WINONA, Minn. – The nursing program chair at Saint Mary’s University, Agnes Mary Graves, has been put in charge of the university’s new program that emphasizes rural service and that also seeks to address other workforce needs in nursing. The Saint Mary’s initiatives include an online nursing program for college grads in other fields.. Graves, of the Religious Order of Mercy, earned ger earned her nursing degree from the University of Missouri and will graduate soon from the Winona State doctoral program as a family nurse practitioner. Also, she is completing a nurse practitioner residency at Mayo Clinic. She has experience in heart and fertility care.

Graves. Sister Mary Agnes heads new Saint Mary’s nursing program.