Nursing the nurses and prepping future healthcare leaders at Coppin State

We’ve all been graced by the kindness of a nurse somewhere and sometime in our lives. Learn about the way they’re learning about modern medicine with Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels, who preps Nestor for the reality of a nursing career at Coppin State University.

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels discussed the premier nursing program at Coppin State University, emphasizing its comprehensive education and leadership development. She highlighted the ongoing nursing shortage exacerbated by the pandemic, noting the need for younger, tech-savvy nurses. The program prepares students for diverse roles, including nurse practitioners and leaders. Dr. Watties-Daniels shared personal anecdotes and the importance of critical thinking and adaptability in nursing. She also mentioned the university’s commitment to providing resources for students, such as review courses for the NCLEX exam. The conversation underscored the critical role of nurses in healthcare and the need for well-educated professionals.

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Introduction and Purpose of the Interview

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the show, WNST AM 1570, and mentions the focus on Baltimore positivity.
• Nestor shares his experience attending a basketball game at Coppin State University and his admiration for the nursing program.
• Nestor explains the transition from sports broadcasting to discussing important topics related to Coppin State.
• Nestor introduces Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels, highlighting her role in educating future nurses.

Overview of Coppin State Nursing Program

• Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels discusses the premier status of the nursing program at Coppin State.
• She emphasizes the program’s focus on educating both bedside nurses and nurse leaders.
• Dr. Watties-Daniels mentions the high demand for well-educated nurses, especially in leadership roles.
• She shares her pride in the success of her students, many of whom start their own nonprofits or practices.

Personal Experiences and Importance of Nursing

• Nestor shares personal stories about the critical role of nurses in his family’s lives.
• He reflects on the compassion and care provided by nurses during his wife’s medical journey.
• Nestor discusses the importance of educating young people about the nursing profession.
• He expresses concern about the nursing shortage and the impact of the pandemic on the nursing workforce.

Challenges and Changes in Nursing Education

• Speaker 1 discusses the ongoing nursing shortage and the challenges faced during the pandemic.
• The conversation highlights the need for younger, tech-savvy nurses to fill the gap left by older nurses.
• The role of technology in modern nursing, including electronic medical records and safety measures, is emphasized.
• Nestor and Dr. Watties-Daniels discuss the realistic portrayal of nursing in TV shows like “The Pit.”

Realistic Portrayal of Nursing in Media

• Nestor and Dr. Watties-Daniels discuss the accuracy of nursing depictions in TV shows like “The Pit.”
• They mention the involvement of a nurse consultant in the show to ensure realism.
• Nestor shares his personal experience of learning about medical care through his wife’s illness.
• The conversation touches on the global nature of medical education and the diverse backgrounds of Coppin State students.

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing at Coppin State

• Dr. Watties-Daniels explains the significance of a bachelor’s degree in nursing for leadership and research.
• She highlights the differences between bachelor’s and associate degree programs in nursing.
• The importance of critical thinking and problem-solving skills in nursing education is discussed.
• Nestor shares his admiration for the comprehensive education provided at Coppin State.

Career Paths and Student Experiences

• Dr. Watties-Daniels discusses the various career paths available to nursing graduates.
• She shares stories of students who have started their own practices or nonprofits.
• The conversation highlights the importance of mentorship and support for nursing students.
• Nestor reflects on the personal and professional growth of nursing students at Coppin State.

Impact of Nursing on Patient Care

• Dr. Watties-Daniels emphasizes the importance of nurses in providing holistic care to patients.
• She shares examples of how nurses go beyond medical care to support patients emotionally.
• The conversation touches on the challenges nurses face, including mental health and stress.
• Nestor shares his appreciation for the compassionate care provided by nurses during his wife’s illness.

Personal Journey and Career Transition

• Dr. Watties-Daniels shares her personal journey from being a professional dancer to a nurse.
• She explains how she transitioned to nursing by aligning her coursework with her interests.
• The conversation highlights the flexibility and adaptability required in nursing education.
• Nestor expresses his admiration for Dr. Watties-Daniels’ career path and her continued passion for dance.

Community Involvement and Future Opportunities

• Dr. Watties-Daniels discusses the community involvement of Coppin State nursing graduates.
• She highlights the importance of educating local nurses to serve the Baltimore community.
• The conversation touches on the various programs and opportunities available at Coppin State.
• Nestor encourages listeners to explore the nursing program at Coppin State and consider a career in nursing.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Nursing program, Coppin State, nursing shortage, pandemic impact, nurse education, healthcare technology, patient care, nursing leadership, career change, nursing degree, community health, nurse practitioner, medical training, student support, healthcare careers.

