Featured Alumni

Laurel Nunnery graduated from the BYU College of Nursing in 2004 along with her sister-in-law Jeanette Nunnery. Laurel and Jeanette each married a College of Nursing graduate, Jacob Nunnery and Joshua Nunnery, who are brothers.

John Killpack graduated from BYU in August 1993. He worked in the float pool at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center (UVRMC) following graduation. He was then commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps in April 1994 and was stationed at Wilford Hall Medical Center on Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas in the Coronary Care Unit. While stationed in Texas, he also taught Basic and Advanced EKG Interpretation, Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Course and Critical Care Course and was an ACLS Instructor.

After graduation from the College of Nursing in 1971, Wright worked for a year-and-a-half, and then took a 16-year break to raise her eleven children – the youngest one now in pre-nursing classes at BYU. She returned to nursing after taking a RN refresher course and has worked at Cottonwood Hospital, Alta View Hospital and the University of Utah. She and her husband decided to join forces to build and run an assisted living center in Sandy, Utah. Her husband, a contractor, built the facility and she still currently runs CountryCare Homes, LLC. Most of their eleven children have worked at the assisted living center and have all gained an ability to interact with the elderly while experiencing the joys of service.

Allison Varga James graduated from BYU in August 1993. She worked at Tuscon Medical Center in the pediatrics department for 1 year prior to serving in the New York Utica mission from 1994-1996. Upon returning from her mission, she worked in the Intensive Care Nursery at Phoenix Children's Hospital (Phoenix, AZ) from 1996-2001 and became a bereavement counselor, providing follow-up to families whose babies had died in the nursery.

CON Alumni Nancy Pulsipher started her BYU education in 1966 as a pre-med student. She then changed her major to French and minor to Spanish. After completing most of the requirements for this major, she became puzzled on what to do for a career. She took two years from school to think about her future, coming back with the intent of becoming a nurse. She knew this is what she wanted to do after working briefly as a CNA in a skilled nursing facility.

Ashley has worked as an RN in the Emergency Department at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. since she graduated in 2001. The hospital is located in the heart of D.C., minutes from many tourist sites and just ten blocks from the White House. It is a level-one trauma unit and specializes in the emergent treatment of strokes and heart attacks. The patient population is very diverse. On a typical day, Ashley treats everything from a tourist falling down the Capitol steps to a gang member with multiple gun-shot wounds.