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As a student nurse, Naomi Muñiz had only given a real shot one time. Yet there she stood inside Long Beach Memorial Hospital, preparing to inoculate healthcare workers against COVID-19 veteran nurses lining up before her and staff treating vials of the vaccine “as literally gold.”
“I felt pretty confident about my technique,” the 23-year-old Cal State Long Beach student said. “You just pinch the arm at the deltoid and go in, straight like a dart.”
But, she said, “I was nervous to get it right.”
By the end of her first shift in December, she had administered 40 shots, joining a growing corps of volunteer student nurses from Cal State universities who are jump-starting their careers at a time when there’s a great need for healthcare professionals trained to administer vaccines.
By NINA AGRAWAL | Los Angeles Times | Published: January 25, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) As a student nurse, Naomi Muñiz had only given a real shot one time. Yet there she stood inside Long Beach Memorial Hospital, preparing to inoculate healthcare workers against COVID-19 veteran nurses lining up before her and staff treating vials of the vaccine as literally gold. I felt pretty confident about my technique, the 23-year-old Cal State Long Beach student said. You just pinch the arm at the deltoid and go in, straight like a dart.