(upbeat music) - Hey, I'm Danielle with "Careers That Work."

Today's career spotlight is on the fast-paced job of a licensed practical nurse.

(air whooshing) (air whooshing) - The minute I walked in this clinic, I felt like, "I'm home."

(door beeping) (light music) Good morning.

I love my job.

I am Sandie Basta, nurse extraordinaire.

(laughing) (air whooshing) (light music continues) When you're in nursing, there's never a job that is not my responsibility.

I still work on the floor, even though I am in the nurse team lead, nurse educator capacity right now.

As a team, we make rounds throughout the clinic several times a day.

We check in with our providers.

Good morning, Jennifer.

You do become part of your patients' lives.

Your grandbabies.

- Oh my god, they're beautiful.

- You're only seeing those patients for a very short- Perfect.

Interaction.

They need to be your priority right then and there.

You need to interact with them on their level.

- This has been- - Wonderful.

- Thank you, it was perfect, thank you so much.

(air whooshing) - The largest misconception with nursing is that you have to work every other weekend, you have to work every other holiday.

(light music) I didn't wanna put my children in daycare.

So nursing was the career that actually helped me to stay at home with my children, and I could work on the weekends when my husband was home.

I think nursing is the career that really afforded myself that opportunity.

(air whooshing) (light music continues) I've been in one realm of nursing pretty much my entire life.

I started off as a certified nurse's aide back in 1983.

Sometimes your personal life takes you in a different path, and it detoured me and I put my nursing career, furthering my nursing education, put that on hold.

Fast forward, here I am, I'm telling my kids, "You gotta do your homework.

You have to finish things.

You have to complete what you started."

And I wasn't living that in my life.

And I decided, well, I'm gonna go back to nursing school.

(air whooshing) (light music continues) So it's an 18-month program that I went for.

And I went up to CTC, and I got my LPN.

And I never looked back.

(air whooshing) (light music continues) You are never too late to pick up something new and try a different path.

Reeducate them, make sure- There is a nursing shortage.

The more people that I can shout from the rooftops on how nursing has really been a wonderful career for me, all the better.

Good morning.

- How are you?

- Good, how are you?

- Good.

- Right in here, my dear.

You never know what's going on in somebody else's life.

Make a lasting impression.

Be that reason for that person to say, "Somebody cares."

Perfect.

That's actually really good.

- [Patient] It's probably extra good today.

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