Brooke Buckley, R.N., is now beginning that phase after completing the mentoring program last December. Buckley, a native of Staunton, decided to switch from training corporate computer programmers on new software to becoming a nurse. She graduated from the U.Va. School of Nursing last year and will start her U.Va. Medical Center full-time.
Nursing is about people.
Buckley received mentoring on the medical cardiology unit and has continued working there. Cardiology is really tough, and I've learned a lot. We have patients with heart attacks, patients waiting for transplants, patients with arrhythmias. The program allowed me to work in the cardiac catheterization lab, the electrophysiology lab and cardiac rehabilitation unit as well. We also received intensive training on procedures and giving medications.