{"id":30,"date":"2023-09-28T03:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T03:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/draft-health101\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2023-10-18T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:12:29","slug":"my-major","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/my-major\/","title":{"rendered":"My Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\">My Major:<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34425\/2023\/10\/neonatal-nurse-with-baby-1200x628-1-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34425\/2023\/10\/neonatal-nurse-with-baby-1200x628-1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34425\/2023\/10\/neonatal-nurse-with-baby-1200x628-1-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34425\/2023\/10\/neonatal-nurse-with-baby-1200x628-1-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34425\/2023\/10\/neonatal-nurse-with-baby-1200x628-1-573x300.jpg 573w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34425\/2023\/10\/neonatal-nurse-with-baby-1200x628-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nursing BSN<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><strong>Why did I choose Nursing?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I chose nursing because I knew I wanted to pursue something in the medical field along with always wanting to help others and give back to my community in some way. I looked into and thought about going into the dental field, but something didn&#8217;t quite fit, I wanted something more I think, more of a connection with the patient maybe. In high school, I absolutely loved my biology class freshman year. I was fascinated by it all, it came easy to me. I think it was during this class where I thought about a career in the medical field would be great. I then signed up for the nursing class and I loved it! I had such a great teacher &#8211; she inspired me.\u00a0 My plans are to specialize in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or a Pediatric Intensive Care nurse. I would like to continue my education and become a Nurse Practitioner.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><strong>Experience:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I took Exploring Health Sciences and Exploring the Language of Medicine DE in high school as well as Nursing 1 and 2<\/li>\n<li>I participated in a 40 hour clinical at a local Long-term Care Facility where I worked with CNAs, MAs, and RNs to help the elderly that need extra support with their Activities of Daily Living<\/li>\n<li>I am qualified to take the Virginia Certified Nursing Assistant Exam, which I plan on taking very soon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34425\/2023\/10\/6EFE3DA8-88C1-4852-842E-9B8540ADD10B_1_105_c-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34425\/2023\/10\/6EFE3DA8-88C1-4852-842E-9B8540ADD10B_1_105_c-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34425\/2023\/10\/6EFE3DA8-88C1-4852-842E-9B8540ADD10B_1_105_c-577x1024.jpeg 577w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34425\/2023\/10\/6EFE3DA8-88C1-4852-842E-9B8540ADD10B_1_105_c.jpeg 665w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Major: Nursing BSN Why did I choose Nursing? I chose nursing because I knew I wanted to pursue something in the medical field along with always wanting to help others and give back to my community in some way. I looked into and thought about going into the dental field, but something didn&#8217;t quite&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/my-major\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26755,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/abbybuchannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}