Celebrating an Accomplishment

By Chantel Haynes MSN, APRN

I started my degree program in March 2021… Through severe Covid (4 weeks on oxygen) and a couple of retaken courses, a shockingly sudden career change, loss of both of my initial clinical sites, and then traveling away from home 12-15 days a month for the past year meanwhile working while I was home, and then traveling to Pennsylvania to finish my births…..

It is official, I can apply for graduation and the opportunity to take my APRN (advanced practice nurse practitioner) boards.

When I am done I will be a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), a medical provider caring for women of all ages from birth to death, and caring for them during pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and newborns to 6 weeks old in a multitude of settings.

I could only have accomplished this with the love of God and the care of my Savior who placed those I needed in my path, gave me a family who loves and supports me wholly, and friends to lean on and learn from. It’s amazing what mountains were moved.