Jarvia Meggett has been a nurse since the second grade in Charleston, SC. Semantics and accreditations aside, she basically entered the world with a plan—cemented by an elementary school career day—that’s brought her all the way to the MSN Entry into Nursing program.
She was an undergraduate in South Carolina, then earned a master of public health degree in Michigan where she dug in as a researcher, particularly on diabetes. She became determined not just to treat but to prevent such suffering. She loved it, but something was missing:
“The patient interaction, getting to know patients beyond what I see on a chart or in the data.”