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Fish has always loved working with children and admires their resilience. “I always wanted to babysit. I always loved playing with little kids,” she says. “All of my jobs have been something child related,” she adds. Fish knew she would either be a pediatric nurse or a school teacher. The dynamic world of health care ultimately won Fish over. At Pegasus, Fish developed a love for the sciences. “I remember all of my science classes; we did some anatomy, physiology, some labs, and getting all that early on was really interesting. I always loved the sciences, so it was really fun to actually start to learn all of that younger than high school,” she says. Pegasus fostered Fish’s independence and refined her abilities as a student. She credits Mrs. Wilder with developing her writing skills, an asset that would prove invaluable when later applying to college and nursing school. After graduating from Pegasus, Fish attended the Cornelia Connelly School and continued onto Villanova University in Philadelphia where she earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing. Nursing school taught her the importance of flexibility when faced with the unexpected. “With nursing, it’s As time has gone on always something new; there’s always and we’re starting to something more to do,” says Fish. This year was no exception as a understand it [COVID-19] novel virus known as COVID-19 more, it’s definitely quickly evolved into a global pandemic. improved how we’re “I was very nervous given how new responding and how to the virus was and how little we knew about how to handle it,” she says. “I took best help everyone. it one day at a time and made all necessary adjustments and changes in everyday life and at work to ensure everyone around me was safe.” Fish says it has been interesting to watch the The age-old question “what do you want to be progression on the pediatric front. “As time has gone on and when you grow up?” can be a lifelong journey full of twists we’re starting to understand it more, it’s definitely improved and turns. For Dana Fish, however, her chosen path was how we’re responding and how to best help everyone,” she says. decisively clear from early on. Fish would like to work as a travel nurse in the near “By my freshman year of high school, I was saying I’m future, but for now she is very happy working in the neonatal going to be a pediatric nurse,” recalls Fish, who currently intensive care unit. Her interests within the field have indeed works as a neonatal nurse at Children’s National Hospital in broadened, but her path promises to remain clear. Washington, D.C.
Dana Fish (’09)
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