Alumni

Ronald Pondo (Nursing-ADN),
graduated from Purdue Calumet in Dec 2001. He has obtained certification as a CEN, CCRN, and CFRN. He moved from the region to Phoenix, AZ in June 2003. He has been employed as a Flight Nurse and ER/Trauma Nurse since moving. Ron is currently employed by “Air Evac” and Banner Del Webb Hospital. He would like to thank all the staff in the Nursing Dept who helped him achieve his goals of becoming a Flight Nurse. Thank You!

Lt. Col. Marcia Potter discusses her experiences when deployed overseas!

Marcia graduated from Purdue University Calumet's FNP program in 2000. She was the topic of an article that features some of her experiences in Balad, Iraq.

Marcia is headed to Afghanistan in Jan 2009 for a 6 month deployment. FNPs are in very high demand in the military because of their extreme versatility for patient care. Marcia is the current Commander of the Medical Operations Squadron here at Dover AFB in DE – a position roughly equivalent to a civilian hospital COO. She still sees patients every day.

Marcia still has a passion for nursing – that passion gets re-fired quite often because of the unique situations she finds herself practicing in. She still thinks the best educational move she ever made was to come to Purdue University Calumet – the problem solving, the evidence-based focus, the camaraderie certainly set the stage for all of her subsequent successes.

Read the entire article in the Dover Post