The Next Chapter<\/p>\n
Although Santos loves her patients and the work she does, her favorite part of her job is the people she works with.<\/p>\n
“It’s the camaraderie,” she said. “The doctors, nurses, managers, assistant managers. They’re all very supportive of each other. Even on the busiest days, we laugh together.”<\/p>\n
Santos is planning to retire later this year, after 15 years at UC San Diego Health and about 40 years as a nurse. She and her husband, retired after 25 years in the Navy, are looking forward to this next phase of their lives. They want to travel.<\/p>\n
“Let’s go while we still can,” she told her husband.<\/p>\n
Health Care Home Runs<\/p>\n
UC San Diego Health partners with the Padres to recognize employees whose work makes exceptional care possible every day. Each honoree is celebrated with a VIP experience at Petco Park as a way of saying thank you to the people who show up to serve this community.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Next Chapter Although Santos loves her patients and the work she does, her favorite part of her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-444211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}