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The one thing I loved about nursing is it continuously gives me an opportunity to make an impact in my patient’s lives, as we are the healthcare providers who are with them the most. I love nothing more than helping people, giving back to my community that gave so much to me, and bringing a smile to someone’s face.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Even the smallest acts as nurses, a lot of patients appreciate those acts greatly. Some of these patients are experiencing the scariest moments of their lives, and the fact that nursing gives me that opportunity to support them in those moments and be a light during that time, is what led me to choose nursing the most.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Did you have an ah-ha moment about wanting to become a nurse?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Throughout my childhood years, my grandpa would always call me his “little nurse,” which when it came to deciding my major applying to WVU, was something that stuck with me and led me to that “ah-ha” moment in deciding I wanted to be a nurse.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">I knew how much joy it brought me helping him, and knew I’d find just as much joy helping others as a nurse. 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I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. I am so grateful for all of the friendships that have formed since being a part of this nursing program, and I am excited to even get to work with some of those friends I have made on the MICU.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">What’s one piece of advice you would give your freshman self?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">One piece of advice I would give my freshman year self is to believe in myself! As a freshman, I remember looking ahead to the next four years and I was terrified. You hear all these things from upperclassman in the nursing program about how difficult and time consuming it is, and you start to think, “Can I do this?”, and discouragement then follows.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">My piece of advice is — you will make it! 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Many people told me I would not make it at such a big school but taking the opportunity that I had, is absolutely the best decision I have made.</p>\r\n<p>As stated before, I was not even accepted into pre-nursing until my sophomore year which means I am just now in my first semester of actual nursing school as a junior and that is something that made me feel so defeated for so long and as if all of those people were right but that did not make me choose the easier route and it did not make me give up. It took a little bit more work and time, but you are capable of anything you put your mind to!</p>\r\n<p>Do not let others determine the future that you can make for yourself. 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I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. 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I thank all of my professors who believed in me and my other classmates along the way, and who pushed us to keep going when we thought we couldn’t make it. Your work to make WVU School of Nursing a program that gives us the highest quality education and prepares us for our future careers does not go unnoticed!</p>","fullName":"Abigail Jeffers","campus":746,"pullQuote":"I feel WVU prepared me so well for this next chapter of my life. I have developed knowledge and confidence in myself that I never dreamed I would have back during my freshman year of college. I feel more than prepared to tackle the NCLEX here in a few weeks and start my nursing career. I thank WVU for giving me the opportunity it did to pursue such a wonderful career, and I will forever be proud to be a WVU alumni!","photo":{"src":"/media/75074/abigailjeffers.jpeg","focalPoint":{"left":0.51071428571428568,"top":0.5161290322580645},"crops":[{"alias":"landscape-large","width":2000,"height":1125,"coordinates":{"x1":0.04973701704989833,"y1":0.082141123905553753,"x2":0.070394376661974026,"y2":0.17528844793040005}},{"alias":"landscape-medium","width":1200,"height":675,"coordinates":{"x1":0.065412681338488821,"y1":0.095416788733066318,"x2":0.11692880193040087,"y2":0.21451536417957906}},{"alias":"landscape-small","width":600,"height":337,"coordinates":{"x1":0.089191426206581617,"y1":0.099026659519852442,"x2":0.10808573793418384,"y2":0.22451420011142587}},{"alias":"portrait-large","width":720,"height":1080,"coordinates":{"x1":0.26512044270833335,"y1":0.0,"x2":0.29054361979166665,"y2":0.0}},{"alias":"portrait-medium","width":320,"height":480,"coordinates":{"x1":0.271044921875,"y1":0.0,"x2":0.284619140625,"y2":0.0}},{"alias":"portrait-555x740","width":555,"height":740,"coordinates":{"x1":0.24290364583333335,"y1":0.0,"x2":0.25721842447916665,"y2":0.0}},{"alias":"portrait-300x400","width":300,"height":400,"coordinates":null},{"alias":"square-1000","width":1000,"height":1000,"coordinates":null},{"alias":"square-500","width":500,"height":500,"coordinates":null}]},"introductionBlurb":"","programOfStudy":[{}]},{"ItemType":0,"Id":3494,"Key":"150e7b79-85dc-4031-9270-3f565469bcb1","TemplateId":1856,"SortOrder":23,"Name":"Meet