Blessing-Rieman nursing students inducted into international honor society

QUINCY — More than 20 nursing students and a community leader recently were inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) as members of the Pi Pi chapter at Blessing- Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences. The new members joined 156 other students and nurse leaders in the chapter.

Student inductees were:

• RN-BSN students — Heather Colbert, Kaylie Gilbert, Amanda Huddleston, Darshell McGinley, Jessica Osborne and Rizza Wingfield.
• MSN students — Brenda Allen, Jessica Borrowman and Christy Huckstep.
• Undergraduate students — Marissa Abell, Shaina Boal, Madeline Connors, Kody Franz, Emily Hume, Chloe Kaimann, Emily Legg, Jordan Lepper, Abbey Lubbert, Delaney Mason, Julia Mincher, Livia Perry, Sarah Rowlands, Kelsie Schieppe, and Allison Wessel.

Chloe Morelock was inducted to the chapter as a community leader.

For 100 years, Sigma and its members have strived to meet the mission of developing nurse leaders anywhere to improve healthcare everywhere. Sigma membership is by invitation to baccalaureate and graduate nursing students who demonstrate excellence in scholarship and to nurse leaders in the community exhibiting exceptional achievements in nursing.

Sigma is a nonprofit organization whose mission is developing nurse leaders anywhere to improve healthcare everywhere. There are more than 540 Sigma chapters at institutions of higher education and practice settings in more than 100 countries around the world.