When I started tutoring, I was still in nursing school

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and I was the only tutor available at my program.

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In fact, I was probably the first tutor

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that had been available there for years.

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But when I graduated, there was nobody there to replace me.

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Now my school had both, uh, an accelerated BSN program,

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which is what I had gone through.

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And they also offered a, uh,

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a slightly longer two year a DN program.

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Uh, and so when I left, some

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of the students I had been tutoring from the A DN program,

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they still had two semesters or more to go.

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So they had no help and they felt lost.

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Um, and they ended up calling me again.

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Now, of course, I was stressed out, being a new grad,

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having my first job, trying to navigate things.

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I also got pregnant at that time.

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My husband and I, uh, had got pregnant with our first child

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during that time period.

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But these students, they just tug at my heart

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'cause I love helping nursing students figure out

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nursing school and make it click.

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So they started this, I had this group of four

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or five women that I had been helping

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and they had been committed to tutoring regularly.

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They started coming to my house every week

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and we would do tutoring together,

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not just me teaching them, but teaching them how to think

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because I knew I couldn't tutor them forever for free.

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And so I wanted to empower them

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and equip, equip them to be able to feel confident

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to do nursing school themselves so

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that they could teach themselves how to think like a nurse

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and they could study the information in a way

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that made sense to them without relying on a professor

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or even a tutor like me to spoonfeed them the information.

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And it worked because every single one of those, uh,

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women did graduate, um, and are successful nurses.

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They've all gone a different paths.

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Some of them I'm still in touch with.

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And, um, I love seeing

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the wonderful nurses that they've become.

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And what was really meaningful for me is that

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when they graduated, they got me

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a music box.

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