Jenniffer Ebling, Skilled Nursing

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  1. Hello, everybody.
  2. My name is Jennifer Ebeling.
  3. I live in Iowa with my two kids and my
  4. husband. Boom.
  5. Have all been graciously patient with me throughout this entire
  6. process. Thankfully, um, I have always lived in Iowa.
  7. Um, I don't expect myself to move from Iowa anytime
  8. soon. I like the Midwest.
  9. Uh, it's sometimes a little challenging with the weather, but
  10. otherwise it's great.
  11. I became a nurse, mostly because of my stuff.
  12. Mm. When I was 14 she was going for her,
  13. see any certificate?
  14. And she asked her employer she could bring me as
  15. well. They were willing to work with the child labor
  16. loss, so they allowed me to get my sanity certificate
  17. and work for them while I was in high school.
  18. Uh, so I worked there on dhe.
  19. I just knew that I wanted to be a nurse.
  20. I loved working with geriatrics and the elderly.
  21. I felt like they help me much work very quickly,
  22. and they provided so much inside and just knowledge for
  23. how to live my life and live the world.
  24. And a lot of them were very, very fun toe
  25. work with too.
  26. So, um, I have only worked in skilled nursing facilities.
  27. I've been a variety of positions, though.
  28. CNN Ace Medicaid, Florida.
  29. Ours Unit manager.
  30. My work doesn't MPs coordinator for about 10 years, and
  31. then most recently I accepted an assistant director of nursing
  32. position and Omaha, Nebraska disco facility there.
  33. Um, eventually, when I get my Masters, I'm hoping, um,
  34. take it a little bit more experience as an assistant
  35. director of are saying, but to build up on my
  36. leadership skills.
  37. But I would like to become a director of nursing
  38. somewhere. Um, I am hoping my bachelors opens up some
  39. more doors so I might get out of my comfort
  40. zone at a school facility.
  41. I very well may choose to stay out of school
  42. facility as well by, um, I would like to definitely
  43. kind of change people's outlooks on nursing homes.
  44. There's only the scary stories out there.
  45. There's a lot of good that happens at nursing homes
  46. to right now is a big challenge because of covert
  47. 19 and all the limitations that we have to protect
  48. our residents and staff right now.
  49. So every day is a new challenge.
  50. We're trying to keep everybody's Morales up.
  51. We're tryingto come up with different things to help them
  52. in ST busy, um, and engaged with their families as
  53. much as we can.
  54. Ah, with technology today as well, but so hopefully, um,
  55. I have considered going on for my master's.
  56. I very much may take a break after my bachelor's,
  57. though. Has, um I think I need to focus on
  58. the family for a little while, but, um, I know
  59. education and teaching is something that I've always strived for
  60. as well.
  61. Um, and I know my masters would help with that.
  62. Um, we'll see.
  63. But looking forward to this class with everybody on the
  64. some of you from before.
  65. So looking for a dork and with you guys again,