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Barry's Portfolio

Welcome to my journey through PLU's SoN

Here is a sample of my professional growth during my time at PLU's School of Nursing. Life is a work in progress, never perfect and always changing.

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Background information

I grew up in Fairport N.Y. and graduated high school there in 1986. I joined the U.S. Army that fall and spent the next two years at Ft. Lewis WA as an Indirect Fire Infantryman. I married in 1988 and moved back to N.Y. after active duty. I worked the next couple decades as a landscape contractor and National Guard soldier, raising two kids and putting my wife through college. After a 4 year break from the National Guard I rejoined following the events of September 11, 2001. As a Fire Support NCO I was mobilized with the 81st Brigade in 2003 and deployed to Iraq in 2004. While in Iraq I realized that I was being called to help people and that the medical profession was the best way to accomplish this. I chose the nursing program at PLU because of its reputation for quality training. I dont know what the future holds, but that is a new adventure.

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PLU letter of acceptance(added soon)

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Short term goals

  • One year goal: Maintain academic performance.
  • Five year goal: - Graduate from PLU, pass the NCLEX, earn a comission in the WA Army National Guard, and hopefully be employed at Madigan Army Medical Center.

Long term goals

  • 10 years: Earn a Master's Degree so I can be a nursing instructor.
  • 20 years: Participate in medical missions to other countries.
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  • " I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think i've ended up where I needed to be."
      Douglas Adams (1952-2001)