{"id":23245,"date":"2020-07-02T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/?p=23245"},"modified":"2020-07-27T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T18:59:54","slug":"angela-caraballo-overcoming-challenges-to-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/angela-caraballo-overcoming-challenges-to-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1ngela Caraballo: Overcoming Challenges to Save Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This Sagrado graduate describes her experience pursuing her distance-learning nursing degree.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
\u00c1ngela Caraballo. (Photo supplied)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Liz Yanira del Valle<\/strong>
Collaborator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Angela Caraballo Mart\u00ednez describes herself as a \u201cfortified nurse\u201d. This Venezuelan gastroenterologist – now residing in New York – recently graduated from Sagrado with a distance-learning Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Nursing<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Caraballo Mart\u00ednez, there are many other examples of Latin Americans who have obtained college degrees in their respective countries, but face bureaucratic obstacles upon arriving in the United States to fulfill the requirements to exercise their health-related professions. In light of this situation, giving up is not an option for many of these professionals who live to heal and save lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela was already working as a physician in Venezuela but, for various reasons, she left the country with her husband and children and has lived in the Big Apple for three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn’t want to stop working in the field of health. Along the way, I met Dr. Pe\u00f1alosa, who lives in Pennsylvania, who eventually became my mentor. He was the one who recommended Sagrado\u2019s distance-learning Nursing program to me,\u201d Caraballo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This would be the first time that Caraballo Mart\u00ednez experienced the modality of remote study<\/strong>. Now, in the middle of this quarantine, she stands amazed at life\u2019s twists and turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me, the online modality was something new. I entered Sagrado looking for alternatives for my situation. Today, I can say as a doctor and a student that the program is a complete and very professional one,\u201d said Caraballo, who graduated summa cum laude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As part of this program, students do face-to-face practice rotations in Puerto Rico.<\/strong> According to Caraballo Mart\u00ednez, the experience of working at the Cardiovascular Center of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, the Pediatric Hospital, the Alcoholism Emergency Unit at the R\u00edo Piedras Medical Center, and in a home for the elderly in Trujillo Alto was another important chapter in her professional career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt also gave me the opportunity to learn a little about the Island, its people, and its culture. I am grateful, satisfied, and happy for this achieved goal<\/strong>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Professional Experiences Center \u2013 Sagrado Careers<\/a> is another valuable resource for these students.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe help these professionals coming from other countries to enhance their academic degree and the experiences in their professional record by adjusting them to the context of our system,\u201d explained Cassandra Vega Rivera, manager of Sagrado Careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The curriculum for this degree includes the development of competencies in areas such as fundamentals of nursing, medicine, surgery, maternity, pediatrics, mental health, community, leadership, management, and research, among others.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education<\/strong>, an autonomous accreditation agency that ensures the quality and integrity of academic programs in Nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you want to study Nursing in Sagrado? Find more information here: https:\/\/www.sagrado.edu\/enfermeria\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Sagrado graduate describes her experience pursuing her distance-learning nursing degree. By Liz Yanira del ValleCollaborator Dr. Angela Caraballo Mart\u00ednez describes herself as a \u201cfortified nurse\u201d. This Venezuelan gastroenterologist – now residing in New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":23248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3697,3680],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nursing","category-health-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23255,"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245\/revisions\/23255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}