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MARCIE DELGADO

2016 GRADUATE

From a young age, Marcie Delgado knew that she would become
a nurse. “My grandmother always told me I’d be great at nursing,”
says Marcie, a Florida native. With a passion for caring for others and
a lot of empathy for people in need, Marcie started a nursing associate
degree program at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville in 1984.
She started her career in oncology and earned ONC certification, and later
took a position for a physician-owned home infusion company, caring for
patients she had worked with in the hospital to provide their infusion needs
at home.
Gaining a wealth of experience

For six years, Marcie worked for some of the nation’s largest home infusion
companies to provide direct and indirect care, often educating other
clinicians in Florida about intravenous therapy. While Marcie was raising
children, she stepped away from the bedside to work in utilization review
and case management, consulting with hospitals and other healthcare
organizations to maximize the quality and cost efficiency of their services.
“I missed the bedside, though, so I decided I wanted to go back into
working with a large infusion team,” she says.
Marcie worked on and off for Florida Hospital for many years on the
venous access services team, moving around the state for her husband’s
job. She helped the organization open the venous access services suite,
an outpatient service at Florida Hospital-Orlando Campus. In 2012, she left
for an opportunity to help open Nemours Children’s Hospital, a nonprofit
hospital that cares for 250,000 children each year.

Time for further education

In 2013, Marcie took time away from the workforce to deal with some
personal matters regarding her autistic son’s care. She did some soul
searching, and recalled conversations she’d had with supervisors at Florida
Hospital when she left there. “I knew I would need the BSN to return to
work and I took the opportunity to pursue something during a hard personal
time,” she says. “I’d always wanted to do it, but never had the time. Since
my child was older, I finally had the time to attend to his issues and also go
to school.”

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