By Taylor Chretien
SMCC Student

Marcia initially received her ADN from SMCC in 2001. After graduation she was accepted into Maine Medical Center’s New Grad Critical Care internship and worked as a bedside RN in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.

Since July, 2014, she has been the Nurse Manager for CICU and R9W at MMC. She is currently working on her BSN and has been taking as many classes at SMCC that she can. She originally got the idea of becoming a nurse from her grandmother, who was a practical nurse. She remembers listening to her tell such great stories. It was her grandmother that made her realize she wanted to do something that took great pride in helping people. She grew up in Portland, Maine. She was in the Air Force as a medic. She was there for six years. At the time she wanted to be a doctor. She noticed that in TV shows, the doctors are at the patients’ bedsides comforting them, but in reality it’s the nurses.

When she did her internship at Maine Med., there were other interns that were from other colleges. She felt that SMCC really prepared her more than the others at other schools. She felt she was more aware of what needed to be done for the patient.