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health care setting. “We all have different lives, we all were impressed. (They remain so: In January, Garcia
have different problems. … We are going through stuff learned she’s been accepted into the Doctor of Nursing
outside. Still, we must depend on each other. That Practice program for psychiatric health.)
kind of leadership I always translate to my classmates:
Yeah, I know we’re tired and everything, but let’s do She’s no fish out of water at Johns Hopkins, using
our best anyway. We are there for the patient.” her cultural background to her advantage and to best
serve Hispanic communities. “Spanish has been a
Oh, and remember to breathe. huge help because the Latinx community is growing
a lot here in Baltimore and everywhere, honestly. Just
Today, Garcia holds two business degrees including being able to communicate with them, and culturally I
an MBA from Lindenwood, which has dropped its really can understand them.”
synchronized swimming program (“It makes me very
sad,” Garcia says), and she no longer spends much Synchronized swimming (and coaching)
time around swimming pools. She figured business are now behind her, but Garcia is excited for the
might give her a marketable skill if she had needed to opportunities ahead, ready to walk in perfect time
return to Mexico. The nursing profession in Mexico through the doors that have opened since she MAGAZINE.NURSING.JHU.EDU
is very different than in the U.S., says Garcia, whose established her U.S. residency. “It’s really true how
parents are physicians. But she was determined to that changes your whole life.” ◼
be a force in health care, so Garcia applied to one
nursing school—guess which one—and the judges