63/209 Completed (30%) # Responses May Vary BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Fall 2006: Graduate Follow-up Questionnaire
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) THE RESPONSE/S THAT MOST CLEARLY REFLECT YOUR SITUATION.1. Are you CURRENTLY employed? 49/78% full time 8/13% part time 6/9.5% not employed
(63 Responses)
If NO, mark the response that BEST describes your situation, THEN GO DIRECTLY TO QUESTION #11. 3 Looking for a job.
___ Not looking for a job. ___ Full-time homemaker 7 Continuing my education.*
___ Have transferred to another college.* (10 Responses)
(*If you are continuing your education, please answer where?) -BCCC. (4)
-Pitt Community College. -East Carolina University. (2) -BCCC and ECU (ADN-MSN). -Shaw University.
-Mount Olive College (Washington). -Have not decided which College.
2. Were you employed BEFORE attending Beaufort County Community College (BCCC)?
41/66% YES 21/34% NO (10 Responses)
Comments: -During.
-Not working for the same employer.
If YES, and you still work for the same employer, have you received a promotion/raise since graduation?
9/30% YES 21/70% NO (30 Responses)
3. What is your CURRENT job title? Please describe what you do. 4. Your CURRENT employer is: -Electrician
-Licensed Practical Nurse
-LPN
-Unit Secretary
-Patient Rep III
-Community Support Worker -CNA1
-Nurse Assistant 1
-Community Support Worker -Accounts Payable
-Wire fire trucks.
-Patient care and administration of medications per MD orders, patient safety and assessing and
evaluating patient to continue to maintain a healthy status.
-Direct patient care, administration of medications, dressing changes, vital signs, bathes and getting dressed.
-Answer phone, take doctor’s orders, schedule follow-up appointments, complete patient charts.
-Register patients for their pre-op before surgery.
-As a mentor.
-Take care of the elderly by providing care with activities of daily living. -Assist patients in home health care. -As a mentor.
-Enter data to update accounts payable and pay creditors.
-Hackney
-Pitt County Memorial Hospital
-PCMH
-Pungo District Hospital
-PCMH -Potter House
-Greenfield Place, Tar River Manor
-Maxim Home Healthcare -Potter House
3. What is your CURRENT job title? Please describe what you do. 4. Your CURRENT employer is: -Credit Analyst
Commercial Loan Processor
-Cashier/Cook
-Bookkeeper for trucking
-Accounting Clerk/Cashier -Clerical staff
-Administrative Support Assistant -Financial Aid Technician
-Medical Office Assistant
-Receptionist
-Receptionist
-ED Secretary
-Office Manager, Arts and Sciences Division
-Electrician
-Substitute Teacher/bus driver -Registered Nurse
-Stapp Nurse 1 -RN-Emergency Room
-RN -RN
-Tax spreads, credit files, loans, credit references along with many other duties.
-I process business/commercial loans that come into the bank… “middleman” between lawyers and loan officers.
-Operate the cash register, cook, prepare plates, and clean.
-Record trucking mileage, fuel input into computer, do quarterly reports for Ifta, new employee hiring process.
-Help customers, students; receipt monies, make daily deposits, etc. -Enter patient data into computer;
check patient in and out; file; do referrals and do money.
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-Assist students applying for financial aid, general office
support. Work with Excel and Word frequently.
-I file; check in and out; answer the phone; process insurance claims for BCBS, Medicare and Medicaid; and handle release of medical records.
-I check patients in/out; input charges; answer phones; and handle medical records. -Answer telephone, explain some
courses, inform students on policies, give change to students. -Register patients getting information
correct including insurance; answer phones; page doctors; inpatient admissions; multi-tasking.
-I assist instructors with their typing, copies, and classes. I also maintain forms and supplies.
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-Sub for teachers and bring the kids to school.
-Med-Surg floor
-Work as a nurse at PCMH-HEM/ONC. -Triage patients, provide care and
stabilization before transfer to the floor or another facility.
-Caring for patients in hospital setting.
-Management and delegation of patient care-ratio 6:1 on an acute medical/surgical floor at PCMH.
-East Carolina Bank
-First South Bank
-Boss Hog’s of Washington -Evans Transport UC
-Beaufort County Community College -Healthnow Medical Center
-ECU (Brody School of Medicine) -BCCC
-Pungo Family Medicine, PA
-Children’s Health Services
-Beaufort County Community College -Beaufort County Hospital
-Beaufort County Community College -Started Electrical Contracting
Business.
