JACKSON – A career in healthcare is what Megan Irby wanted to pursue since she worked as a hospital secretary more than 20 years ago. Now a mother of two teenagers, Irby, 40, of Vicksburg, can’t get started soon enough. “I can’t wait until I get into nursing school,”...
PEARL – Dwayne Draper was switched on to the idea of working with electrical systems while volunteering in the community and wants to hone his skills in college. “I was around electrical work when I helped build churches with my church, and I just liked it,” said...
RAYMOND – Hinds Community College has been named as one of the top degree-producing community colleges in the United States in registered nursing and related fields by Community College Week, a national publication covering the nation’s more than 1,000 community...
JACKSON – Careers in healthcare often come from life experiences that put people up close and personal with matters of life and death. Tiffany Roberts and Al Brennan, both of Pearl and prospective students in programs offered at Hinds’ Jackson Campus-Nursing/Allied...
JACKSON – A stellar career for Becky Tustain teaching aspiring nurses in Hinds’ Associate Degree Nursing program began with just a small request of her husband. “When I came here in 1975, I asked my family for two years to go to school,” she said. “I didn’t think I...
Note: The following story appears in the summer issue of Hindsight alumni magazine. For more information about the Hinds Alumni Association, see the website. JACKSON – Before Carl Mangum was certified to take a pulse, he could still take an order – either crispy or...
Note: The following story appears in the summer issue of Hindsight alumni magazine. For more information about the Hinds Alumni Association, see the website. It’s been 50 years and a world away for early faculty of the Associate Degree Nursing program at Hinds...