ron Every Tuesday and Thursday, nurs– ng instructor Elizabeth Lee woke up at :15 a.m. and traveled to the Veteran's ospita l in Little Rock, where she orked. Leeassistedwithfour different nurs– ngclassesby lecturingandgradingtests when needed. NotonJyctid LeeworkattheVeteran's Hospital and help with undergraduate lasses, she was also a student. Lee was one of nine students involved in Harding's nursing graduate program, which took three years to complete. To accommodate students, the nurs– ing graduate program 'held classes on onday evenings. Thisallowed thestu– dents to hold full time careers and still havetimetostudy. Forconvenience, the CollegeofNursingofferedmanygradu– ate classes online. "Fifty percent oftheclasses areeither e IClne: Graduate program offers two tracks completely online or hybrid, meaning someclasssessionswerestill involved," dalists. The students were also required to participate in clinical practicum, in which learning was applied in the Carolyn Hunter-Layne taught the leadership class to undergraduate nurses and was also working towa rds her master's degree, this time as a clinical nurse specialist. With aU her education, she believed in the impor– tance of a Christian perspecti ve. Dr. Sheila Sullivan, assis– tantdeanofnursing, said. According to Sullivan, the nursing gradu– ate program re– quired 39 credit hours and pro– vided twoctiffer– ent tracks: man– age care w ith highriskpopuJations and acommunity track with a focus on "[Nursing] affords us a way to help man– kind in a way that many can not." -Elizabeth Lee, ad– junct professor of nursing hospital setting. Graduate stu– den t Lisa Engel chose Harding's graduate nursing program because of the high level curriculum. " I had oppor– tunities to go to graduate school and none of them were offering wha t I was look- "There is much more to bemg a student at Harding University." ,Hunter-Layne said. "You gain much more with a focus on a Christian per– spective. You develop a true concern for people." The College of Nursing students and teachers were willing to go through the education process in or– der to help others. missions. This provided the opportu– ruty for students to become Advanoed Practioe Nurses or Clirucal Nurse 5peing for," Engel said. "Harding's program is very dif– ferent from the rest of the local nurs– ing master's programs." "Nursing is a wonderful area of service," Lee said . "It affords usa way to help mankind in ways that many cannot." - Ryall Sa /./l Graduate student Kevin Johnson conducts research in the Harding University Graduate School of Religion library. Johnson earned his master's in egyptology at the University of Memphis but decided to train in Old Testament and theology at HUGSR. (Photo by Jeff Montgomery) Graduate student Jeff Maves brings a bottle of Coke to a December potluck for the graduate students in the College of NurSing. Graduate students in the nursing program enjoyed a time of fellowship after the fall semester. (Photo by lindsey Taliaferro) graduate programs 167 111111 .
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