OCCC graduate joins professor ranks
Robin McMurry, a nursing professor who began this semester, received her associate degree in nursing at OCCC. She has a sister, Kay Wetmore, who also was recently hired on as a nursing professor at OCCC. McMurry said she and her sister often have worked in close proximity to one another. Photo by Carrie Cronk
Professor Robin McMurry is a registered nurse who became a full-time nursing faculty member at OCCC this semester.
Though she is a new professor, she is not an outsider to OCCC — she received her first degree in psychology at the college in 1993.
After graduating, she returned four years later and earned her associate degree in nursing, then transferred to the University of Oklahoma where she received a bachelor’s degree in nursing.
From there, she earned her master’s degree at Southern Nazarene University.
While attending OU and SNU, McMurry worked at the OU Medical Center as a staff nurse, supervisor and manager.
As a manager, she was in charge of 280 staff members.
McMurry has a sister, Kay Wetmore, who has been in the same career field most of her life and also works at OCCC.
“As young adults, we worked together in our family business,” she said.
“And, ever since, [my sister and I] have worked well together in close proximity.”
One goal McMurry hopes to achieve while at OCCC is giving information to the students in order to keep some of them from making the mistakes she has seen during her career.
Simply put, she said, she wants to keep nurses from being sued.
McMurry said she knows how to do this because she has administration experience as a certified legal nurse consultant.
Besides working at OCCC, McMurry is a faculty member at the Moore Norman Technology Center and is on the childhood obesity panel.
McMurry said she loves teaching and is looking forward to working with students.
