Angelica Jauregui: A Career As A Registered Nurse

Angelica Jauregui, all her life she wanted to help people. She couldn’t imagine doing anything else with her life, now she can do just that. With her RN degree she’s applying at clinics and hospitals to start off her lifelong career as a nurse. Sitting down with her ready to be interviewed she seems relaxed and ready to talk. I’ve known her all my life and she’s always been a role model to all of us in the family. There was nothing she couldn’t do if she set her mind to it.

Getting into it, she briefly described on what her career was all about sounding vivid and enthusiastic. I asked her what her career is exactly, to which she said, “RN is an abbreviation for registered nurse, someone who has passed a state nursing license, who knows a large base of knowledge and promotes good health and helps patients.” RN roles can be anywhere from direct patient care, clinical research, and teaching nursing programs. Angelica wants to work in a clinic out of all those options. To her, all she wants is a quiet job and to not stay late at work once she starts a family.

She has everything already planned out, which shows some serious motivational skills.

But it wasn’t always that way. She recounts her high school days after talking about our theme in English, coming of age. To her, transitioning from the high school life to college was a troublesome experience, “ It was very hard for me. I had to do the extra mile then other women that have the same degree as me. When I was in high school, I didn’t focus …. I had to start at JJC to do the extra math classes and to transfer to St. Francis. Others just went straight to it. But I devoted most of my time to it.” Angelica says that the college life is way better though, getting to pick your days and times for classes. “ College life was pretty great. The only thing was keeping up with exams … and making time for

homework.”
But the beginning years of high school is something she regrets, saying that most don’t pay enough attention freshman year and that is what trips people up because they don’t take it seriously. But other than that she’s off to a great start in life and she is doing what makes her the happiest. “ As I grew older I still couldn’t stray from being a RN, whenever someone would ask me about a backup plan I always said I had none. I can’t even think of becoming something else.” I asked if she had anything to say to freshman who could be where she was as a freshman, and if she had any advice for them, “ I advise young teenagers to focus on school, do your homework, make time to study. It’s worth putting in the time to study when you’re young then to have to work harder and paying more money later in college. Friends, boyfriends, parties can wait a little bit. Think more about yourself than others.” Being an RN isn’t the easiest, whether your job is in a clinic or rushing in a hospital but this happy-go-lucky cousin isn’t one to back down easily after all she’s worked for, she’s prepared for any challenge.
Overall interviewing Angelica Jauregui was incredibly interesting. I learned things I never knew about her and just how motivated she was in college and now starting her career. This showed me just how much she’s really grown. My cousin was very awesome to take the time in letting me interview her and I wish her the best of luck in her career.