Dr. Theresa Mostasisa has been invited be the Keynote Speaker for City College of San Francisco’s Licensed Vocational Nursing Program at this year’s graduation ceremony in December.
Ms. Tamara Martin, CCSF Chairperson commented, ”Our community has suffered considerably over the past decade having had problems with affordable, quality healthcare for all. California’s healthcare system has also suffered with providing quality care due to the nursing shortage. It is because of your role within the educational and healthcare system that our program is able to graduate competent nurses to care for the community and ease the nursing shortage. We still have a lot of work to do as steeper budget cuts are in the forecast, with community college budgets being slashed and healthcare also taking a massive budget cut. However, we continue to encourage more students to enroll in our program as we strive and continue to graduate safe, competent and employable nurses. That is the theme for our graduating class, how we grow over the course of our program from having very little knowledge to becoming nurses that embody the skills needed to thrive in the workforce.
Given that you originally came from City College’s L.V.N. and R.N. program and have given over 20 years of your professional career to teach students and the public about the importance of health and access to quality healthcare, I am certain that you will see how such an exemplary role model such as yourself could have a positive impact on the students here if you could, perhaps, spare half an hour of your time to speak at our graduation and to tell us about your own experiences with healthcare and how having safe, competent and employable L.V.N.’s impact patients care.”
There was no way Dr. Mostasisa would miss this.
