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At Dominican, there are so many opportunities

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to get hands-on experience in whatever field you choose

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to study that by the time you graduate you already know

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what the real world looks like.

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So that's something great about Dominican.

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As a graphic design major at Dominican University,

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I was able to work on Nepantla,

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which is an undergraduate journal for my capstone project,

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and that eventually led me into a summer long internship,

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which was paid and helped me continue my work illustrating

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and just doing all of the layout design it needed.

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It's definitely really rewarding

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just actually having the final product itself in like

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literally a physical book form.

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The informatics program at Dominican is one

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where they really encourage hands-on learning

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and they encourage you to ask the hard questions.

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They encourage you to work with each other.

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It's all about collaboration

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and there's always such a culture

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of everybody learning together,

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everybody asking questions together,

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helping each other answer questions,

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building projects, and work together.

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In the nursing program, we have a simulation lab,

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which helps us practice for our clinicals where we deal

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with real life patients.

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So we go over how to talk to patients, you know,

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the proper protocols and precautions

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and what to do in certain situations.

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And when you all learn these things in simulation lab,

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it helps you kind of ease

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that anxiety when you're actually in clinicals

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with real nurses and doctors

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and it just eliminates all the anxiety.

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As a fashion merchandise major

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I got to work during Chicago Fashion Week

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and they had a show here at Dominican

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and I got to be a stylist

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and I felt like that was a good hands-on experience for me.

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As an elementary education major

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Being in the classroom with the teachers

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and the students, just having like hands-on on

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what you're gonna be doing for the rest

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of your life really does

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give you like a feeling like, yes, this is what I wanna do.

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Dominican University

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provided me with hands-on experience

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through my internship at University

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of Chicago shadowing physician assistants.

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I think that would help me in the real world when I am a

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future PA

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because it gave me firsthand experience of

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what their day-to-day life is like providing patient care.

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I felt more of like, oh yeah, I'm ready for this.

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I know I want to do this. This is exactly what I want.