My healthcare journey has taken me many places and given me many opportunities. I am a certified emergency nurse with over 30 years of ER nursing experience. I have worked on levels 1, 2 and 3 and on trauma. I have also spent 25 years working in inner city Baltimore, but I currently work in an ER in South Carolina. Presently, I hold a master’s degree in clinical nurse leadership and am board certified with AANC, but getting to this point was not always an easy road.
When I was 18, my father died. At this point, I was not financially able to continue my bachelor’s program so I switched to an associate program while working part-time. I worked for five years before I could go back to school. I also had to go to hospitals and do clinical experiences, but this allowed me to get my BSN paid for overall.