Fitzgerald, GA – Wiregrass Georgia Technical College Practical Nursing (LPN) students received their nursing pins in a recent pinning ceremony on the Ben Hill-Irwin Campus. The nursing pins not only signify hard work and dedication but are also a physical symbol of their transition into nursing. The pinning ceremony is more than a nursing tradition, it is a symbol of the nursing students’ hard work and dedication toward their coursework and clinicals. Not only does it mark the completion of student coursework, but this ceremony honors nursing graduates who will work in a career where they will have to be selfless for the good of others. The ceremony gives a grand send-off to nursing students signaling the end of their academic career and at the same time launching them into the professional world that welcomes them. Students receiving their pins include Katelyn Harris, Ocilla; Jennifer Hill, Fitzgerald; Shakarla King, Fitzgerald; Sherry McMorrow, Ocilla; Alejandra Martinez, Fitzgerald; and Alexis Rish, Douglas. The keynote speaker was Melvaine Melton-Smith Heiress These students also graduated from the program and participated in the Spring and Summer Commencement ceremony held on July 13 at the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center.
The Practical Nursing program is offered at the Valdosta, Ben Hill-Irwin, and Coffee Campuses. The Ben Hill-Irwin Campus accepts new students into this program each Fall Semester. Beginning Fall Semester 2024 the Associate of Science in Nursing (RN) program will start on the Ben Hill-Irwin Campus. Wiregrass started the RN program on the Valdosta Campus in Spring of 2014 and has had great success. The RN program at Wiregrass has been named the number-one program in the state for 2023, 2022, 2020, and 2019 according to www.NursingProcess.org. New students are being accepted now for Fall Semester, classes start August 15. Apply in person at the One-Stop Center or online at www.wiregrass.edu.
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Image: (WGTC LPN Pinning 2023.jpg) Pictured l-r front row Wiregrass Practical Nursing Instructor Regina Smith, RN; PN Instructor, Tishara Smith, Katelyn Harris, Sherry McMorrow, Rylea Merritt, Alejandra Martinez, Sha'Karla King, and Movica Dobson
Back Row l-r Kenya Boler, Carmon Thornton, Karen Roberts, Jennifer Hill, Wiregrass Clinical Adjunct Instructor Dwayne Peal, BSN; and Halleigh Wilcox.
