Mount Marty to Charter Chapter of International Nursing Honor Society

The Mount Marty College Nursing Honor Society will be chartered as an official chapter of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International on February 24 at 2 p.m. at the Avera Sacred Heart Hospital campus in Yankton.

Dr. Gwen Sherwood will conduct the chartering ceremony at the Physician’s Pavilion.  Sherwood is the current Vice President of Sigma Theta Tau International and is currently a Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing.

Some 50 nurse leaders and students will be inducted as charter members in this group.  Officers to be installed are: Christine Eisenhauer, President; Sandra Isburg, Vice President; Sister Corinne Lemmer, Secretary; Darcie Sees, Treasurer; Sister Sharon Ann Haas, Faculty Counselor; Anne Buttolph, Faculty Counselor.  The chapter will be known as the Upsilon Iota Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.

Following the chartering ceremony, a reception will be held at the Pavilion.

Approval for the Upsilon Iota Chapter was granted at the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International biennial convention on November 8, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland. This Sigma Chapter was developed through the efforts of Dr. Ruth Pakieser, former Director of Nursing for Mount Marty College.

Membership in the honor society is by invitation and is extended to undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and professional nurses who have demonstrated superior scholastic, leadership and nursing achievements. 

The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, is a non-for-profit organization whose mission it to improve the health of people worldwide through leadership and scholarship in practice, education and research.  Founded in 1922, the honor society currently has 400,000 inducted members in more than 90 countries. Members include practicing nurses, instructors, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs and others.

The honor society’s 462 chapters are located at 556 institutions of higher education throughout the United States, as well as Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, Hong Kong, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Malawi, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Swaziland, Sweden, Taiwan and Tanzania. 

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