By: Emma Taylor
After high school, Litaker attended Olney Central College for a year to complete the necessary nursing prerequisite classes. After the year at OCC, she decided to go to Frontier Community College for the nursing program because it is cheaper.
One reason Litaker wants to become a pediatric oncology nurse is to help kids and their families going through cancer. The high demand for the job is another reason she chose this major.
“Having cancer at such a young age, I wanted to help people going through what I also went through,” Litaker said.
In fact, the one-way high school helped her was by teaching her responsibility. Litaker says classes that helped throughout high school were all the dual credit classes, because they are very similar to college courses. One specific course that really helped was English IV because it taught a good way to write papers, something college students do a lot of. Another way dual credit classes helped her was not having to take as many prerequisite classes needed to enter the program.
A couple pieces of advice Litaker would give to a high school student is to enjoy it but take it seriously. A piece of advice she would give her 17/18-year-old self is to take night classes, so she could have started the program right out of high school instead of having a year of prerequisite classes.