FORT KENT — The Nursing Honor Society inducted University of Maine at Fort Kent nursing students and fellow nursing professionals honored students at the Nurse Pinning Ceremony on May 9 in the Fox Auditorium.
The theme of the ceremony was aligned with the American Nurses’ Association, 2015 National Nurses’ Week theme: “Ethical practice. Quality care.”
Dr. Tanya Sleeper, assistant professor of nursing, introduced the nursing students for induction into the Nursing Honor Society. The honorees included the following: Kate S. Dorsey, Freeport; Emily M. Gardner, New Sharon; Cynthia A. Lynch-McNett, Topsham; and Cassandra Pelletier-Dobbins, Hartford.
All students have excelled in the four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program and are in campus activities. Each student received an honor cord, which they will wear when they graduate, and a membership certificate.
Students with a grade point average of 3.0 or above, in the top 30 percent of their graduating class, and who represent the attributes of scholarship as defined by Boyer (1990) and Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society for Nursing, were eligible for induction to the honor society.
BSN students who received their nursing pins were Mary C. Alligood, Jay; Christina M. Cloutier, Greene; Christina M. Lavoie, Turner; Cynthia A. Lynch-McNett, Topsham; Jessica L. Martin, Rangeley; Jessica L. Nalesnik, Winthrop; Heather M. Pelletier; Cassandra Pelletier-Dobbins, Auburn.
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