Elizabeth.","DocumentTypeAlias":"soNStudentProfile","DocumentTypeId":2467,"WriterName":"WVU HSC ITS","CreatorName":"wlh00001","WriterId":0,"CreatorId":29,"Path":"-1,1812,1844,1859,3494","CreateDate":"2024-04-29T12:04:58","UpdateDate":"2024-11-11T10:29:47","Version":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","UrlName":"meet-elizabeth","Level":4,"IsDraft":false,"Url":"/students/profiles/meet-elizabeth/","metaKeywords":"","hideFromSearch":false,"pageTitle":"","navigationSettings":"","umbracoUrlName":"","metaDescription":"","navigationTitle":"","umbracoNaviHideChildren":false,"seoSettings":"","umbracoRequireSSL":false,"umbracoNaviHide":false,"auditNotes":"","auditStatus":"","pronouns":"she/her","profileVideoURL":"","expectedGraduationDate":"2024-05-01T00:00:00","hometown":"Huntington, WV","mainContent":"<h2>What made you consider nursing as a program of study?</h2>\r\n<p>I have always loved science and learning about diseases and conditions, but I am also a huge people person! 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Nursing students complete rural clinical practice experience during their senior year.</p>\r\n<p>Throughout the academic and clinical experiences, students will focus on the five core competencies that provide the framework for the BSN curriculum, including critical thinking, nursing interventions, professional role, caring, and communication which are outlined in more detail in our <a href=\"https://nursing.wvu.edu/students/resources/student-handbooks/\">Student Handbook</a>. </p>\r\n<p>Want to learn more about the benefits of a BSN program? Watch the recording below:</p>\r\n<?UMBRACO_MACRO macroAlias=\"EmbeddedVideo\" Url=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWOn6d343tc\" showDescription=\"0\" />\r\n<h2>Progression Plans</h2>\r\n<p>Depending on when you are admitted to the BSN program, the progression plan you follow in your time at WVU can vary slightly. 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You get to know everyone really well and there are more opportunities for one-on-one time with professors if you need it.</p>\r\n<h2>Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p>I have gained so much confidence in myself while at the SON. I remember starting out thinking, “How am I going to do this? I will never make it through this program.” But with every exam passed and tons clinical experience, I slowly started to believe in myself. Now I can’t imagine doing anything but nursing.</p>\r\n<h2>What’s one piece of advice you would give your freshman self?</h2>\r\n<p>Hard work truly does pay off, so keep going. I have had so many moments where I felt like I was doing all this work and I couldn’t see the bigger picture of what I was working towards. Now that I am at the end of my college career, I am so grateful that I pushed myself to always do my best even when it was difficult.</p>\r\n<h2>What are your plans after graduation?</h2>\r\n<p>After graduation I will be working on the Nursery/Post-Partum unit at UPMC Western Maryland. I am so passionate about this area of nursing and I am very excited to begin this journey.</p>\r\n<h2>How do you feel WVU prepared you for your next chapter?</h2>\r\n<p>WVU SON has given me so many amazing clinical experiences. We have traveled to several hospitals and have been involved in many areas of specialties within nursing that I never would have experienced otherwise. During my leadership preceptorship, I was able to gain more knowledge and experience in my preferred specialty, which ultimately helped me get my dream job.</p>\r\n<h2>Anything else you’d like to add?</h2>\r\n<p>I am so grateful for my classmates and the professors that I have worked with along the way. They pick you up when you are feeling low and celebrate with you when you are having success. All of the professors truly care and want you to succeed. Being in such a positive environment helped me to really thrive in such a difficult program.</p>","fullName":"Whitney Tasker","campus":748,"pullQuote":"I chose WVU School of Nursing because it is right in my hometown. I loved that I could get a four-year degree and still live at home and save money. The class sizes are also smaller on the Potomac State College campus which was a big deal to me. 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The one thing I loved about nursing is it continuously gives me an opportunity to make an impact in my patient’s lives, as we are the healthcare providers who are with them the most. I love nothing more than helping people, giving back to my community that gave so much to me, and bringing a smile to someone’s face.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Even the smallest acts as nurses, a lot of patients appreciate those acts greatly. Some of these patients are experiencing the scariest moments of their lives, and the fact that nursing gives me that opportunity to support them in those moments and be a light during that time, is what led me to choose nursing the most.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Did you have an ah-ha moment about wanting to become a nurse?