Tracy Martinez of Stockton, Texas is leaving Coastal Bend College … with plans to come right back. Martinez and 74 of her classmates are taking part in the annual pinning and lighting ceremony on Aug. 20 at 10 a.m. at CBC Main Campus in Beeville, commemorating the end of their vocational nursing studies.
Martinez, like many others, plans to return next semester to continue into the next phase of nursing studies leading to becoming a registered nurse. Martinez will be in the first Pleasanton Campus cohort.
Coastal Bend College offers nursing students several entrances and exits within the nursing program. This multi-entry/exit program creates continuity in educating certified nursing assistants, vocational nurses and registered nurses.
“The goal is to transition certified nurses’ assistants very easily into vocational nursing and to get LVNs very easily into registered nursing and so on,” said Betty Sims, CBC Director of Nursing. CBC’s curriculum for nurse education is delivered in a clinically-intensive program. Instruction covers the four basic areas of nursing care: adults, mothers and newborns, children and the elderly. Classroom instruction is also required in mental health/mental illness concepts.
Martinez plans to take her licensing test immediately and wants to work at a nursing home. “I want to get into an Alsheimer’s Unit. You don’t know what you are going to get from day to day in that environment,” she explained.
Her ultimate aim is to become a registered nurse. She will return to Coastal Bend College to achieve that goal. “Registered nursing equals more knowledge and more opportunities,” Martinez said. “That benefits me and my son.”
Coastal Bend College Vocational Nursing Program will hold its annual Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony on Friday, Aug. 20 at 10 a.m. in the Peter Marecek Physical Fitness Center at Coastal Bend College, 3800 Charco Road in Beeville. The following vocational nursing graduates are scheduled to participate:
Alice Campus
Lisa M. Aviar
Noemi Barrera
Ninfa B. Beeson
Oralia O. Cabrera
Veronica M. Cantu
Jose Luis Cardenas
Victoria Ja-Nett Chapa
Shanika D. Escochea
Amanda Garcia
Felicia P. Gonzalez
Sonia L. Gonzalez
Lee Anna M. Gutierrez
James. M. Hernandez
Aubrey B. Hippensteal
Martha Ruth Juarez
Manette M. Mendoza
Heather Y. Pearson
Anna M. Priddy
Rhonda L. Ramos
Melissa Rivera
Anna May B. Rudder
Deliza D. Schumacher
Elizabeth E. Soliz
Ruben Vasquez Jr.
Mary A. Velasco
Jennifer R. Wallgren
Ramon Zuniga
Beeville Campus
Julie A. Abrigo
Diane L. Aguirre
Leah M. Arciba
Amber M. Carr
Linda L. Carrillo
Lisa M. Castro
Shirley A. DeForest
Adelaida A. Garza
Paulina J. Gibson
Patricia T. Henning
Amy L. Lara
Amanda M. Monjaras
Justin L. Morales
Anna M. Puente
Michelle L. Rico
Heather D. Rodriguez
Sausha M. Salinas
Melissa A. Sanchez
Twanna J. Tamlin
Vanessa Vanover
Lindsey K. Wiginton
Kingsville Campus
Iris A. Cardoza
Aaron J. DeLeon
Blanca D. Esquivel
Crystal R. Garcia
Britany R. Gibson
Esther Hernandez
Brenda L. Johnson
Alexa J. Leal
Amanda L. Leal
Carla A. Manriques
Laura Montel
Tammie D. Saenz
Pleasanton Campus
Casey Layne Hilton
Lacey Holick
Heather Johnson
Julia Rae Johnson
Tina Marie Lozano
Tricia Magel
Tracy D. Martinez
Biance Danelle Pickett
Melissa Pettit
Alyssa Reyes
Stephanie Nicole Riojas
Cassandra Allison Rutherford
Claudia E. Scharmann
Angela D. Tovar
Rachel Marilyn Villaneda
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