Seven VHS apprentices graduate to Nurse Aides in November cohort
Seven Virginia Health Services apprentice program students graduated from Care Assistants to Nurse Aides during a ceremony Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, at the EEE Center
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Bryant oversees the Team providing outstanding care to the Residents at Walter Reed Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He began his career with Virginia Health Services more than 25 years ago as a Certified Nursing Assistant. He continued his education at Rappahannock Community College earning his License as a Practical Nurse. During that time, he opened WRNRC’s Page Rehabilitation Unit as head nurse while also working in the Managed Care Department. He transitioned to administration in 2016 after further education in business, operating VHS’s Lancashire Division in Kilmarnock, Va. He was able to return his roots becoming Administrator at Walter Reed in 2019. Bryant is a Board member of the Rappahannock Foundation for the Arts handling its Youth outreach program. In his spare time, Bryant coaches the Virginia Venom 17u basketball team. He has two wonderful children. A daughter that enjoys art and a son that is a college basketball recruit. His wife is also in the medical field working as an RN for 20 years at an area hospital. Bryant stays motivated and takes joy in being able to provide care for the community in which he was born and raised.
Jazmin is the Assistant Administrator for Walter Reed. She has more than five years of experience as a resident program director for an assisted living/memory care community.
The ECPI University graduate has a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a hospitality management concentration. She also is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and has a virtual dementia tour certificate.
Jazmin is motivated by the residents in her care. “I want to try for them to have the best quality of life because they deserve it,” she says.
She enjoys to travel and spend time with her two children. She also loves being outdoors, exercising and being creative. She says her inspiration is her kids. “I want to show them that every goal we have, we need to work for. My favorite quote is: ‘She believed she could, so she did.’ ”
Lana leads the nursing Team at Walter Reed Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She began her career with Virginia Health Services 25 years ago as a Licensed Practical Nurse on the skilled unit where she held various positions. Lana continued her growth within the company while simultaneously completing her Registered Nurse Program. In May 2020, she was promoted to Director of Nursing at Walter Reed Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Prior to joining Virginia Health Services, she worked for Wake Medical Trauma Center in Raleigh, North Carolina and Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Gloucester, Va. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, daughter and five furry friends. Lana enjoys the geriatric population and long-term care nursing as she feels the generation has so much to give and believes to be true a quote by Maya Angelou, “They may forget your name but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
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Seven Virginia Health Services apprentice program students graduated from Care Assistants to Nurse Aides during a ceremony Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, at the EEE Center