DeSoto County School of Practical Nursing, Class of 2010

By:  Julie Price, R.N., B.S.N.  Director and Nursing Instructor

The School District of DeSoto County proudly announces the graduation of eleven Practical Nursing Students from the DeSoto County School of Practical Nursing.  The students have been in training since last July ’09, and they finished their last clinical day at Sarasota Memorial Hospital just a few days prior to graduating.  The entire program consists of 1, 350 hours of combined classroom theory and clinicals.

We would like to take this time to say “THANK-YOU” for all of the time and efforts provided by the health care staff  and  use of facilities in the following clinical rotation sites:  DeSoto Memorial Hospital, Center For Family Health, DeSoto Home Health Care and Physical Therapy, Dr. Kiersa Durfee’s OB-GYN Clinic, DeSoto County Public Health Department and the DeSoto County School Clinics, DeSoto Health and Rehabilitation, The Florida Hospitals in Sebring and Wauchula, and Sarasota Memorial Hospital.  The nursing students, also, got to participate in attending field trips to the following health care facilities:  Health South Rehab of Sarasota, The Florida Institute of Neurological Rehabilitation, and Shriner’s Childrens’ Hospital of Tampa.

Congratulations GPN’s!