Hope Ramsey Spotlight
- Hope is a student in the Practical Nursing program at Tri County.
- According to her instructor, Ruth Howell, “Hope is truly an outstanding student. She is eager and hungry to learn. She develops a rapport with others quickly and never meets a stranger."
Goals:
- To complete her training at Tri County and then continue her education to receive her RN and BSN.
- Upon graduation, she would like to work locally but she and her family may also move to Wichita.
- Hope would like to work in an emergency room.
- Hope is the Chairperson for the Tri County Bison Health Clinic. The clinic is held every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month and those who attend receive a free blood pressure screening, weight check, BMI check and hydration screening.
- She has also assisted with the local flu clinics, carnivals at community nursing homes, and health fairs.
- Hope feels her biggest accomplishment is maintaining a 4.0 GPA and good attendance while taking care of her father who has recently had two heart attacks, as well as her mother who has recently endured three surgeries and two months of hospitalization. She has done so while having health issues of her own and her husband losing his job.
- Hope believes it is important to be a blood donor and she exemplifies this by donating her blood every two months. She encourages others to be blood donors it at all possible.
- Outside of her schoolwork, Hope visits with patients in hospice care to help them in any way she can with her expertise.
- In her spare time, she enjoys making dinners and treats for the elderly shut-ins within her community that would otherwise be eating a frozen dinner or no dinner at all.
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