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Launette W.
Baldwin Harbor, NY
Nurse Educator
I always knew that I wanted to be a nurse. I thought I wanted to
be a bedside pediatric nurse, however I found that what I really
loved was imparting my knowledge and skills onto student nurses and
new graduate nurses. Seeing someone come into school as a stranger to nursing and
watching her graduate as a nurse colleague was an absolutely For me, nursing has been full of opportunities and professional
development. Presently I am a doctoral student and I coordinate
nursing orientation and the clinical rotations of all the nursing
students who come to North Shore University Hospital. Maybe I'll go back into teaching. Maybe I'll stay in the
hospital setting. Who knows! One of nursing's greatest beauties is
that you can explore different options and develop your career into
one that brings you the satisfaction you dreamt of when you entered
nursing school.
wonderful feeling. It's like sending your child off to college,
except you send a whole bunch of them off and you do it every year
(without the financial ball and chain!). I love taking a group of
clinical students to a hospital for a clinical rotation and
encountering one of my former students working on that unit as a
nurse.
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