"I wanted other opportunities and doors to open, and I wanted the ability to have more options regarding patient care as well as in volunteering, ministry, with mission trips, and things along those lines. With your masters, it opens the opportunity for so many things from providing care to underserved areas to teaching."
"When nurses graduate, they can expect to use everything they learned in getting their education because when you're approaching someone who has psychiatric illness, you have to take a holistic approach and look at their whole body."
Cardiovascular Institute of the South is world-renowned in its advances in cardiovascular medicine, so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with them and to take part in the program. It was very challenging at times, but it was manageable, and I learned so much.