{"id":1428,"date":"2024-06-27T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:00:08","slug":"final-bprn-grad-honours-mother-with-nursing-pin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/final-bprn-grad-honours-mother-with-nursing-pin\/","title":{"rendered":"Final BPRN grad honours mother with nursing pin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(L to R) Dr. Netha Dyck and Judy Friesen (photo: Derek Holowka) <\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

At the College of Nursing\u2019s recent spring pinning ceremony, one of the 91 nurses accepting their professional pin had a unique distinction. Judy Friesen was the last graduate of the college\u2019s Baccalaureate Program for Registered Nurses (BPRN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Established in the 1980s, the program was designed for diploma-prepared registered nurses who wanted to attain a bachelor of nursing degree. Admissions to the program were suspended in Fall 2019 due to changing demographics of the nursing workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friesen received her diploma from St. Boniface Hospital School of Nursing in 1994. She worked at the hospital for several years and, after receiving her pin, started a clinical education facilitator position at UM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friesen said her mother, Anne Friesen, was her inspiration to get her bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe graduated from Hamilton School of Nursing in 1958 and went back to school when she was 50. She graduated from the University of Manitoba with her bachelor\u2019s degree in 1986, alongside my sister Bev (Dueck),\u201d Friesen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was important to her that I finish my degree. I did this for myself, but also to honour her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the ceremony, Friesen and her sisters visited their mother, who had been sick with cancer for the last two years. A few hours later, their mother passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe wasn\u2019t awake, but I feel she knew,\u201d she said. \u201cAll my sisters were there, we were all together. It\u2019s sad, but that\u2019s why the pin means so much to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the College of Nursing\u2019s recent spring pinning ceremony, one of the 91 nurses accepting their professional pin had a unique distinction. Judy Friesen was the last graduate of the college\u2019s Baccalaureate Program for Registered Nurses (BPRN). Established in the 1980s, the program was designed for diploma-prepared registered nurses who wanted to attain a bachelor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}