{"id":24009,"date":"2020-05-08T20:53:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=313741"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:48","slug":"mother-and-daughter-graduate-nursing-masters-programs-together-after-breast-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/mother-and-daughter-graduate-nursing-masters-programs-together-after-breast-cancer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and Daughter Graduate Nursing Masters Programs Together After Breast Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shonica Jones was the first person in her family to graduate from college. Once she had her nursing degree, she thought she was done with school. But when her daughter, Beniecia Barnett, grew up and became a nurse as well, things changed. Beniecia wanted to go back to school for a master\u2019s degree at the University of North Carolina<\/a> in Charlotte, and she wanted her mom to come with her. And so the pair began their journey, unaware of the drastic turn it would take.<\/span>\u201cI just knew that she could do it,\u201d says Beniecia. \u201cShe\u2019s the reason that I went into nursing in the first place.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: WSOC TV 9<\/a><\/span>In the middle of working on her degree, Shonica was diagnosed with cancer. She had had a mammogram and an ultrasound the previous year, which both came back negative, but she went in for further testing after finding a lump. That\u2019s when she learned she had stage II breast cancer<\/a>.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: WSOC TV 9<\/a><\/span>\u201cI know that my mom is a fighter, and she\u2019s a lady of strong faith, so I just knew she would get through it,\u201d says Beniecia.<\/span>Luckily, Shonica caught her disease early enough that it was able to be cured. She underwent a double mastectomy and chemotherapy<\/a> to eliminate her breast cancer\u2014all while staying in school. She refused to neglect her education while she took care of her health.<\/span>\u201cI was just determined that that was going to be my life at the end of this cancer journey.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: WSOC TV 9<\/a><\/span>Now Shonica is back to work and done with her master\u2019s program in nursing administration. She has a few months of treatment left but is happy to have achieved her goal and gotten back to her career. Beniecia is also done with her master\u2019s in nursing education, and the two will graduate together this year.<\/span>\u201cYou know, there\u2019s so much temptation, and I could have quit at any stage,\u201d says Shonica. \u201cBut for me, I just tell anybody whenever they ask me, \u2018You would be amazed at what you can do if you just don\u2019t quit.’\u201d<\/span>Learn more about this inspiring story in the video below.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shonica Jones was the first person in her family to graduate from college. Once she had her nursing degree, she thought she was done with school. But when her daughter, Beniecia Barnett, grew up and became a nurse as well, things changed. Beniecia wanted to go back to school for a master\u2019s degree at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44295,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24009\/revisions\/44295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}