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SPEAKERS

Nestor Aparicio, Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels

Nestor Aparicio  00:02

Welcome home. We are W n s t am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive, always bringing it to you through snow storms, kind of like the US Postal Service. We’ll go going through snow, we’re going through rain. We’ll be there when we shovel out of all of this in the Ravens. Get a head coach. We’ll get that through first on the wnst tech service, brought to you by friends at cold roofing and Gordian energy. And in the meantime, I’ve had sports on my brain, but I’ve really been looking forward to this piece, because I know about the nursing program over at COP, and I’m wearing my COPPA gear. And I was over at COP, and before the snowstorm last week, when dawn Staley brought all those tall girls up from South Carolina to play the Eagles, and I wore my Eagles gear, and I had a lot of fun out there. But it is a pleasure to welcome Dr Denise watties, Daniels on and I tell you, first things first, doctor, we did all of this through sports. Initially, because I own a radio station, we would put the games on, the basketball, the volleyball, softball, baseball did all that. And a couple years ago, I’m like, You guys do a whole lot more over cop, and let’s talk about some important things. Now, I had one of your students on with quantum physics a couple of weeks ago talking about AI, and I didn’t know much about that, but nursing, nursing is something I know a little bit about, because I’ve needed nurses. We’ve all needed nurses in our lives, and much like my dentist and my endodontist that’s doing my root canal next week. Boy, the medical people, when you need them, you need you need them well educated. You need them on point. And it is a pleasure to have you here. Dr Denise watties, Daniels, who educates young people on helping people like my mom, my wife, myself, and I was over at GBMC a couple weeks ago. I had a colonoscopy because I’m that age. Nurses everywhere taking great care of me. So it is a pleasure to have you on what do we need to know about the cop in the nursing program and you heading things up over there in West Baltimore?

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  01:50

Oh my goodness. So one of the things you need to know is that we have one of the premier nursing programs. I want to stay in the country, not just in the state of Maryland. I’m very excited about it. I am a graduate of the program 100 years ago, yes, but still a proud graduate of the program where we Educate nurses to take care of individuals at the bedside. We also educate you to be a nurse leader. Many of our students go on to get master’s degrees and doctorate degrees. I am so excited that I have so many students that if I need a job, they can hire me, because they are in those kind of leadership positions. They start their own nonprofits. They do some amazing things. Many of our nurse practitioner students have their own practices, so they take care of people on just even another level than the ones who took care of you at uvmc.

Nestor Aparicio  02:49

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Well, you know, care in this country from my the end of my mother’s life. My mom died at 98 years of age about eight years ago, but spent the, you know, the last 10 years of her life needing various nursing care and the people that cared for her and the compassion and the love. And my wife is a two time leukemia survivor. She’s had two bone marrow transplants at Hopkins, had a man in Germany save her life. 155 nights in the hospital, just every amount of trauma you could imagine. And the nurses, it’s the first thing you notice, the first day when she went in, is the kind of care and who’s going to be caring for. The nurses are her best Facebook friends 12 years later after her diagnosis. So when I see this, but I want to go back to beginning education, because I’m a Dundalk kid. And, you know, I’m from Dundalk High School, and like in that area, and young ladies that I went to school with, one of the real career paths for so many of the kids I went to school with were, hey, my daughter’s going to be a nurse. She’s going to go to Essex Community College. She’s going to and and I don’t know anything beyond the nurses that took care of me, where their education comes from, or the modern part of this. I just know, having pretty much lived inside of Hopkins for about three years with my wife, trying to keep her alive, modern medicine, modern nursing, and the need for it at the edge. If I had a young daughter right now, I would say, consider this, because you’re going to be helping people, and there’s always going to be an outlet for that, but educating them. Do we have enough young people, male, female? Anyone wanting to get into nursing at this point,

