FLORENCE, ALA. — Northwest Shoals Community College’s (NWSCC) Nursing Program honored 86 nursing graduates at its annual pinning ceremony Thursday, May 9, 2019, at Woodmont Baptist Church in Florence.

NWSCC Nursing Students participate in 2019 Pinning Ceremony
NWSCC Nursing Students participate in 2019 Pinning Ceremony

NWSCC Director of Nursing, Brittney Humphres, faculty, and students participated in the ceremony that included remarks by Dr. Glenda Colagross, President of NWSCC; Kimberly Brooks, NWSCC Practical Nursing (PN) class representative; Casey Springer, NWSCC Associate Degree Nursing (AND) class representative; and special remarks by Sarah Wilkinson-Buchmann, DNP, RN Alabama State Nurses Association President. Remarks were followed by the presentation of the pins, the Nightingale Pledge, and candle lighting.

The symbolic tradition of the ceremonial pinning originated in the 1860s at the Nightingale School of Nursing Hospital in London. The nursing pin received by graduates is a type of badge, awarded by the program’s faculty as a symbolic welcome into the profession. Both PN students and ADN students participated in the ceremony.

The Practical Nursing participants were:

Cherokee, AL

Madison Woods

Decatur, AL

Aniah Evans and Samuel Mann

Florence, AL

Tara Elliott, Heather Gonzalez, Magen Hubbard, Lindsay Lovelace, Lisa Magennis, Cadetra Murphy, and Lakia Thompson

Hillsboro, AL

Kylie Ivey

Hodges, AL

Kristi O’Dell

Killen, AL

April Crotteau and Kayleigh Hargett

Leighton, AL

Emmaline Adams

Muscle Shoals, AL

Weston Allen, Mollie Hollaway, and Trinity McCormick

Phil Campbell, AL

Trevor Farley

Russellville, AL

Candi Flanagan, Yesica Gonzalez Vargas, Megan Riley, and Mariza Vela-Astrain

Toney, AL

Kristen Russell

Tuscumbia, AL

Christy Bowman, Kimberly Brooks, Sharon Caldwell, Ashley Melendez, and Kimberly Steward

The Associate Degree in Nursing participants were:

Anderson, AL

Summer Belue

Arley, AL

Cassie Baker

Florence, AL

Candy Bevis, Robert Bozeman, Bethany Dussor, Sidney Gipson, Abby Hanback, Cheri Hutchinson, Lesa King, Mechelle Manciel, Kyle McCombs, Amy Smith, Kasi South, Shertoria Southward, Amanda Stanfield, Britany Stewart, Tracy Street, Lauren Turner, and Jessica White

Golden, MS

Heather Hoffmann

Hackleburg, AL

Ashton Smith

Haleyville, AL

Bailey Baggett, Kathryn Fischer, Kenneth Prescott, Maci Sadler, Shyann Smith, and Virginia Stewart

Hamilton, AL

Bailee Cummings

Killen, AL

Robin Crossley and Hannah Wright

Leighton, AL

Taylor Atkinson, Rebecca Spencer, and Deena Vandiver

Lexington, AL

Samantha Eubank

Mount Hope, AL

Christy Wilkins

Muscle Shoals, AL

Valerie Paulson, Jeremy Thigpen, and David Willingham

Phil Campbell, AL

Hannah Newell, Kaylee Saarinen, and Cortney Sides

Red Bay, AL

Kaitlin Gresham

Rogersville, AL

Hannah Davis, Brooklyn Gilbert, and Allison Sartain

Russellville, AL

Ricardo Arango, Jennifer Groce, Sadie Wade, and Callie Woods

Sheffield, AL

Catherine Demorse, Daniel Gaston, and Kaylee Norton

Town Creek, AL

Kristy Tidwell

Tuscumbia, AL

Lakin Hatcher

Vina, AL

Sydney Creekmore

Waterloo, AL

Casey Springer

Winfield, AL

Kimberly McCaleb