Dr. Sandra Zerger, Vice President of Academics at Hesston College, and Dean of the University of Kansas School of Nursing, Karen Miller, RN, Ph.D., FAAN, sign an articulation agreement for nurses who have earned their RN to earn a BSN through KU’s online program on Sept. 11. Looking on are (standing) Bernadette Gray-Little, Ph.D., Chancellor of the University of Kansas; David Martin, RN, M.N., Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Nursing; and (seated) Bonnie Sowers, director of nursing at Hesston College.

Erica Fitzmorris (Littleton, Colo.) receives a blessing from Hesston College nursing faculty member Sondra Leatherman during the nurses pinning ceremony.

Grace Schmidt (Wichita, Kan.) watches a cataract surgery at Menno Clinic India. The surgeries were 15 to 20 minute procedures performed with local anesthesia and, at times, by the light of only a flashlight as electricity was unpredictable.

Seven Hesston College nursing students and one instructor spent two-weeks in Chiluvuru, Andhra Pradesh, India during a two-week extended spring break trip. Pictured from left with staff at the Siddartha Medical College, Nursing School and Hospital are Anna Yoder (Garden City, Mo.), Logan Duerksen (Newton, Kan.), Jean Rodgers, Hesston College nursing instructor, Kara Ropp (Kalona, Iowa), Rachel Tippin (Elbing, Kan.), Rachelle Wenger (Adair, Okla.), Andrea Delgado (Hutchinson, Kan.) and Grace Schmidt (Wichita, Kan.).

Guests attend an open house to see the new Newton Medical Center Simulation Lab in Kremer Hall. The lab was built in the Charles Hall classroom in summer 2010 with a grant from Newton Medical Center to accommodate an expanded nursing program.

Serena Williams ’11, Hesston, Kan., receives her pin from nursing faculty Sondra (Wedel) ’80 Leatherman during the college’s 44th nursing pinning.

Lisa Harrelson receives her Hesston College nursing pin from faculty member Ruby Graber at the Nursing Pinning Ceremony May 2.

Hesston College nursing students work with a patient in the college’s nursing simulation lab

Nursing students work in the new simulation lab.

Hesston nursing student Mishaun Pfannenstiel resuscitates the college’s simulator baby in the nursing skills lab with instructor Gregg Schroeder.