Thirteen students graduated from East Mississippi Community Colleges Practical Nursing program in a ceremony Thursday night in the Lyceum Auditorium on the Golden Triangle campus. Wendy T. Gullett was presented with the Florence Nightingale Award, which is awarded to the student who most embodies the spirit of nursing. The Practical Nursing program is a 12-month course of study designed to prepare students to become licensed practical nurses. Students are taught nursing skills, nutrition, anatomy and physiology, human growth and development, pharmacology, maternal child nursing, emotional and mental illness, and medical/surgical nursing. In addition to the Florence Nightingale Award, three students received Clinical Excellence Awards for exceeding the expectations of their instructors. Those studentsare:Lea Chaffin, JaylinNealand Joy Veazey. The 2017 graduates of EMCCs Practical Nursing program are: Lea Chaffin of Hamilton;TamariaB. Clay of Brooksville; Wendy T. Gullett of Starkville; Luke Hodges of Cleveland; Kathryn Kisner of West Point; Chelsea Latham of Eupora; Jaylin N. Neal of Columbus; Edwin Phillips of Starkville; Joy Veazey of Columbus: Melanie Wallace of Amory;AlyscaWebb of Senatobia; Lauren Wilson of Columbus; and Breanna Yeatman of Starkville.

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EMCC practical nursing students graduate - Meridian Star