University of Mary Nursing Program No. 1 in the Nation for Second Time in Three Years
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BISMARCK, ND Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Mary is once again at the very top of all nursing schools across the U.S. Nursing’s national benchmarking service, Mountain Measurements, ranking University of Mary’s program No. 1 in America. The yearly report is based on the April 2020 through March 2021 Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN) graduates who took the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) exam. The entire University of Mary graduating class who took the licensure exam for the first time passed.
(NMC) â Northern Marianas College nursing alumna Joy Lacorte received her Doctorate in Nurse Anesthesia Practice, or DNAP, from AdventHealth University in Orlando, Florida in April of this year.
âWhile I was sitting in the auditorium waiting to receive my degree, I felt a wide range of emotions,â Lacorte said. âI felt sad because our cohort had become such a tight-knit family, and that would be the last time I would see many of them. [Everyone in our cohort] had been dreaming of this day for a very long time, and we finally made it. There was an overwhelming sense of gratitude and joy.â
(NMC) â Â Northern Marianas College nursing graduate Min Jung âMindyâ Song is back in the classrooms of NMC. And this time instead of listening to lectures sheâs giving them.
A registered nurse for more than four years, Song is now an adjunct nursing instructor at the college. When she isnât working as a staff nurse in the medical-surgical unit of the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, she teaches nursing skills to NMC nursing students.
âEducation and nursing have always been my passion,â Song said. âOne of my personal goals is to be a nurse educator, and being able to be an adjunct at NMC will help me be able to use my clinical skills and knowledge to help prepare the next generation of nurses.â