Career Question 1:

• What impacted you to go into healthcare 

Answer 1:

• I knew I can do more, I worked as a dental assistant for quite a while and I really loved the interaction with the patients, and I had a friend that worked as a CNA, and she told me it was great (that was a lie) I'm just kidding it was fantastic. Later on, I become a CNA and working with patients in long term care and then acute care. I decide3d that i needed to do more with my life and so i did 

Career Question 2: 

• Explain your first code 

Answer 2:

• all codes are a little bit frazzled no matter what. the key to any code is knowing your place and my place was being a really good compressor. So, if you can find your knitch in a code you will do just fine. A lot of the big things is knowing what your spot it what your good at and just listening. As long as you aren't running it, you'll be fine. 

Career Question 3:

• what was the worst thing you've ever seen/ experienced 

Answer 3:

• when I worked in raingly. I worked at a very small critical access hospital, and I was the ward cleft at that time. Which is I doing all the paperwork and did all the transfer process, and we had a suicide come in one night. We were able to revive her, and we sent her to Grand junction. Her husband was very distraught that after they sent her to grand junction. He went home and tried to commit suicide also. He took a whole bunch of pills and ended up vomiting everywhere and because the ambulance team was already taking his wife to Grand junction. We couldn't save him. and so, he died. So, his daughter that had come in and was you know worried about her mom had to come back from grand junction to deal with her dads' death. It was heartbreaking. 

Career Question4:

• what should one expect going into healthcare 

Answer 4:

• It's hard work and it's all knowledge based too. I'm going to give you a head up now. When you get out of nursing school, you're going to get your first year and you going to be like what did they teach me because I know nothing. They're going to teach you how to take a test and how to do the basics. The rest of it is hands on. So, when you get out of school and you're in a fog and you're like I don't know anything it's because you don't. You're going to learn it, but it hands on. 

Career Question4:

• if you can give me a piece of career advice that would help in the future, what would it be 

Answer 4:

• find your area of nursing that makes you happy because you're going to work and you're dragging your feet every day and waking up and you're not wanting to go that's not your department. There is your department somewhere you just have to find it.  I love MedSurg its fantastic I love the Hussle and Bussle, but you know my last day is today since I'm going to hospice. I think there's two great events in everyone's life ones being born and ones dying. I don't like the first one so i want to be a part of the dying part.