campus, wherebothstudentsandfacultycanfindsupporttohelpquitsmoking.
Applicantsmust:
8 | The CNM Chronicle July 30, 2013
Nick SternStaff ReporterAlmost every stu-
dent who goes through health, wellness and public safety programs needs immunizations for their own well-being and the safety of patients that students come into contact with during clinical rotations, said registered nurse, Patti Haaland of the CNM Student Health and Wellness Center.
There is a strongly set plan that roughly 650 students in health professions, all across CNM campuses, must adhere to in order to qualify and be accepted for clinical rotations, she said.
Many students end up getting too close to the student immuniza-tions deadline and end up causing more stress for themselves and for the people who give the immunizations at the Student Health and Wellness Center, she said.
“It has been frus-trating for students who are at the deadline
fo r
i m m u -n i z a t i o n s . If students are enrolled in health occupations they should check their emails because instructors will email them telling them to get their immuniza-tions in order at the beginning of the term. This way we do not have people lined up out the door and we can leave when our shift is done at 5 p.m. and not be here at ten until 5 p.m. with people lined out the door trying to get their immunizations,” Haaland said.
It can take a week to 10 days to see if people have the required immuniza-tions and students can get very scared and frustrated when they have worked hard to get accepted in to a program and are facing the possibility of getting kicked out because they are out of
time t o g e t re su lt s , s h e said.
“ I c a n n o t tell you how many people have been crying in the lobby and blaming me and every-body else because they have not gotten immuniza-tions done or have not gotten their results in. You are going in to health occupations. Own your own responsi-bilities. None of the health occupations tolerate blame-shift-ing. Take ownership,” said Haaland.
Certified family nurse practitioner and
senior d i r e c -tor of t h e Student
H e a l t h a n d
W e l l n e s s center at CNM, Marti B r i t t en h a m
said that people who are
anticipating get-ting in to one of
the health, well-ness and public safety medical professions should try to start their i m m u n i z a t i o n s at least a semester before they start
clinical rotations. So students will not have to stress themselves out by scrambling at the very last minute trying to figure out what they need, she
s a id . I f
s t u -dents do not
manage to start a semester before, then students should at least start during break or the first week of the term, she said.
“The organizations that health, wellness and public safety put students into (ambu-lance companies, hospi-tals, nursing homes, and clinics) require immuni-zations before students can go in. It is not tech-nically a CNM require-ment but a requirement of the organizations stu-dents get put in to for their clinical rotations,” Brittenham said.
Hospitals will not allow students to come in and take care of patients without up-to-date immunization records because it is dangerous to the stu-dent and the patient and creates a liability for the hospital, she said.
An anti-body titer is a blood test that is
sent to the lab and meant to tell if some-one has immunity to various diseases and can tell the immunity level of the patient, she said.
“We encourage students to get their medical records, bring them in and we will tell students which immunizations, or titers, they will need. Once you know what you need it is best to get the titers done right away because they take the lon-gest time for results,” Brittenham said.
For more informa-tion on immunization due dates health major students can call 224-4111.
FEATUREAvoid Last Second Immunizations
PHOTO BY NICK STERN
Patti Haaland, Marti Brittenham and Merry Guild are the staff at the health center located in the Student Services Center.