{"id":642,"date":"2011-08-09T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/crossroads\/?p=642"},"modified":"2012-03-02T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T20:01:23","slug":"hungering-for-master%e2%80%99s-new-interest-in-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/2011\/08\/09\/hungering-for-master%e2%80%99s-new-interest-in-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungering for Master\u2019s, New Interest in Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_643\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-643\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-643\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/08\/mildred-garcia-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mildred Garcia\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mildred Garcia &#39;10 is a labor and delivery nurse with aspirations.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mildred Garcia \u201910 does not mince words when it comes to her experience in the RN to BS degree in nursing program at EMU\u2019s Lancaster campus.\u201cIt definitely was 100 times better than what I expected,\u201d she said. \u201cIf I had to do it again, I wouldn\u2019t even think twice about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, who now works as a labor and delivery nurse at the Heart of Lancaster hospital in Lititz, Pennsylania, originally entered EMU\u2019s program to earn a BSN with the intent of going to midwifery school.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m a very social person. I love the patient contact,\u201d she said. \u201c[As a labor and delivery nurse] I\u2019m part of a very intimate experience \u2026 I feel very privileged to be a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plans changed along the way, though, after several of Garcia\u2019s classes at EMU sparked a new interest in teaching. Garcia now plans to pursue a master\u2019s in nursing education and wants to work in nursing curriculum development and training within a hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mildred Garcia \u201910 does not mince words when it comes to her experience in the RN to BS degree in nursing program at EMU\u2019s Lancaster campus.\u201cIt definitely was 100 times better than what I expected,\u201d she said. \u201cIf I had to do it again, I wouldn\u2019t even think twice about it.\u201d Garcia, who now works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,146],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","tag-adcp","tag-mildred-garcia","issues-summer-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}