By Julie Zeeb, July 3, 2020, Red Bluff Daily News.
RED BLUFF — Three Red Bluff High School graduates from 2013-2015 are among several former students serving communities across the nation as nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and all three said their passion for their career started with classes taught by Karrie Roth.
Emily Gallagher Igarta, from the class of 2014, is an Intensive Care Unit nurse at the Keck Medical Center of University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Igarta took the CTE Health Occupations class taught by Roth during her senior year and got to learn basic anatomy and shadow nurses at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital.
“This experience really pushed me to pursue a nursing career because I loved how nurses are at the bedside with the patient, actually doing the hands-on care,” Igarta said. “From there, I knew I wanted to be a nurse, and luckily I got accepted into a four-year nursing program at UC Irvine right out of high school.”
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