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Throughout my childhood years, my grandpa would always call me his “little nurse,” which when it came to deciding my major applying to WVU, was something that stuck with me and led me to that “ah-ha” moment in deciding I wanted to be a nurse.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">I knew how much joy it brought me helping him, and knew I’d find just as much joy helping others as a nurse. 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I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. I am so grateful for all of the friendships that have formed since being a part of this nursing program, and I am excited to even get to work with some of those friends I have made on the MICU.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">What’s one piece of advice you would give your freshman self?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">One piece of advice I would give my freshman year self is to believe in myself! As a freshman, I remember looking ahead to the next four years and I was terrified. You hear all these things from upperclassman in the nursing program about how difficult and time consuming it is, and you start to think, “Can I do this?”, and discouragement then follows.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">My piece of advice is — you will make it! 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I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. 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I thank all of my professors who believed in me and my other classmates along the way, and who pushed us to keep going when we thought we couldn’t make it. Your work to make WVU School of Nursing a program that gives us the highest quality education and prepares us for our future careers does not go unnoticed!</p>","fullName":"Abigail Jeffers","campus":746,"pullQuote":"I feel WVU prepared me so well for this next chapter of my life. I have developed knowledge and confidence in myself that I never dreamed I would have back during my freshman year of college. I feel more than prepared to tackle the NCLEX here in a few weeks and start my nursing career. 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The one thing I loved about nursing is it continuously gives me an opportunity to make an impact in my patient’s lives, as we are the healthcare providers who are with them the most. I love nothing more than helping people, giving back to my community that gave so much to me, and bringing a smile to someone’s face.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Even the smallest acts as nurses, a lot of patients appreciate those acts greatly. Some of these patients are experiencing the scariest moments of their lives, and the fact that nursing gives me that opportunity to support them in those moments and be a light during that time, is what led me to choose nursing the most.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Did you have an ah-ha moment about wanting to become a nurse?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Throughout my childhood years, my grandpa would always call me his “little nurse,” which when it came to deciding my major applying to WVU, was something that stuck with me and led me to that “ah-ha” moment in deciding I wanted to be a nurse.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">I knew how much joy it brought me helping him, and knew I’d find just as much joy helping others as a nurse. I also feel like that “ah-ha” moment was clarified my junior year of college, which was when a lot of my learning in school truly started being applied in the clinical setting.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Most people told me that junior year, you really start connecting the dots between your learning in the classroom and the clinical setting, and that was very true! It gave me so much encouragement, and truly reminded me that I can be a nurse, and that I was right where I was supposed to be!</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Why did you choose WVU School of Nursing?  </h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">I could tell by just talking to students I knew who were currently in the program that WVU School of Nursing would provide me with such wonderful opportunity, whether that was educationally or regarding experience in the clinical setting. I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. I am so grateful for all of the friendships that have formed since being a part of this nursing program, and I am excited to even get to work with some of those friends I have made on the MICU.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">What’s one piece of advice you would give your freshman self?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">One piece of advice I would give my freshman year self is to believe in myself! As a freshman, I remember looking ahead to the next four years and I was terrified. You hear all these things from upperclassman in the nursing program about how difficult and time consuming it is, and you start to think, “Can I do this?”, and discouragement then follows.