Fifty baccalaureate nursing students joined with seven alumni table hosts to discuss issues of importance to students as they approach graduation and their first nursing position. In a “speed-dating” format, students met with several of the alumni to get answers to their most pressing questions.

   

 

 Barbara Hooper and students share on the topic of interviewing for that first position. [Lee McCormick (’81) Alumni Board member in the background.]

 

 Table Hosts for the 2009 SNA Roundtable (L to R) Barbara Hooper (‘92), Cherie Blondin (’07), Beth Read (’02), Sharon Zinnah (‘96), Kerri Scholton (‘97), Sherri Fannon (’07), Kristi Potts (’79)

 

 

Kristi Potts and students discuss employment challenges of a first position in the critical care units or the ED.

 

 

Kerri Scholten and students discuss employment issues that abound during the first year following graduation.