Nursing students get in the spirit of Halloween

The nursing students at Robeson Community College decided to get in the spirit of Halloween this year, dressing up in various outfits, including Florence Nightingale, the founder of nursing, and some students even dressed up as the COVID-19 virus.

“I decided to dress as COVID since this is the only pandemic that I have been in,” said Mahala Cummings, a student in the associate degree nursing program at RCC. “I feel as if it has had a tremendous effect on everyone throughout the nation, but especially as nursing students. I just wanted to make something creative out of it since I feel as if we are all drowning from the effects that COVID has had on our school life, clinical, and most importantly the effects that it has on the patients that we care for during our clinical experiences.”

Students say that this opportunity to dress up was not a contest but rather a fun event for students and a chance for them to be creative.

“As a member of the student engagement committee, we felt the need to lighten our extreme workload and add some camaraderie within the ADN program,” said Joseph Reyes, an ADN student at RCC.

Reyes also dressed up in costume as the coronavirus saying, “I chose to make a costume as COVID-19 since it played such a pivotal role in everyone’s life, even adjusting how as nursing students, instruction and clinicals were done. After almost 2 years of the profound impact, I felt that we needed a little humor to help get us a long.”

As Dr. Eva Meekins, the director of the nursing education programs at RCC, said, “it was our student’s light-hearted look at the Coronavirus and Delta Variant.”