Undergraduate RN-BSN Student

Receives Overall Excellence Award

from the MU Sinclair School of Nursing

Contact: Pam Roe
S218 School of Nursing
(573) 884-2690

April 23 , 2007

COLUMBIA , Mo. – After five years in an unsatisfying career, Erin Clickner followed the family tradition and became a nurse. She saw the impact her two older sisters had on the lives of patients and families that they cared for.

She started with an associate degree, but knew she wanted to become an advance practice nurse. In order to obtain her goal, she has strived to maintain high academic excellence. Clickner's commitment to achieving excellence in all areas of her life was the deciding factors in her receiving the RN-BSN Student Award for Overall Excellence at the University of Missouri-Columbia's Sinclair School of Nursing's annual banquet on April 13. She is the daughter of Joe and Elaine Clickner of Moberly, Mo., and the mother of Anah Clickner.

Her employer, Moberly Regional Medical Center , has supported her educational decisions from the beginning. In order to balance work and educational goals, Clickner has decreased her work hours. And it has been a win-win situation for both parties – she has maintained her clinical practice while devoting more time to study.

Clickner loves being a nurse within her home community of Moberly. She already has a relationship with many of the people in this small, rural town, so the trust and rapport nurses have with their patients has already been established.

As she continues down her educational path, she plans to continue practicing nursing in this rural community as a Family Nurse Practitioner.

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