R E G I S T E R E D N U R S I N G P RO G R A M
Pinning Ceremony M AY 5 , 2 0 1 5 6:00 p.m.
The History of the RN pinning ceremony. This ceremony, which dates back a thousand years, is a symbolic welcoming of newly graduated nurses into the nursing profession. The new nurses are presented with nursing pins by the faculty of the nursing school or in our case, a special family member or friend. Often the nurses recite the Nightingale Pledge. Some nursing schools have stopped holding the pinning ceremony, claiming it is an outdated ritual. This special ceremony was not held for many years at MCCC but was revived, in part, by the graduating class of December 2012. We hope that it will remain for many years to come.
Program
Processional................................................................................................ Graduates Enter Welcome and Opening Remarks......................................Dr. Kojo A. Quartey, President & Master of Ceremonies Kimberly Lindquist,
Dean of Health Sciences/Director of Nursing
Significance of the Pinning Ceremony .................................. Heather Lorence Nursing Student Representative
Introduction of Graduates and Presentation of Pins....................................................................... Nicole Garner, Assistant Professor, Nursing
Kimberly Lindquist,
Dean of Health Sciences/Director of Nursing
Monroe CCC Registered Nursing Faculty Awards Presentation.................................................................... Kimberly Lindquist,
Dean of Health Sciences/Director of Nursing
Graduate Address.................................................................................................... Suzi Barr Melissa Gondek Reciting of Nightingale Nursing Pledge.............................. Cassie Bonenfant Nursing Student Representative
Farewell Address & Closing.................................................Dr. Kojo A. Quartey, President A RECEPTION WILL BE HELD IN THE ATRIUM FOLLOWING THE CEREMONY.
Monroe County Community College Registered Nursing Program
Graduating Class of 2015 Kelly Anderson Suzi Barr Cassie Bonenfant Bonnie Burger Jennifer Burger Stephanie Dover Sarah Franks Melissa Gondek Stephanie Hudson Krista Jenkins Tia Keeler Lindsay Kurilla Shannon LaBo Heather Lorence Starr Moore Kacy Navarre Amy Newman Adam Ochs Serena M. Oehlers LeAnn Schroeder Shawn Tracy Lauren Wallace Lauren Wells Ryan Wertenberger Chaquita Wheeler Lacy White
We wish to express our gratitude to… Kimberly Lindquist Dean of Health Sciences/Director of Nursing
Lori Biggs Nursing Program Coordinator
And our sincere appreciation to our dedicated nursing faculty… Rachel Riffle Administrative Assistant to the Dean of Health Sciences
Rea Ann Brodbeck Cathy Brownell Michelle Costlow Kelly Devol Frances Fa Teresa Fisher Nicole Garner Tracy Giacomini Joyce Hammer
Heather Hoffman-Seifert Dawn Lymond Megan Maiani Carrie Mersereau Kitty Murtha Michelle Nichols Kelly Perry Monica Rancatore Amy Randall
Denise Robinson Michelle Schwartz Rebecca Scott Christy Taylor Regina Torti Laure Vandervlucht Charles Washington
Event Management/La-Z-Boy Center Staff Marketing Department Maintenance Department And special recognition to… The MCCC Student Nurse Association The Kroger Company Tim Horton’s Out of Focus Photography
Affiliated Hospitals and Nursing Homes that have provided superior clinical facilities include: Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Hutzel Women’s Hospital, Detroit Oakwood Health System, Wayne, Trenton and Dearborn Promedica Health System, Toledo and Sylvania, Ohio Promedica Monroe Regional Hospital, Monroe St. Mary’s Hospital, Livonia VA Healthcare System, Ann Arbor Wellspring Lutheran Services, Monroe
Nightingale Pledge I will strive with all of my being and with the help of God to continue to be an open, kind, honest and diversified individual. In doing so, I will attain the qualities essential to the practice of nursing; for it is only and after realizing one’s own self-worth we are able to promote that of others. Deliverance of high-quality health care is of essential importance, but let us also reach beyond a treatment diagnosis and remember that entrusted to my care is a human being with all the loves, hates, fears and idiosyncrasies that are an integral part of the human species. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will uphold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. Let me not grow too comfortable in my knowledge but actively seek out new information for continuance of my education. Being a nurse requires continuous growth. I dedicate myself to this cause and my life to the profession of nursing.