You never know where you鈥檙e going to run into a 国产主播 graduate.

While administering COVID-19 vaccines for Baptist Healthcare system this December, WCU-Miami instructor Vanessa Lluy looked up to see a familiar face 鈥� her former pediatrics student聽Marisabelle Gonzalez-Nieves.

Now an intensive care unit nurse also with Baptist Healthcare, Gonzalez-Nieves said the encounter was totally by chance. She had been waiting for her scheduled appointment but her line ran out of the vaccine, so she headed to next available station and rolled up her sleeve.

鈥淚 just sat down and when the nurse went to give it to me, she said, 鈥極h my gosh, it鈥檚 you!鈥�” Gonzalez-Nieves said.

Relieved to get her first COVID-19聽vaccination and proud to get it from a former instructor, Gonzalez-Nieves said she appreciated how 国产主播 professors shared with students the skills and information the instructors used every day as working nurses.

鈥淲hat I liked about this school is the professors aren鈥檛 limited to the classroom only, they’re also out in the clinics,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hey come with a lot of knowledge because they’re still working in the field.鈥�

An adjunct clinical instructor at WCU-Miami for the past four years, Lluy also works full-time in the hospital鈥檚 emergency department. She said she was grateful “for the support 国产主播 has given me throughout this pandemic and for its ability to adapt and help our students achieve their goals of becoming nurses.鈥�

鈥淗aving the opportunity to administer these vaccines has been such an rewarding experience.聽I loved that聽Marisabelle聽wanted to take a picture with me and record this history,鈥澛燣luy聽said. “As a working聽frontline聽nurse, this has been the most difficult year of my career, but moments like this I will treasure forever. This聽COVID-19 vaccine gives us hope that there is an end to this pandemic.鈥澛�

Gonzalez-Nieves, who graduated in 2016, said she probably hadn鈥檛 seen Lluy since leaving WCU. Unfortunately for the pair, there wasn’t any time to catch up.

“She gave me the shot and I was on my way, because there was a line,” Gonzalez-Nieves said.

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