Betty Garrison Award: Celebrating The Best Nursing Qualities
Two Nursing Students Recognized
Brooke Cook and Summer Mosteller, both nursing students at Cleveland Community College, have each been recognized for exhibiting valued characteristics in future nurses. Both students have been selected to receive the Betty Garrison Award.
“I feel extremely honored to receive this award. Betty Garrison was an amazing woman. I strive to have the heart and integrity she did,” said Brooke Cook, who will complete the Practical Nursing diploma program this summer. She says she wants to be a nurse so she can help others and be a voice for them.
Cook says her grandmother’s strong influence is one reason she feels called to be a nurse. “She believed in me. I hope she’s looking down on me, smiling and proud,” says Cook. “She pushed me and inspired me to be the person I am today. Because of her, I know that my place is to help others and stand up for what is right.”
The other recipient, Summer Mosteller, is a senior in the Associate Degree Nursing program and will graduate in May. She has wanted to be a nurse for as long as she can remember, “simply to help others and be the light they need on what could be the best or worst day of their life.”
Mosteller says she is honored to be receiving the Betty Garrison Award. “The legacy she holds in the nursing field is one of utmost respect, and to be chosen as one who displays her known qualities of patient care excellence, patient advocacy, community service, love of education, and one who is always a friend to everyone is very special. I make it my goal to strive to display these characteristics throughout my nursing career.”
About the Betty Garrison Award
The Metrolina Council of Nursing Organizations created the Betty Garrison Award to honor its namesake. Garrison was a respected and loved member of the Charlotte nursing community for many years. The award honors qualities that Garrison exhibited in her career and life, including patient advocacy, patient care excellence, commitment to community service, and involvement in the nursing profession.