(June 16, 2016) For the past three years, because of an anonymous donor, Hartley Hall Nursing Home has honored one Pocomoke High School student interested in pursuing a career in nursing with a $1,000 scholarship.
This year’s winner, Keniya Wise, has already earned a certified nursing assistant certificate through the school and will be attending Wor-Wic Community College in pursuit of a degree in radiology.
“I had narrowed my career options to three choices: cosmetology, nursing and business, but I didn’t know what to choose,” Wise said.
So she did what students are supposed to: chose classes and learned more about potential career paths.
“I took human anatomy and psychology during my junior year,” she said, and found the subjects to her liking.
She said she developed a fascination with the way the body works, and how the dozens of interrelating processes occurring within each person every second sustained life.
Which isn’t to say she enjoyed interacting with those processes herself. Wise said her problems with cosmetology — including an aversion to working with peoples’ hair — mirrored some of her concerns about certain kinds of nursing. Wise said she has an aversion to blood, which helped her to focus on radiology.
“The high school determines the need, merit and likelihood to continue in a program as factors before they recommend a student to us,” Scarlet Hillman, human resources director at Hartley Hall, said.
With that recommendation usually goes the award, Hillman said.
“We’re very excited that Keniya was chosen for this. I hope in the future maybe she will come here and work for us in the nursing center,” Hillman said.
That, Wise agreed, is a possibility.
“I do want to stay in this area,” she said, and a career at Hartley Hall could be in the cards.
First things first, though, Wise needs to complete her degree, and said this scholarship will help her achieve that goal.
“I have to buy books, supplies and travel to and from Pocomoke City to get to school. This scholarship is going to make life easier, and make me a little less dependent on my family for financial assistance,” she said.
This year’s winner, Keniya Wise, has already earned a certified nursing assistant certificate through the school and will be attending Wor-Wic Community College in pursuit of a degree in radiology.
“I had narrowed my career options to three choices: cosmetology, nursing and business, but I didn’t know what to choose,” Wise said.
So she did what students are supposed to: chose classes and learned more about potential career paths.
“I took human anatomy and psychology during my junior year,” she said, and found the subjects to her liking.
She said she developed a fascination with the way the body works, and how the dozens of interrelating processes occurring within each person every second sustained life.
Which isn’t to say she enjoyed interacting with those processes herself. Wise said her problems with cosmetology — including an aversion to working with peoples’ hair — mirrored some of her concerns about certain kinds of nursing. Wise said she has an aversion to blood, which helped her to focus on radiology.
“The high school determines the need, merit and likelihood to continue in a program as factors before they recommend a student to us,” Scarlet Hillman, human resources director at Hartley Hall, said.
With that recommendation usually goes the award, Hillman said.
“We’re very excited that Keniya was chosen for this. I hope in the future maybe she will come here and work for us in the nursing center,” Hillman said.
That, Wise agreed, is a possibility.
“I do want to stay in this area,” she said, and a career at Hartley Hall could be in the cards.
First things first, though, Wise needs to complete her degree, and said this scholarship will help her achieve that goal.
“I have to buy books, supplies and travel to and from Pocomoke City to get to school. This scholarship is going to make life easier, and make me a little less dependent on my family for financial assistance,” she said.