Ms. Mary Templin has been a Clinical Instructor with UW-Milwaukee’s College of Nursing for almost 10 years. She is being recognized for her compassion, her commitment to her students, and how she establishes strong relationships with them. Over the years, Ms. Templin has become a mentor to many students, kept in contact with them once they graduated, and continued mentoring them in their new careers. One nominator mentioned, “Having mentors like Mary better prepares newer nurses and it means the world to me to have had someone like Mary to lean on.” In addition to her commitment to her students, she is also committed to staying clinically up to date by working as an APRN and bringing changes in practice to the program.