On November 1, I interviewed Jeremy Dean, a Registered Nurse who goes to my local church at home and he works at Memorial Regional. He recieved a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jeremy was inspired to get into nursing since he loves to help people, but he used to want to be a high school anatomy teacher since he was so fascinated by the human body. He said, “I randomly chose to become a CNA to see if I would like the field and loved it so I wanted to further my career in nursing.” While he was in college, he decided to work in the student health center to rack up his hours for nursing school so that was apart of his path to nursing. Now, working as an RN his basic roles and responsibilities are direct patient care and needs to have critical thinking so decisions when assessing a patient can be done quickly and effectively. Jeremy’s most rewarding aspect of his career is, being able to see patients get better and encouraging others to get into the field of nursing. The most surprising aspects of his career are, how fast he was able to get a job after graduating college. He spoke on that he had a job three months before graduation as long as he passed his state certifications. Also, Jeremy said the most challenging aspect of his career was not judging patients, he sees many at their very worst like people being in excruciating pain and also sees narcotic abusers. So, he has to maintain a neutral mentality especially when he deals with manipulative patients. Lastly, the advice he gave for future nursing students is that nursing school is a great knowledge base but when you actually begin to work you learn much more and it gets easier as the years go by. Jeremy spoke on how the first year was the toughest since he thought nursing school was more lecture heavy than practicing more clinicals. What I learned from conducting this interview is, that it sounds like a very intense career but the rewarding aspects of it are what makes it worth continuing.