Graduates
of the Reynolds Community College Practical Nursing Certificate program
recently participated in their recognition ceremony on the Parham Road Campus.
The ceremony opened with a welcome by Reynolds practical nursing program head
Wendy Falls followed by encouraging words from student Melanie Woolard and
keynote speaker faculty member Dawn Cullison.
“The last year has been the most exciting, the
most stressful and the most enduring year of our lives,” noted Woolard addressing
her fellow students. "We are a small class of eight graduates and that should
show everyone here how difficult it is to achieve what we have done.”
The Practical Nursing Certificate is designed to
prepare a person to be an integral member of a nursing or health care team. A
practical nurse's duties include direct care for individual patients
experiencing common, well-defined health problems with predictable outcomes in
a structured health care setting with supervision. They are usually the
first medical professional to work with a patient with targeted care to include
giving medication as prescribed by a physician, taking vital signs, such as
blood pressure, temperature, weight and basic wound care including cleaning and
bandaging injured areas.
With completion of the program, these student
are eligible to take the national examination for licensure as a Practical
Nurse (LPN).
