As a nurse, Rebecca Gabriel works in critical care and emergency settings and is involved in teaching her fellow nurses. She decided to pursue an advanced degree to build her teaching and critical thinking skills. “As an emergency room nurse, we don’t ever have time to really stop and break down whatever scene we just lived,” she says. “We would talk about the critical thinking skills and I never really delved into that affective domain.”

Getting her master’s online made a big difference. At the time, she was home-schooling her kids. “As long as I had a Wi-Fi signal, I could complete my assignments anywhere and I pretty much did,” she says. And she was drawn to APU’s service side.—“It was really exciting for me to see that APU participates in wreaths across America.” But the greatest benefit of all—building those key skills. “If I can teach just one of my students to stop and think before they’re giving care or before they make that judgement for their patient,” she says today, “then I know I’ve accomplished my mission of empowering nurses to provide holistic nursing care. That’s really why I do what I do and what I hope for the future of nursing.”

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