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Professionalism. COLLABORATION. CARING. IN THIS ISSUE 2 WHY I BECAME A NURSE 3 TRI-C NURSING STUDENTS PROVIDED HEALTH SCREENINGS TO MAYFIELD VILLAGE RESIDENTS
4 THANK YOU LETTER FROM CUYAHOGA COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH 5 CONNECT-2-CAMPUS 7 ONSA’S 7TH ANNUAL NCLEX BRAIN BOWL
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GIVING WOMEN A WAY OUT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
10 NSNA’S 32ND MIDYEAR CAREER
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15 NCLEX TIPS FROM NSNA 17 MEET OUR TEAM
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semester for me as the Tri‐C SNA advisor. This has been the most dynamic group of students, that I have worked with in my 10 years as advisor, who were interested in making a difference in the community, in the profession of nursing, themselves, and even globally! The enthusiasm to par cipate in the numerous opportuni es available was contagious. The team of Student Leader Representa ves took on the challenge of involving the other members of the Tri‐C SNA to be part of the many events the student organiza on was able to organize and par cipate in over the past several months. Professionalism, collabora on and caring was certainly exemplified with each of the events from community health screenings in the summer to volunteering for the recent fall pinning ceremony. Please be sure to read the following ar cles to see what the SNA members have been up to during the Summer/ Fall semester. Thank you to all those who par cipated and I look forward to another successful semester in the Spring! See what you can do to make a difference!
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which we can discover a talent we have and contribute to society. Then there are some occupations that are more than a job, they are a calling. Honorable positions which only those who are willing to sacrifice for the sake of the greater good can excel at. Nursing is one such calling. I served my country in the military for 10 years. After my time in the military I worked in the field of engineering, and while I was successful in it, my engineering career lacked the higher calling and greater purpose that my work in the military fulfilled. I considered nursing as a career for reasons both philosophical and practical. Most engineering jobs, it seemed like overnight, moved overseas to China the rest to Mexico. I found myself like many other engineers looking any and everywhere for anything I could find to pay bills and keep
food on the table. I noticed after years of struggling to find an employer with a sense loyalty to his employees, that all of my friends who were engineers were unemployed. I also noticed that none of my friends who were nurses were unemployed. Many people are understandably reluctant to retrain into a new field after they have worked for years in a profession, where schooling alone was one of their greatest challenges. Retraining takes courage and the ability to notice when your current skill set just isn’t working for you anymore. However, retraining into a field that is more than just another job, but a field which is a calling provides its own unique kind of motivation. Retraining to become a nurse was definitely the most challenging schooling I have yet encountered. There were many days I did not want to wake up so early to go to clinical training in the hospital. It would have been much easier to stay in bed, as I would have in a different occupation. But turning over in my half-awaken self-debate as to whether or not to call off that day, I found myself thinking about
the patients needing my help. It was no longer about me, a paycheck, or school. It was about someone’s life who needed me and was in a time of need. Why did I become a nurse? I could have made a paycheck at something much easier. I became a nurse because I wanted more than a job. Nursing is a calling that I would do even if I was not paid to do it, because I see how very important and vital it is in the lives of people in their time of suffering. Whenever you find yourself doing something that you would do for free, you find yourself fulfilled. Benjamin Franklin said concerning financial gain, “Do well, by doing good”, this sums up nursing perfectly. I could not truly appreciate what a nurse was or meant until I was in a nursing role. While a doctor orders a treatment for a patient, most times it is a nurse who carries out the doctor’s treatment regiments with tailored interventions the nurse has implemented to aid the doctor’s treatment to give it the greatest chance of successfully healing a patient. It is this collaboration of nursing and medicine which bring about healing. Life is the greatest mystery in our Universe and its beauty has no equal. So why not use your life every day to save a life, change a life, and touch a live as a nurse.
W are searching for a President Elect to work alongside the President and train into the position e
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over the course of the spring semester, taking over once Ms. Yuryev graduates in May. We are also in need of Vice Presidents and Student Leader Representatives from each campus (Metro, East, Westshore) to assist the Tri-C SNA president with activities for the upcoming Spring semester. Please contact Ms. Ildiko Yuryev (SNA president): ildiko.yuryev001@acad.tri-c.edu or Ms. Linda Strong (SNA advisor): linda.strong@tri-c.edu with a short bio, and your plans of involvement with the SNA. Sign up for our email list by sending us a message to tricsna@gmail.com.
