


August 30, 2009
To our BATCH 96 (July 16-August 30) Class
The Excel Vocational Center teaches clinical skills that are specific and deliberate actions with clear guidelines for students to follow. It is not done in a random manner nor is it a result of unintended consequences. It is a plan called the Modified Nursing Process® that took more than 20 years to develop both in long-term care facilities, acute care settings and classroom settings. The training program followed certain guidelines that run parallel to the Cone of Experience espoused by Edgar Dale (1946).
However, to be fully successful, it requires your full participation. The Excel Vocational Center provided the necessary tools; but you honed your critical-thinking and clinical skills by putting in the hard work: by the computer, lab practice and actual clinical practice at SunnySide Nursing Center. You interacted very well with the staff and the residents. Above all, nursing care is about caring.
When you receive your Certification of Completion and educational awards, you will know that you prepared yourself for an engaging study program that will forever change your approach to nursing care. The more you participated and completed the entire exercises, the greater the likelihood that you will master the techniques you were taught. Your ultimate reward is being employable: Confident, Competent and Caring, the hallmark of a Modified Nursing Process ® Practitioner.
One of the concepts I have developed, and being applied at the Excel Vocational Center, is the Spatial Logic: Integrated Intelligence®. It is best described when you say-to my enjoyment- “I got it. It is so easy.” It is the moment when you cry out “Aha!”
It has been a pleasure to see Batch 96 grow from insecurity, at the start of our class, to confidence as the program progressed. You have practiced and studied as a team, and have taught each other. You have followed the instructions fully and with great gusto. As each technique has to work in conjunctions with others, you have taken time to practice each technique thus you have mastered the Spatial Logic: Integrated Intelligence ® critical-thinking skills protocols. You have achieved what other groups achieved and more.
I say, “Thumbs up.” Congratulations!
Elijah D. Nacionales RN SMN
Director, Nursing Assistant Program
Founder, Modified Nursing Process® Practitioner