-Beaufort County Schools -Washington County Hospital -PCMH
-Uralde Memorial Hospital, Uvalde, Texas
-BCH
-PCMH (beginning 9/18/06)/Maxim (beginning 8/30/06)
3. What is your CURRENT job title? Please describe what you do. 4. Your CURRENT employer is: -Registered Nurse
-ER RN
-Staff Nurse I
-Lab Tech., Owner DC Property Services
-Medical Laboratory Technologist
-Wait staff, bartender -LPN
-Medical Lab Technician
-Process Assistant II
-Teacher assistant/direct care provider
-Electrical Equipment Repairer -WG6-02 Electroplator -Electroplator -Electroplator/Training part millwright -Deputy Sheriff -Correctional Officer -CNA -CNA1 -Dental Hygienist
-Licensed Practical Nurse
-Licensed Practical Nurse
-Produce clerk -Cosmetologist
-I am one of two nurses that work the day shift at a small critical access hospital.
-I provide a wide range of care to patients that present to ER including IV therapy, foleys, CPR, med administration, assessments, any emergency treatment needed. -Unit Nurse for OB/GYN (West at
PCMH)
-All duties associated with being an MLT at Washington County Hosp.; help elderly people maintain their homes and property.
-I draw blood on most all inpatients and outpatients and run the tests ordered by the physician. -
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-Phlebotomy, blood bank, chemistry, hematology, quality control, and specialty testings.
-Retains, files, access, and manage the work units; collection of forms, records and paper/reports.
-Help modify at-risk youth behavior so they can return to public school. Teaching copingy mechanisms. -Fix broken actuators off helicopters. -I run aircraft parts through a stage
of the refurbish/remanufacturing process.
-Service and repair aircraft parts. -I coat parts with chrome, nickel,
silver and so on. Also I’m in training to mill and make the parts that can not be bought.
-Patrol, respond to calls. -Supervise inmates, transport
inmates, complete reports. -Mainly I work in Alzheimer’s unit. -Take care of the elderly by providing
care with activities of daily living. -Patient education-clean teeth. -Geriatric nursing care, dispense
meds, documentation and nurse’s notes, etc…
-I am involved in providing total care of the patients, including
performing assessments, administering medications and other skills.
-Run produce, prepare produce. -Strictly hair and wax.
-Washington County Hospital
-Washington County Hospital
-PCMH
-Washington County Hospital, also self-employed
-Pungo District Hospital
-Curiosity Shoppe -Cypress Glen
-Bertie Memorial Hospital
-Pitt County
-The Phoenix Center
-NADEP, Cherry Point (FRC East) -NADEP, Cherry Point (soon to be
FRC)
-Fleet Readiness Center East: Cherry Point, NC
- NADEP/Cherry Point Air Station
-Beaufort County
-Department of Corrections -Britthaven of Washington -Geenfield Place, Tar River Manor
-Dr. Donald Hardee-Greenville, NC -Long Term Care facility
-Beaufort County Hospital
-Food Lion -Sylvia Kennedy
5. Which statement best describes your CURRENT job?
a. 28/47% Employed in the occupation for which I prepared at BCCC b. 22/37% Employed in an occupation RELATED to my preparation at BCCC
c. 9/15% Employed in an occupation NOT RELATED to my preparation at BCCC (59 Responses) If you checked 5.c., then go directly to 8.
6. Was technology/training you received adequate for entry level employment?
45/98% YES 1/2% NO (46 Responses)
Comments:
-Some of the classes, but I think students need hands on training before graduating from ___.
7. Did the technology/training you received at BCCC include the advanced technology skills you encountered in your current job?
35/76% YES 6/13% NO
5/11% DOES NOT APPLY (46 Responses)
8. Please indicate your present salary range per year. 7/13% Below $12,000
11/20% $12,000-$18,999 18/33% $19,000-$26,999 7/13% $27,000-$34,999 10/18.5% $35,000-$42,999
1/2% $43,000-and above (54 Responses) Comments:
-Less than $18,000.
9. After graduation, how long did it take you to find your job? 29/51% Already had it
8/14% Less than 1 month 12/21% 1-3 months 6/10.5% 3-6 months
-To gain full-time, permanent employment.
2/3.5% 6 months or more (57 Responses)
10. How did you get your first job after graduation? 7/14% With faculty or staff assistance.
______ Employment Security Commission. 2/4% BCCC Placement Office
3/6% Private employment agency.
-Worked several temporary jobs. 3/6% Newspaper/want ads.
7/14% Parents, friends, or relatives.
29/57% Other (Explain): (51 Responses)
-Continued to work for same employer while in school.
-Filled out application online at PCMH and having favors from God.
-I handed out my resume at the Job Fair and spoke with Human Resource manager for the Bank and later got an interview.