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  04:21

Doc, there’s been a nursing shortage for the last 1015, years, and we really took a hit during the pandemic, because some of our many of our older nurses, said, I’m done. It was extremely stressful. I don’t think anybody really understands what nurses did during the pandemic, when you think about it, they really risked their lives. They were on when they talk about on the front lines. Nurses were on the front line, and it was extremely stressful. It was very stressful for some of our older nurses decided, You know what I have given my 2030 40 years I’m out of here, and so now it left a gap. It left a hole. So we are preparing nurses, younger nurses, as quickly as we can, getting them through the pipeline so that they can be at the bedside. They bring a different kind of energy. They bring a new energy. I think education has changed over the years. So they are more, excuse me, critical thinkers. They do, but they also think they can assess, they can plan, they can implement. They bring just a different educational mindset to the bedside, and they’re also techno savvy. We use a lot of technology. I heard you say that you had a student before talking about AI. AI is very much in to healthcare. We are very digitalized. We make sure that’s how your healthcare record when you go to your provider and all of a sudden you get your your your results back from your diagnostic test. Yeah, that’s your your electronic medical record, getting your medications. If you notice, we scan you. We bar scan you. And those are all safety measures to make sure we have the right patient getting the right medication at the right time. All of that is encompassed in what we do as nurses. It’s it’s not like a lot of times we see on television. Now, wait a minute. Stop. Pause. I am a television a hospital junkie. I look at all of them I do, and I am now a major fan of the pit, oh my gosh, I binge watched

Nestor Aparicio  06:47

episode season one. Well, you’re looking for what’s realistic and what’s not right. And you know what,

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  06:53

pretty much it is realistic. That’s the thing I love about the pit, because

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Nestor Aparicio  06:56

they have a consultant like you. They’re making sure that it feels realistic, right?

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  07:02

But they also Noah Wiley’s mother was a nurse. He is the star. Nora Wally’s mother was a nurse. They have a person that is a nurse has a nursing degree that turned to acting that is one of the characters.

Nestor Aparicio  07:16

Well, it is crazy that that’s how people get their education about this, unless their wife gets cancer, and they have to live down there at 24 hours a day for months at a time, and watch doctors and nurses do rounds and an educational facility as well with Hopkins, where it’s a teaching hospital as well, where every single day people would come through. I mean, the person that found my wife’s cancer was actually an intern. It wasn’t even it was somebody that read the charts, in a way, to see that her blood was irregular. So the educational part of this, she’s still in touch with him. He lives over the Middle East. Now. He was here studying and but people come from all over the world. And I think that’s another part of Coppin that I see it with the volleyball team or the basketball team that, you know, I think of little Coppin, and I go back to Fang Mitchell and my basketball roots, being a sports reporter around here, you know, and maybe when you were a student there, right? But I think about it being much more. I mean, Dr Jenkins, and everything you guys have done from the time you were a student there has pushed us along to get the best students as well, right?

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  08:21

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Absolutely, we get students, like you said, from all over the country, all over the world. People come to be educated here at Coppin. And the one of the things, the you know, the amazing, or one of the key things, is that we offer bachelor’s degree in nursing. And so why is that a big deal? Because that is a different level of leadership that you bring to the bedside in the community college, they don’t have the research they don’t have a research course. They don’t necessarily have a strong community course where we do in a baccalaureate prepared program. And so again, that research like you said that intern coming who could recognize different things in that person’s chart, those things are important, and it may not be something that you think about, but when I read, okay, so what the one thing about being a nurse is that people will bring their problem, they’ll bring you their health problems on a platter. Hey, my ball fell out. I always tell my students that my liver fell out. What do I do with it? It’s in the bag. Um, I need more information. And so as a nurse, you start asking questions. We ask questions all the time. One of the things I teach my students at coffin, you always go and look for the wrong. Don’t look for the right. If you look for the right. If you go and assess a patient and you’re thinking, I’m going to find normal, you’re going to find normal. But go in looking to find abnormal. And if you. Don’t find it, then you know it’s not there. But if you listen and think, Oh, these breakdowns are going to be normal, you might miss the abnormal.

Nestor Aparicio  10:10

I don’t want my doctor to be hopeful. I’m hopeful. My AI clone is hopeful. My wife, my family were hopeful. I need reality, right? I mean, you know, we really are right.

