Nursing faculty receive prestigious Rhode Island Monthly Excellence Awards
September 22, 2021
Two Community College of Rhode Island Nursing Faculty members have been honored this
year as part of Rhode Island Monthly’s annual Excellence in Nursing Awards.
Sandra Megerdichian, MS, RN, of Cranston was named 2021 Nurse of the Year in an Academic
Setting and Assistant Professor Alison Kelley, MSN, RN, of Providence earned 2021
Clinical Nurse Educator of the Year honors.
Rhode Island Monthly brings readers the best of what Rhode Island has to offer, from people and politics
to food and finance, including its annual Excellence in Nursing Awards, presented
in association with the Rhode Island State Nurses Association. Nurses are nominated
by their peers with winners selected by a panel of nursing professionals and educators
in a variety of categories, including Clinical Practice Nurse of the Year, Nurse Researcher
of the Year, and Community Health/Home Health Nurse of the Year.
Megerdichian joined CCRI’s Nursing Department in 1998 and served the college for 23
years before retiring in June. As part of the department’s leadership team, she served
as a Course Coordinator for a decade. Megerdichian also co-authored the Second Edition
of Clinical Nursing Calculations with Department Chair Susan Sienkiewicz in 2019.
Kelley, an emergency medicine and pediatric oncology specialist, has been teaching
at CCRI since 2017, most notably working with medical/surgical nursing students. She
has also been a nurse at the Hasbro Children’s Hospital Emergency Department for the
past 13 years.
CCRI offers the state’s only public associate degree registered nursing program with
seamless options to become a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Licensed Practical
Nurse (LPN) while providing students with the opportunity to acquire the knowledge,
and attitudes necessary for developing effective communication, critical thinking,
clinical reasoning and teamwork/collaboration skills.
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