TUPELO, Miss.—North Mississippi Medical Center recently honored Chasity Tate, RN, with the Excellence in Nursing Award for Non-Traditional Nursing.

Tate has been an inpatient wound care nurse for six years. She originally joined the NMMC staff in 2001 and worked in NMMC’s Emergency Services Department and on 4 South. She spent several months as a travel nurse in 2006 and rejoined the NMMC staff in 2007.

A 1994 graduate of Nettleton High School, she earned her associate degree in nursing from Itawamba Community College in 2001. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of North Alabama in Florence in 2011.

She and her husband, Robert, live in Brewer and attend Northstar Church in Saltillo.