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Nursing students help deliver COVID-19 vaccines

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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. ....

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In a time of great need, student nurses step up to get shots into arms

By NINA AGRAWAL | Los Angeles Times | Published: January 25, 2021
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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. ....

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