Nursing students earn their pins Tuesday
A Butler County Community College practical nursing program — reestablished in partnership with Concordia Lutheran Ministries in response to a shortage in the high-priority occupation — graduated its second consecutive class Tuesday night with the majority of students supported by the care provider’s tuition assistance program.
Eight graduates received pins that marked their completion of Butler County’s only practical nursing program during a ceremony on the college’s main campus. Five graduates will work for Concordia Lutheran Ministries in exchange for the tuition assistance.
Graduates of BC3’s one-year practical nursing certificate program in 2023 are Emily Clark, 25, of Butler; Sarah Evans, 27, of West Leechburg; Emma Freyermuth, 22, of Cabot; Angel Hilliard, 31, of Petrolia; Madison Malley, 25, of Karns City; Marissa Rusnica, 22, of Kittanning; Dusty Schnur, 38, of Butler; and Jessica Yenick, 24, of Renfrew.
Nearly 60 students in BC3’s Shaffer School of Nursing and Allied Health are participating in Concordia Lutheran Ministries’ tuition assistance program.
BC3 in the mid-1970s through mid-1980s graduated students from a practical nursing certificate program that was later discontinued.
