VHCC Spring 2022 Commencement

Commencement Speakers (continued)

Amy Greer Associate of Applied Science in Nursing

Amy Greer of Glade Spring is dedicated to the nursing profession that she will join upon graduation from Virginia Highlands. Greer is a 2005 graduate of Chilhowie High School and has always been an advocate for cancer awareness, research, and patient care through her service with the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life program. In 2015, however, Greer’s advocacy became a personal passion when her daughter was diagnosed with cancer at the age of seven. The Greer family spent many months at St. Jude in Memphis, Tennessee, where she says that her daughter was “cared for by the highest caliber of health care providers, and is the drive behind my desire to make even the smallest difference in the lives of the patients I will soon serve.” As Greer looks forward to graduation from nursing school, she boasts that her daughter is now a healthy teenager. Greer has plans to continue her education, with the long-term goal of becoming a family nurse practitioner. As words of reflection for the class of 2022, Greer says, “our first impressions have evolved into lasting memories, strangers have become family, and we are in a unique situation to be trail blazers for the future.”

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