{"id":180203,"date":"2021-12-17T12:14:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=180203"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:14:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:14:32","slug":"nursing-celebrates-cein-2021-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/12\/nursing-celebrates-cein-2021-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Nursing Celebrates 132 Certificate Entry Into Nursing Program Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After 12 months of accelerated nursing education and clinical training, the 132 students in UConn School of Nursing\u2019s Certificate Entry into Nursing (CEIN) Program walked across the stage at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 16 and took the next step in their nursing careers. It was the first indoor, in-person ceremony the School had held in two years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The School\u2019s newest graduates came from four UConn campuses: Avery Point, Stamford, Storrs, and Waterbury. All are now prepared to sit for their national licensure exam and, upon passing, enter the health care workforce as registered nurses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts was filled with graduates\u2019 family and friends, all wearing masks. 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They were: Elyssa Mikolajczak from the Avery Point campus; Jennifer D. Velez-Smith from the Stamford campus; Julie Arel from the Storrs campus; and Sarah Ollayos from the Waterbury campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UConn\u2019s Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, the honor society of nursing, recognized one graduate at the ceremony. Maggie McGuinness was presented with the Sigma Theta Tau International Award in honor of her excellence, leadership potential, and for exemplifying the spirit of caring in nursing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assistant clinical professor Carol Ann Wetmore was selected by the CEIN Class of 2021 as their commencement speaker. She reminisced that, 40 years ago, she was also selected by her UConn graduating class, the Class of 1982, to be its class speaker. Wetmore gave the CEIN graduates useful career advice, from one UConn nurse to another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cUConn nurses are designed to be leaders,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m talking about leaders in the true sense. Not managers, no formal position nor fancy title, but the people you can count on to do the right thing. People who you look to for guidance. People that you hold in high esteem. That\u2019s what it means to be a UConn nurse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Jeffrey Shoulson was in attendance to congratulate the graduates and confer their degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe CEIN program is one of the most important and immediately practical ways our institution helps to serve the needs of the state, even as it offers this extraordinary opportunity for personal and professional advancement,\u201d Shoulson said. \u201cYou have all undoubtedly worked hard to reach this point, and we are excited for you to put your education into practice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dean Deborah Chyun inspired the newest School of Nursing graduates, as they set off to join a profession that greatly needs their help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs your life of learning continues, take the spirit of inquiry that has brought you to us and fueled your academic success, out into a world that trusts you and needs you,\u201d Chyun said. \u201cI take great pride in the fact that we are sending you out into the world well-prepared to face its many challenges. You are the future and I am confident that the nursing profession is in good hands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Certificate Entry Into Nursing Program is a one-year accelerated program designed for students who hold a bachelor\u2019s degree in another field, but wish to pursue a career in nursing. After 12 months of full-time classes and hands-on learning experiences, students graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree. Not only does this put them on track to become registered nurses, but it also helps address the nursing shortage across the country. The program features problem-based teaching and learning and includes components of history, culture, setting data, clinical science, nursing science, independent-dependent-interdependent nursing actions, disease science, health care finance, and ethics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The commencement ceremony was also livestreamed on the School of Nursing\u2019s YouTube channel and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yYVHTwMMR1c\">is still available for viewing<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To learn more about the School of Nursing\u2019s CEIN\/BS program, visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/cein.nursing.uconn.edu\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cein.nursing.uconn.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0or f<em>ollow the School on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UConnNursing\/\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uconnnursing\"><em>Instagram<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UConnNursing\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>, or\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/uconn-school-of-nursing\/\"><em>LinkedIn<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one-year accelerated program is designed for students who hold a bachelor\u2019s degree in another field, but wish to pursue a career in nursing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":180209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1877],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2217],"class_list":["post-180203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-nur"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 05:26:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180203"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180234,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180203\/revisions\/180234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/180209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180203"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=180203"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=180203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}