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">My piece of advice is — you will make it! It takes so much hard work, dedication, and faith in yourself to keep pushing through in those late-night study sessions, times when you have three exams to study for and five different assignments to get done, or moments you literally haven’t done anything other than study for three days straight, but there is an end to the chaos. You will learn so much in such a short amount of time and realize how much you truly are capable of. I see where I am at now compared to freshman year, and it is so cool to see how far I have come, both professionally and as an individual.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">What are your plans after graduation?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">I plan to work in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Ruby Memorial Hospital as my first nursing job after graduation. I’m wanting to work there for a few years, and then go to nurse practitioner or nurse anesthetist school—I haven’t quite decided yet. If I would do nurse practitioner school, I’d also love to potentially be a clinical instructor through WVU to give back to a program that gave me so much.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">How do you feel WVU prepared you for your next chapter?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">I feel WVU prepared me so well for this next chapter of my life. I have developed knowledge and confidence in myself that I never dreamed I would have back during my freshman year of college. I feel more than prepared to tackle the NCLEX here in a few weeks and start my nursing career. I thank WVU for giving me the opportunity it did to pursue such a wonderful career, and I will forever be proud to be a WVU alumni!</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Anything else you’d like to add?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">I’m so thankful for the opportunities WVU and the WVU School of Nursing has given me. I thank all of my professors who believed in me and my other classmates along the way, and who pushed us to keep going when we thought we couldn’t make it. Your work to make WVU School of Nursing a program that gives us the highest quality education and prepares us for our future careers does not go unnoticed!</p>","fullName":"Abigail Jeffers","campus":746,"pullQuote":"I feel WVU prepared me so well for this next chapter of my life. I have developed knowledge and confidence in myself that I never dreamed I would have back during my freshman year of college. I feel more than prepared to tackle the NCLEX here in a few weeks and start my nursing career. I thank WVU for giving me the opportunity it did to pursue such a wonderful career, and I will forever be proud to be a WVU alumni!","photo":{"src":"/media/75074/abigailjeffers.jpeg","focalPoint":{"left":0.51071428571428568,"top":0.5161290322580645},"crops":[{"alias":"landscape-large","width":2000,"height":1125,"coordinates":{"x1":0.04973701704989833,"y1":0.082141123905553753,"x2":0.070394376661974026,"y2":0.17528844793040005}},{"alias":"landscape-medium","width":1200,"height":675,"coordinates":{"x1":0.065412681338488821,"y1":0.095416788733066318,"x2":0.11692880193040087,"y2":0.21451536417957906}},{"alias":"landscape-small","width":600,"height":337,"coordinates":{"x1":0.089191426206581617,"y1":0.099026659519852442,"x2":0.10808573793418384,"y2":0.22451420011142587}},{"alias":"portrait-large","width":720,"height":1080,"coordinates":{"x1":0.26512044270833335,"y1":0.0,"x2":0.29054361979166665,"y2":0.0}},{"alias":"portrait-medium","width":320,"height":480,"coordinates":{"x1":0.271044921875,"y1":0.0,"x2":0.284619140625,"y2":0.0}},{"alias":"portrait-555x740","width":555,"height":740,"coordinates":{"x1":0.24290364583333335,"y1":0.0,"x2":0.25721842447916665,"y2":0.0}},{"alias":"portrait-300x400","width":300,"height":400,"coordinates":null},{"alias":"square-1000","width":1000,"height":1000,"coordinates":null},{"alias":"square-500","width":500,"height":500,"coordinates":null}]},"introductionBlurb":"","programOfStudy":[{"ItemType":0,"Id":1872,"Key":"d8943512-669b-4591-bcbe-98954c0c4b05","TemplateId":1871,"SortOrder":3,"Name":"Bachelor of Science","DocumentTypeAlias":"soNUndergraduateProgram","DocumentTypeId":3026,"WriterName":"wlh00001","CreatorName":"jnn0006","WriterId":29,"CreatorId":23,"Path":"-1,1812,1844,1865,1872","CreateDate":"2017-03-17T11:01:01","UpdateDate":"2024-11-21T14:01:42","Version":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","UrlName":"bachelor-of-science","Level":4,"IsDraft":false,"Url":"/students/undergraduate-programs/bachelor-of-science/","metaKeywords":"","hideFromSearch":false,"pageTitle":"","navigationSettings":"","umbracoUrlName":"","metaDescription":"","navigationTitle":"","umbracoNaviHideChildren":false,"seoSettings":"","umbracoRequireSSL":false,"umbracoNaviHide":false,"auditNotes":"PDF documents should not load in a new window (see https://www.hsc.wvu.edu/website-content-guide/creation/links/#when-should-a-link-open-in-a-new-tab-or-window?). 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I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. 