Jaines Andrades shared her journey from being a hospital custodian to a nurse practitioner in a Facebook post displaying her three work IDs.
“It’s tough to be the person that cleans. If I had to go back and do it again, I would. It’s so worth it,” Andrades told WBZ-TV. Andrades recalled working for a fast-food restaurant when she got an interview with Baystate Medical.
“Even if it was cleaning, as long as I was near patient care I’d be able to observe things. I thought it was a good idea,” she said. Andrades worked hard in environmental services at the Springfield hospital in Springfield, Mass while going to nursing school.
“When do you let a random stranger into your life? Into the most personal parts of your life? Rarely. As a nurse, we get that. I just really love the intimacy with people,” Andrades said. She would later become a Baystate nurse, and as of last month she’s now a nurse practitioner in the same place she used to clean.
“Nurses and providers, we get the credit more often but people in environmental and phlebotomy and dietary all of them have such a huge role. I couldn’t do my job without them,” she said.
The Massachusetts woman path to becoming a nurse practitioner
decade-long path has made her exactly the employee and colleague you’d want: empathetic, grateful, and patient.
“I’m so appreciative and like in awe that my story can inspire people,” Andrades said. “I’m so glad. If I can inspire anyone, that in itself made the journey worth it.”
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