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audience. Hundreds of families cruised by our booths and many mentioned how nice it was that Tri-C could provide health screenings”. The Tri-C student nurses provided the Cruise-in-Night participants with manual blood pressure readings, pulse oximetry check, heart rate monitoring, weight measurements, BMI calculation and health advice. “We had the time to sit down and talk to people and answer their questions. We also got a chance to screen many who walked by, encountering some dangerously high blood pressures. Some of the attendees just weren’t taking their medications, and some had
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no idea that their blood pressure was so high. If our efforts saved at least a kidney and a life -which we are sure they did -our time was worth it” recollects Ildiko Yuryev Tri-C’s Student Nurse Association President. “My team members showed such professionalism that it was truly heartwarming to watch, they are the ones who made this evening a highly successful collaboration”. Tri-C SNA is excited to hear that the Cuyahoga County Board of Health representatives are looking forward to collaborating with our students in the future, and are keeping us in mind for upcoming community outreach events.
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From left: Lisa Sheppard, Suzanne Krippel CCBH, Kelsey Schuerger, Laura Rudary, Olena Stetsura, Ildiko Yuryev and Kevin Brennan CCBH.
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Connect-2-Campus event is a funfilled day at Cuyahoga Community College. It is the Student Life Office’s annual student engagement fair taking place in the Metro Campus Courtyard. This event aims at welcoming students back to campus and connecting them to people and resources across campus.
candy and live entertainment. Many of our members showed up to represent the Tri-C SNA and talk to potential students. We had pens, nursing pins, first aid kits as little giveaways at our booth and a lot of visitors. It was an excellent opportunity to recruit students to the nursing program, and answer their questions.
Every student organization from Tri-C has a chance to showcase their offers and recruit new members by having individual booths set up to attract new candidates. There is free food, popcorn,
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Dr. Michael Schoop, Metro Campus President and our nursing student representa ves.
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Ms. Kris Walz, Project Manager Division of Nursing, Ildiko Yuryev SNA President and Jeremy Caldwell Student Leader Representative.
Students signing our petition in the campus courtyard
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ONSA’ 7 NCLEX B Team
Tri-C participated th in the 7 Annual NCLEX Brain Bowl for the first time in the school’s history. It all began in March 2014 after some of us attended the ONSA’s Leadership Conference, and we were inspired to start a team. We worked on recruiting the best students to our team, and met some amazing people along the way. We trained the entire summer answering NCLEX-style questions, teaching and competing with each other. The Brain Bowl is a friendly statewide competition among nursing students at Ohio colleges and universities. It consists to several rounds of state board exam style questions, with sixteen multiple-choice questions per round, and four select all that apply style questions. Teams are given thirty seconds to discuss their thoughts before submitting one final answer per team. The questions become more difficult as the competition advances. After the first twenty questions the top four finalists are selected, and they compete in final rounds of five questions. The lowest scoring team after each round leaves the competition. On the day of the competition Team Tri-C was tied for first place after the first twenty questions, scoring an impressive 19/20. Unfortunately we lost in the final round, but the experience of participating was uplifting and energizing. At the end of the day
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we were proud of each other, and left feeling like winners too. Our personal performances on nursing school tests improved, and our grades proved it. The friendships made here will last a lifetime.
We are proud to have been the only Brain Bowl team that had the right answer to the following NCLEX question:
The nurse is caring for a client with anorexia nervosa. the nurse is monitoring the behavior of the client and understands that the client with anorexia nervosa manages anxiety by: 1. Engaging in immoral acts.
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4. Having the need to always make the right decision. Find the correct answer and ra onale on page 13. (Please place answer on a different page)
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Simple 9/26-9/27/14 Nursing was the keynote speaker. We participated in focus sessions on holistic nursing, oncology, forensic nursing, community and public health, NCLEX and pharmacology critical thinking seminars, and professional career development sessions.
