{"id":155,"date":"2022-05-04T20:49:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T20:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.odu.edu\/oduleaders-template\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2022-11-24T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:52:13","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello everyone, my name is Melinda Pierce and I am from Newport News, Virginia. Where I was born and raised and now raising my own kids, 3 boys ages  15, 11, and 9. I started attending ODU in the spring of 2018 when I got accepted into the Bachelor of Science in Health Science program. My major is Health Services Administration with a minor in Management.\u00a0 I received my Associate of Applied Science degree from Thomas Nelson Community college and my Nurse aid certification from New Horizons Regional  Education Center.  I\u00a0 have been working in healthcare for about 10 years now working as a Certified\u00a0 Nurse Assistant with training in Handle With Care,  Phlebotomy, and CPR and BLS certified. I joined Sentara Healthcare in 2016 working as a Nurse\u00a0 Care Partner\/Patient Safety Partner at \u00a0Sentara Careplex Hospital where I am still employed today. My career goal is to gain employment at a hospital in an administrative role. My ultimate goal is to become a hospital administrator!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignright has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29487\/2022\/10\/IMG_7358-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29487\/2022\/10\/IMG_7358-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29487\/2022\/10\/IMG_7358-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29487\/2022\/10\/IMG_2917-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29487\/2022\/10\/IMG_2917-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29487\/2022\/10\/IMG_2917-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29487\/2022\/10\/IMG_2917-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29487\/2022\/10\/IMG_2917.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, my name is Melinda Pierce and I am from Newport News, Virginia. Where I was born and raised and now raising my own kids, 3 boys ages 15, 11, and 9. I started attending ODU in the spring of 2018 when I got accepted into the Bachelor of Science in Health Science program&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/bio\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14382,"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\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/leaderspierce2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}