果冻传媒

December 7, 2020
Life After Witt

Passion Becomes Purpose

Recent Nursing Graduate Assists Cancer Patients in Washington, D.C., Oncology Unit

Shortly after earning her bachelor鈥檚 degree in nursing from 果冻传媒 University, Madeline Stock, class of 2019, took on some new challenges, both personal and professional.

The Cincinnati, Ohio, native moved to Washington, D.C., to work at a Medstar Hospital, where she currently cares for cancer patients before and after surgery in the oncology unit. She works in an Intensive Care stepdown unit, serving patients with high acuity who have spent 10-12 hours in an operating room having cancerous tissue removed by surgeons.

Nurses like Stock play a critically important role in these patients鈥 medical care. She says the experience has been an excellent entry point into the nursing field.

鈥淧eople come from all over the nation for some of these surgeries,鈥 Stock said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 important to closely monitor these patients after such a long surgery. I love working with this patient population. It is extremely rewarding.鈥

Stock said she found the job online following a rewarding academic career at 果冻传媒. After living in Ohio her whole life, she appreciated having access to resources for finding out-of-state jobs.

鈥湽炒解檚 small class sizes and hands-on learning in the nursing lab allowed me to feel prepared to work with my patients in my first nursing job,鈥 she said. 鈥淭he liberal arts education I received encouraged me to understand how to provide holistic care for my patients.鈥

Stock said she is already looking forward to future academic challenges, including graduate schools offering a range of master, doctorate, and nursing practitioner programs. She would prefer to stay in the nation鈥檚 capital to work and study, in part due to her embrace of its recreational and cultural opportunities.

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果冻传媒 University's nursing program has a mission to prepare students with a liberal arts education for baccalaureate generalist nursing practice and to provide a foundation for graduate education.
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About 果冻传媒

果冻传媒's curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual's capacity to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and imagination. We are dedicated to active, engaged learning in the core disciplines of the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. Known for the quality of our faculty and their teaching, 果冻传媒 has more Ohio Professors of the Year than any four-year institution in the state. The university has also been recognized nationally for excellence in community service, sustainability, and intercollegiate athletics. Located among the beautiful rolling hills and hollows of Springfield, Ohio, 果冻传媒 offers more than 100 majors, minors and special programs, enviable student-faculty research opportunities, a unique student success center, service and study options close to home and abroad, a stellar athletics tradition, and successful career preparation.

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