PROUD to host Summer Nurse Camp

PROUD Summer Nurse Camp

Mennonite College of Nursing’s (MCN) PROUD Team will host its second annual Summer Nurse Camp June 23-25 at Illinois State University. This year MCN is gearing up for 24 high school students interested in learning more about nursing careers and so much more.

Jenkins, Valerio receive Nurse Educator Fellowships

Sheryl Jenkins ’81, B.S.N. ’93, Ph.D. ’05, and Teresa Valerio, M.S.N. ’03, both faculty members at the Mennonite College of Nursing (MCN), have each been awarded an Illinois Board of Education Nurse Educator Fellowship for 2014.

MCN Nurses Week scheduled for April

Mennonite College of Nursing is pleased to work with the Mennonite Nurses Alumni Organization (MNAO) and the Student Nurses Association (SNA) to offer a weeklong celebration of nursing from April 21–26.

MCN pass rates continue to exceed national, state averages

MCN Student

Graduates of Mennonite College of Nursing (MCN) at Illinois State University achieved a 97 percent pass rate on the national nursing licensure examination (NCLEX-RN) for 2013, even in the face of increasingly stringent standards.

Aging Topic of Social Work Day

image of caring for elderly

Claiming independence throughout aging is the topic of the 2014 Social Work Day. The daylong conference, titled State Your Independence Conference on Aging, is dedicated to professional development of those who work in social service capacities. The event will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, at the Brown Ballroom in the

MCN hosts first Visiting Research Scholar

Ana Carolina Sauer Liberato, a master’s nursing student from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil, is the first visiting research scholar at the Mennonite College of Nursing (MCN). She arrived in Central Illinois December 31 and plans to stay through April 1.