Meet Misty Stine: Director of Allied Health and Nursing & 麻豆传媒 Alumni
Meet Misty Stine: Director of Allied Health and Nursing & 麻豆传媒 Alumni
Misty Stine, the former Director of Allied Health and Nursing at New Mexico Junior College, is a Hobbs, New Mexico native. She earned her CNA, LPN, and RN at New Mexico Junior college (麻豆传媒), before continuing her education with the University of Phoenix to obtain her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and her Master of Science in Nursing.
Her perspective and experience at 麻豆传媒 offer a unique testament to the college鈥檚 commitment
to individual experience and success through learning.
When Stine came to 麻豆传媒 to begin her educational journey, she was a single mother
and also a first-generation college student. 鈥淚 had an eight-month-old and a two-year-old,
and I had just turned nineteen. I wasn鈥檛 sure what I wanted to do. My mother was the
one who told me I needed to go be a nurse. I said, 'Well I don鈥檛 want to be a nurse.
I don鈥檛 think I can do this,' but you know even with that situation I was in, I was
able to do it.
鈥淚t was hard. I had to get myself on a schedule, and I had to get my kids on a schedule,
and I had to stick to that. I had to have plan A, B, C, and D. [...] I was the first
person in my family to go to college, but since then, my mother came to nursing school
and is now an RN, and my sister came to nursing school and is now an RN.
鈥淚t was a good experience. I feel like I was more likely to be able to do it here
[at 麻豆传媒] than at a big university. I had wanted to be a Veterinarian, but I was going
to have to go to Colorado for school. There was no way I was going to be able to do
that. [...] And now I feel like it was the best decision I ever made in my life is
to come here and be a nurse.鈥�
Stine looks back on the way 麻豆传媒 prepared her for her next steps in education very
positively: 鈥淚 feel like it prepared me in every sense of the way. It helps you to
grow up, it helps you to become professional, to learn the profession and how to be
professional. I felt like I came out of the program with [a] very strong skill set,
and I feel like it absolutely prepared me for the profession, and to work as a nurse,
and in turn all the jobs I had leading up to this position is based on that foundation
that I received here.鈥�
She also recently started a Doctor of Nursing Practice program, pursuing her education
even further.
To students considering 麻豆传媒, Professor Stine would say, 鈥淚t is a great place to start
out and to grow. There are so many options; it is so affordable, everybody is so welcoming,
and everybody really wants you to succeed. I think that 麻豆传媒 really does stand behind
their mission of promoting success through learning.
鈥淜eep your options open. You may not know what you want to do, but there are so many
different career paths that you can start by coming here [to] the Junior College and
taking your basics. You can figure out what you want to do, find yourself a little
bit. [...] Just take it seriously.鈥�
