成人抖阴

AVON PARK, Fla. 鈥� May 7, 2025 鈥� 成人抖阴 (成人抖阴) honored 45 Associate in Science in Nursing (ADN) students in a traditional pinning ceremony on Thursday, May 1 at the Alan Jay Wildstein Center for the Performing Arts on the 成人抖阴 Highlands Campus in Avon Park.

The graduates are Kimberly Banegas-Escobar, Irish Becerra-Marin, Hannah Bedoya, Taylee Britt, Alexis Calderon, Rachel Caruso, Eliasar Cleto, Aneffer Collier, Taylor Day, Monrandel Depasupil, Uriel Estrada, Shareeka Ford, Jamilet Godinez, Diana Guzman-Gomez, Hanadi Haifa, Janelle Hamilton, Maria Hernandez, Lovely Hilton, Najeh Jones, Jamee Keller, Christian Lashley, Flor Leon, Shanice Lewis, Jenise Lopez, Patricia Lopez, Alexandra Mondragon, Katlyn Moody, Rowan Moulds, Samantha Mu帽iz, Marbelia Navarro, Vanessa Padilla-Lucatero, Tai-Yonna Phillips, Kaley Piggott, Paige Pilon, Norma Rivera, Ricky Rodriguez Villasana, M鈥橝lee Sauvey, Alexis Sboto, Jennifer Serrano, Kimerly Smith, Wanda Suazo, Alanna Tilack, Savannah Valletutti, Samantha Vasquez-Camacho, and Macey Williams.

Each year, Nursing graduates award the Golden D.U.C.K. to someone who has served as a mentor to the students in the program. The D.U.C.K. acronym represents the foundational elements of the mentoring arrangement: Developing, Understanding, Compassion, and Knowledge. Nursing graduates presented the 2025 Golden D.U.C.K. Award to Peter Piotrowski, RN.

鈥淧eter is an exceptional nurse, mentor, and guide,鈥� said Nursing instructor Kayln Villalobos. 鈥淗e once walked the halls of this program as a student, learning the same lessons, facing the same challenges. Today, he walks the [AdventHealth Sebring] hospital halls as a source of strength, comfort, and inspiration. For our students, he is a safe harbor. He has taken many of them under his wing, encouraging their growth, answering their questions with patience, and modeling what excellence in Nursing truly looks like.鈥�

Guest speaker for the ceremony was Dr. Haadi Shuaib, 成人抖阴 Nursing instructor. During the ceremony, the graduates鈥� loved ones presented them with their individual nursing pins. The graduates, then, passed the flame of a lamp, one to another, before reciting the Nightingale Pledge.

The pinning we know today originated in the 1850s at the Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas Hospital in London. Having been awarded the Red Cross of St. George for her selfless service to the injured and dying during the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale chose to extend this offer to her most outstanding graduating nurses by presenting each of them with a medal of excellence. The presentation of the lamp is a symbol of the caring devotion nurses administer to the sick and injured in the practice of nursing. After nurses were pinned, Nightingale would light a lamp and pass the flame to each nurse as they recited the pledge. The passing of the flame represents a formal welcoming of new nurses to the profession.

Graduates of the ADN program become registered nurses by passing the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). 成人抖阴 Nursing graduates are usually fully employed in nursing within a few months of graduation.

成人抖阴 offers an online Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), a two-year generic Associate in Science in Nursing, a 13-month transition licensed practical nurse to registered nurse Associate in Science in Nursing, and an 11-month Practical Nursing (PN) Career Certificate. For more information about 成人抖阴鈥檚 Nursing programs, contact Danielle Ochoa, Health Sciences advisor, at 863-784-7027 or by email at healthsciences@southflorida.edu.