TRI-C SNA MEMBERS AND MIKE LINARES: www.simplenursing.com
ONSA MARKETPLACE
Congratulations to Tri-C SNA and its elected members to the ONSA 20142015 Board of Directors, Kelsey Killmer Nurs. 1600, Communications Director Ildiko Yuryev Nurs. 2300, Breakthrough to Nursing Director
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NSNA’ 32 C The National Student Nurses’ Association (NSNA) 32nd Annual MidYear Career Planning Conference was held at the Hilton Nov. 6-9th, 2014 Portland & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon from Nov. 6 to Nov. 9, 2014. More than 500 nursing students, faculty, exhibitors and alumni attended educational workshops, listened to renowned speakers and spoke with exhibitors about career opportunities and services. The two-day NCLEX® Mini-Review focused on test taking skills and major NCLEX content areas. The Opening Session speaker was Brenda Brozek, MAOL,
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RN, Consultant, Speaker, Coach and Author of You’re Hired! A Nurse’s Guide to Success in Today’s Job Market, and Surviving & Thriving: Your 1st Job as an RN. On Thursday, November 6, and Saturday, November 8, the American Red Cross offered a course designed to prepare pre-licensed nursing students to volunteer during disasters. Attendees received a course certificate and an American Red Cross Student Nurse pin. There were a variety of workshops on writing resolutions, career progression, acing school exams, and resume management. It was an excellent opportunity to network with fellow nursing students, specialty nurses, recruiters and
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NSNA Nursing Specialty Showcase Panelists: Nurse‐Midwives, Infusion Nursing, Forensic Nursing, Rehabilita on Nursing, Nurse Educators, Hospice and Pallia ve Care Nursing, Cri cal Care Nursing.
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part of our psychiatric clinical experience at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affair Medical Center we were able to tour the Domiciliary for Veterans also known as The DOM. This beautiful facility provides a place for veterans to live and learn while they seek help with problems such as substance abuse, homelessness, PTSD and joblessness. Classes are held, resume and interview help, computer assistance, and meals amongst other services to help them get back on their feet. During our tour it was mentioned that they get many clothing donations for the men, but very little for the women. Our clinical group was able to collect and deliver more than ten large bags of clothing, shoes, coats and jewelry for these amazing women. It was pure joy
D watching them “shop” for items that will certainly help them reach their goals”, recollects Laura Rudary Tri-C SNA Student Leader Representative. “The VA’s Domiciliary is truly a hidden treasure for the veterans of Cleveland. As one of the female residents showed us her room, she spoke of the staff at the DOM acting as her newfound family. The residents were truly thankful for the support and resources they needed to get back on their feet. We were also able to speak to some of the nursing staff that works within the DOM. As students, it was interesting to hear how different their roles as nurses are within the facility. They spend a lot of time holding educational classes for the residents ranging in subjects from blood pressure regulation, to creating nutritional meals on
a budget. At the end of our tour, we picked tomatoes from a courtyard where the residents have learned to garden. It 11/2014 was a wonderful experience, and we were honored to be able to give back,” states Kelsey Schuerger, Student Leader Representative. Our clothing drive benefited the mental health clinical rotation sites, including the Veteran’s Hospital and St. Vincent Charity. The majority of this population is homeless or living in group-homes. Tri-C SNA donated over twenty bags of clothing and everyday necessity items. With the threat of a long winter coming to Cleveland every pair of shoes and warm coat was appreciated.
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this rotation wishing we could do more for healing children in their time of need. This is why the Onesie Challenge was started” recollects Jeremy Caldwell Tri-C SNA Student Leader Representative. It allows us to continue to treat and aid in the healing process for these children even from a distance. Often times hospitalized children remain in the hospital for months at a time. For many
drive donated five bags of clothes, toys and diapers to the community hospital. “When an unmet need is observed, those of us who want to make the world a better place must respond to meet that need. For many of us in nursing school our pediatric rotation is one of the most memorable and emotionally challenging times. Even if we know that pediatrics is not the area of nursing we would like to work in, there is always a special place in our hearts for our young patients,. We leave TRI-C SNA
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long to experience a moment of comfort. They often have delays in reaching developmental milestones such as walking, talking, social interaction and feeding. What may be the most heartbreaking about a hospitalized child is when the child is discharged from the hospital, they have no clothes to fit them, so they leave the hospital wrapped in a blanket. Sometimes the medical conditions these children battle are the result of neglect and abuse. While an extended hospital stay for a child may not be ideal for their development, for abused children, it may be one of the few times they feel safe and are shown proper care, and love. On a regular basis, pediatric nurses buy clothes for their patients out of their own money. Comfortable clothes and onesies help hospital staff keep these children comfortable during their hospitalized treatments. Onesies which button down both legs for example, give doctors and nurses easy access to all parts of the child’s body when needed, 12
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Answer to the NCLEX question (from page 7)
Answer: 3. Ra onale: Clients with anorexia nervosa have the desire to please others. their need to be correct or perfect interferes with ra onal decision‐making process. these clients are moralis c. Rules and rituals help the clients manage their anxiety. Test‐Taking Strategy: Use the process of elimina on and focus on the subject, managing anxiety. Eliminate op ons 2 and 4 because of the closed ‐ended word always. Op on 1 is not characteris c of the client with
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To make an impact on a global level Tri-C SNA got involved in the Free The Girls Project that provides victims of human trafficking in Mozambique with resources for rehabilitation and educational opportunities. During this drive we gathered gently used or new bras that are still a luxury item in that area of the world. The sale of a pair of bras will provide an honest living to many of these brave women who were able to escape the grasp of prostitution, and enables them to break away from their past.