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  10:22

Go look for the wrong. We teach you about a toothache. Last week,

Nestor Aparicio  10:26

I went to my dentist and it I can’t see it right, and he’s taking extras. It turns out, you know, I need a root canal redone and whatever. But I would not have known that. And part of that was, Hey, Doc, what’s wrong with me? Look for it. Look for it. Don’t give me the bright side here, you know, don’t give me the here’s the pills. Go home. You’ll feel better in a couple hours. Because he told me that he’s like, this is going to mask your your he gave me an antibiotic when I don’t understand a whole lot about so that’s why I have doctors and nurses on my show like you. By the way, Dr Denise watties, Daniels is here, but, but I I’m taking, I’m literally taking three a day, and I got to remember to remember to take my meds, because I’m terrible at it, and so I’m going through this medical situation that if I didn’t have it taken care of. It’s a toothache, Doc, you think it would hurt a little bit. I don’t think I’d be able to do this segment right now, but we’re all in need of this. And tell me about the difference. And I this is the difference between you being educated a couple of years ago at Coppin, and you can speak to that on your own end, but for mental health, for nurses, and you talked about covid, and it’s squeezing people, these are the most educated, experienced the nurse I want when I’m in a in a trauma situation. I want that veteran nurse that’s been there before, that’s seen something like me before a million times, and knows how to treat me, and yet that person getting squeezed out in all sorts of way. And we can go to the political side of what covid was. We can go through the social media side of me seeing these nurses with lesions from wearing masks for hours and hours and hours in hospitals where in New York, where there was just a surge, all of these things that happened, but educating young nurses. Because I’ll just say this, and this might make me emotional, just seriously, what I saw nurses go through with me being a mess at my wife’s bedside, me being a mess when my mother’s dying. They were I don’t want to get religious, and I know you, you write for but they were like priests. They were like people that were like a cloth. They were like rabbis. They were like counselors. In addition to, here’s the medicine we need to keep your your wife alive.

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Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  12:33

Nurses are everything. We are everything. We are everything. And that, you know, educating younger people that may be a little bit different because they’ve never experienced that. And you know, people come into nursing for various reasons. Why do I want to be a nurse? Some people come in because they had a health situation with a family member or something, and they want to emulate that behavior that they saw. They they really like you. Said, I appreciate the nurses to prepare my wife. Other people, you know, Facebook makes nursing sex, right? We get we’ve got folks have money. We go flying all over everywhere, you know, driving nice cars, and we’re just so wonderful, right? So people, we have to figure out why. Why are you here? Why are you trying to do this? Because it’s not sometimes what you think you do get your hands dirty. I ask my students all the time. Okay, so Rick and Ray talk about exclamation, and some of you have never touched it unless your own and you try not to, or if you are a parent, and you wipe the child, but now you’re going to be touching old strangers, asking them deep questions about color form. How many times does it smell? Do you have food in it? Think about that. And a lot of times people don’t think, oh, I don’t want to be that.

Nestor Aparicio  14:01

I couldn’t do it because I can’t stand the sight of I see blood. I pass out. You know what I mean?

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  14:06

Well, I tell people all the time, our job is to make so people say, Oh, I don’t like I don’t want to be a nurse. I don’t like blood. Well, I don’t either, and my job is to make sure that you don’t be so none of us are grossed out, right, right? Sure. Our job is to make sure you don’t believe so none of us are grossed out, so it’s okay,

Nestor Aparicio  14:27

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but we saw these nurses do a 12 hour nights, three days a week. They would go home to their families in snowstorms in the middle of Freddie Gray, when my wife was battling during that period of time in and out of East Baltimore, where it was and like you know, my wife got to know them beyond well, because they were there 12 hours a day, every day, for weeks and months at a time. And then the second time she got cancer, went back in. She knew all the nurses. They’re like, welcome back in. We’re gonna take we’re gonna keep you alive. And so I just such a frontline thing. Um, from the for the mental side of things. From the the the for the families, for everyone that visits, all of them see the nurse and say, Is my mom, dad, loved one going to be okay? And then try to interpret it for all levels of education, all levels of language, all of that. And then have the patient in the next next bed die while you’re caring for them. And how to even deal with that, like which we didn’t deal with for certainly not with my wife. But it’s just it’s heavy, heavy. Being a nurse, it’s

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  15:34

heavy, but it can also be fun. I love our patients and I help our students. We hope that we teach our students. You know what? Coming to every day is an adventure. One thing about nursing, it is not monotonous. Every day is an adventure. You never know what’s going to happen every moment. Some patients are hilarious. I’ve had one patient, oh my goodness, he’s one of my favorite that he had dementia, but he had he was happy. He wasn’t depressed. As a matter of fact, he sang show teams all the time, and he would ask you for water, and I have a glass of water. Well, wait a minute. You got me. I like show teams too. So I was singing to him, he’s singing to me. We had a ball. And so it’s different.

