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She is employed by Aria Health, working in the Telemetry Unit.\u00a0 A telemetry unit is a unit in a hospital where patients are under continuous electronic monitoring, such as heart rate, heart rhythm and breathing \u2013 but by the patient\u2019s bed and at a remote location like a nursing station.In addition to her work at Aria, Hall is a CPR instructor with the American Heart Association.\u201cI always wanted to be in health care,\u201d Hall said.\u00a0 \u201cHelping people is part of me and I have a drive to do this. It comes naturally.\u201dWhile at Prism, Hall says she did a \u201cton\u201d of assessments, which is the one aspect of her education that best prepared her for her new career.\u00a0 She had previously worked in mental health, but was looking for a way to more closely connect with patients whom she could directly help.Hall cites one instructor as having the strongest influence on her educational journey.\u00a0 When learning about respiratory and metabolic acidosis and alkalosis instructor Amos Odeleye spent a great deal of time after class with Hall while she created a master visual map of this process in order to learn and master the concept.Hall chose Prism because of its smaller size and said she loved the environment from day one.\u201cWhen I started at Prism, I just wanted to \u2018do well,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cThen I saw some success and started to believe being very good at this was possible.\u201d\u00a0 Hall went on to become valedictorian of her class.Hall says that some people question some of the unglamorous parts of the work she does, but she\u2019ll have none of that.\u201cIt\u2019s just simply helping someone who needs the help,\u201d she said. \u201cThis work prevents greater suffering and if I don\u2019t do it now it gets worse for the patent later.\u201dBut Hall joked that the worst part of the job isn\u2019t the body fluids, as many people would assume but that it\u2019s the little buttons on the sleeves of the gowns.\u201cTo succeed at anything, you have to fight and be willing to make sacrifices,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cYou have to be so determined that there is no other way. 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