MC Student Nurses Support Mississippi Baptist Convention

MC student nurses Kimberly Dunaway of Florence, Caroline Brown of Jackson and Abbie Amato of New Orleans help at Tuesday's Mississippi Baptist Convention health fair.

Need a flu shot, helpful hints about back problems or tips to lower the chances of diabetes?

Mississippi College student nurses handled those medical needs and much more at the Mississippi Baptist Convention.

Pastors, spouses and other Baptist leaders stopped by the MC School of Nursing health fair for a few hours on Tuesday and left with plenty of information.

For more than two decades, MC School of Nursing students assisted at the annual convention at First Baptist Church Jackson.

“I love the fact that I’m meeting interesting people from many different places and improving their lives,” said MC senior Joshua Kees of Vicksburg.

Helping visitors with questions about home safety, including the use of smoke alarms, Joshua and his classmates stayed busy at the 180^th annual meeting.

Pastor Carl Prewitt of First Baptist Church Byram always makes it a point to get his flu shot at the Mississippi Baptist Convention. He’s been coming here for 27 years in late October.

“I trust these student nurses,” Prewitt says.

Thirty-eight Mississippi College student nurses, all seniors, were on hand to help again this fall.

Visitors received loads of information about Alzheimer’s disease, dieting, blood pressure, exercise, cholesterol counts, smoking, and strokes.

Recently, MC nursing students administered flu shots to members of the university family on the Clinton campus.

Other members of the Mississippi College community attended the Oct. 27-28 Baptist Convention. They included MC Music Department Chair Angela Willoughby and choral director Mark Nabholz.

At their MC table, the professors teamed up to inform visitors about the university’s new bachelor’s degree in music leadership.

Representatives from William Carey University, Blue Mountain College, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary were also in attendance at the huge Jackson church.