Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital and Eastern Maine Community College 2025 nursing cohort graduates pictured here at their pinning ceremony, from left to right, Sarah Kelly, Mary Butler, Kate Hight, Lily May Joy, Mackenzie Newman, and Nittaya Dow with their Sebasticook Valley Hospital Clinical Education instructor Nathalie McLaughlin, RN, BSN, CMSRN. (contributed photo)
Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital in Pittsfield and Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor are proud to announce their 2025 nursing cohort graduates.
The student nurses successfully completed two years of clinical and classroom education at Sebasticook Valley Hospital and Eastern Maine Community College to earn their Associate Degree of Nursing (ADN). Their senior project, which they worked on for the full two years of the program, focused on protein intake in hospital setting and the effect on readmission.
Sebasticook Valley Hospital clinical nurse educator Nathalie McLaughlin, RN, BSN, CMSRN, shared, “I truly have been impressed with this hardworking group of nursing students who have undergone rigorous academic and clinical training to obtain the knowledge, skills, and compassion necessary for providing patient-centered care. Each of them will be a great asset to our Maine communities. I am very proud of each of them and am honored to have been part of their nursing journey.”
“Since the start of this nursing degree collaboration program, we have graduated 11 registered nurses,” states Tracy Bonney-Corson, RN, PhD, MBA-H, vice president of Nursing and Patient Care Services at Sebasticook Valley Hospital. “This initiative, undertaken in collaboration with Eastern Maine Community College, has been pivotal to our hospital’s success in cultivating a local workforce of registered nurses, thereby strengthening our capacity to deliver high-quality care to rural residents and enhancing both recruitment and retention efforts.”
“Our partnership with Sebasticook Valley Hospital makes nursing education more accessible for rural students. They complete clinicals and labs locally while staying connected to Eastern Maine Community College faculty and resources. This cohort is a strong example of how successful this model can be,” explains Heather Rushmore, MSN, RN, CNE, program director and department chair at Eastern Maine Community College.
If you have a passion for caring for others and would like to pursue a career in nursing, there will be an upcoming Nursing Information Session in-person at Sebasticook Valley Hospital on Tuesday, August 5 at 9 am in the Board Room, located at 130 Leighton Street on the hospital campus in Pittsfield. To learn more and to register, please visit emcc.edu/nursing-info-sessions or contact Nathalie McLaughlin, RN, BSN, CMSRN, clinical educator, at nmclaughlin@northernlight.org.
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