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After graduating on Saturday, Ana Rodas starts her full-time job at Erlanger Hospital on Monday.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A moment that almost didn\u2019t happen will not be a moment too soon when Ana Rodas begins her professional nursing career two days after commencement.<\/p>\n

Rodas has wanted to be a nurse since her junior year at Nashville\u2019s McGavock High School, where she was a strong student with more than her share of honors and recognition. Not only did Rodas discover her heart for service while on a mission trip to Ecuador that year, her mother had long dreamed of becoming a nurse but never had the chance.<\/p>\n

Her mother \u201cgets to see her dream fulfilled through me and my older brother, who is an athletic trainer,\u201d Rodas said. \u201cShe says both of her children are going into the field she would have chosen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, her mother\u2019s work has meant waking every day at 4 a.m. to begin a job she works until 4 p.m. Several evenings a week, she then has worked another four to six hours at a second job.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has worked at least two jobs for as long as I can remember,\u201d said Rodas, who came to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with the confidence of a high school honor student, tempered by a healthy respect for the academic rigor of college.\u00a0 Good grades followed her through freshman year and general education classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had friends freaking out about the major they had picked. Will I really be able to get a job with this degree? Will it be something I want to do?\u201d Rodas said. \u201cIt was like all these endless, uncertain possibilities for them, but for me there was a sense of security that I knew exactly what my degree was going to do for me, and that I knew I was going to be a nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Midway through her sophomore year came the first semester of nursing school. Rodas was surprised at her struggles with a nursing fundamentals course. She made fair to average scores on weekly quizzes and a passing grade on the final exam. However, she did not pass an additional, nationally standardized test of the course material.<\/p>\n

She was stunned by failing the course. And because of the course sequencing, her progress through the nursing curriculum was halted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cried\u2014forever, it felt like,\u201d she said. \u201cThen I started hearing the lies in my head of, \u2018You\u2019re stupid. You should have never made it this far. You don\u2019t belong here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there was having to tell her mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cI called her because I wasn\u2019t sure I could have that conversation face-to-face. I didn\u2019t want to see her reaction,\u201d Rodas said. \u201cI was scared of her saying she was really mad at me, disappointed, angry. Like, \u2018Why did you let this happen? You should have worked harder.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBut she was like, \u2018It\u2019s OK. We\u2019ll figure it out.\u2019 She said, \u2018Nursing school is hard. I didn\u2019t expect you to make all As. That would have been nice, but we\u2019ll figure it out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Figuring it out is something Rodas worked on at a summer job at a youth camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought a little about quitting. Like, \u2018If I quit nursing now, I\u2019ll still be a quitter, but I can move on to something else and graduate. If I still end up with a degree, does it matter that I quit nursing school?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people told me if I knew exactly what I wanted to do that\u2019s not nursing, go for it, but that if I didn\u2019t, then stick with nursing.\u201d<\/p>\n

She gave herself a year to decide. Back at UTC in the fall, she got to tell and retell friends from her original, 39-student nursing group that she would now be at least a semester behind them. And why.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was difficult,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not the kind of thing I\u2019m going to share with everybody all at once with a post on social media\u2014’Hey! Guess what? I\u2019m back in first semester of nursing school again!\u2019<\/p>\n

She repeated the failed course, this time successfully. The other courses didn\u2019t get easier, but she was getting through them. Then came 12-hour hospital shifts. Next thing Rodas knew, she was back in her groove, working hard, making the grade.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy adviser told me not everyone could come back from what I\u2019d been through and get to where I was, so that helped keep me going,\u201d Rodas said.<\/p>\n

The next semester, she was working in a clinical setting with children. \u201cI thought that was\u2014finally\u2014the fun semester. I decided nothing was going to keep me from being with kids. I set goals for myself. I studied hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the hard work is about to start paying off\u2014literally. On the first Monday after commencement ceremonies, Rodas gets to be with kids from Day 1 at her nursing job in pediatrics at Erlanger Hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single semester since that bad one, fear of failing followed me, but it\u2019s made me better,\u201d she said. \u201cIt got my attention and took my academic ego down a few notches. Because of it, I don\u2019t take anything for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n

That includes the \u201csupport system\u201d of family, friends and faculty who have encouraged and enabled Rodas to achieve her dream. And the dream of her mother\u2014to see her daughter finish college.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom has worked so hard for my brother and me and at multiple jobs so that we can graduate without debt,\u201d she said, \u201cbut for me, one of the very best things about getting my degree will be giving my mom the incredible pride I know she will have.\u201d<\/p>\n

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