Kristen

I want you to do something that you can fall back on.

So I decided to go to nursing school.

I went to a two-year school.

I'm not going to tell you which state it is in, but there are ranges from 18 years old to like 50, people going back to school.

And I was so not wanting to do this in the first place.

But I get into the program and I have most of my math and science and all that stuff done.

They do clinicals, okay?

So in these clinical rotations, you start with geriatrics, then you go to med-surg, you progress.

I think most of it is because it weeds out.

You're wiping so many butts and you're taking out garbage and you're doing a lot of stuff that you don't necessarily do as an RN, but you do need to know how to do it and you really should do it.

So it kind of warms you up.

But my second rotation, which is the first in a hospital, is at this low-income area.

The very first day, they have us come in at 5 o'clock in the morning.

And you don't actually technically start until 7 a.m.

But because it's the first day, you have to go through orientation.

And they're telling you about OSHA and HIPAA and all that kind of stuff.

And they're very professional and say, hey, this is a low-income area.

You're going to have some people that come in with a...

Oh, is that where this is going to go?

No, thank God.