Four members of the Muskegon Area Nurse Honor Guard will participate in the first ever National Nurses Honor Guard conference this weekend, May 17-18, at the St. Elizabeth Training and Education Center (SETEC) in Erlanger, Kentucky.
Kimberlee Mason, Chris Patterson, Kristina Forman and Sheila Hamilton will represent the Muskegon-area guard at the conference.
The conference wll bring together 450 nurses from around the U.S. and promises “a rich two days of education, teaching groups the fundamentals” of the Honor Guard: “How to perform the ceremony, writing bylaws, fundraising, living tributes and much more.”
The national honor guard was founded in 2011 in California, and Mason, Patterson and Forman were inspired to work together to launch a Muskegon chapter of the guard in 2021. The guard performs tributes at memorials to those who were nurses and has also performed living tributes in the past to honor former nurses who are approaching the end of their lives.
