Graceland helped me realize my individual potential as a learner. The nursing school's faculty and administration always made me feel like they wanted me to succeed. Building on their support, I've had the confidence to apply myself and get into a competitive overseas nurse training program.

The clinical training that the nursing program offered played a key role in securing professionally advancing employment right after graduation. Dr. Little-Stoetzel taught critical care nursing and I took her lessons with me all throughout my nursing career, my DNP training program, and into my career as a CRNA. I remember one night working in the ICU with a fellow Graceland graduate, and at one point in the craziness of the situation my friend and I laughed and said we would be making Dr Little-Stoetzel so proud!

A Graceland instructor shared this advice and it has stuck with me throughout my career: It takes a nurse to save your life. I am the eyes at the bedside for the doctors. I assess and must have the knowledge to point out when something doesn't seem right. People come to me not feeling their best. I'm here to be a voice for them, to be an advocate for them, to get them back to feeling their best.

Graceland was a great experience with lots of guidance and assistance from the instructors of every course in my undergraduate studies. They were so helpful in getting me prepared for graduate school.