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I thank all of my professors who believed in me and my other classmates along the way, and who pushed us to keep going when we thought we couldn’t make it. Your work to make WVU School of Nursing a program that gives us the highest quality education and prepares us for our future careers does not go unnoticed!</p>","fullName":"Abigail Jeffers","campus":746,"pullQuote":"I feel WVU prepared me so well for this next chapter of my life. I have developed knowledge and confidence in myself that I never dreamed I would have back during my freshman year of college. I feel more than prepared to tackle the NCLEX here in a few weeks and start my nursing career. 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Nursing students complete rural clinical practice experience during their senior year.</p>\r\n<p>Throughout the academic and clinical experiences, students will focus on the five core competencies that provide the framework for the BSN curriculum, including critical thinking, nursing interventions, professional role, caring, and communication which are outlined in more detail in our <a href=\"https://nursing.wvu.edu/students/resources/student-handbooks/\">Student Handbook</a>. </p>\r\n<p>Want to learn more about the benefits of a BSN program? Watch the recording below:</p>\r\n<?UMBRACO_MACRO macroAlias=\"EmbeddedVideo\" Url=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWOn6d343tc\" showDescription=\"0\" />\r\n<h2>Progression Plans</h2>\r\n<p>Depending on when you are admitted to the BSN program, the progression plan you follow in your time at WVU can vary slightly. 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They are always present for their students and have so much knowledge to share.</p>\r\n<h2>Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p>A positive experience I have had during my time at the School of Nursing is getting to work at many different hospitals in the area. New settings and changes can be scary; however, I feel like this is no longer a concern of mine. I have had so many clinicals in various settings that I feel like I could walk onto any unit and take control of various situations while also advocating for myself.</p>\r\n<h2>What’s one piece of advice you would give your freshman self?</h2>\r\n<p>One piece of advice I’d give to my freshman self is not to just focus on passing the test in front of you. Focus on genuinely retaining the information being taught because it always comes back up in the future.</p>\r\n<h2>What are your plans after graduation?</h2>\r\n<p>After graduation, I plan on moving back to Philadelphia. 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Without you all, I would not be where I am today. </p>","fullName":"Paige Shafor","campus":747,"pullQuote":"I choose WVU School of Nursing because of our high NCLEX pass rates and high job placements rates post graduation. Beyond this, in my opinion, I have experienced some of the best instructors. 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The one thing I loved about nursing is it continuously gives me an opportunity to make an impact in my patient’s lives, as we are the healthcare providers who are with them the most. I love nothing more than helping people, giving back to my community that gave so much to me, and bringing a smile to someone’s face.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Even the smallest acts as nurses, a lot of patients appreciate those acts greatly. Some of these patients are experiencing the scariest moments of their lives, and the fact that nursing gives me that opportunity to support them in those moments and be a light during that time, is what led me to choose nursing the most.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Did you have an ah-ha moment about wanting to become a nurse?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Throughout my childhood years, my grandpa would always call me his “little nurse,” which when it came to deciding my major applying to WVU, was something that stuck with me and led me to that “ah-ha” moment in deciding I wanted to be a nurse.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">I knew how much joy it brought me helping him, and knew I’d find just as much joy helping others as a nurse. 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I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. 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I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. 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I thank all of my professors who believed in me and my other classmates along the way, and who pushed us to keep going when we thought we couldn’t make it. Your work to make WVU School of Nursing a program that gives us the highest quality education and prepares us for our future careers does not go unnoticed!