Education Notebook: TSTC students administer flu vaccines - Abilene Reporter-News

  • By zz-omni-cms
  • October 17, 2012

Texas State Technical College West Texas' vocational nursing students from Breckenridge and Sweetwater campuses administered about 600 flu vaccines to the Abilene State Supported Living Center's employees recently.

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Center director Rebecca Conditt said the grant will allow the center to continue and expand community-based education, summer camps and clubs for young students interested in health care careers. The center, which has an Abilene location, is part of a Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health program.

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