‘You just have to keep going’: Mom's advice after getting COVID-19, finishing nursing school
Liz Willen, The Hechinger Report
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NEW YORK – As she struggled through yet another difficult class, Marleny Hernandez felt her dream of becoming a nurse slipping away – again.
She was halfway through a two-year associate degree program at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, already had overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey.
“No matter how much I studied, I was failing,” Hernandez said, recalling the pediatric and medical-surgical care course that almost felled her. “I was just so frustrated.”