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Northern Arizona University\u2019s accessible faculty members and a real-world practicum propel Aarish Raza to a career in intensive care nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northern Arizona University nursing graduate and Distinguished Senior award recipient Aarish Raza believes success in learning and nursing is about being present and caring. He said the NAU faculty excels in those areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey care. That makes a big difference in learning for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, he finds nursing is as much about attention and concern as it is about clinical knowledge. Nurses must be present.
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\u201cMost of the time it\u2019s just nurses there with the patients. Doctors get called in when things go wrong,\u201d Aarish said. \u201cBut it\u2019s nurses who are there for the long run. The care we provide is just as important as what the doctors do. We\u2019re teachers, we\u2019re nurses, we\u2019re therapists in a way. We do everything, and that\u2019s what I enjoy.\u201d
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Aarish\u2019s journey to NAU began with his birth in Pakistan. He came to the United States as a toddler, and his family settled in Chinle, Arizona, with his father teaching in the Navajo Nation. Accustomed to red sandstone canyons and the high desert, the future nurse said the mountain environment first attracted him to NAU.
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\u201cWhen I came here and saw how green it was and the trees, I fell in love with the place
immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the professors that I\u2019ve worked with cared more about their students succeeding than anything else. That\u2019s been one thing that I\u2019ve really loved about NAU.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He considered other Arizona universities, but cool weather and the more intimate nature of NAU won him over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a small school. It\u2019s more of what I like since I came from a small town.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expecting his college professors to be rigid and strict, Aarish was pleased to learn that they have genuine concern for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAll the professors that I\u2019ve worked with cared more about their students succeeding than anything else,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s been one thing that I\u2019ve really loved about NAU.\u201d
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While finding class work indispensable, Aarish said the preceptorship in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing<\/a> program cemented his desire to become an intensive care nurse. Like an internship, a preceptorship bridges the passage from student to practitioner.
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Aarish worked beside professionals at Flagstaff Medical Center, northern Arizona\u2019s only Level 1 trauma center. Helping attend to a gunshot wound trauma left an indelible mark. He realized he could handle tough situations and remain calm and positive while working to save lives.
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\u201cFor the first time, I felt like I was doing something that I actually felt extremely passionate about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Northern Arizona University\u2019s accessible faculty and a real-world practicum propel Aarish Raza
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