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Tri‐C SNA members volunteered to distribute programs, act as host/hostesses for the pinning ceremony and recep on and performed miscellaneous tasks at the Wolstein Center. It was an excellent opportunity to gather some campus service credit hours. Thank you for your service!! Congratula ons Class of Fall 2015!!
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Find our documenta on of service form on the group site under Student Nurse Associa on.
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am a Cleveland native, and graduated from Shaker Heights High School back in 1996. I joined the Ohio Air National Guard and attended Kent State University and received my bachelor's degree in biology. During my time at Kent State I was also a member of the Air Force ROTC. After college I accepted a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps where I entered the flight training. During training I sustained a serious injury which ended my military career. I went on to work in the Chemical engineering field working in the automotive, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries. As the economy took a turn for the worst, many engineering jobs left the country. I knew I didn't want another job, but an occupation that was more of a calling than job, just like the military. My mother and sister are both nurses, and having observed the low unemployment rate among nurses and high unemployment among engineers, I chose to retrain as a nurse. Jeremy Caldwell, TRI-C SNA
My nursing goals are to one day become a nurse practitioner who specializes in teaching patients how to cook and eat healthy for medical conditions and general healthy living. I feel that the future of healthcare will rely heavily on nurses and practitioners who can use pharmaceutical treatments, but also implement effective lifestyle and nutritional therapies. Student Leader Representative
I am looking forward to beginning my nursing career, and am very grateful to Tri-C, specifically Mary Jo Boehnlein for giving me the chance to prove myself in their nursing program. I hope to contribute to the overall success of this program through being a part of the National Student Nurses Association and Tri-C SNA.
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Cleveland, but graduated from Cuyahoga Valley Chris an Academy in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. My interest in nursing began there, when I par cipated in my first mission trip to the Dominican Republic with my high school class. During that trip I was able to work in a makeshi medical clinic within the rural sugarcane fields, and quickly felt that this is what I was called to do with my life. I ini ally looked into a pre‐medical degree, but a er speaking with both
doctors and nurses, I realized that nursing would allow me to have closer encounters with my pa ents. Throughout high school I par cipated in several volunteer programs and mission trips. A er applying to eight colleges with the inten on of star ng a BSN program, I decided to take a gap year. I spent six months working, and six months with Opera on Mobiliza on, a missions organiza on that works within South Africa. I was given
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extensive training in both interna onal missions work/ministry, as well as training in HIV/AIDs care and counseling. In small teams, we traveled to rural areas to provide sustainable farming and AIDS care for both the elderly and the orphaned children of the community. I also led a team on an inner city outreach to Pretoria, where we worked with pros tutes, homeless men, drug addicts, and within prisons. My experience in South Africa only increased my excitement to start my journey of becoming a nurse. Before leaving for South Africa, I decided to secure plans to a end Malone University for the BSN program when I returned. The college was able to grant me their first ever deferment of scholarships so that I could start the nursing program shortly a er my return from South Africa. I a ended Malone for a year, and transferred in 2011 to Tri‐C for financial reasons.
working with humanitarian organiza ons that focus on women’s health and the fight to eliminate human trafficking. During my me at Tri‐C, I have been able to join the NSNA and Tri‐C SNA as a Student Leader Representa ve. This provided me with the opportunity to be part of a team that offered free health screenings in conjunc on with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health at the Mayfield Cruise Night. During my psychiatric rota on I was also able to help collect clothing dona ons to give to the female veterans at the VA Domiciliary. I am very passionate about serving others, and I have found nursing to be truly rewarding in that way. I have truly enjoyed my me in Tri‐C’s nursing program and am looking forward to being challenged in my last semester this spring. When I’m not studying nursing you can find me working as a full‐ me server at Yours Truly Restaurant, enjoying the outdoors, or drinking coffee.
