… of Labor grant to fund education Among the 665 diplomas issued on Saturday were for graduates who will help fill the nursing workforce pipeline, which will see … nurses who can now train students to be nurses themselves. There was one graduate last year, but this was the first class to finish the program. “It's truly an … start chipping away at it. “I feel like nursing has been a calling and a vocation for me, and now nursing education has become part of that calling,” said LeFleur, a …