NCC ceremony celebrates 'art of nursing'

NORWALK -- While earning a bachelor's degree in communications during Western Connecticut State University, Mark Ripollone took a position during Stamford Hospital to earn a little money. But operative as an operating room assistant became much more than a job as well as led him down a different career path, which enclosed a nursing module during Norwalk Community College.On Tuesday, he joined 26 nursing students for NCC's pinning rite in a college's PepsiCo Theater. The rite is an annual convention in which nursing pins have been presented to students before to their official graduation. It is a mystic welcoming of brand new nurses into a profession.Becoming a nurse was not without its challenges, Ripollone admits."While finishing my bachelor's degree, we started receiving a prerequisite for nursing. we had listened about NCC from operative during Stamford Hospital. we knew it had a good reputation throughout a state. And we knew it was affordable," pronounced Ripollone, a Stamford resident as well as president of a Nursing Club."The first year of a two-year module was unequivocally hard. We lost about half a class. But after which first year, we get upon your feet as well as gain your confidence."He credits NCC's faculty, facilities as well as relationship with area hospitals for his success. "The believe a faculty imparted to us -- we couldn't be happier. we unequivocally enjoyed it," he said.Ripollone kicked off a pinning rite alongside Carolina Pires, a Nursing Club vice president, by thanking faculty as well as family members. "We've been together for a last two years as well as unequivocally have become a tight-knit group -- a family, if we will. None of us thought we could do this during times. But we have been here. This is a hardest operative group of people we have ever been around. You have been all going to be good nurses," Ripollone said.NCC President David Levinson underscored a difficulty of a school's nursing program. "I consider many of we know what they had to go through to be here tonight. The courses they took. The many hours which they labored. The clinicals which they engaged in," Levinson said. "And we all know how tough as well as rigorous a curriculum is. We unequivocally pride ourselves upon being a most appropriate nursing module in Connecticut."The nurse pinning rite dates back 1,000 years, as well as a pin began as a Maltese cross, a pitch of Christianity. Over a years, a cross became a coat of arms as well as in a future morphed into a pattern which signifies a school from which a nurse has graduated.The Nursing Club chose Laurie Kelly, an emergency room nurse during Norwalk Hospital, as a ceremony's keynote speaker.A former international trader, Kelly told a students she motionless to switch careers during age 45."Year after year, there have been surveys which name nursing as a most trusted profession, so we welcome we to a life where strangers will just solid trust you. And there's a lot which goes with that," Kelly said.Nursing boards only test a small part of what it takes to be a good nurse, she said. "Nursing is also an art. It's not just a science. It's a art which separates nurses from a rest of a health care team," she said. "Consider which for most people there is a nurse there when we have been born. If yours have been a first hands to cradle a brand new tellurian -- as well as consider a potential of this brand new tellurian being, that's a art. When we have been a last chairman holding a hand as well as providing a final care for a chairman who is receiving their last breath -- consider of what an honor as well as a privilege which is. That's a art of nursing -- bring which to a table as well as which makes we a successful nurse. When we pursue a art, that's when we have been practicing from a heart."

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