by Nyla on October 8, 2018
Amber Rose Smith may look like a vision of calm on the outside, but she is quietly juggling a life that demands her full attention at all times. She runs at a pace set by her determination to succeed in her Licensed Vocational Nursing-to-Registered Nurse program on the Visalia campus while she works part-time as a …
Posted in Registered Nursing / Student Spotlights / Visalia
by Nyla on September 17, 2018
Jerold Maghoney discovered that rock bottom provides a hard surface from which you can push off toward higher ground. His slide to Ground Zero began with his first sip of beer at age 12 on a fishing trip with his dad, and it picked up momentum when he had his last sober birthday party at …
Posted in Medical Assisting / Modesto / Student Spotlights
by Nyla on September 10, 2018
Madison Olson spent her 16th birthday in a coma. It wasn’t the Sweet Sixteen party so many teen girls dream about. In fact, there was no celebration at all – except that quiet, heartfelt one her family felt that she was alive. Even after waking from her coma a month later, Madison was on a …
Posted in Criminal Justice: Corrections / Student Spotlights / Temecula