My ul mate goal is to travel, using my nursing degree in underserved popula ons. I have a special interest in
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Laura Rudary Student Leader Representative
As a medical assistant, I have been able to experience several rewarding posi ons in the medical field. I have been fortunate to work alongside some amazing nurses. With the encouragement of many of these nurses, my family and a wish for myself, I decided to return to school to pursue my degree in nursing. While a ending Tri‐C, I have been involved with the Honors Program, Phi
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Theta Kappa Interna onal Honor Society as well as the Na onal Student Nurses Associa on. I was a part of Cruise‐In Night in Mayfield Village offering health screening to a endees. As a member of a team represen ng Tri‐C in the Brain Bowl at the Ohio Student Nurses Conven on, we made it to the final round and ed for first place, compe ng against many formidable teams from around Ohio. I organized and collected dona ons of clothing for our women veterans staying at the domiciliary facility at the VA. I am married and a mom to two amazing young men that are currently away at college. When not studying, I am an avid reader, playing golf or enjoying the outdoors.
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came to the United States 17 years ago from Ukraine. One of the first decisions I made short after I came was to go to school and to learn English. First, I enrolled in English as Second Language program. Later, my employer encouraged me to explore my interests and to pursue a new career in the field that would optimize my abilities and utilize my previous knowledge and expertise as an accountant and CFO for many years back in Ukraine. Therefore, my student career at Cuyahoga Community College continued beyond the ESL program and in 2004 I obtained my Associate of Applied Business degree in Business Management. I used to work at one of the local immigration law offices. The firm represented clients who came from other countries and assisted them in obtaining non-immigrant and immigrant visas as well as citizenship. I enjoyed providing legal assistance to those in who’s shoes my family and I were some years ago. I am fluent in both, Ukrainian and Russian languages and it helped me a great deal to carry my duties at the firm. Later on I opened my own business where I gained more customer service experience. In a course of a all those years of work I realized that my true passion is taking care of others, and the more personal care it was, the more satisfaction I had as a specialist. I come from a family where nine of my closest siblings are medical health professionals, medical doctors, dentists and nurses. Medical professions unlike
any other callings provide a lifetime of learning, which I am always striving for. They also offer an opportunity to show caring, which I am so passionate about. I am pursuing a career in nursing as it is the unique helping profession which will combine skillful and knowledgeable care I am learning to provide, and my personal traits -compassion, courage, tolerance, honesty and constant recognition of a person’s dignity. Olena Stetsura My goal is Student Leader Representative to become a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. This career will provide me with an opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of those who suffer from mental illness. The care that psychiatric nurses provide helps patients ward off disability, poverty, social isolation and other complications associated with these conditions. I would like to help patients master mental illness and the stigma that surrounds it, so that they can live fulfilling and productive lives. Leonardo Da Vinci said that learning “ is the only thing that mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets”. Every day of being a nursing student and a member of NSNA proves it to me.
Kelsey Killmer is the Ohio Student Nurses Associa on’s 2014‐2015 Communica ons Director. She is from Brunswick, Ohio and a ends Cuyahoga Community College’s Eastern campus. She is expected to graduate in December 2015 with her ADN and will con nue her educa on to become a nurse prac oner. Kelsey was a member of the BrainBowl team, making the final round with Tri ‐C. She is ac vely involved in the campus and community service events, never missing an opportunity to represent Tri‐C SNA. She has worked closely with pa ents in her former job as a chiroprac c assistant. She decided to become a nurse because she wants to make a difference, be that a small interac on with pa ents or something on a much larger scale. She decided to join the OhSNA to network with other nursing students, and connect them with many tools and resources for success throughout Kelsey Killmer school. Vice President of Service -Eastern Campus TRI-C SNA
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Lisa is a native Clevelander and the only one of her siblings to graduate from high school, which she did in 1997. After high school she worked in an adolescent chemical dependency treatment center until she got married in 1999. She married a Sergeant in the Air Force and over the next 10 years raised two kids and traveled the country. During her time as an Air Force wife she spent her time volunteering in the communities she lived in. After her divorce she needed a career to support her family and Nursing was a natural fit. “I have a passion for helping women and children, and feel pulled into obstetrics and neonatal nursing, with a plan to become a Nurse Midwife and Lactation Consultant”. Lisa has volunteered extensively over the past 14 years, with a heavy focus on mothers, babies, and children. These volunteer experiences include: American Red Cross, Langley Air Force Base Hospital, Breastfeeding Peer Counselor; Bellies to Babies New Parent Support Group Co-Founder; Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician, SAFE KIDS, U.S.A Senior Checker; Safety Town, Safety Educator; Menlo Park Academy, and Cuyahoga Heights Elementary, volunteer coordinator and classroom volunteer; Senior Team Member NCLEX Brain Bowl; and Mayfield Heights’, Cruise-In, Health Screener. While completing her nursing education at Cuyahoga Community College, she quickly became a leader among her peers, and after her third semester she was actively recruited to become the Vice President
of the Student Nurse Association. “It’s my lifelong passion to learn, teach, and serve, and as the SNA Vice President I have rallied students, volunteered, recruited, encouraged, cheered, tutored and provided a shoulder to cry on”.
