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Eliza Wheeler
7:18 - 7:41
“The way I went about this is I got my CNA while I was still in high school. I was pretty nervous that I wasn't going to be able to handle like the blood and all the, the, the kind of icky side of medicine.”
- Speaker
- Eliza Wheeler
- Timestamp
- 7:18 – 7:41
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 5, 2026
From the transcript
And, uh, let's see, if you were sitting where these students are today, what's one thing you would do in high school to give yourself a head start? So I would recommend getting as much exposure to the healthcare setting as possible. The way I went about this is I got my CNA while I was still in high school. I was pretty nervous that I wasn't going to be able to handle like the blood and all the, the, the kind of icky side of medicine. Um, I hadn't had a lot of exposure to that, and so I went and got my CNA.
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