For the first cohort of Lamar Institute of Technology\u2019s accelerated nursing program, the past 16 months at the Beaumont campus came with uncertainty, pressure, and persistence\u2014and ended with students receiving their pins, symbolizing completion of the program.<\/p>\n
Class president Angel Swallow Lewis reflected on the experience, saying, \u201cWe walked into the unknown.\u201d She described the early days of the program as challenging, adding, “There was no frame, no reassurance. Everything was missing.\u201d Lewis said there were moments of \u201cfrustration, fear and doubt,\u201d but \u201cit was perseverance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis said the program helped her build skills such as perseverance and learning to adapt, preparing her for what comes next. \u201cI have a script in a position to understand Elizabeth Hospital in their trauma masters department. I\u2019ll start in June. So before I even graduated, I accepted the position,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Lewis said 20 of the program\u2019s 30 students also accepted new jobs.<\/p>\n
She credited the faculty for helping students succeed. \u201cThe faculty has been amazing. They help us. They have pushed us through, and they have made it to where we were able to understand everything that they taught us, and it was just a real good, smooth, easy ride,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n
Lewis also pointed to the program\u2019s affordability and accelerated courses as factors that can make a career change into health care possible. \u201cI\u2019ve been at LVM for 11 years, but anyone that has no medical experience can just come through, a 16-month program for an hour in a future associate\u2019s degree,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a small class that started with 30. What\u2019s better? It\u2019s more personal that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis said the program\u2019s structure helped students balance school with responsibilities outside the classroom. \u201cYou\u2019re able to be a mom or dad,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re able to work and still have a life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis said life does not stop when people start chasing their dreams, and she said the program helped shape her into the nurse and leader she hopes to become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first cohort of Lamar Institute of Technology\u2019s accelerated nursing program, the past 16 months at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-669801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}