2010 Nursing School Graduates to Visit Class of 2011 Candidates
Contact: Nancy Fishwick, 581-2607
Members of the UMaine School of Nursing’s Family Nurse Practitioner Class of 2011 will hear from several of last year’s graduates on Thursday, March 31 about transitioning from registered nurse family nurse practitioner, and the credentialing requirements ahead.
Two of the eight graduate students who received degrees and national certification last year, Lori Towne and Karen Longfellow, will serve on a panel for students about to receive FNP master’s degrees in May. They’ll visit the class taught by Mary Shea from 2-4 p.m. in Dunn Hall and offer tips about professional life after graduation, according to Nancy Fishwick, director and associate professor of the UMaine School of Nursing.
Fishwick says the May 2010 graduates continued a UMaine tradition of excellent pass rates on the national certification exam and all are employed as primary care providers in a variety of clinical settings in Maine, filling a role that increasingly is in demand for health promotion, illness and injury prevention, in addition to management of common acute and chronic conditions.
The eight 2010 graduates’ aggregate FNP certification examination scores were 640, well above the national average of 574, according to Fishwick, who received the news this month. In addition to Towne, of Dover-Foxcroft, and Longfellow, of Waterville, the other graduates were Ruth Tainter of Ellsworth, Laurie Farley of Blue Hill, Elizabeth Martins of Detroit, Martha Eastman of Bangor, Linda Crowell of Bar Harbor and Ann Ohlin of Steuben.