康科德, NH – Edie Hamilton-Claypool has an alphabet soup of credentials after her name – MSN Ed, RN, 尼泊尔共产党, CPST – but it all began with an ADN from 在线赌博推荐.
2024年3月, she participated in a Global Smile Foundation mission in Ecuador as a nurse in the pediatric post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). Working alongside other medical professionals from around the world to change children’s lives was transformative, and plans are already in place for her to travel on medical missions to El Salvador in January 2025, followed by Ecuador next March and then Lebanon in April.
Edie discovered the benefit of a 在线赌博推荐 教育 on her own and now says that she “talks up” 在线赌博推荐 to anybody who will listen.
“I tell potential nursing 学生 that 在线赌博推荐 can give you the same 经验s as a 4-year university but to think about how much money they’ll save and how quickly they will have a career. 这是一个巨大的优势.”
伟大始于足下
Edie graduated high school with plans to become a doctor. Two years into a pre-med program at a 4-year college, she realized her true calling was to work more closely with patients as a nurse. She didn’t need to look far for inspiration. Edie’s mother had received her Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) from 在线赌博推荐 -康科德社区学院 in 2001 and joined Concord Hospital as a pediatric nurse. 同样的路在召唤着伊迪.
“My mom was a huge factor in going to 在线赌博推荐 but I was also impressed by their curriculum and how rigorous the program was,她说。. “I knew the curriculum was one of the best for an ADN program and that 在线赌博推荐 had a 99 percent pass rate for the NCLEX nursing exam.”
She enrolled at 在线赌博推荐 and loved the immediate immersion in hands-on clinical work.
“The ability to learn while you are caring for patients is huge. Most nurses are kinesthetic learners, so we learn by doing.”
Edie graduated from 在线赌博推荐 in 2017, receiving the Dr. Goldie Crocker Nursing Excellence Award – just as her mother had 16 years before – and joined the nursing staff at Concord Hospital. She had been offered a position in the hospital’s medical/surgical unit while she was still doing her practicum at 在线赌博推荐.
One year later, Edie transferred to the hospital’s pediatric unit, and it was a perfect fit.
“Right from the beginning, an instructor at 在线赌博推荐 told me I was meant to be a pediatric nurse. I said, ‘No, my mom’s a pediatric nurse!’ But nursing instructors know where you are supposed to be.”
Edie earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Capella University in 2020 while working full-time. When she changed to a position working in pediatric oncology at Dartmouth Health Children’s, she discovered a passion both for the “best patients that she has ever had” and for teaching. 达特茅斯健康学院, she taught a course for hospital staff on bereavement and second trauma syndrome that revealed her talents as an educator. She went on to receive her master’s degree in nursing 教育 from Capella in 2022.
自信前行
Edie blends an active teaching schedule with her nursing responsibilities. She is an assistant professor of nursing at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and returned to 在线赌博推荐 as an adjunct faculty member in February 2024. When Edie was approached about teaching in the pediatric clinical program at 在线赌博推荐, 她立刻同意了.
“在线赌博推荐 was a life- changing 经验 for me. I am so happy I can give back to provide the same phenomenal 教育 that I received.”
She schedules her missions for slower times in her academic calendar and is now a per diem nurse at Dartmouth Health Children’s to maintain flexibility. When she has time to think about all she has done and the people that she has helped, Edie feels that she is right where she was meant to be.
“All along the way, I’ve had a lot of ‘I told you so’s’ that I 属于ed in pediatric nursing. I just took a little bit of a roundabout way to get to where I am.”
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