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Graduation Ceremony
Hello everyone and welcome to our very special day celebration.
To the faculty and staff, we like to thank you for the good work you are doing and wish to encourage you not to relent your efforts in helping students the way you did for us. Sometimes students being students may get under your skin. Please continue to exercise patience with us and understand that some of us have been out of school for such a long time and we need more time to grasp, digest and process the information for a better understanding which could be stressful.
To our family members and friends, we thank you for being there for us providing us with the moral, financial and physical support that we needed to pull through this. Without you, we would have not made it this far. Most importantly we thank God the almighty for his endless blessings.
To all my classmates, we need to realize that we are the voice of the voiceless and the advocates for those who cannot advocate for themselves. We are the helping hands of the people in our community, and we should realize that even by helping one person, we are making a difference and we are making the world a better place one patient at a time. Some of us may enter the field and some of us may be continuing on in our education, but we all share one thing in common, we are all allied health care providers and we all made it. Congratulations!!!!!!!
In CNA class we learned that station is not just a place where a train comes to drop off it’s passengers, or that engagement is not just when that special someone proposes to keep you in their life and get married. Perhaps the most important thing we learned this year is about compassion. We must have compassion for our patients. We as Technicians and Nursing Assistants will make an impact every single day in the lives of people in our community. Let us strive to care with empathy, putting ourselves in the place of the patients by doing what we wish others do to us if we had to trade places. Wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
Dear faculty, staff, family members, friends and well-wishers, you are welcome to this great day we gather to celebrate our success through this very difficult journey. We made it!!! Yeah!!!!!
It seems unimaginable that just few weeks ago this journey was just beginning and these people on this stage with me were strangers. We have been through so much these past few weeks and a lot of us have formed very close friendships and we have learned to rely on one another when needed. We have learned so much this year! Some things we learned are that caring for the health of individuals are not just the starting letters of the alphabet, but they stand for something more important that is airway, breathing and circulation.
The instructors were great. Thank you very much for all the patience you exercised in teaching us and making sure that well all succeed. Please forgive some of our stupid and negative comments that were sometimes uttered out of stress. The tests and exams were easy. We studied a lot as a class. The most enjoyable part of training was clinicals because it was actually hands-on and we got to perform what we’d been learning from textbook and put our knowledge to practice.
While on duty expect to have some bad days. So on days that you experience any form of bad feelings take the time to say this prayer: Lord, help me to bring comfort where there is pain, Courage where there is despair, Acceptance when the end is near, A touch that is gentle with tenderness, patience, and love. And, always remember, all Nurses are truly blessed. For you see — God gave us Hearts of Gold.” Thank you, God bless and congratulations class of 2020.
Greetings to everyone and welcome to our very special day celebration.
Let me start off by thanking everyone for being here to join us today for this momentous occasion. The class of 2020 would like to thank the following people for their hard work and dedication and for everything that they have done for us these past few weeks: Dr. Anna N. Nji, Ms. Karen Marshall, Mr. Ebanks, Ms. Nicol Davis, Dr. Lipton Clark, and Ms. Michelle Loving.
Fellow classmates, instructors, families and friends we are all here for one reason, to celebrate and acknowledge that one journey is ending, just as another is about to begin. Without all of you, we would not be here today. We could not have done this without your love, encouragement and endless support.
Nursing school is not easy, and in the past few weeks not only did we have to deal with going to class, we had to lock ourselves in a room away from family to study, homework, skills practice and clinical where you have to get up before the sunrise, but we also had to add in the factors of jobs, family, marriages, children, sickness and the daily grind that is life. But you encouraged us and pushed us to keep going, and for that we are eternally grateful because we all made a decision to stick with it, and here we are today. Congratulations !!!!!!!!
In closing I would like to read a poem that I have recently become acquainted with it is called “Hearts of Gold” by Sherry York. “There are times in our lives when we sit down and wonder where our lives will lead us. Sometimes we get so caught up in our jobs that we forget what we truly represent. We get frustrated, aggravated, pushed to the limits and so mentally tired that we feel what is the use in being a Nurse? But then someone gives us a weak smile or holds our hand and they may say “thank you, you are so special.” Then we feel the warmth growing in our hearts. All the bad feelings disappear, and they are replaced by the core values that we present: human dignity, compassion, dedication, integrity, stewardship, leadership and excellence.
