Briar Cliff University Honors Nursing Students

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar Cliff University’s Department of Nursing honored students during the 19^th Annual Commitment to Professional Nursing and Pinning Ceremony on Saturday, April 19 at 2 p.m. in Our Lady of Grace Chapel on campus.

Keynote speaker, Sr. Janet May, O.S.F, director of campus ministry and BCCares, delivered a message on “Nursing as a Healing Ministry.”  

During the ceremony, 32 senior nursing students were awarded nursing pins, and 13 sophomore nursing students received Certificates of Commitment.

BCU seniors honored during the ceremony were: Naomi Noelle Bach, RN, Orange City, IA; Caitlin “Katie” Boettcher, Owatonna, MN; Kayla Mary Boyd, Pleasant Hill, IA;  Katie Elizabeth Brenden, Whiting, IA; Cara Christine Brown, RN, Sioux City, IA; Michelle Ann Burnight, Sioux City, IA; Jessi J. Campbell, South Sioux City, NE; Theresa Cornell, RN, South Sioux City, NE; Molly Jean Croisant, Clackamas, OR; Kimberly Anne Davis, RN, Mapleton, IA; Randi Leigh Hanson, Glenwood, IA; Tawny Jane Hendriks, Storm Lake, IA; Stephanie Hohn, Mitchell, SD; John “Casey” Jepsen, Correctionville, IA; Alisha Kellen, Omaha, NE; Teri Lynn Kenyon, Storm Lake, IA; Michele Marie Koerner, RN, Anthon, IA; Carla “Jo” Morgan, South Sioux City, NE; Linda Ann Murphy, RN, Sioux City, IA; Danielle Renee Paulsen, Sioux City, IA; Jennifer Mehlhaff Petersen, RN, Sioux City, IA; Deidre Poggensee, Elgin, IL; Renate Reis Rosentrader, RN, Dakota City, NE; Nadine Elizabeth Ruden, RN, Hinton, IA; Anne Kathryn Ryant, Cresco, IA; Melissa Ann Shidell, Andover, MN; Erika Lynn Slota, Washta, IA; Becky Spath, Sioux City, IA; Cassandra “Casey” Lynn Stoks, Canby, MN; Jeanne Ann Theisen, RN, Sioux City, IA; Catherine Michelle Uhrin, Cedar Rapids, IA; Rachel J. Wurth, RN, LeMars, IA.

BCU sophomores honored during the ceremony were: Alicia Baier, Sioux City, IA; James Bills, Sioux Falls, SD; Erich Braun, Cherokee, IA; Amy L. Bruning, Mapleton, IA; Michaela M. Carew, Fargo, ND; Breanna Garcia, Burlington, IA; Everard Irish, Sioux City, IA; Cindy McCabe, Sioux City, IA; Rhiannon Plumhoff, Fairmont, MN; Christina Schilling, Black Hawk, SD; Rachelle Travis, Plattsmouth, NE; Kristen A. Vogel, Sioux City, IA

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 26 states, Canada, Bosnia, Ecuador and Pakistan.  Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and prepared for professional success in an environment of care and compassion.