</p>","fullName":"Abigail Jeffers","campus":746,"pullQuote":"I feel WVU prepared me so well for this next chapter of my life. I have developed knowledge and confidence in myself that I never dreamed I would have back during my freshman year of college. I feel more than prepared to tackle the NCLEX here in a few weeks and start my nursing career. I thank WVU for giving me the opportunity it did to pursue such a wonderful career, and I will forever be proud to be a WVU alumni!","photo":{"src":"/media/75074/abigailjeffers.jpeg","focalPoint":{"left":0.51071428571428568,"top":0.5161290322580645},"crops":[{"alias":"landscape-large","width":2000,"height":1125,"coordinates":{"x1":0.04973701704989833,"y1":0.082141123905553753,"x2":0.070394376661974026,"y2":0.17528844793040005}},{"alias":"landscape-medium","width":1200,"height":675,"coordinates":{"x1":0.065412681338488821,"y1":0.095416788733066318,"x2":0.11692880193040087,"y2":0.21451536417957906}},{"alias":"landscape-small","width":600,"height":337,"coordinates":{"x1":0.089191426206581617,"y1":0.099026659519852442,"x2":0.10808573793418384,"y2":0.22451420011142587}},{"alias":"portrait-large","width":720,"height":1080,"coordinates":{"x1":0.26512044270833335,"y1":0.0,"x2":0.29054361979166665,"y2":0.0}},{"alias":"portrait-medium","width":320,"height":480,"coordinates":{"x1":0.271044921875,"y1":0.0,"x2":0.284619140625,"y2":0.0}},{"alias":"portrait-555x740","width":555,"height":740,"coordinates":{"x1":0.24290364583333335,"y1":0.0,"x2":0.25721842447916665,"y2":0.0}},{"alias":"portrait-300x400","width":300,"height":400,"coordinates":null},{"alias":"square-1000","width":1000,"height":1000,"coordinates":null},{"alias":"square-500","width":500,"height":500,"coordinates":null}]},"introductionBlurb":"","programOfStudy":[{}]},{"ItemType":0,"Id":3494,"Key":"150e7b79-85dc-4031-9270-3f565469bcb1","TemplateId":1856,"SortOrder":23,"Name":"Meet Elizabeth.","DocumentTypeAlias":"soNStudentProfile","DocumentTypeId":2467,"WriterName":"WVU HSC ITS","CreatorName":"wlh00001","WriterId":0,"CreatorId":29,"Path":"-1,1812,1844,1859,3494","CreateDate":"2024-04-29T12:04:58","UpdateDate":"2024-11-11T10:29:47","Version":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","UrlName":"meet-elizabeth","Level":4,"IsDraft":false,"Url":"/students/profiles/meet-elizabeth/","metaKeywords":"","hideFromSearch":false,"pageTitle":"","navigationSettings":"","umbracoUrlName":"","metaDescription":"","navigationTitle":"","umbracoNaviHideChildren":false,"seoSettings":"","umbracoRequireSSL":false,"umbracoNaviHide":false,"auditNotes":"","auditStatus":"","pronouns":"she/her","profileVideoURL":"","expectedGraduationDate":"2024-05-01T00:00:00","hometown":"Huntington, WV","mainContent":"<h2>What made you consider nursing as a program of study?</h2>\r\n<p>I have always loved science and learning about diseases and conditions, but I am also a huge people person! 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What sets it apart from other schools was how thought provoking the work is to make you think outside of the box.</p>\r\n<h2>What’s one piece of advice you would give your freshman self?</h2>\r\n<p>I would advise myself to ask for help when I would struggle if the teachers and tutors are there to help.</p>\r\n<h2>What do you hope to do after graduation?</h2>\r\n<p>After graduation, I hope to working as an emergency room nurse.</p>\r\n<h2>Where do you draw your inspiration from?</h2>\r\n<p>I draw my inspiration from my family seeing how hard they work to get me here is something I think about often when taking an exam to make myself but them proud as well.</p>\r\n<h2>What student organizations are you involved with, and what do they mean to you?</h2>\r\n<p>I’m a part of Black Student Union (BSU) and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. To me, BSU is my second family in Morgantown, always there to uplift and support me in times of need. 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The one thing I loved about nursing is it continuously gives me an opportunity to make an impact in my patient’s lives, as we are the healthcare providers who are with them the most. I love nothing more than helping people, giving back to my community that gave so much to me, and bringing a smile to someone’s face.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Even the smallest acts as nurses, a lot of patients appreciate those acts greatly. 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I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. I am so grateful for all of the friendships that have formed since being a part of this nursing program, and I am excited to even get to work with some of those friends I have made on the MICU.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">What’s one piece of advice you would give your freshman self?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">One piece of advice I would give my freshman year self is to believe in myself! As a freshman, I remember looking ahead to the next four years and I was terrified. You hear all these things from upperclassman in the nursing program about how difficult and time consuming it is, and you start to think, “Can I do this?”, and discouragement then follows.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">My piece of advice is — you will make it! It takes so much hard work, dedication, and faith in yourself to keep pushing through in those late-night study sessions, times when you have three exams to study for and five different assignments to get done, or moments you literally haven’t done anything other than study for three days straight, but there is an end to the chaos. You will learn so much in such a short amount of time and realize how much you truly are capable of. I see where I am at now compared to freshman year, and it is so cool to see how far I have come, both professionally and as an individual.