Junie J. Mills

Since I was a little girl, I used to admire the public health nurse who went into the community to give the children their shots. I really wanted to be a nurse just like her. It took me a while to get into nursing school. I did my general nursing in Jamaica, and when I moved to the US, I decided that I wanted to get a BSN. I worked full-time, went to school, and was raising two teenage boys. I worked for the State of Florida at the time, so I was able to get a fee waiver, which covered all of my classes when I went to graduate school. One of the projects I did for the RN program was to go into the community to collect data for Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. HIV was fairly new, and for my graduate program, I wrote a manual to teach clients about HIV.