Celebrating In Addition To Supporting Reynolds Nursing Students

On Monday, Nov 10 Reynolds Community College hosted a Nursing Scholarship Luncheon honoring the talented students who volition serve every bit the nurses of tomorrow in addition to the generous community members in addition to alumni who serve every bit scholarship donors of the school. 

The luncheon provided an chance for scholarship recipients in addition to their donors to encounter face-to-face, sit down together in addition to part non entirely a meal, only their appreciation in addition to goals for the future.

The luncheon featured 3 speakers – Nursing educatee Chantal Fleming, Nursing Alum Abigail Rose, in addition to Deborah Johnston, RN, President in addition to Founder of Care Advantage, Inc. a domicile wellness attention company.

Nursing educatee Chantal Fleming returned to schoolhouse every bit a self-proclaimed “career-switcher.”  After earning a bachelor’s grade inwards biological scientific discipline in addition to working for a large enterprise performing character assurance testing, she realized she wanted a profession where she knew she was making a departure at the destination of each day.  She remembered feeling precisely that agency when she had volunteered at local wellness clinics in addition to she decided to switch careers in addition to render to schoolhouse in addition to report nursing.

Abigail Rose graduated from Reynolds inwards 2013 in addition to is forthwith working to accomplish her bachelor’s grade inwards nursing through the University of Virginia.  She told the audience that without the scholarship she received she would non live on a nurse today.   She is already “paying it forward” past times tutoring other nursing students in addition to she hopes to fund a nursing scholarship at about betoken inwards the future.

Care Advantage President in addition to Founder Debbie Johnston began her remarks alongside a uncomplicated statement:  “Nurses Rock!”  She studied nursing at the encouragement of her manlike mortal bring upwards who told her that a career inwards nursing would ever afford her a chore inwards expert times in addition to bad.  She told the audience that alongside skills that are ever inwards demand, nurses tin operate whatever schedule in addition to inwards close whatever location.  Noting that patients are beingness discharged from hospitals much sooner she told the audience “You know, nosotros are all going to take away a nurse!” 

In his remarks Reynolds President Gary Rhodes noted that 1 out of every 3 wellness attention workers inwards the Richmond expanse has taken at to the lowest degree 1 course of report at Reynolds Community College.

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