2014 Nursing Graduation at the Palace

The 2014 Tri-Rivers School of Practical Nursing and School of Nursing LPN to RN Diploma Program graduation was held Friday, June 13 at 7:30 pm at the historic Palace Theatre in Downtown Marion.

Fourteen LPN to RN students and 42 Practical Nursing students graduated at the event attended by nursing faculty, family and friends.

The student addresses were given by Student Council Presidents Kathryn Keller (LPN to RN Program), Linsey Bowen (PN Evening Class) and Katelyn Bash, Student Council Vice President (PN Day Class).

The Margaret Helen Gast Award for the highest level of achievement in the Practical Nursing went to Samantha Marie Baldeser. The Judith Ryan Higel Award for the highest level of achievement in the LPN to RN Diploma Program went Ashley Virginia Crump.

 

Additional Awards Included:

Perfect Attendance Award—Martha Silva Stefanka

• Distinction Awards for Outstanding Clinical Performance. These students were chosen for their excellence in clinical practice— Samantha Baldeser, Linsey Bowen, Ashley Crump, Patricia Law & Jennifer Savage.

• Academic Honors – GPA of 3.5 or above: Julie Troiano & Samantha Baldeser from the Practical Nursing program.

• Predictor Test High Scorers—Each year Tri-Rivers School of Nursing requires students to complete a comprehensive predictor test. This examination provides measurements on how well the student will perform in the national exam called NCLEX. This year students who achieved the highest score and have 99% chance of passing the National Licensure Examination are: Julie Troiano from the Practical Nursing Program and Karen Patarozzi from the LPN to RN Program.

• Highest Scores in Specific Subject Areas

For the Practical Nursing Program

In ATI Fundamentals of Nursing and Mental Health—Samantha Baldeser

In ATI Maternal and Newborn—Raquel Holloway.

In ATI Pharmacology—Twilla Evans

For the RN Class

In ATI Fundamentals of Nursing—Kathryn Ann Keller

In ATI Nutrition—Marissa Kay Dempsey

In ATI Mental Health Nursing—Stacy Lee Cocheryl

In Community Health Nursing—Angela Sue Mattix

In Maternal and Newborn—Karen Elaine Patarozzi

In Nursing Care of Children—Ashley Virginia Crump

In Medical Surgical Nursing—Marjorie Ann Barclay, Ashley Virginia Crump, and Ashley Lynn Plew.

In ATI Pharmacology— Marjorie Ann Barclay, Angela Sue Mattix, Ashley Dawn Osborne, and Jennifer Lynn Savage.

 

LPN to RN Graduates included: Marjorie Barclay, Stacy Cocherl, Ashley Crump, Marissa Dempsey, Nicole Evans, Amy Jolliff, Kathryn Keller, Angela Mattix, Natalie O’Donnell, Ashely Osborne, Karen Patarozzi, Ashley Plew, Jennifer Savage, Martha Silva-Stefanka.

Practical Nursing Graduates included: Abiel Arita, Cassi Babcock, Samantha Baldeser, Katelyn Bash, Kimberly R. Boes, Linsey Bowen, Nicole Cruz, Melissa Dalenberg, Charlotte Derrer, Paige Donahue, Megan Dowdy, Whitney Dowler, Twilla Evans, Christin Gilbert, Nicole Haubert, Kali Higgins, Raquel Holloway, Kyla Hudson, Tara Jacobs, Jenna Jurden, Amanda Kemmer, Emily Lake, Patricia Laws, Andrea Marshall, Kacy NcNeil, Lacey Murphy, Molly Ogden, Autumn Padgett, Andrea Patarozzi, Kayla Pettit, Katelyn Pope, Alessandra Presutti, Crystal Randall, Melissa Ritter, Hannah Roberts, Brittni Roshom, Stephanie Smith, Rachel Stooksbury, Kimberly Throckmorton, Julie Troiano, Toni VanVlerah, Erika Votaw.

Special thanks to all participants in the event, including Ann Thomas, RN, Advisory Committee member, for leading the Nurses’ Pledge, Twig V for presentation of the flowers Angie Carbetta for playing the organ and solist Jennifer Schaeffer, also a 1995 graduate of the PN program.

We also would like to thank the following Clinical Sites and Agencies for their assistance:
• Delaware Court Health Care Center Fairhaven Community Nursing Home
Galion Community Hospital
Harding Pointe
Job and Family Services–Crawford, Delaware, Franklin, Marion, Morrow, Richland, Union, and Wyandot Kingston Residence of Marion
Marion City Schools
Marion Correctional Institute
Marion Area Health Center
Marion General Hospital
Marion Manor Nursing Home
Marion Pointe
Morning View Pointe
Morrow County Hospital
Nucor–Tri Health
Partners of Marion
• Smith Clinic–Delaware
• Tri-
Rivers Career Center–Secondary
• Willow Brook