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Booker T. Washington Students One Step Closer To Achieving Career Goals

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From: Atlanta Inquirer
Date: 20020511
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Atlanta Inquirer
05-11-2002
When you ask Shakeesha Jinks, a senior at Booker T. Washington High School,
what she wants to be when she grows up, she answers resoundingly - "A
neonatal nurse." Jinks speaks confidently of her future and is determined
that she will one day be a caregiver to a hospital's smallest patients.

Jinks's resolve is due in part to her experience in a shadowing program at
Emory Crawford Long Hospital. The program, which is funded by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, enables a group of eight elite students from
Booker T. Washington High School to follow a professional in their ...

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