Lisa Sheppard Lisa has a Vice President of Academics Metro Campus natural ability to build rapport with people and that’s been an asset in every aspect of her life. She is graduating on December 17th, 2014. She is passionate about service to others and academics, earning impressive scores in her classes and on her NCLEX predictor exam. During her final semester at Tri-C she competed in the ONSA's Brain Bowl representing Tri-C and placed in the final round, tying for first place and then eliminated in the finals. In addition to full-time mothering and nursing school, Lisa also works part-time as a caregiver for the elderly and volunteers throughout the community. Lisa is an asset to the Student Nurse Association, Tri-C, and our community. She will be an amazing nurse! Congratulations on your graduation!
A Hungarian minority growing up in the communist era of Romania, Ildiko Yuryev knows how going to bed hungry feels. She is also used to hearing the many things she will not be able achieve do due to her na onality, her gender, her status. This never deterred her from seeing the silver lining in every bad event, that li le piece of good that she could salvage to build something new upon. Yuryev is a former kindergarten and elementary school teacher from Transylvania, Romania pursuing her first passion at Ildiko Yuryev , President TRI-C SNA
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Cuyahoga Community College, healthcare. Enneagram Type 8 personality, the Leader/Challenger she values teamwork and effec ve communica on. She is energe c, charisma c and fair, excellent in se ng and achieving goals, seeing and grabbing the poten al in every opportunity. Member of the Honors Program and Phi Theta Kappa Interna onal Honor Society, Yuryev is the President of Cuyahoga Community College’s Student Nurse Associa on being responsible for three campuses. She is also the Ohio Student Nurses Associa on’s 2014‐ 2015 Breakthrough to Nursing Director. As a student at Tri‐C she has received eight awards recognizing academic excellence and intellectual rigor combined with leadership and service that extends one’s educa on beyond the classroom to benefit society. As a 2014 Frank Lanza Memorial Scholar she is one of the twenty outstanding community college students of the country enrolled in health careers and sciences. She is also a Bronze member of the All‐State Academic Team and First Team member of the All‐Ohio Academic Team administered by Phi Theta Kappa Interna onal Honor Society and sponsored by Coca‐Cola. Yuryev is 2013 Leaders of Promise scholar, one of the 180 promising students of the country. Locally she is recipient of a College Now of Greater Cleveland, Margaret W. Wong, Honors Accomplishment and Tri‐C Founda on’s Presiden al scholarship. Her journey at Tri‐C has been an amazing experience helping her grow immensely as a student and a professional.
Her passion is community service. She fell in love with volunteering in her teenage years finding great joy in it ever since. Ildiko believes that service is one of the most selfless, yet rewarding acts one can perform, and that giving back is what makes us truly superior as human beings. Her community service is broad, including Soles4Souls, St. Augus ne Hunger Center’s Holiday Meal Program for the less privileged, Susan G. Komen, Healthy Kid’s Day, Earth Fest, Cuyahoga County Board of Health collabora on, Acts of Love for Healing Children, Free the Girls Bra Drive against Human Trafficking and mission teams to Hungary, Transylvania and Italy. Her ul mate dream is to take on new challenges by traveling to underserved areas of the world and volunteering with humanitarian organiza ons to help the world be a calmer, more peaceful and be er place. A er gradua ng from Cuyahoga Community College in May 2015 Ildiko plans to transfer to a four‐ year university in order to pursue a bachelor’s degree. Her goal is to become an advance prac ce nurse focusing on pediatric nursing and nursing educa on. Ildiko hopes that her leadership builds the promise of a be er future for all who follow. Through brightness, strength and idealism she is chasing great dreams, finding diamonds in the rough, and carefully polishing them to a sparkling shine that will be hard to miss by anyone. Ildiko Yuryev President
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