 Good evening. My name is Leah Kato. I'm a 4A state ambassador for the 2020-2021 year and I'm from Washington County. Today I'll be interviewing my aunt, Ms. Jessica Moore, who is a house's size and at-mobility primary. The first question is, what was your major in college? My major in college was a bachelor's in nursing. I know every path to a college degree looks different. Could you talk about your college experience? Were you in any extracurricular activities? Did you have a job during college and how many years it takes to get your degree? Okay. My path to college was, I guess, started out fairly normal. I graduated high school and started my pre-rex the next fall. I did two years of pre-rex and then two years of nursing school. When I was doing my pre-rex, I did work a little bit. I did work at a jewelry store in the mall mostly around holidays when the season was a lot busier and then over the summer. I also, when I got into nursing school, was eligible to work as a nursing tech and a flight pool which allowed me to work more flexible hours around nursing school. The only extracurricular activity I did, I cheered one year during my pre-rex, just mainly for scholarship money. That was it. And it took me four years to get my degree. Yes, ma'am. What made you want to become a nurse? Really, my initial, what I wanted to do was veterinarian. But the school and the expectations outside of school were a little more than what I wanted to put in with it. I knew that even beginning college that I wanted to have some sort of life with being able to have kids and family. And there's not a lot of flexibility between the student loans and the amount of hours I would have had to work. And nursing was kind of similar, but there's a lot more flexibility and the loans were a lot less. And once I kind of stopped looking at veterinarian and started looking elsewhere, it just seemed like it was a calling that there really wasn't anything else that I wanted to do. What do you feel is the biggest perk of your journey? The biggest perk is getting to meet such a wide variety of people. You know, the patients, the families, you know, you don't get to build a relationship with every single one, but you do get to build relationships with certain patients. And there's been a lot of patients that have really touched my lives in a lot of ways at various points of my career. Mostly the elderly, I love the elderly, but even, you know, parents, kids all up the above. Is being a nurse in real life similar to what you see? I'm probably more towards no. It does give you a generalized idea of things. One, sorry, doctors, but they don't do here as much as the TV says they do. And truthfully, there's really nothing on TV that can really, really portray the amount of stress and emotions that a nurse goes through even during one shift. You know, there's a lot of mental stress and emotional stress that doesn't get, there's just no way to fully portray that on TV. Could you walk us through one of your tips today, Zark? It starts out, we get a report from the shift previous to us. As a supervisor, there's certain things that we do every shift, and then the rest is kind of a surprise. We are involved with bed placement. We do all of the assigning of ICU or critical care beds. We have to evaluate each patient that needs one and put them in the appropriate ICU. We also assist with all the other bed placement stuff. We have to assess all the patients that are being placed in restraints for whatever reason, whether it be medical or violent. We have to assess, make sure restraints are applied appropriately and there's no injury, and we have to follow up on the documentation as well. We also make sure that the whole hospital is staffed appropriately as far as the med search, limitry and ICUs. If they're not, then we have to pull from other places to make sure that they have a safe number of staff. We also handle all the transfers from outside facilities, like Washington County. And to make sure that the patients get placed appropriately. Those are kind of things that we do regularly every shift. We also respond to all codes, whether it be a Code Blue or Code Gray. Code Blue obviously needs life-saving treatment, or the Code Gray is if a patient becomes hostile or violent or out of control and the staff need assistance. We respond to all of those to make sure that everything's being ran smoothly. Apart from that, it really just varies on what issues might pop up throughout the night. It's a lot of responsibility. We are expected to make sure the whole house runs smoothly. There's only two of us for, you know, 400 patients and, you know, hundreds of staff members. But we make it work. We reach out to each other and other resources as well. How would you say your work routine has changed since the beginning of COVID-19? More responsibility as far as the supervisor. You know, I don't usually directly take care of patients. But we do have protocols that we have to follow as far as where we place patients that are COVID positive or if they are at risk of being COVID positive. If the results have not come back yet, we have to make sure we have a designated area for COVID patients so that we don't cross-contaminate to patients that are not at risk or showing signs and symptoms of COVID. So we have to evaluate. I wouldn't say every single patient that gets admitted to the hospital, but we have to evaluate a lot of them. And if there's a question, then we have to look through the chart and make sure that there's nothing, you know, that's being missed that would place the patient at high risk that needed to go to the COVID floor. So, you know, at first it was a lot more as far as trial and error, you know, a lot of new treatments and documentation that we had to assist with. We've kind of gotten that as a in a normal routine with that. So as of now it's really just making sure that the patients make it to the appropriate areas. What steps did you take to come up with that? Wasn't as much as steps, I would say. I worked in NIC for three years and then I transferred to the emergency room. And I worked there for eight years before I started doing this. Working in the ER is a similar pace and a similar mindset of doing this job, which I think made me qualify more for it. You know, the ER, you never know what's going to come in, you never know what's going to happen, you get faced with whatever is thrown at you. And in a lot of ways it's the same thing as a supervisor because you never know what's going to pop up next. Do you have any advice or some questions? I do. It is a great career. It's a great path to consider or do. The thing with nursing is there's so many options and you're not confined to one thing, you know, you can do critical care, you can do emergency medicine, you can work in a doctor's office, do social work. You can take care of kids, you can take care of the elderly, the mentally ill. I mean, the possibilities are endless. And if you don't like one thing, then you just try something else until you find what you are passionate about. Thank you for your time and for the interview. Oh, you're more than welcome.