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">What are your plans after graduation?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">I plan to work in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Ruby Memorial Hospital as my first nursing job after graduation. I’m wanting to work there for a few years, and then go to nurse practitioner or nurse anesthetist school—I haven’t quite decided yet. 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Many people told me I would not make it at such a big school but taking the opportunity that I had, is absolutely the best decision I have made.</p>\r\n<p>As stated before, I was not even accepted into pre-nursing until my sophomore year which means I am just now in my first semester of actual nursing school as a junior and that is something that made me feel so defeated for so long and as if all of those people were right but that did not make me choose the easier route and it did not make me give up. It took a little bit more work and time, but you are capable of anything you put your mind to!</p>\r\n<p>Do not let others determine the future that you can make for yourself. 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I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. 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I thank all of my professors who believed in me and my other classmates along the way, and who pushed us to keep going when we thought we couldn’t make it. Your work to make WVU School of Nursing a program that gives us the highest quality education and prepares us for our future careers does not go unnoticed!</p>","fullName":"Abigail Jeffers","campus":746,"pullQuote":"I feel WVU prepared me so well for this next chapter of my life. I have developed knowledge and confidence in myself that I never dreamed I would have back during my freshman year of college. I feel more than prepared to tackle the NCLEX here in a few weeks and start my nursing career. 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The one thing I loved about nursing is it continuously gives me an opportunity to make an impact in my patient’s lives, as we are the healthcare providers who are with them the most. I love nothing more than helping people, giving back to my community that gave so much to me, and bringing a smile to someone’s face.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Even the smallest acts as nurses, a lot of patients appreciate those acts greatly. Some of these patients are experiencing the scariest moments of their lives, and the fact that nursing gives me that opportunity to support them in those moments and be a light during that time, is what led me to choose nursing the most.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Did you have an ah-ha moment about wanting to become a nurse?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Throughout my childhood years, my grandpa would always call me his “little nurse,” which when it came to deciding my major applying to WVU, was something that stuck with me and led me to that “ah-ha” moment in deciding I wanted to be a nurse.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">I knew how much joy it brought me helping him, and knew I’d find just as much joy helping others as a nurse. 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I think what sets WVU SON apart from other colleges is that we get clinical experience at Ruby Memorial Hospital, which is the No. 1 hospital here in West Virginia and a highly trained Level One Trauma Center. Considering the amount I have learned and the critical patients I have gotten to taken care of during my leadership rotation here at Ruby, I feel very prepared and excited going into my nursing career as a Medical Intensive Care Unit nurse.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">A positive experience with the WVU SON is the friendships I made along the way. I truly think you bond in a different way with these people because you go through some of the most difficult years of school with them. I am so grateful for all of the friendships that have formed since being a part of this nursing program, and I am excited to even get to work with some of those friends I have made on the MICU.</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"p1\">What’s one piece of advice you would give your freshman self?</h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">One piece of advice I would give my freshman year self is to believe in myself! As a freshman, I remember looking ahead to the next four years and I was terrified. You hear all these things from upperclassman in the nursing program about how difficult and time consuming it is, and you start to think, “Can I do this?”, and discouragement then follows.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">My piece of advice is — you will make it! 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Meet the Grads

