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Loreal Irvine, RN, BSN
AKA ER Princess                                                                                                                                                            Experience: 15 years
Hometown: Bridge City, Texas

Hello classmates,
I am, Loreal Irvine, I like to think of myself as an exceptionally trained emergency room registered nurse whom has demonstrated the ability to forge, lead, and motivate outstanding healthcare teams by providing the most advanced healthcare nursing services to local and outward communities throughout Southeast Texas and the New Orleans area. I was voted nurse of the year in 2016 for Hardin County.  I am currently a graduate student at The University of Texas at Tyler working towards my Masters Degree in Nursing Education to expand my knowledge and provide the most superior, individualized care for every patient.  I previously obtained my Bachelor of Nursing at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 2009 and my Associate of Applied Science Degree of Nursing at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas in 2003.  Prior to attending nursing school, I attended Lamar State College Port Arthur and received a certificate as a Surgical Technologists and worked for a local oral surgeon before I decided to apply for nursing school.  As a Registered Nurse, I have worked in array of nursing areas.  My career first began at CHRISTUS Hospital St. Mary in Port Arthur in 2002 where I worked in the emergency room, endoscopy, day surgery, and the post anesthesia recovery room.  Later in my career, I worked in the New Orleans area as an endoscopy nurse and returned back to CHRISTUS in 2011 and began working in two freestanding emergency rooms in our local area a few years later.  As an emergency room registered nurse employed in a diversified, yet demanding emergency room environment, I have now emerged myself at Beaumont Emergency Center for the past 4 years, where I have been able to provide further innovated patient care and spend more superior time at the bedside. I am a wife and mother of six children.  I love to draw, paint, travel, and scuba dive while outside of my working environment.  Most importantly, I enjoy being a role model and mentor for children in addition to volunteering within my community and school district.

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1. To become more knowledgeable in the methodology of teach nursing students.
2. To discover my own teaching philosophy and be able to critique my own methods.
3. To be able to create a strong foundation for students to begin there journey as nursing students.  I want to be like the “rock” as in the video we watched. The “rock” that builds a solid foundation for the nursing students in which creates the ripples of knowledge and creativity with in them.  Help them to become the critical thinkers, care givers, mentors, educators, and researchers of nursing we so need in the future.
4. Maintain my 4.0 while in the graduate program.

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I have been married to my best friend/soulmate for 5 years. We met in the emergency room 14 years ago when he was working as a paramedic/firefighter for the Port Arthur Fire Department and I was a novice nurse. I never would have thought back then I would be married to this wonderful guy.

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Paining, crafting, and scuba diving

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I won the design contest for my daughters' recital shirts this year.

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Upper Left:
Our Twins Morgan and Chad Age 14
Upper Right:
Kennedy Age 12
Isabella "Bella" Age 6
Lower Left:
Kurklan Age 21
Lower Right:
Jaycee Age 17