Graduates pictured (back left to right): Aphrael Dunston, Kathryn Baechtel, Sequoia DeBisschop, Rosemary Larson, Monique Redding, Cathy Ellis, Cathy Shepard, Victoria Howard, Christina Birge. Front row left to right: Hercules Campbell, Sheila Ames, Rebecca Denoeu, Mae Murray, Melissa Flores, Jeanine Gentry, Erica Park, Svetlana Mulcahy, Laura Bartlett, Daisy Ellsworth, Chantal Stanton, Karen Dandridge, Kari Masterson, Lorri Arreguin, Linda King. Photo courtesy of Mendocino College.

UKIAH – Twenty-four Mendocino College nursing students will be graduating on Thursday, May 21, in the Performing Arts Center theater at Mendocino College in Ukiah.

These graduates have completed degree requirements for an associate of science degree. They will also be eligible to take the registered nursing licensing national examination, which is required prior to licensure as an RN. This graduating class includes five students from the LVN to RN Bridge admission process.

This is the fifth graduating class from the Mendocino College RN Program, which admits students each year into the two-year program.

The class members are from Mendocino and Lake Counties. These graduates will predominantly be working in local health care facilities after graduation and licensure.

The Mendocino College nursing program has approximately three semesters of prerequisite course work required prior to application to the nursing program.

Admission consideration is based on grades and those meeting an initial grade eligibility score are than placed into a lottery draw.

The program is highly rated, ranking 19th out of 108 similar programs in the State.

Applications to the full program are available each February and applications to the LVN to RN program are available each November.

For more information visit www.mendocino.edu or contact the nursing office at 707-468-3099.