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| Lettie Puckett has a picture from kindergarten
captioned "What you want to be when you grow up." It is
a picture of a nurse. Lettie grew up in a small village
in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where the nearest
major hospital was hours away. Family and community
supported and relied on each other because access to
healthcare was so limited. Helping and empowering others
through nursing is her passion and what she's always
dreamed of doing. That vision was further reinforced
when she began helping care for her father when his
health declined Lettie's dreams have become reality, as she is now preparing to graduate from PCC's nursing program. She is a 4.0 student and is Vice President of the Student Nurse Association. As a STEP Scholarship recipient, and with other scholarships she received from the PCC Foundation, she had been able to focus on her academics. In Fall 2024, she will start at OHSU for her BSN. Her long-term goals are to become a travel ICU nurse (first stop Alaska!), and eventually get a Master's in Nursing Education. Lettie had her resume reviewed in the Sylvania Jobs and Internships office in preparation for the inaugural 2024 PCC RN Job Fair. At that job fair, she met with 12 different employers including the manager of her preceptorship hospital. Lettie is excited about her preceptorship at Legacy Emanuel's Neuro/Trauma ICU (intensive Care Unit), where she hopes to pursue a nursing residency after graduation. Lettie is proud about how far she has come. Lettie is in recovery, and her first day of nursing school coincided with her 7-year sobriety date! She wants others to know that your past does not have to define your future. With hard work and determination, anything is possible. |