Nestor Aparicio  16:29

Oh, my mother loved her. Her care like to the I mean, literally, she looked forward. There were visits when she was in her 90s, and my mom was a miracle. So the nurses would always, you know, my mom didn’t need a lot of care, which was the best part of her having it. But yeah, the camaraderie part of that for so many people in nursing, right? Because it is special, intimate time, right?

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  16:53

It is very few, because you come vulnerable, the patients come and they literally lay everything down at your feet and say, help me. And that’s who we are. I tell my students all the time, think about who is the who is the person that is equipped to help the one that is standing at the foot of the bed with all their clothes on, because the patient is laying in a in a supine position, probably with no underwear. Who do you think is in charge? Who do you think can change the situation? The person standing up fully clothed, because the person laying down is vulnerable. Think about that. I mean that. I can’t even put it in a word, sometimes, of all that nurses do and what goes on in our mind. And yes, like an example, like your wife, I worked on a cardiac unit for many, many years. So the patients came and, you know, they came and went, and came and went. We did. We got to know their families. We got to know their children. We got to know everybody. And I worked in a community hospital near my home. Oh my gosh. You see these people. You see these people in the market. You see them at the local grocery store. You see them and you know at the target, and you go, don’t I know you? Oh, how’s your life? What are you doing now? Oh, everything is okay. I haven’t seen you. How’s your wife? How’s the dog? And, you know, we get to know everybody and all their family members. And it is, it’s, it’s, it’s different. It’s a different, it’s a different environment. But I’m glad I didn’t want to be a nurse when I first started out, that was not my career goal, my little known fact, I was a professional dancer. Wow, I had a dance company, little things people don’t know. Dancers have to take the same thing that allied health we have. It’s about the body we do, biology we do AMD, we do all those different things, including physics because of the angle of your body. And my parents looked at me very nicely and said, you know, that’s really nice. I’m glad he’s like that. But we’re not financing a dance career because there are no jobs for dancers that would they could see, right? We know you’re not going to New York. And no, so I literally sat on the floor in my dorm room and look at my courses and match them to something, and it turned out to be nursing

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Nestor Aparicio  19:42

and you did that at Coppin?

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  19:44

No, I did this. I I transferred to Coppin to nursing school. I was at University of Maryland. I was at UMBC, oh, and I literally sat on the floor of my dorm room and maxed out what I had been taking as a dance major to what. Could it align to easily without having to do something else. And nursing came up, and it was like, okay, but, and that’s how I became a nurse, and, but I love it and, but I still dance. Okay. I didn’t let it go. I didn’t let it go. But, and everybody who knows me knows that I still dance. That’s my thing, but that’s how I lined up, and it’s been a wonderful career.

Nestor Aparicio  20:29

The only dancing I do is when Ultra gets me out for one of the rooftop things once a year, after midnight, but that’s the only dancing I do. Dr Denise wahades, Daniels here, we’re enjoying our visit with her. On behalf of our friends at Coppin State. They do more and play basketball over there and have a good time. We tell it stories around here about Coppin State 125 years into this. And you know, I, when I looked up your bio, the first thing I saw was, you know, with the location and the name of the building, and then I saw Henrietta Lacks. And I’m like, you know, like, from the minute you walk in the building there, I guess, right? Or have a name like that in Baltimore and Hopkins and the Association for young students, when people come into you and say, I want to be a nurse, and I don’t how many nursing students you have in the program, and I don’t want to say profile a typical nursing student, but give me what young people are thinking about when they’re entering a nursing program at this point and walk in and say, All right, I’m going to dedicate my life to this, my finances, I’m going to get education. I’m going to completely immerse in this. Because it’s not what I did at UB, which is try to find the easiest way out in a writing program, is something I was already good at. It is, it’s, it’s a it’s a commitment. It’s a lifelong commitment. And it’s also something that, I think, somebody that’s young, you transferred into it. It’s one of those things when you come to Coppin and you want to get people into you don’t want them transferring out of the program. You want to give them all the tools to be successful. And I have no idea, and I mentioned Essex Community College 40 years ago, the entryway from an educational standpoint, grades, sat boards, all those kinds of things that would be needed to be a nurse in in the because I see it as a it’s a tough job and a tough major, as I see it.

