{"id":4507,"date":"2020-08-26T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T17:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:28:53","slug":"spc-nursing-professor-leads-by-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/spc-nursing-professor-leads-by-example\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC Nursing Professor Leads by Example"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the COVID-19 numbers spiked in Pinellas County, testing centers were in need of nurse volunteers to swab the long lines of people seeking tests. So when the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcul.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County Urban League<\/a> reached out to St. Petersburg College&#8217;s Nursing program, Gina McCabe, a Level IV Clinical SPC Nursing Adjunct at, jumped on the chance to be a helper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe sweet lady at the Urban League was so excited, because they really needed someone,\u201d McCabe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCabe was swiftly trained, outfitted in protective gear and positioned in the drive-through testing site at the Ridgecrest YMCA in Largo. She swabbed 63 people that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just greeted people with a smile and tried to calm them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The volunteer work was in addition to teaching her two senior-level classes at St. Petersburg College and her full-time position as a nursing supervisor at Mease-Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor. McCabe believes the desire to help people just comes with the profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt sounds mundane, but it\u2019s true,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s something about nursing \u2013 you just always want to help people and give back to your community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCabe often volunteers locally, and  sometimes even internationally, on mission trips to Haiti. As a clinical instructor, McCabe said she feels it is important to try to instill in her students the desire to give back to the community through volunteer work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOnce they get their feet wet and figure out their jobs, I think it\u2019s vital for them to volunteer in their own communities and abroad,\u201d McCabe said. \u201cIt\u2019s truly fulfilling personally, and it helps the community, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone interested in volunteering can contact the Pinellas County Urban League at 727-327-2081. Would you like to pursue a nursing career or take your current certification to a higher level? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/future-students\/degrees-training\/health-sciences-and-veterinary-technology\/nursing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SPC&#8217;s flexible and affordable programs<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gina McCabe, an SPC Nursing instructor, jumped on the chance to be a helper when the Pinellas County Urban League called for volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":4509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[111,251,13,121,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsn","category-featured","category-health","category-nursing","category-rn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}