Whitney Tasker

Bachelor of Science
School of Nursing

I chose WVU School of Nursing because it is right in my hometown. I loved that I could get a four-year degree and still live at home and save money. The class sizes are also smaller on the Potomac State College campus which was a big deal to me. You get to know everyone really well and there are more opportunities for one-on-one time with professors if you need it.

What made you consider nursing as a program of study?

I have always loved the idea of being able to take care of people and be a person that others can lean on for support. I started out by doing CNA classes in high school and I loved them so much I decided to keep moving forward and get my BSN.

Did you have an ah-ha moment about wanting to become a nurse?

When I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at 16, I remember watching the nurses on the floor take care of me and thinking how amazing their jobs seemed. It was such a scary time in my life and the nurses were not only there to help me medically, but also mentally/emotionally. I knew that I wanted to be like them one day so that I could also help people.

Why did you choose WVU School of Nursing?

I chose WVU SON because it is right in my hometown. I loved that I could get a four-year degree and still live at home and save money. The class sizes are also smaller on the Potomac State College campus which was a big deal to me. You get to know everyone really well and there are more opportunities for one-on-one time with professors if you need it.

Could you share a positive experience from your time at the SON?

I have gained so much confidence in myself while at the SON. I remember starting out thinking, “How am I going to do this? I will never make it through this program.” But with every exam passed and tons clinical experience, I slowly started to believe in myself. Now I can’t imagine doing anything but nursing.

What’s one piece of advice you would give your freshman self?

Hard work truly does pay off, so keep going. I have had so many moments where I felt like I was doing all this work and I couldn’t see the bigger picture of what I was working towards. Now that I am at the end of my college career, I am so grateful that I pushed myself to always do my best even when it was difficult.

What are your plans after graduation?

After graduation I will be working on the Nursery/Post-Partum unit at UPMC Western Maryland. I am so passionate about this area of nursing and I am very excited to begin this journey.

How do you feel WVU prepared you for your next chapter?

WVU SON has given me so many amazing clinical experiences. We have traveled to several hospitals and have been involved in many areas of specialties within nursing that I never would have experienced otherwise. During my leadership preceptorship, I was able to gain more knowledge and experience in my preferred specialty, which ultimately helped me get my dream job.

Anything else you’d like to add?

I am so grateful for my classmates and the professors that I have worked with along the way. They pick you up when you are feeling low and celebrate with you when you are having success. All of the professors truly care and want you to succeed. Being in such a positive environment helped me to really thrive in such a difficult program.