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  22:14

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Yeah, we want your top level students. We want the top level individuals. And you talked about people coming in. I did a little mini tour. We have families that come literally knock on the door and say, Hey, I was driving by. This is my daughter. This is my son. They’re interested in nursing. Can we take a tour? And if I’m not busy, I pop out my office and I toured a young lady that lives in high school yesterday, that she’s a senior in high school. She came with our mothers, came with her auntie, and she came with her brother, who happens to go to conference. Okay? And so we took them on a little mini tour of the School of Nursing, and we talked about some of the things that she wanted to do. So a lot of times people are coming in from high school, or we do have a large amount of people changing career, a lot of people changing career that they might have a second degree and something else that didn’t pan out, that they didn’t like it. I’ve had I’ve had school teachers. I’ve had people with biology degrees, that I had people, oh, I even had a lawyer one time, changed this whole career trajectory. They come in for various reasons. And so when they come in, a lot of people, the first thing they want to do, I want to be a pediatric nurse. They think it’s so fun with the kids, but kids don’t get sick really as much. So we don’t have a lot of that. So then the wonderful thing about again, our curriculum is that the students sample almost every area or discipline of nursing, because when they take the state board, it’s not the State Board for medical nursing, State Board for surgical nurse, it’s for everything. So you come in and we teach you the fundamentals, things like that. You know how to take a temperature. Think about that. I’ve had people who have never taken a temperature, never touched a syringe, never, never. And now we have to teach them how to do that. One of my finest moments is I had a scoop that I taught in the very beginning of her career was from he was from India, and she had never touched the syringe. And now I was able to mentor her several years ago, mentor her through a doctoral program where now she is a nurse practitioner. Wow. Can you imagine?

Nestor Aparicio  24:47

Well, I told you the part about my wife, like with with being in the hospital, my wife’s diabetic, and it’s been diabetic since she’s 19. So my wife, just anywhere at dinner, will just give herself a shot, like, grab a needle and. I, I get one needle a year, and I am freaked out. I I think about it for three days before I get it. I don’t like it at all. I’m a complete I’m a sissy doc. I mean, you’ve met people like me, right? I mean, you’ve, you’ve cared for my kind, right? I mean, right, but that’s part of it is also like getting used to that, and I never think I wonder where this person is about to stab me the first time that they had a that they learned how to do this, or whether it’s their first time they’ve been educated in a place so like Coppin by somebody like you to make sure that I don’t get that big, you know, Ruse and like all of that. And then it doesn’t hurt as much and that they talked me through, and they’ve met sissies like me before and can handle me so that I don’t freak out because I’m I definitely have, and I told my friends at GBMC, I have a level of anxiety related to doctors and nurses, even though I love you all you know, right?

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  25:58

Well, my family members are so funny, because when they go into the hospital, the first thing they want to ask is, where did go to school? Where did you go to school? Where did you go to school? And they say, Oh, I went to Koco’s. Oh, do you you know Dr wattes, Daniels? They go, Oh yeah, cuz I teach you in the beginning and almost at the end. I’m from, I’m from, and it’s like, oh, they have a special level of expectation. You are a cop and nurse. I expect. Well, I got sick one time I broke my foot, and when I broke my foot, I had to have surgery, and I had one of my former students take care of me, and he was terrified. It was so funny. I remember coming out of the out of the or coming out of recovery. And my I heard my sister say, the nurse thinks they know you and I, you know, drugs out. You just like, okay, whatever.

Nestor Aparicio  27:03

I think at this point, I gave him a C,

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Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  27:07

no, I didn’t, I didn’t, but I looked at him, and he looked at me like, oh my gosh, my professor, I don’t know. And I remember grabbing him, grabbing him in his collar, and saying, take care of me like I taught you, and I will be okay. And he was perfect, alright?

Nestor Aparicio  27:26

A plus. I like that in the real The Game of Life, the report card of life. I like that.

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  27:31

Well, I tell students all the time, would you want you to take care of you when you’re laying in the bed and you walk in the door, are you going to be happy, sad, confused, scared, hesitant. Would you want you to take care of you? And I tell you, I’m educating you to take care of me and my glory years,

Nestor Aparicio  27:57

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somebody to take care of both of us, you and me, both. Dr Denise watties, Daniels is here. She educates young people over at COP and tell me about your program just in 30 seconds, and get involved in websites and all that stuff. I mean, you’re very easy to find, and you’re certainly if anybody Young is listening to this or involved, or even middle young to me or wants to change a career, that’s the one thing that I always know there’ll always be jobs. And I think that that’s there aren’t enough people getting into the into the profession, right?