-Still searching for a better job in my field (I have the degree, but not the one year experience most jobs want you to have-no one will give me a chance).
-Already had job. (3)
-Got job before graduating with resume. -Applied online for interesting job. -Applied directly for current employment.
-I got my job one year before graduation by going out and handing out my resume. -Updated resume and sent out.
-I was working as an office assistant when the receptionist job became available; I worked as receptionist several months, then I interviewed for the office manager position when it became available.
-I spoke to HR without any representation from BCCC.
-I happened to call and speak to ____ and they had an opening.
-I went there and asked if they had any openings (they did). And ____ ____ wrote a letter of recommendation for me.
-They called when opening was available.
-I knew the employees in the lab and they referred me. -PCMH scholarship.
-I explored the internet. -Internship.
-Co-op program. -Before graduation.
-Worked part-time with employer while in school until graduation, then full-time. -Went looking for a job at a place that I would like to work.
11. May we send a survey to your employer? 33/61% YES 21/39% NO (54 Responses) 12. My goal(s) for attending BCCC were: (Mark as many as apply.)
60/44% Receive a degree, diploma, or certificate from BCCC. 31/23% Prepare for/Get a new job.
16/12% Improve existing job skills.
16/12% Transfer to a four year college/university. 13/9.5% Personal interest
_______ Other (Specify): (136 Responses)
13. I accomplished my goal(s) for attending BCCC: (Mark only one.)
39/63% YES, Completely 22/35% YES, Partially 1/2% NO (62 Responses) 14. Please rate the overall quality of your PROGRAM.
36/58% Very Satisfied 24/39% Satisfied 1/2% Dissatisfied 1/2% Very Dissatisfied
(62 Responses)
15. Please rate the overall quality of the COLLEGE.
31/50% Very Satisfied 30/48% Satisfied 1/2% Dissatisfied ____ Very Dissatisfied
(62 Responses)
16. Was adequate state-of-the-art EQUIPMENT (computers, lab equipment, machinery, tools, etc.) available during your training at BCCC?
59/95% YES
-More could always be beneficial considering the nature of the profession.
-For the ____ program, they could use more up-to-date materials to better train them for the work field.
3/5%_ NO
______ DOES NOT APPLY (62 Responses)
17. Were adequate SUPPLIES (lab materials, textbooks, etc.) available during your training at BCCC? 60/97% YES
-More could always be beneficial considering the nature of the profession. -But we did run out of micro supplies towards the end of the semester. 2/3% NO
______ DOES NOT APPLY (62 Responses)
18. Based on the quality of the program you completed, would you recommend this program to others?
59/98% YES 1/2% NO (60 Responses)
Comments: -Definitely.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:
-Overall courses were hard work, but students need to do co-op in the area they are going to graduate in. -I’m truly thankful that everything I accomplished was due to BCC and all of my instructors. Thank you.
-I was very pleased with the education I received from BCCC with it being a small college (smaller than a university) the quality of education and personal training/teaching was an excellent aspect. I have already recommended BCCC to others.
-Although I am not in a medical office, I am in a medical environment. I think it would be helpful to add an
accounting class for this degree. One job I applied for wanted experience or training in accounting. (This was an independent hearing care office.)
-Very pleased with the interaction between students and instructors. Instructors provided positive atmosphere in which learning could be accomplished and not just memorization.
-I began employment with BCH July 7 through August 22, 2006. After a schedule change, my supervisor scheduled me 3-11p. for six weeks while I was hired to work nights. BCH couldn’t find a position for me therefore, I was laid off! I began at PCMH September 18 to present. (I wasn’t prepared for that!)
-Overall the ____ program was an excellent experience and very knowledgable. I thouroughly enjoy my job that BCCC trained me for.
-I’m currently looking for jobs in the MLT field. I wanted to get my certification before finding employment. I passed my ____ exam in October and now I’m ready to start my career.
-The program was challenging but it prepared me for the state boards and for my job. -The program is great, just get the class more involved in the ____ club.
-The ____ ____ _____ is one of the best programs at BCCC. ____ ____ made sure we were prepared to enter into the work force.
-I really enjoyed the honesty with which almost all instructors gave me. I also enjoyed the fact that all of the instructors I had found time for me when I needed them.
-I thank God for BCCC.
-I didn’t have the funds to receive a diploma or degree, it was not a complete waste.
-In reference to question #18, I would also recommend applicants to pursue the ____ program initially. -I think ____ ____ should be fired because ____ does not know what ____ is doing and is not qualified for the
position ____ currently holds. The ____ program at BCCC is terrible.
