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Hello, my name is Vanessa Aragon and I am from Fresno California.
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This is I believe my sixth class in this BSN program so far.
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Um I can't believe how fast it is going but
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um just want to start off and say how excited I am to start another course.
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Um and I have learned a lot so far um
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Again as I said, I currently reside in Fresno California
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um where I am currently a registered nurse in trauma surgery.
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Um I also am the charge nurse for our night shift.
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Um This is actually my one night off in between my six that I work.
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Um I just got off working three nights in a row and
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then I'm off tonight and I go back for another three.
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So
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this is my long stretch of my work week.
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Um but yeah, so I've been a trauma surgery nurse for six years now.
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I started as an X turn back in 2015. Um and I love it.
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I love the people that I work with,
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I love the adrenaline rush of not knowing exactly
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what is going to be coming through the doors.
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We have a lot of
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violence, gangs, motor vehicle accidents, burns. Um
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you know a lot of different things that happen and um working the night shift,
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we see literally everything you name it,
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we've seen it those of you who work in a trauma critical care setting.
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Um probably know what I'm talking about.
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Um
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So my plan after I'm done with my BSN is to hopefully go straight into my FN P.
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Through United States University.
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Um
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But I have not decided what exactly I want to do yet,
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I don't know if I want to stay in surgery,
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I don't know if I want to do something different.
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Um But I do know that I want to continue on with my education.
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I already have my bachelors in a non nursing field and combined
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sciences from santa Clara University where I played Division one college soccer.
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Um So I always try to strive for more. Um And so I'm credit,
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yeah
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right now I'm going through practicing and studying for my C. N. O. R. Which is um
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for the operating room.
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Um
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And doing my bachelors as well and then going to go straight into my F. And P.
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I can't really say that I have um a positive mentor
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in nursing of why you either want to start nursing or.
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Um Somebody right now um I can just say that um I wanted to always help
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people and so that was one thing that geared me towards the career of nursing.
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Um So I really don't
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per se have somebody who I can really say that I look up to as a nurse.
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Um I didn't have anybody in my family who was in the medical field so I'm the first one.
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Um So I also wanted to
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you know in hopes be
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that person in my family that other people can look up to and
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have a positive impact for
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them going forward.
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Um Again, I'm excited to start another course and looking forward to
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hearing everybody's discussions and
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Hopefully have a good eight weeks in this course. Thank you.