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  28:25

Most of our nurses stay here in Baltimore City, surrounding counties, PG County, maybe goes far. CC, but we, most of our students, come directly from this area. They come from Towson, they come from Essex, they come from Baltimore City, Baltimore County, PG County. So we are educating nurses to take care of people in our community, right? They’re not going to New York. They’re staying right here, we have a program for a BSN getting a bachelor’s degree in nursing. It takes four years, roughly about four years, to get that degree. So we come in and you start out doing your prerequisites, first with your sciences and your math and history. Then you take a mission test to get into the school of nursing. Again, we want our top students, because you have to think and think fast and think quickly on your feet. Then you go through the program for about two years, learning everything you can possibly know about nursing, then we will prompt you. We will prepare you to take the nursing NCLEX, the state board exam a nation and one thing I love about Coppin is that we invest in our students. We pay for our students to have a review course. We want you to be prepared. It’s a win. Win. You pass the board. We stay open. Nice.

Nestor Aparicio  29:46

You want 99.9% you know, right? Exactly, yeah.

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  29:51

Well, we be well, it’s okay. So we are invested in you. And then we also talk to you. Go ahead and get them. Master’s degree. Go ahead and get a doctorate degree. Go ahead and be that nurse leader. Be that person at the table when decisions are being made. We want you to help make those decisions for our community, for ourselves, for yourself, for your family members, because that’s all what this is about. Yes, you can find everything on the Coppin website. All our mission, we have open houses that are coming up in the spring. So please look out for those open house opportunities to come and pour the School of Nursing. You see that they’re on a Saturday or on a Friday, and parents come and the students come, we take you as a transfer. We take you as a brand new straight out of high school and starting to come to Coppin. We take you that you have a an associate art degree from Essex, and we will train you and educate you to get a BSN degree, which is about 18 months to get that degree, so you already have one part of degree, you can come back and get the other half. And so we offer many opportunities for individuals to get a nursing degree at Coppin State University.

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Nestor Aparicio  31:10

My guest is Doctor Denise juanis Daniel. She’s over coppic State University. Hey, cop in we’re having some fun around. There you go. We had a little we had some fun last week at the basketball game over there with Dr Jenkins and the whole crew, I actually ran into Sean Stinnett, who got his starter cop and delegates the net. He’s coming on the program in two weeks. We’re doing a cup of soup or ball on behalf of our friends at the Maryland lottery. And although this medical talk with the doctor here, I got to give a shout out that I’m actually having my first checkup in doc. I don’t want to tell you how many years you’ll be mad at me like my wife’s mad at me, but I’m finally getting online here. I have my colonoscopy back in the in the fall. I’m healthy. I think I’m healthy. I’m going to know when I go to see my doctor. So shout out to GBMC as well for taking great care of me, keeping me healthy. And probably a whole bunch of copping grads over GBMC, probably cop and grads, took care of my wife and me and my and my mom and everybody else. So thanks to all the doctors and nurses out there. We shout them out. Give them love 365 days a year as well. And I hope to see you over copping in a hoops game or volleyball game or sometime over there getting walking around.

Dr. Denyce Watties-Daniels  32:15

I will look for you. I will look for you. Thank you for the opportunity.

Nestor Aparicio  32:20

And I don’t want to get sick, but if I do, I really hope I got somebody like you taking care of me. Somebody knows what they’re doing. Listen, I wouldn’t trust anybody to give me a needle, but I think I would trust you to give me a needle. And I don’t, I don’t think I can do that. I don’t even want to know. I don’t want a needle. I don’t want to think about it. I got a root canal next week. Hello, Dr Lieberman, I appreciate you too. You know, when you get old and broken down like me, it’s good thing. I got my plan of fitness partners, the Humpty Dumpty put me back together again. But you get broken you need doctors. You need nurses. Sometimes you even need a root canal. I’ll be getting one of those amidst the blizzard here this week. I am Nestor. We are W NST AM, 1570 Towson, Baltimore, big thanks to our friends at comp and state back for more. Baltimore, positive. Stay with us.