{"id":19780,"date":"2020-08-04T14:43:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19780"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:43:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:43:47","slug":"news-briefs-august-4-web-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/08\/04\/news-briefs-august-4-web-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"News Briefs<\/em>: August 4 web exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun launches nursing bursary<\/p>\n

Camosun college students studying emergency nursing may be eligible for a new bursary, which commemorates long-time emergency room nurse Irene McKinlay, who recently passed away. McKinlay’s family and colleagues donated over $24,000 to the Camosun College Foundation toward the new Irene McKinlay Memorial Nursing Bursary. The first annual $1,000 bursary will be awarded this fall to an eligible second-year, full-time Camosun nursing student in good academic standing who can demonstrate financial need and is pursuing a career in emergency nursing. Prospective applicants can find more info at camosun.ca\/bursaries, while interested donors can visit camosun.ca\/foundation. The application period for students opens on September 8.<\/p>\n

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Camosun College students recently developed new LED strobe-light technology (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camosun students develop new LED strobe-light technology<\/p>\n

Three Camosun Electrical and Computer Engineering students have developed a new strobe light technology in response to an extracurricular challenge. Rylen Enger, Miles Krakowec Tickner, and Joseph Letang worked for a year to develop the new light. Compared to older models that used incandescent bulbs and were limited in their range of output, this new light uses long-lasting LED bulbs, and its custom-programmed software allows high flexibility of the strobe output intensity and patterns. Unlike commercial strobes, which can cost thousands of dollars, the new technology cost less than $100. The inventors have decided to gift the new light to the Camosun Physics department for future generations of Camosun students to use.<\/p>\n

BC government contributes $4.4 million to health-care training programs<\/p>\n

On July 23, the BC government announced its intent to contribute $4.4 million to BC post-secondary schools, including Camosun College, to assist training and upgrading of BC health-care professionals. This funding is designed to attract more students into the health-care field and to improve the skills of currently working professionals. The funding will target programs for nurses, health-care and anaesthesia assistants, and mental health and community-support workers. Camosun received $310,000 to go toward starting a health-care assistant program and an educational assistant program on the Westshore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun launches nursing bursary Camosun college students studying emergency nursing may be eligible for a new bursary, which commemorates long-time emergency room nurse Irene McKinlay, who recently passed away. McKinlay’s family and colleagues donated over $24,000 to the Camosun College Foundation toward the new Irene McKinlay Memorial Nursing Bursary. The first annual $1,000 bursary will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t